Education
PhD in Clinical and
Intervention Epidemiology, 2005
Swiss Tropical Institute,
University of Basel, Switzerland
Master in Public Health
(MPH), 1997
Division of Infectious
Diseases Epidemiology, Yale University School of Medicine,
USA
Postgraduate diploma
course in Health Economics and Administration, 2003
École des Hautes Études
Commerciales, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Current research
interests
I am developing a
protocol to study lifetime exposure to collective violence and its
lasting public health impact (with a focus on pain, injury and
disability) among a traumatized population. My primary interests
rest in the endemicity of torture and other forms of collective
violence in a crisis situation and the post-conflict setting, the
risk factors for victimization and factors contributing to healing.
Of a particular interest is to use geographic information system
(GIS) to carry out the spatial analysis on socioeconomic gradient
and dynamic of violence. I am also interested in developing
strategy to reach hidden victims and studying the health
vulnerability of female victims who experienced sexual violence and
torture as well as developing a gender-based approach to increase
the accessibility of the health services. The study has been
conducted in Bangladesh and Kosovo and will be implemented in Iraq
in 2011.
Language proficiency
Fluent in English
and Mandarin, advanced level of French (C1), intermediate level of
German, beginner level of Danish and a little Arabic.
Peer-review publications
Wang SJ, Salihu M, Rushiti F, Bala L, Modvig J: Survivors of the
war in the Northern Kosovo: violence exposure, risk factors and
public health effects of an ethnic conflict. Confl Health 2010,
4:11.
Wang SJ, Pacolli S, Rushiti F, Rexhaj B, Modvig J: Survivors of
the war in the Northern Kosovo (II): baseline clinical and
functional assessment and lasting effects on the health of a
vulnerable population. Confl Health 2010, 4:15.
Formenty P, Muntasir M.O, Damon I, Shadari V, Opoka ML, Monimart
C, Mutasim EM, Manuguerra JC, Davidson WB, Karem KL, Cabeza J, Wang
S, Malik MR, Durand T, Khalid A, Rioton T, Kuong Ruay A, Babiker
AA, Karsani MEM, Abdalla MS: Human monkeypox outbreak caused by
novel virus belonging to Congo Basin clade, Sudan, 2005. Emerg
Infect Dis 2010, 16 (10):1539-1545.
Wang SJ, Modvig J, Montgomery E: Household exposure to violence
and human rights violations in western Bangladesh (I): prevalence,
risk factors and consequences. BMC Int Health Hum Rights 2009,
9:29.
Wang SJ, Haque MA, Masum SU, Biswas S, Modvig J: Household
exposure to violence and human rights violations in western
Bangladesh (II): history of torture and other traumatic experience
of violence and functional assessment of victims. BMC Int Health
Hum Rights 2009, 9:31.
Ritmeijer K, Davies C, van Zorge R, Wang SJ, Schorscher J,
Dongu'du SI, Davidson RN: Evaluation of a mass distribution
programme for fine-mesh impregnated bednets against visceral
leishmaniasis in eastern Sudan. Trop Med Int Health 2007,
12(3):404-414.
Wang SJ, Lengeler C, Smith TA, Vounatsou P, Cisse G, Tanner M:
Rapid Urban Malaria Appraisal (RUMA) III: epidemiology of urban
malaria in the municipality of Yopougon (Abidjan). Malar J 2006,
5:29.
Wang SJ, Lengeler C, Smith TA, Vounatsou P, Akogbeto M, Tanner M:
Rapid Urban Malaria Appraisal (RUMA) IV: epidemiology of urban
malaria in Cotonou (Benin). Malar J 2006, 5:45.
Wang SJ, Lengeler C, Mtasiwa D, Mshana T, Manane L, Maro G, Tanner
M: Rapid Urban Malaria Appraisal (RUMA) II: epidemiology of urban
malaria in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). Malar J 2006, 5:28.
Wang SJ, Lengeler C, Smith TA, Vounatsou P, Diadie DA, Pritroipa
X, Convelbo N, Kientga M, Tanner M: Rapid urban malaria appraisal
(RUMA) I: epidemiology of urban malaria in Ouagadougou. Malar J
2005, 4:43.
Wang SJ, Lengeler C, Smith TA, Vounatsou P, Cisse G, Diallo DA,
Akogbeto M, Mtasiwa D, Teklehaimanot A, Tanner M: Rapid urban
malaria appraisal (RUMA) in sub-Saharan Africa. Malar J 2005,
4:40.
Lin TN, Chen JJ, Wang SJ, Cheng JT, Chi SI, Shyu AB, Sun GY, Hsu
CY: Expression of NGFI-B mRNA in a rat focal cerebral
ischemia-reperfusion model. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 1996,
43(1-2):149-156.
Dissertations
Wang, SJ "Changing malaria epidemiology in four urban settings
in sub-Saharan Africa". Basel: In Diss. phil.-nat., Swiss Tropical
Institute, Basel University, 2005.
Wang SJ, "The prospect of malaria control by transgenic vectors:
The Sigma virus Injection into Mosquitoes and Drosophila". New
Haven: In MPH thesis. Yale University, 1997.
Other publications: reports for WHO
Darfur bi-annual report in 2004-2005:
http://www.emro.who.int/sudan/pdf/WMMB%20bi-annual%20report.pdf
Darfur Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Bulletin: http://www.emro.who.int/sudan/InformationCentre.htm#wmmb
Yellow fever outbreak in South Kordofan, Sudan:
http://www.emro.who.int/sudan/pdf/Yellow%20fever%20outbreak%20weekly%20report%20up%20to%2020%20Dec05.pdf