Professor Chen Wang

Professor Chen Wang is a physician-scientist in pulmonary and critical care medicine, population medicine and public health. He is Professor and Chief Physician at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Health and Multimorbidity, and Chair of the Academic and Discipline Development Committee of China’s National Center for Respiratory Medicine. He is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, and International Member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. His research spans chronic airway disease, tobacco control, respiratory failure, pulmonary vascular disease, emerging infections, and multimorbidity, with a particular emphasis on translating scientific innovation into improvements in population health. He has published over 400 scientific papers and has contributed to international clinical guidelines and major global health reports. He has played leading roles in responding to SARS, H1N1 influenza, and COVID-19.