Florence Wang ScD

Florence T. Wang joined Optum in 2007. She received a joint Doctor of Science in Epidemiology and Environmental Health in 2005 and a Master of Science in Epidemiology in 2001 from the Harvard School of Public Health. Her previous research focused on occupational surveillance, determinants of heavy metal burden, and environmental and genetic risk factors of cognitive decline, hearing loss and other health outcomes related to aging. Before joining the Epidemiology group, she was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. At Optum, Dr. Wang has led prospective and retrospective cohort studies, and nested case-control studies, as well as studies for signal detection, comparative effectiveness, and case algorithm development. Her work at Optum has been in the areas of vaccines, cancer, cardiovascular disease, hepatic outcomes, and developmental disorders.