Haoxiang (harry H.x.) Wang PhD

Haoxiang (Harry H.X.) Wang is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, at Sun Yat-Sen University. Harry holds an adjunct appointment at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong SAR, and an honorary appointment at The University of Edinburgh, UK. He is a Fellow of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH), UK, and an International Fellow of the Japanese Society of Hypertension (JSH), Japan. His research focuses on risk factors in health and diseases, the process of care, and its association with cardiovascular disease and multimorbidity, from epidemiology and health service perspectives.

Harry Hao-Xiang WANG gained a PhD in Public Health with 'The Best Ph.D. Thesis Award (2012)' at the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in October 2012, and was immediately appointed as Lecturer at CUHK (2012-2015). While in Hong Kong he had a research attachment at the Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, UK with an award received under the CUHK Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence (2010-11), and further carried out post-doctoral studies in multimorbidity at General Practice and Primary Care, University of Glasgow, UK with the Fellowship awarded under the Hong Kong-Scotland Partners in Post Doctoral Research (2012/13), launched by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong in collaboration with the Scottish Government, UK. He is now based in Guangzhou, P.R. China, where he has obtained a series of competitive grants as Principal Investigator, from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) – a nationally-recognized funding agency – as well as other regionally-recognized academic funds.