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Zihang Lu

ResearcherPublic Health SciencesQueen's University

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Zihang Lu

Researcher

Public Health Sciences

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
24 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 3 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 5 research grants (3 CIHR, 2 NSERC), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Bayesian methods Biostatistical methods Clustering Data integration Dynamic prediction Joint modeling Mixture and latent variable modeling Multi-dimensional longitudinal data

Latest papers

Multilevel predictors of ultra-processed food intake in Canadian preschoolers
Communications Medicine · 2026
Correction: Reimbursement restrictions reduce liver fibrosis screening in adults with diabetes in Ontario: a population-based interrupted time series analysis.
Scientific reports · 2026
Early-life greenness and childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis: an Ontario birth cohort study.
The European respiratory journal · 2026

All 27 publications

Latest funding

Leveraging Interpretable Machine Learning Approaches to Improve the Health of Children with Multimorbidity.
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$142,000
Environmental Co-Exposure Profiles in Early Childhood: a Longitudinal, Machine-Learning Approach to Health Inequalities
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$100,000
Circadian rhythm control of chronic pain and neuroinflammation: a bedside-to-bench study
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$956,250

All 9 grants and awards

27 publications.

Multilevel predictors of ultra-processed food intake in Canadian preschoolers

Mousavi S, Chen ZH, Lu Z, Santos S, L’Abbe MR, Azad MB, Mandhane PJ, Moraes TJ, Subbarao P, Turvey SE

Communications Medicine20261 citations

DOI: 10.1038/s43856-026-01473-1

Correction: Reimbursement restrictions reduce liver fibrosis screening in adults with diabetes in Ontario: a population-based interrupted time series analysis.

Burnside J, Djerboua M, Flemming JA, Sebastiani G, Wong WWL, Lu Z, Bajaj HS, Patel K, Biondi M, Betel M, Nahwegahbow A, Greenwald ZR, Moodie EEM, Saeed S

Scientific reports2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-64893-y PMID: 42552336

Early-life greenness and childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis: an Ontario birth cohort study.

Ge E, Yu C, Lavigne E, Villeneuve PJ, Liu X, Grubic N, Lou W, Brook J, Lu Z, Li YL, To T

The European respiratory journal2026

DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02272-2025 PMID: 41819538

Reimbursement restrictions reduce liver fibrosis screening in adults with diabetes in Ontario: a population-based interrupted time series analysis.

Burnside J, Djerboua M, Flemming JA, Sebastiani G, Wong WWL, Lu Z, Bajaj HS, Patel K, Biondi M, Betel M, Nahwegahbow A, Greenwald ZR, Moodie EEM, Saeed S

Scientific reports2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-48600-5 PMID: 42056181

A fast integrative clustering and feature selection approach for high-dimensional multiview data.

Alnajjar A, Bian H, Lu Z

Statistical methods in medical research2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/09622802251406584 PMID: 41564216

Identification, validation, and prediction of longitudinal recovery phenotypes in degenerative cervical myelopathy: analysis of prospective cohorts and a randomised controlled trial.

Pedro KM, Alvi MA, Lozano C, Karthikeyan V, Bak AB, Davies BM, Harrop JS, Badhiwala JH, Wilson JR, Lou W, Lu Z, Thorpe KE, Fehlings MG

EClinicalMedicine2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2026.104162 PMID: 42668450

Determining the interplay of prenatal parental BMI in shaping child BMI trajectories: the CHILD Cohort Study

Rossi A, Chen ZH, Ahmadiankalati M, Campisi SC, Reyna ME, Dempsey K, Jenkins D, O’Connor D, El-Sohemy A, Mandhane PJ

International Journal of Obesity20254 citations

DOI: 10.1038/s41366-025-01792-8

Early-preschool wheeze trajectories are predominantly nonallergic with distinct biologic and microbiome traits

Lu Z, Petersen C, Dai R, Reyna ME, Ahmadiankalati M, Sifuentes E, Dai DLY, Hoskinson C, Del Bel KL, Miliku K

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology20253 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2025.07.034

Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on chlamydia and gonorrhoea cases among youth and young adults in Canada: an interrupted time series analysis.

Khandakar F, Austin N, Lu Z, Saeed S

BMJ public health2025

DOI: 10.1136/bmjph-2025-003520 PMID: 41367544

Circadian rhythmicity and biopsychosocial characteristics influence opioid use in chronic low back pain.

Taccardi D, Zacharias AM, Gowdy HG, Knezic M, Parisien M, Bisson EJ, Fang ZY, Stickley SA, Brown E, Camiré D, Wilson R, Singer LN, Daly-Cyr J, Choinière M, Lu Z, Pagé MG, Diatchenko L, Duan Q, Ghasemlou N

The Journal of clinical investigation2025

DOI: 10.1172/jci188620 PMID: 41031896

Leveraging Interpretable Machine Learning Approaches to Improve the Health of Children with Multimorbidity.

