Research associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina
Weiming Tang, PhD, is a research associate professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina. He is the Co-Director of UNC Project-China, and the Advisor of SESH Global. Dr. Tang’s background training is in the field of epidemiology, with an emphasis on HIV/STI epidemiology, study design, and data analysis. His research focuses on promoting HIV/STI testing and healthy behavior change among key populations. Specifically, Dr. Tang is interested in using crowdsourcing and other participatory methods to enhance health services. In addition, He is also interested in digital health/telemedicine, especially in the evaluation of digital health.
Selected Publications
Tang, W, Wu D, Yang F, Wang C, Gong W, Gray K, and Tucker J. “How kindness can be contagious in healthcare.” Nature medicine (2021): 1-3.
Sha Y, Marley G, Tang W. Need for transgender specific data from Asia. Lancet HIV. 21tlhiv0120.
Guo W, Ming F, Feng Y, Zhang Q, Mo P, Liu L, Gao M, Tang W, Liang K. Patterns of HIV and SARS-CoV-2 co-infection in Wuhan, China. J Int AIDS Soc. 2020 Jul;23(7):e25568. doi: 10.1002/jia2.25568. PMID: 32697865; PMCID: PMC7323012.
Yang F, Zhang TP, Tang W, Ong JJ, Alexander M, Forastiere L, Kumar N, Li KT, Zou F, Yang L, Mi G, Wang Y, Huang W, Lee A, Zhu W, Luo D, Vickerman P, Wu D, Yang B, Christakis NA, Tucker JD. Pay-it-forward gonorrhoea and chlamydia testing among men who have sex with men in China: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet Infect Dis. 2020 Aug;20(8):976-982. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30172-9. Epub 2020 Apr 28. PMID: 32530426
Zhou Y, Wu D, Jiang H, Tang W. Challenges and solutions for scaling up social media-based HIV self-testing: Author’s reply. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Aug 5:ciaa1108. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1108. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32756976.