Foundation Board of Advisors
Youfa Wang; M.D., Ph.D., M.S.
Dr. Wang is presently an Associate Professor at the Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Department of Epidemiology (joint appointment), Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. Earlier, he was an Assistant Professor in the same department. Earlier still, he was an Assistant Professor, Department of Human Nutrition and an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Illinois in Chicago, IL. Even earlier, Dr. Wang was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Public Health at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. Earlier still, he was an Assistant Professor (joint appointment) in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL Dr. Wang is and was a member of several professional organizations including: the American Society for Nutritional Sciences; Society for International Nutrition Research; the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, the International Association for the Study of Obesity, the American Statistical Association, the American Public Health Association,the American Diabetes Association; Society for Epidemiologic Research; and the Vice Secretary General, The Society of Chinese American Professors and Scientists. He is the receipent of several awards and honors including: The Dannon Institute's Nutrition Leadership Institute; the American Society for Nutritional Sciences (ASNS) Travel Award; the University of Illinois General Clinical Research Center (GCRC); the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health; the Chunhui Award, Chinese Ministry of Education; and the Carolina Population Center Predoctoral Traineeship. Dr. Wang has authored and co-authored numerous articles, periodicals and manuals in nutrition including: Wang Y, Beydoun MA, Caballero B, Gary TL, Lawrence R. Trends in American Adults' meat consumption and its association with obesity. American Journal of Clinical Nutritio; Zhang Q, Huang ES, Wang Y. Trends in racial/ethnic disparities in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes by body mass index among U.S. adults. Diabetes Care; HK So, E Anthony Nelson, AMC Li, Eric Wong, Joseph Lau, GS Guldan, KH Mak, Wang Y, TF Fok, RYT Sung. Secular changes in height, weight and body mass index in Hong Kong Children. Bulletin of WHO; Chen X, Beydoun M, Wang Y. Is sleep duration associated with childhood obesity? A systematic review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology; Wang Y, Mi J, Shang X. Childhood obesity: an important public health problem. In "On the Frontiers of Science (Vol 1): Life Science" Ed, Liu GK. Tsinghua University Press and Interpress, Beijing, 2003; Wang Y. Prevalence and trends in childhood obesity. In "Childhood Obesity: The New Crisis in Public Health" The International Obesity TaskForce (IOTF)'s Report to the WHO. Ed, Tim Lobstein, Louise Baur, Ricardo Uauy, 2003; Wang Y. Must A. Global burden of childhood obesity. In "The Nation's Nutrition". Ed. E Kennedy and RJ Deckelbaum, The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI)(book chapter) 2007; Wang Y, Kumanyika S. Epidemiology of Obesity in the United States. In "Handbook of Obesity Prevention," Ed. Kumanyika S and Brownson R, Springer (book chapter, in press); and Wang Y. "The Link Between Leisure Time Activities And the Increasing Prevalence of Obesity Among Youth In Developed Countries" in the United Nations 2007 World Youth Report (Chapter, in press). He holds a Ph.D. degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health in Nutritional Epidemiology in Chapel Hill, NC; a M.D. degree from Beijing Medical University (Beijing University) in Beijing, China; and a M.S degree from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College in Epidemiology.