Assistant Professor
George Mason University
Dr. Dongqing Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and Community Health at George Mason University College of Public Health. Dr. Wang’s research focuses on the nutritional determinants of maternal, child, and adolescent health in low- and middle-income countries. A primary domain of Wang’s research is the distributions, determinants, and consequences of inadequate and excessive gestational weight gain. Wang addresses knowledge gaps related to gestational weight gain by pooling individual participant data from national surveys, observational cohort studies, and randomized controlled trials conducted in low- and middle-income countries. Wang’s research also leverages gestational weight gain to inform individualized nutritional intervention in resource-limited settings. Another area of Wang's work is the impacts of maternal nutrient and food supplementation. Finally, Wang is interested in adolescent nutrition and school-based interventions to address the double burden of adolescent malnutrition. Wang is the Co-Investigator of several randomized controlled trials of nutritional interventions among mothers, children, and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Wang was trained as a nutritional epidemiologist and received his Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan. Wang received postdoctoral training in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.