潘文驥 | Pan, Wen-Chi

Associate Professor & Director

International Ph.D. Program in Environmental Science and Technology
& Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences,
College of Medicine,
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  • wenchipan@nycu.edu.tw
  • +886-2-28267000 ext. 67057
  • Office 307, Medical Building II
  • Sc.D. in Environmental Health, Harvard University, U.S.A., 2012
  • M.S. in Environmental and Occupational Health, Harvard University, U.S.A., 2010
  • M.S. in Environmental Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, 2003
  • B.S. in Environmental Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, 2001
  • Director, International Ph.D. Program in Environmental Science and Technology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Jan 2024 – Present
  • Associate Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Jan 2021 – Present
  • Assistant Professor, National Yang Ming University, Aug 2015 – Dec 2020
  • Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Brown University, Jan 2014 – May 2015
  • Post-doctoral Research Fellow, National Cheng Kung University, Aug 2012 – Dec 2013
  • Research Assistant, National Research Institute of Chinese Medicine, Sep 2005 – Jun 2007
Environmental epidemiology, Traffic and noise pollution, Causal mediation analysis

2025

  • Kaleem Khan, Pin Zhen Huang, Wen Chi Pan, Jung Wei Chang (2025, Jul). Air pollution exposure and respiratory and cardiovascular emergency visits: A time-stratified case-crossover analysis in Taiwan. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, doi: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2025.118479. (本人為通訊作者).
  • Ling-Jyh Chen, Sakshi Saraswat, Fu-Shiang Ching, Chih-Yi Su , Hsin-Lan Huang, Wen-Chi Pan (2025, Mar). Development and implementation of EcoDecibel: A low-cost and IoT-based device for noise measurement. Ecological

2024

  • Ling-Jyh Chen, Sakshi Saraswat, Fu-Shiang Ching, Chih-Yi Su, Hsin-Lan Huang, Wen-Chi Pan* (2024). Development and implementation of EcoDecibel: A low-cost and IoT-based device for noise measurement. Ecological Informatics, doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102968 (本人為通訊作者).
  • Ying-Cen Lin, Kang-Chen Fan, Chih-Da Wu, Wen-Chi Pan, Jiu-Chiuan Chen, Yi-Ping Chao, Yen-Jun Lai, Yen-Ling Chiu, Yi-Fang Chuang (2024, Aug). Yearly change in air pollution and brain aging among older adults: A community-based study in Taiwan. Environment international, 190,108876. 
  • Tanavij Pannoi, Chissanupong Promchai, Penjamaporn Apiromruck, Suwikran Wongpraphairot, Yaa-Hui Dong, Chen-Chang Yang, Wen-Chi Pan* (2024, Feb). Risk of circulatory diseases associated with proton-pump inhibitors: a retrospective cohort study using electronic medical records in Thailand. Peer J, 12, e16892. (本人為通訊作者).

2023

  • Yueh Jia Lee, Wei Qi Loh, Trung Kien Dang, Cecilia Woon Chien Teng, Wen-Chi Pan, Chih-Da Wu, Sin Eng Chia, Wei Jie Seow (2023, Nov). Determinants of residential greenness and its association with prostate cancer risk: A case-control study in Singapore. Environmental Research, 237, 116903.
  • Chin-Yu Hsu, Tien-Wei Lin, Jennieveive B. Babaan, Aji Kusumaning Asri, Pei-Yi Wong, Kai-Hsien Chi, Tuan Hung Ngo, Yu-Hsuan Yang, Wen-Chi Pan, Chih-Da Wu. (2023, Sep). Estimating the daily average concentration variations of PCDD/Fs in Taiwan using a novel Geo-AI based ensemble mixed spatial model.. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 458, 131859.
  • Tzu-Yi Lu, Chih-Da Wu, Yen-Tsung Huang, Yu-Cheng Chen, Chien-Jen Chen, Hwai-I Yang, Wen-Chi Pan* (2023, Mar). Exposure to PM2.5 Metal Constituents and Liver Cancer Risk in REVEAL-HBV.. Journal of Epidemiology, 10.2188/jea.JE20220262.(本人為通訊作者).
  • Aji Kusumaning Asri, Tsunglin Liu, Hui-Ju Tsai, Hsiao-Yun Lee, Wen-Chi Pan, Chih-Da Wu, Jiu-Yao Wang (2023, Feb). Residential greenness and air pollution’s association with nasal microbiota among asthmatic children. Environmental Research, 219, 115095. 

