Yan Wang,

Yan Wang is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Florida (UF). Her research interests focus on leveraging advanced technologies and methods (e.g., wearable sensors, ecological momentary assessment/EMA) to improve the understanding of etiology and outcomes of substance use (e.g., alcohol, medical marijuana). Dr. Wang is also Associate Director of the Southern HIV and Alcohol Research Consortium (SHARC, U24 AA022002, PI: Cook) Center at UF, which focuses on improving health among persons living with HIV in Florida. She also serves as the Assistant Director of the Clinical Core within the Consortium for Medical Marijuana Clinical Outcomes Research, which is a statewide consortium established in 2019 by the Florida Statute to provide infrastructural support for research on medical marijuana and its clinical outcomes. Dr. Wang is currently the PI or Co-I on three NIH projects focusing on alcohol use among persons with HIV that involve the use of wrist-worn alcohol biosensor (R01AA030481, MPIs: Cook & Wang; P01AA029547, MPIs: Naar & MacDonald; P01AA029543, MPIs: Cook & Cohen), and she is Co-I on two newly funded NIH projects (R01 AA030481, PI: Weafer & Leeman; R21AA029489, PI: Jaffe) to contribute her expertise on alcohol biosensors. She is also the PI of a recently funded R01 project (R01AG071729, PI: Wang) which will utilize technology-based assessments to investigate the real-time and long-term effects of medical marijuana on older adults with chronic pain. Additionally, Dr. Wang has also been contributing as Co-I on several NIH funded research projects such as a U24 grant for biomedical data repository (U24 AA029959, PI: Wu & Cook).

Substance use and HIV; biosensors; ecological momentary assessment