The health of a nation relies on population health prevention as much as improving the health of individuals. We are better off if we improve both simultaneously and don’t only advance one at the expense of the other.
Yi Wang
Assistant Professor
Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public HealthDr. Yi Wang is an assistant professor at Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health. Rooted in his training in biomedical bench research, pharmacy, and public health statistics, Yi approaches healthcare issues through both individual and population lens. He has expertise in population health data analytics such as epidemiological study and causal inference (natural experiment and randomized control trial). Trained in toxicology and biopharmaceuticals, he also has expertise in the biological mechanisms/pathways behind statistical inference drawn in epidemiological research.
Yi received postdoctoral training in Epidemiology from Brown University after obtaining his PhD in environmental epidemiology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to becoming a population health scientist, he spent two years doing bench science in toxicology after earning his master’s degree in toxicology, and worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a business development associate after his undergraduate training in biopharmaceuticals.