Claudia Wang PhD

Claudia Chunyun Wang is an Assistant Professor for the community health program at Western Washington University. Her main responsibilities include teaching a variety of health-related classes, conducting research, and providing professional services.

She teaches community health-related courses including foundations of Health Education, healthy lifestyle, Nutrition, community health, school health, consumer health, environmental health, and grant writing in public health. Her research interests focus on the use of complementary and alternative medicine for children's mental health issues. Currently, She conducting research projects to investigate the relationship between video game playing and psychological distress, the use of CAM among children with mental health issues, the trends of yoga, tai chi, and qi gong use among U.S. adults, and the prevalence and predictors meditation use among children in the US.