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Dr Huang Tao’s research focuses on advancing the understanding of climate extremes and their impacts on human health, with an emphasis on heat-related risks under climate change. His particular research focus is on humid heat impacts on psychiatric disorders and cardiovascular diseases, and how to establish a multi-phase heat early warning system to protect vulnerable populations under climate change. His broader interests include physio-climatic heatwave identification, AI-driven heatwave attribution and forecasting, and the assessment of heat–health impacts across different populations and settings. He also works on projecting future heat-related health burdens under climate change, and on developing low-cost strategies for heat-risk mitigation and intervention to support climate adaptation and public health decision-making.