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Max M Aung

Max M Aung

Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences
Medicine
1845 N. Soto Street Health Sciences Campus Los Angeles

Contact

maxaung@usc.edu

Harvard University: JPB Environmental Health Fellowship, 2022-2025

Johns Hopkins University: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars Fellowship, 2016-2019

Urinary oxidative stress biomarkers are associated with preterm birth: an Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes program studyAm J Obstet Gynecol. 2023 May; 228(5):576. e1-576. e22. . View in PubMed

Examining the association between prenatal maternal stress and infant non-nutritive suck Pediatr Res. 2023 Apr; 93(5):1285-1293. . View in PubMed

Maternal per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances exposures associated with higher depressive symptom scores among immigrant women in the Chemicals in Our Bodies cohort in San Francisco Environ Int. 2023 02; 172:107758. . View in PubMed

Associations between social, biologic, and behavioral factors and biomarkers of oxidative stress during pregnancy: Findings from four ECHO cohorts Sci Total Environ. 2022 Aug 20; 835:155596. . View in PubMed

Prenatal PFAS and psychosocial stress exposures in relation to fetal growth in two pregnancy cohorts: Applying environmental mixture methods to chemical and non-chemical stressors Environ Int. 2022 05; 163:107238. . View in PubMed

Maternal blood metal concentrations and whole blood DNA methylation during pregnancy in the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI) Epigenetics. 2022 03; 17(3):253-268. . View in PubMed

Bayesian Sparse Mediation Analysis with Targeted Penalization of Natural Indirect Effects J R Stat Soc Ser C Appl Stat. 2021 Nov; 70(5):1391-1412. . View in PubMed

Cross-Sectional Estimation of Endogenous Biomarker Associations with Prenatal Phenols, Phthalates, Metals, and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Single-Pollutant and Mixtures Analysis Approaches Environ Health Perspect. 2021 03; 129(3):37007. . View in PubMed

Maternal lipidomic signatures in relation to spontaneous preterm birth and large-for-gestational age neonates Sci Rep. 2021 04 14; 11(1):8115. . View in PubMed

Application of an analytical framework for multivariate mediation analysis of environmental data Nat Commun. 2020 11 06; 11(1):5624. . View in PubMed

Prediction and associations of preterm birth and its subtypes with eicosanoid enzymatic pathways and inflammatory markers Sci Rep. 2019 11 19; 9(1):17049. . View in PubMed

Urinary trace metals individually and in mixtures in association with preterm birth Environ Int. 2018 12; 121(Pt 1):582-590. . View in PubMed

Dr. Max Aung is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Environmental Health at the University of Southern California. Dr. Aung is an alumnus of the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Fellowship as well as the RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars Fellowship. His research focuses on applying data science frameworks to understand potential mechanisms linking chemical mixtures to health across the life course and pursue environmental justice. He specifically integrates multiple hierarchies of exogenous and endogenous biomarkers, including biomonitored toxicant exposures, targeted bioactive lipids, and untargeted lipidomics and metabolomics. His current funded projects focus on integrating these biomarkers in diverse prospective cohorts to better understand mechanisms linking the human exposome to maternal health outcomes, child neurodevelopment, and mental health.
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