Dr Zhang Pei joined the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong in 2025, shortly after graduating from the School with a PhD in Environmental Health. Prior to that, she obtained her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Sichuan University in 2020 and 2017, respectively. Dr Zhang’s research interests broadly span epidemiology and causal inference, with a current focus on causality in environmental and psychiatric epidemiology.

1. Fang Guo#, Pei Zhang#, Vivian Do#, Jakob Runge, Kun Zhang, Zheshen Han, Shenxi Deng, Hongli Lin, Sheikh Taslim Ali, Ruchong Chen, Yuming Guo, and Linwei Tian. "Ozone as an environmental driver of influenza." Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (2024): 3763. (Co-first author, 2024IF 15.7, ranked 7/135 in Multidisciplinary Science)
2. Pei Zhang, and Xiaoyuan Zhou. "Health and economic impacts of particulate matter pollution on hospital admissions for mental disorders in Chengdu, Southwestern China." Science of the Total Environment 733 (2020): 139114. (First author, 2024IF 8.0, ranked 39/374 in Environmental Science)       
3. Pei Zhang, and Xiaoyuan Zhou. "Pricing air pollution: evidence from short-term exposure to air pollution on hospitalization of acute bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in southwestern China." International Health 14.6 (2022): 572-579. (First author, 2024IF 2.2, ranked 145/408 in Public, Environmental & Occupational Health)
4. Guo, Fang, Vivian Do, Rachel Cooper, Yu Huang, Pei Zhang, Jinjun Ran, Qiang Zhang, Linwei Tian, and Zuntao Fu. "Trends of temperature variability: Which variability and what health implications?" Science of the Total Environment 768 (2021): 144487. (2024IF 8.0, ranked 39/374 in Environmental Science)
5. Wenchong He, Ke Ju, Yamin Gao, Pei Zhang, Weibin Liao. "Spatial inequality, characteristics of internal migration, and pulmonary tuberculosis in China, 2011–2017: a spatial analysis." Infectious Diseases of Poverty 9 (2020): 1-14. (2024IF 5.5, ranked 11/137 in Infectious Disease)