Nominated PICIHR2024Operating Grant: ECRs in Human Development, Child and Youth Health

Principal investigators: Lu, Zihang; Miliku, Kozeta

Keywords: Birth Cohorts; Child Multimorbidity; Developmental And Social Factors; Exposome And Environmental Determinants; Human Development, Child And Youth Health; Longitudinal Development; Population And Health; Statistical And Machine Learning

$142,000

Environmental Co-Exposure Profiles in Early Childhood: a Longitudinal, Machine-Learning Approach to Health Inequalities

Nominated PICIHR2024Operating Grant: HCRI: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts

Principal investigators: Lu, Zihang

Keywords: Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium; Causal Inference; Child Cohort; Exposure Profiles In Early Childhood; Health Inequality; High Dimensional Longitudinal Data; High-Dimensional Latent Class Analysis; Longitudinal Patterns Of Environmental Exposures; Machine Learning And Data Science; Neighborhood And Social Environment

$100,000

Circadian rhythm control of chronic pain and neuroinflammation: a bedside-to-bench study

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Ghasemlou, Nader; Page, Gabrielle

Keywords: Animal Models; Bioinformatics; Biopsychosocial Assessment; Chronic Pain; Ecological Momentary Assessment; Neuroinflammation; Transcriptomics; Translational Research

$956,250

CircaHealth iCT: Targeting circadian rhythmicity using light therapy to alleviate chronic pain

Principal investigatorCIHR2023Operating Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant - LOI

Principal investigators: Ghasemlou, Nader; Di Renna, Tania; Duggan, Scott S; Bosma, Rachael L; Choinière, Manon; Daly-Cyr, Jennifer; El-Gabalawy, Renée; Lu, Zihang; Page, Gabrielle; Poulin, Patricia A; Singer, Lesley N

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Biomarkers; Biopsychosocial Approaches; Chronic Pain; Circadian Rhythms; Cytokines; Ecological Momentary Assessment; Immune Cells; Light Therapy; Randomized Controlled Trial

CircaHealth-CircaPain iCT: Targeting circadian rhythmicity using bright light therapy to alleviate chronic low back pain

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Operating Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant

Principal investigators: Ghasemlou, Nader; Buckley, David N; Clarke, Hance A; CUPIDO, TRACY L; Di Renna, Tania; Duggan, Scott S; Martel, Marc Olivier; Poulin, Patricia A; Daly-Cyr, Jennifer; Page, Gabrielle

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Biomakers; Biopsychosocial Approach; Bright Light; Chronic Pain; Circadian Rhythms; Ecological Momentary Assessment; Immune Cells; Light Therapy; Randomized Controlled Trial

$2,000,000

Liver Fibrosis: Leveraging Novel Statistical Methods to Determine Optimal Screening Strategy for People Living with Type 2 Diabetes

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Saeed, Sahar Z; Flemming, Jennifer A

Keywords: Adminstrative Data (Ices); Cirrhosis; Liver Disease; Maslf/Nafld; Metabolic Disease; Multistate Models; Screening; Type 2 Diabetes

$390,150

Modeling Longitudinal Data with Complex Structures

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Lu, Zihang

Keywords: biostatistical methods; bayesian methods; clustering; data integration; dynamic prediction; joint modeling; mixture and latent variable modeling; multi-dimensional longitudinal data; multi-view data; variable selection

$57,000

Modeling Longitudinal Data with Complex Structures

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Lu, Zihang

$12,500

Early Determinants of Lung Function and Asthma

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Duan, Qingling

Keywords: Asthma Risk; Case-Controls; Epigenomics; Family-Trios; Gene-Environment Interactions; Genomics; Lung Health

$906,526

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Zihang Lu

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Latest papers

Latest funding

Multilevel predictors of ultra-processed food intake in Canadian preschoolers

Correction: Reimbursement restrictions reduce liver fibrosis screening in adults with diabetes in Ontario: a population-based interrupted time series analysis.

Early-life greenness and childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis: an Ontario birth cohort study.

Reimbursement restrictions reduce liver fibrosis screening in adults with diabetes in Ontario: a population-based interrupted time series analysis.

A fast integrative clustering and feature selection approach for high-dimensional multiview data.

Identification, validation, and prediction of longitudinal recovery phenotypes in degenerative cervical myelopathy: analysis of prospective cohorts and a randomised controlled trial.

Determining the interplay of prenatal parental BMI in shaping child BMI trajectories: the CHILD Cohort Study

Early-preschool wheeze trajectories are predominantly nonallergic with distinct biologic and microbiome traits

Differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on chlamydia and gonorrhoea cases among youth and young adults in Canada: an interrupted time series analysis.

Circadian rhythmicity and biopsychosocial characteristics influence opioid use in chronic low back pain.

Leveraging Interpretable Machine Learning Approaches to Improve the Health of Children with Multimorbidity.

Environmental Co-Exposure Profiles in Early Childhood: a Longitudinal, Machine-Learning Approach to Health Inequalities

Circadian rhythm control of chronic pain and neuroinflammation: a bedside-to-bench study

CircaHealth iCT: Targeting circadian rhythmicity using light therapy to alleviate chronic pain

CircaHealth-CircaPain iCT: Targeting circadian rhythmicity using bright light therapy to alleviate chronic low back pain

Liver Fibrosis: Leveraging Novel Statistical Methods to Determine Optimal Screening Strategy for People Living with Type 2 Diabetes

Modeling Longitudinal Data with Complex Structures

Modeling Longitudinal Data with Complex Structures

Early Determinants of Lung Function and Asthma

Frequent collaborators

Wendy Lou

Padmaja Subbarao

Sahar Saeed

Kozeta Miliku

Mia Biondi

Doriana Taccardi

Qingling Duan

Teresa To

Giada Sebastiani

Nader Ghasemlou

Malcolm Sears

Zihang Lu

Ahmed El-Sohemy

Nichole Austin

Éric Lavigne

Sanjay Murthy

Margaret Herridge

Rosemary Wilson

Erjia Ge

Indra Narang

Rebecca Mathew

David Armstrong

Benjamin Hibbert

Deborah O'Connor

Sherri Katz

Luda Diatchenko

Jeffrey Brook