2022

  • Pannoi Tanavij, Promchai Chissanupong, Apiromruck Penjamaporn, Wongpraphairot Suvikran, Chen-Chang Yang, and Wen-Chi Pan* (2022, Dec). Estimates of Chronic Kidney Diseases Associated with Proton-pump Inhibitors Using a Retrospective Hospital-based Cohort in Thailand. International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease, 371-381.(本人為通訊作者).
  • Mei-Sheng Ku, Wen-Chi Pan, Yen-Tsung Huang, Wu-Shiun Hsieh, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Pau-Chung Chen, Chen-Yu Liu (2022). Associations between prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances, hypomethylation of MEST imprinted gene and birth outcomes. Environmental Pollution, 304.
  • Ngo, T. H., Pan, W. C. & Waits, A. (2022). Reduction in Aviation Volume due to COVID-19 and Changes in Air Pollution near the International Airport in Taiwan. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 22(4), 210297.

2021

  • Yao T-C, Huang H-Y, Pan W-C, Wu C-Y, Tsai S-Y, Hung C-Y, et al. Association of prenatal exposure to fine particulate matter pollution with childhood eczema. Allergy. 2021;76(7):2241-5.
  • Asri AK, Pan W-C, Lee H-Y, Su H-J, Wu C-D, Spengler JD. Spatial patterns of lower respiratory tract infections and their association with fine particulate matter. Scientific reports. 2021; 11 (1): 1-12.
  • Kusumaning Asri A, Lee H-Y, Pan W-C, Tsai H-J, Chang H-T, Candice Lung S-C, et al. Is green space exposure beneficial in a developing country? Landscape and Urban Planning. 2021;215:104226.

2020

  • Wu C-D, Chern Y-R, Pan W-C, Lung S-CC, Yao T-C, Tsai H-J, et al. Effects of surrounding environment on incidence of end stage renal disease. Science of The Total Environment. 2020:137915.
  • Tan YQ, Rashid SA, Pan W-C, Chen Y-C, Liya EY, Seow WJ. Association between microenvironment air quality and cardiovascular health outcomes. Science of The Total Environment. 2020;716:137027.
  • Pan W-C*, Yeh S-Y, Wu C-D, Huang Y-T, Chen Y-C, Chen C-J, et al. Association between Traffic Count and Cardiovascular Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study in Taiwan. Journal of Epidemiology. 2020:JE20200082.(本人為通訊作者).
  • Huang T, Chan T-C, Huang Y-J, Pan W-C. The Association between Noise Exposure and Metabolic Syndrome: A Longitudinal Cohort Study in Taiwan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020;17(12):4236.
  • Asri AK, Yu C-P, Pan W-C, Guo YL, Su H-J, Lung S-CC, et al. Global greenness in relation to reducing the burden of cardiovascular diseases: ischemic heart disease and stroke. Environmental Research Letters. 2020;15(12):124003.

2019

  • Lin W-H, Pan W-C, Yi C-C. “Happiness in the air?” the effects of air pollution on adolescent happiness. BMC public health. 2019;19(1):795.
  • Li C-Y, Wu C-D, Pan W-C, Chen Y-C, Su H-J. Association Between Long-term Exposure to PM2. 5 and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in Taiwan: A National Retrospective Cohort Study. Epidemiology. 2019;30:S67-S75.
  • Leung WTV, Tam TYT, Pan W-C, Wu C-D, Lung S-CC, Spengler JD. How is environmental greenness related to students’ academic performance in English and Mathematics? Landscape and urban planning. 2019;181:118-24.

2018

  • Lee H-Y, Yu C-P, Wu C-D, Pan W-C. The effect of leisure activity diversity and exercise time on the prevention of depression in the middle-aged and elderly residents of Taiwan. International journal of environmental research and public health. 2018;15(4):654.
  • Chi S-W, Wu C-D, Chang Y-T, Pan W-C. Roadway density, PM2.5, and hypertension: a retrospective cohort study in Taiwan. Taiwan Gong Gong Wei Sheng Za Zhi. 2018;37(2):125.
  • K-PY, W-C Shao, C-H Tseng, W-C Pan, Chen Y-C. Novel Mold-Resistant Building Materials Impregnated with Thermal-Reduced Nano-Silver. Indoor Air. 2018;28:276-86 (doi:10.1111/ina.12443).

