Dr. Mingyu Zhang is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. The primary focus of Dr. Zhang’s research program is to understand how environmental exposures influence disease risk and shape cardiometabolic health across the life course. He has authored over 60 publications in high-impact journals and is nationally recognized for his research on the effects of air pollution and toxic metal exposures on children’s cardiometabolic health. He is PI of extramural grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and the American Diabetes Association.