Dr. Jing Wang

Dr. Jing Wang, Ph.D., MPH, RN, FAAN, is Dean and Professor in the College of Nursing and Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Her research uses mobile and connected health technologies to optimize multiple-behavior lifestyle interventions and improve patient-centered outcomes among the chronically ill and aging populations with multiple chronic conditions, especially among the rural, underserved, and minority populations. Recently, she led interdisciplinary research that uses artificial intelligence to develop health care data analytics methods to characterize the dynamic pathways to the emergence of common multiple chronic conditions in minority populations and optimize multiple-behavior intervention through smart and adaptive clinical trials. She is the editorial board member of The Diabetes Educator and the Editor-in-Chief of JMIR Aging.

She’s an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, 2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar, 2015 TEDMED Scholar, 2016 Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Macy Faculty Scholar. As a Health and Aging Policy Fellow and American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, she works with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and serves as a Senior Scientific Advisor to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). She’s selected as the 2021-2024 National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine.