Tian Ma, PhD

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Postdoctoral Associate
tian.ma@yale.edu

Curriculum Vitae         Google Scholar

Ph.D. - Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science,  2019 - 2024
B.H.S. - Department of Geosciences and Info-physics, Central South University, 
2015 – 2019

Dr. Tian Ma is a Postdoctoral Associate in Prof. Michelle L. Bell’s team at the Yale School of the Environment. She holds a PhD in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), with her doctoral research focusing on vector-borne diseases, spatial epidemiology, climate change, and statistical modeling. Her work has emphasized mapping spatiotemporal patterns of infectious diseases, identifying their driving factors, and exploring how global climate and land cover changes influence disease dynamics. As a postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Ma aims to investigate the impacts of environmental changes—such as climate change and green space exposure—on human health, including disease prevalence and human mortality.

Selected Awards 

Zhu Liyuehua Outstanding Doctoral Scholarship, 2022
National scholarship, 2021
Outstanding Graduate Student, 2019
The National first prize in the 7th National College Students GIS Application Skills Competition, 2018
The National third prize in the 1st Geoscientific Data Utilization Competition, 2018     
National Encouragement Scholarship, 2016
Outstanding Student, 2016

Selected Publications 

  1.  Ma T, Hao MM, Chen S, Ding FY. The current and future risk of spread of Leptotrombidium deliense and Leptotrombidium scutellare in mainland China. Sci Total Environ. 2022;843:156986. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156986
  2. Ma T, Jiang D, Quzhen G, et al. Factors influencing the spatial distribution of cystic echinococcosis in Tibet, China. Sci Total Environ. 2021;754:142229. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142229 
  3. Ma T, Jiang D, Hao MM, et al. Geographical Detector-based influence factors analysis for Echinococcosis prevalence in Tibet, China. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021;15(7):e0009547. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0009547 
  4. Ma T, Wang Q, Hao MM, et al. Epidemiological characteristics and risk factors for cystic and alveolar echinococcosis in China: an analysis of a national population-based field survey. Parasites Vectors. 2023;16(1):181. doi:10.1186/s13071-023-05788-z 
  5. Jiang D#, Ma T#, Hao MM, et al. Spatiotemporal patterns, and spatial risk factors for visceral leishmaniasis from 2007 to 2017 in Western and Central China: A modelling analysis. Sci Total Environ. 2021;764:144275. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144275 
  6. Wang Q, Ma T, Ding F, Lim A, Takaya S, Saraswati K, Sartorius B, Day NP, Maude RJ. Global and regional seroprevalence, incidence, mortality of, and risk factors for scrub typhus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2024;146:107151. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2024.107151
  7. Wang Q , Ma T , Ding F Y ,et al. A systematic review of environmental covariates and methods for spatial or temporal scrub typhus distribution prediction. Environmental Research. 2024; 263. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2024.120067.
  8. Ding FY, Wang Q, Hao MM, Maude R. J, John Day N. P, Lai S, Chen S, Fang L, Ma T*, Zheng C*, & Jiang D*. Climate drives the spatiotemporal dynamics of scrub typhus in China. Glob Chang Biol. 2022;28(22):6618-6628. doi:10.1111/gcb.16395 
 

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