Dr. Hong Wang has over 30 years of experience in health economics, financing, and systems in developing countries. He is a Senior Policy Advisor/Senior Program Officer at BMGF. Currently, he manages healthcare care financing, integrated healthcare, health service purchasing and provider incentives, and poverty reduction (including women and children’s health) related investment at foundation’s Beijing office, as well as some PHC financing and system strengthening investment in South-East Asia. Dr. Wang also holds a position of Affiliate Professor at the Department of Global Health, University of Washington, USA.
Before joined BMGF, Dr. Wang was a Principal Associate/Senior Health Economist in Abt Associates Inc. as the technical lead on health financing-related projects in Asia and Africa countries, such as in India, Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladeshi, Cambodia, China, Nigeria, Liberia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, Mali, and other LMICs. Dr. Wang was an Assistant/Associate Professor at Yale School of Public Health, an Associate Professor/Acting Director in the Health Economics Department at Beijing Medical University, and an Adjunct Professor/Deputy Director at National Health Economics Institute, China. Dr. Wang graduated from Beijing Medical University (Public Health) and The University of Wisconsin/Madison (Ph.D. in Population Health and Health Economics).