2017

  • Wu C-D, Chen Y-C, Pan W-C, Zeng Y-T, Chen M-J, Guo YL, et al. Land-use regression with long-term satellite-based greenness index and culture-specific sources to model PM 2.5 spatial-temporal variability. Environmental Pollution. 2017;224:148-57.
  • Patrick Opiyo Owill MAM, Wen-Chi Pan, Kuo H-W. Cooking Fuel and Risk of under-five Mortality in 23 Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Population-based Study. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 2017;27(3):191-204(doi: 10.1080/09603123.2017.1332).
  • Patrick Opiyo Owill MAM, Wen-Chi Pan, Kuo H-W. Indoor Secondhand Tobacco Smoke and Risk of under-five Mortality in 23 Sub-Saharan Africa Countries: A Population based Study and Meta-analysis. PLOS One. 2017;12(5):e0177271 ( doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.01).
  • Huang Y-F, Pan W-C, Tsai Y-A, Chang C-H, Chen P-J, Shao Y-S, et al. Concurrent exposures to nonylphenol, bisphenol A, phthalates, and organophosphate pesticides on birth outcomes: A cohort study in Taipei, Taiwan. Science of the Total Environment. 2017;607:1126-35.

2016

  • Pan W-C, Wu C-D, Chen M-J, Huang Y-T, Chen C-J, Su H-J, et al. Fine particle pollution, alanine transaminase, and liver cancer: A Taiwanese prospective cohort study (REVEAL-HBV). JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2016;108(3).
  • Huang YT, Pan WC. Hypothesis test of mediation effect in causal mediation model with high‐dimensional continuous mediators. Biometrics. 2016;72(2):402-13.

Before 2015

  • Seow WJ, Pan W-C, Kile ML, Lin T, Baccarelli A, Quamruzzaman Q, et al. A Distinct and Replicable Squamous Cell Carcinoma Gene INPPA5 Variant Modifies Susceptibility of Arsenic-Associated Skin Lesions in Bangladesh. Cancer. 2015;121(13):2222.
  •  Seow WJ, Pan WC, Kile ML, Tong L, Baccarelli AA, Quamruzzaman Q, et al. A distinct and replicable variant of the squamous cell carcinoma gene inositol polyphosphate‐5‐phosphatase modifies the susceptibility of arsenic‐associated skin lesions in Bangladesh. Cancer. 2015.
  • Pan W-C, Eliot MN, Koutrakis P, Coull BA, Sorond FA, Wellenius GA. Ambient temperature and cerebrovascular hemodynamics in the elderly. PloS one. 2015;10(8):e0134034.
  • Pan W-C, Seow WJ, Kile ML, Hoffman EB, Quamruzzaman Q, Rahman M, et al. Association of low to moderate levels of arsenic exposure with risk of type 2 diabetes in Bangladesh. American journal of epidemiology. 2013;178(10):1563-70.
  • Pan W-C, Kile ML, Seow WJ, Lin X, Quamruzzaman Q, Rahman M, et al. Genetic Susceptible Locus in NOTCH2 Interacts with Arsenic in Drinking Water on Risk of Type 2 Diabetes. PloS one. 2013;8(8):e70792.
  • Seow WJ, Pan W-C, Kile ML, Baccarelli AA, Quamruzzaman Q, Rahman M, et al. Arsenic Reduction in Drinking Water and Improvement in Skin Lesions: A Follow-Up Study in Bangladesh. Environmental health perspectives. 2012;120(12):1733.
  • Oh RS, Pan W-C, Yalcin A, Zhang H, Guilarte TR, Hotamisligil GS, et al. Functional RNA interference (RNAi) screen identifies system A neutral amino acid transporter 2 (SNAT2) as a mediator of arsenic-induced endoplasmic reticulum stress. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2012;287(8):6025-34.
  • Pan W-C, Chen R-M, Shen Y-C, Chen C-C, Ueng Y-F. Suppressive effect of tobacco smoke extracts on oral P-glycoprotein function and its impact in smoke-induced insult to oral epidermal cells. Toxicology letters. 2009;185(2):116-23.
  • Lin P-H, Pan W-C, Kang Y-W, Chen Y-L, Lin C-H, Lee M-C, et al. Effects of naphthalene quinonoids on the induction of oxidative DNA damage and cytotoxicity in calf thymus DNA and in human cultured cells. Chemical research in toxicology. 2005;18(8):1262-70.