YuanYuan Wang

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20022025

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Biography

Dr Wang is a clinical epidemiologist in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine Monash University, with over 20 years’ experience in epidemiological research of musculoskeletal conditions. She has been a recipient of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) PhD Scholarship, Public Health Training Fellowship, Career Development Fellowship (Level 1), and Translating Research Into Practice Fellowship. Dr Wang is a trained radiologist (MBBS China 1993) with a Master degree in Medicine (China 1998). She completed a PhD at Swinburne University of Technology in 2007, focusing on factors affecting knee cartilage and bone morphologies in individuals with and without clinical knee osteoarthritis.

Dr Wang’s work has contributed to better understanding of the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis that inform the preventive and therapeutic strategies for osteoarthritis. Dr Wang has led randomised controlled trials testing novel treatment for knee and hand osteoarthritis. Her research is primarily supported by the NHMRC and Arthritis Australia.

Dr Wang has published over 210 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including those published in the highly ranked general medicine and rheumatology journals (Lancet, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Arthritis & Rheumatology). Her work is highly cited, with over 11,500 citations and H-index of 65. She is a member of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International and Australia Chinese Association of Biomedical Sciences, and an academic/associate editor of Frontiers in Endocrinology, PLoS One, and BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. She sits in many grant review committees and reviews manuscripts for over 30 international journals.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy

Education/Academic qualification

Epidemiology, PhD, Factors affecting knee cartilage and bone healthy subjects and those with knee osteoarthritis, Swinburne University of Technology

Award Date: 19 Jan 2007

Medicine, Master of Medicine, Correlation between CT and pathology for differentiation of benign nodules and lung cancer , Dalian Medical University

Award Date: 4 May 1998

Medicine, MBBS, N/A, by course, Peking University

Award Date: 18 Jun 1993

Research area keywords

  • Osteoarthritis
  • Epidemiology
  • Low Back Pain
  • Obesity
  • Physical activity
  • diet and health
  • Clinical trials
  • Treatment
  • Prevention
  • Joint replacement

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