{"id":285,"date":"2019-08-10T16:12:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T20:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mchcenterofexcellence\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=285"},"modified":"2025-10-14T13:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:34:56","slug":"monica-wang","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mchcenterofexcellence\/profile\/monica-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Monica Wang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #212121; background: white;\">Dr. Monica Wang is an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Harvard\u00a0T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Executive Editor of Public Health Post.<\/span><span style=\"color: #212121;\">\u00a0She\u00a0is a\u00a0globally recognized 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\u00a0income,\u00a0neighborhood conditions, and policy, shape chronic disease and health across the U.S. and\u00a0globally.<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"color: #212121;\">Over the past decade, she has led major NIH-funded research initiatives to improve\u00a0nutrition\u00a0and prevent chronic disease among youth and families and secured over $6 million in research funding. She has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications in top journals such as <\/span><i><span style=\"color: black;\">JAMA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #212121;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"color: black;\">JAMA Pediatrics<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #212121;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"color: black;\">The American Journal of Public Health<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #212121;\">, with her work featured in <\/span><i><span style=\"color: black;\">NPR<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #212121;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"color: black;\">Forbes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #212121;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"color: black;\">Harvard Business Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #212121;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"color: black;\">National Geographic, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: black;\">and<i>\u00a0The Boston Globe<\/i><\/span><span style=\"color: #212121;\">.<\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><o:p>\u00a0<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Dr. Wang\u2019s honors include national awards from\u00a0the Society of Behavioral Medicine and recognition as a 40 Under 40 Leader in Health by the National Minority Quality Forum. <span style=\"background: white;\">She obtained her doctoral and master&#8217;s degrees from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16383,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mchcenterofexcellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mchcenterofexcellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mchcenterofexcellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mchcenterofexcellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16383"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mchcenterofexcellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mchcenterofexcellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/285\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mchcenterofexcellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}