主要从事数学模型认识传染源的演变和传播研究。团队研究成果被用于我国重大疫情预测与干预措施效应评价、北京2022年冬奥会和冬残奥会保障；代表性成果整篇编入美国科学促进会K12教材Science in the Classroom；建立的方法被应用于世界卫生组织技术指南；系列工作被Science、Nature、PNAS选为研究亮点并专题评述；研究获得党中央和国务院领导的重要批示。
代表性论著
1. Chen Y et al. (2022) Measuring the effects of COVID-19-related disruption on dengue transmission in southeast Asia and Latin America: a statistical modelling study. Lancet Infectious Diseases 22: 657-67 (“invited comment”, Lancet Infectious Diseases, 22: 570-71; Lancet Infectious Diseases, 22:763)
2. Wang Z et al. (2022) The relationship between rising temperatures and malaria incidence trends in tropical China, from 1984 to 2010: a 27-year longitudinal study. Lancet Planetary Health 6: e351–59
3. Liu Y et al. (2021) Associations between changes in population mobility in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and socioeconomic factors at the city level in China and country level worldwide: a retrospective, observational stud. Lancet Digital Health 3: e349-59
4. Tian H* et al. (2020) An investigation of transmission control measures during the first 50 days of the COVID-19 epidemic in China. Science 368: 638-42 (Selected to be included in “Science in the Classroom”)
5. Yang Q et al. (2020) Assessing the role of live poultry trade in community-structured transmission of avian influenza in China. PNAS 117:5949-54 (“From the Cover”, PNAS; “Research Highlight”, Nature, 579:176)
6. Tian H* et al. (2018) Urbanization prolongs hantavirus epidemics in cities. PNAS 115:4707-12
7. Tian H* et al. (2018) Transmission dynamics of re-emerging rabies in domestic dogs of rural China. PLOS Pathogens 14:e1007392 (“Research Highlight”, PLOS Pathogens)
8. Tian H et al. (2017) Interannual cycles of Hantaan virus outbreaks at the human–animal interface in Central China are controlled by temperature and rainfall. PNAS 114:8041-6 (“Research Highlight”, PNAS)
9. Tian H et al. (2017) Anthropogenically driven environmental changes shift the ecological dynamics of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. PLOS Pathogens 13:e1006198
10. Tian H et al. (2015) Avian influenza H5N1 viral and bird migration networks in Asia. PNAS 112:172-7
