Research Interests
- cancer epidemiology
- COVID-19
- arthritis and disability epidemiology
- immigrants health
- nutritional epidemiology
- statistics modeling
- hepatitis epidemiology
- quality of life
- survey methods
Biography
Dr. Wang is a tenured professor (Epidemiology) , Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) and Professor (status only) at DLSPH, University of Toronto. Director, Centre for New Immigrants Wellbeing (CNIW). Dr. Wang graduated from Tianjin Medical University, China and received his PhD in Epidemiology from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
Dr. Wang has extensive research experience with broad interests including: cancer epidemiology, arthritis and disability, immigrant health and quality of life, aging, health surveys, and epidemiological modeling. Among many recognitions, Dr. Wang received the Arthritis Society and CIHR Joint Fellowship Award, distinguished visiting professor award from Tianjin Government, and Science and Chinese National Technology Achievement Award. He has been a lead investigator or a co-investigator for more than 30 research grants that have been supported by various provincial, national, and international funding agencies. Dr. Wang is a reviewer for a number of funding agencies and academic journals; he has published more than 80 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals. In the past 5 years, Dr. Wang’s main research focus has been in epidemiology of colorectal cancer, and his research in this area has been well recognized internationally. He also holds a CIHR sponsored COVID-19 project as PI and a SSHRC COVID-19 project as co-investigator. In addition to his primary academic affiliation, Dr. Wang also holds academic appointments in other institutes.
Dr. Wang is committed to teaching and training future public health researchers and practitioners. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate classes at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Tianjin Medical University. The courses Dr. Wang has chaired or taught since 2005 include: Introduction to Epidemiology (MED 6270), , Advanced Epidemiology (MED 6275), Chronic Disease Epidemiology (MED 6274), Research Methods and Cancer Biology and Epidemiology Methods I (CHL 5410, DLSPH) . Dr. Wang has been a thesis supervisor or a supervisory committee member to more than 30 MSc or Ph.D students.