Adjunct Faculty of Global Health Program
National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Dr Wan-Ting Huang is a physician, educated and trained in pediatrics and infectious diseases in Taiwan. She has worked at U.S. CDC’s Immunization Safety Office as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer. She holds adjunct faculty appointments in the National Taiwan University College of Public Health and Children’s Hospital. In her previous role as Chief Medical Officer at Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, Dr Huang worked in broad areas of infectious diseases, field epidemiology, surveillance, and social science. She played key roles in modernizing the vaccine safety infrastructure in Taiwan and has been actively involved in multi-country collaborative vaccine safety projects, both in resource-poor and -rich study settings. She was a member of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology Board of Directors (2012–2018) and Brighton Collaboration Science Board (2018–2023). Dr Huang currently serves on the Safety Platform for Emergency vACcines (SPEAC) Executive Board, guiding the operation of monitoring the progress and quality of the work of the project to ensure SPEAC standards and tools are valid and applicable across global settings. She also provides technical input to the CDC Global Immunization Safety Team in implementing/advancing vaccine safety responses in low- and middle-income countries, and to VAC4EU on regulatory required studies on Covid-19 vaccine safety.
NTU Scholars: https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/cris/rp/rp201092