Monica Wang

Dr. Monica Wang, affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Executive Editor of Public Health Post. She is an award-winning public health leader, researcher, educator, and author of The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health (Beacon Press, 2026). Her work focuses on how social and structural factors, like income, neighborhood conditions, and policy, shape chronic disease and health across the U.S. and globally.

Over the past decade, she has led major NIH-funded research initiatives to improve nutrition and chronic disease and secured over $6 million in research funding. She has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications in top journals such as JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, and The American Journal of Public Health, with her work featured in NPR, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, National Geographic, and The Boston Globe.

Dr. Wang’s honors include national awards from the Society of Behavioral Medicine and recognition as a 40 Under 40 Leader in Health by the National Minority Quality Forum. She obtained her doctoral and master’s degrees from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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