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Associate Professor
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Wang is an Associate Professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Her research is focused on 1) developing innovative, non-traditional analytic methods to understand the safety and effectiveness of medication use in routine clinical care as well as 2) facilitating appropriate use of complex methods for analyzing large observational healthcare data.
She leads the Meta-Research in Pharmacoepidemiology program, with recent projects aimed at improving the transparency, reproducibility and robustness of evidence from healthcare databases (www.repeatinitiative.org) and informing when and how real-world evidence studies can draw causal conclusions to inform regulatory or other healthcare decision-making (www.rctduplicate.org). She is currently PI on multiple NIH R01s and is also funded by FDA. Her methods work has received 3 awards from international societies.
Dr. Wang co-led the 1st and 2nd joint task forces for the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) and the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) focused on real-world evidence for healthcare decision-making.