Vivian PUN

Vivian Pun is an air pollution epidemiologist with over 13 years

of research experience, focusing on air pollution/environmental

health, urban health, methodological modelling, chronic

diseases and well‐being, and “big data” quantitative research

methods. Vivian has hands‐on public health experience,

working as an epidemiologist and conducting disease and

injuries surveillance for 3 years in the Massachusetts

Department of Public Health in Boston, USA. Vivian joins the

Environmental Health Division as the Air Pollution

Epidemiologist, and is responsible for making the case for

addressing air pollution from a public health perspective,

increasing commitment and capacity of key stakeholders to strengthen air quality management

to promote public health, and informing the public about the risks of air pollution. One of her

recent works is to create evidence of health and economic impacts to justify air pollution action

and evaluate potential solutions to inform future implementation of air pollution control

measures by the Government of Indonesia. Vivian received her Master in Public Health

(Epidemiology and Biostatistics) from Boston University (Boston, USA), and PhD (Public Health)

from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK, China). She can be reached at

vpun@vitalstrategies.org.