Dr Su Wang
Biography
Su Wang, MD, MPH is the Senior Advisor for Global Health for the Hepatitis B Foundation. She practices internal medicine and is the Medical Director of Viral Hepatitis Programs & the Center for Asian Health at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey, USA. Dr Wang has designed primary care-based hepatitis B and C care programs, initiatives for pregnant women with hepatitis B, and is involved with community outreach and community-based participatory research. She has served as primary investigator for a number of viral hepatitis screening and linkage-to-care grants sponsored by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other funders. She is Past President of the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA), a patient-led organization whose mission is to harness the power of people living with viral hepatitis to achieve its elimination.
Dr Wang received her medical degree from the University of Miami and her Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She completed a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatric residency at Georgetown University Hospital and served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer for the CDC at the US Food and Drug Administration.
She is living with hepatitis B, a mother to four children, and ending HBV mother-to-child transmission has been both a personal and professional focus.