About | Asia Winter School 2

Asia Winter School 2026

Program Overview

The Asia Winter School 2026 will be held at

Seoul National University, bringing together participants from across the region for an intensive four-day program on environmental epidemiology and related methods.

Registration

Instructors

Science. Expertise. Impact.

Meet the distinguished faculty leading the Winter School.
Our instructors bring diverse expertise in environmental epidemiology,
global health and public health research, offering participants a unique opportunity to learn from leaders in the field.

Associate Professor,
The University of Tokyo

Chris Fook Sheng Ng

chrisng@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Environmental Epidemiology, Atmospheric Environment

Visiting Associate Professor,

Nagasaki University

Aurelio Tobias

aurelio.tobias@gmail.com

Environmental Epidemiology,
Air Pollution and Health

Associate Professor,

Nagasaki University

Lina Madaniyazi

lina.madaniyazi@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Environmental epidemiology, Climate change, Air pollution

PhD Researcher,

Seoul National University

Cinoo Kang

baton_onair@snu.ac.kr

Environmental epidemiology,
Biostatistics,
Machine learning-based modeling

Associate Professor,

Pusan National University

Whanhee Lee

whanhee.lee@pusan.ac.kr

Health Data Science, Biostatistics, Envirionmental Health

PhD student,

Seoul National University

Ayoung Kim

iris010103@snu.ac.kr

Environmental epidemiology,
Biostatistics

Invited seminar
&
Closing remarks

Invited seminar

Haidong Kan

Professor at School of Public Health,

Fudan University

Invited seminar

Yasushi Honda

Professor at the Faculty of

Health and Sport Sciences,

University of Tsukuba

Closing remarks

Masahiro Hashizume

Professor at the Department of

Global Health Policy,

The University of Tokyo

Before You Attend

1 / Course Materials

The course materials will be shared through email and google drive.

2 / Pre-Class Setup Instructions

We strongly recommend bringing your own laptop and charger.
WIFI will be accessible at the course venue.
Please install R and RStudio on your laptop by following the instructions in the attached document.
Also, to use Google Colab for Python sessions, please make sure you have a Google account.

3 / Food

Although we do not provide meals during the course, we will have snacks, water, coffee, and tea in the lecture room. We have also attached a list of lunch spots in the SNU.