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Email hongwang25@hotmail.com

Dr. Hong Wang has decades of experience in health economics, financing, and health systems development. He served as Senior Policy Advisor and Senior Program Officer at the Gates Foundation, where he worked on the strategy and investment development in health economics and financing, particularly in primary health care (PHC). He managed a grant portfolio to improve PHC, focusing on how resources are mobilized, allocated, and spent at global and in LMICs. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the ThinkWell Institute and an Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.

Previously, Dr. Wang was Principal Associate and Senior Health Economist at Abt Associates, providing technical leadership on health financing projects in Asia and Africa. He also held faculty positions (Professorships) at Yale School of Public Health, Beijing Medical University and China National Health Economics Institute.

His teaching and research cover health economics, healthcare financing, comparative health systems, public policy analysis for global health, and social determinant of health. He has authored three books and hundreds of Journal publications.

Dr. Wang earned his MD from Beijing Medical University and PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was a Takemi Fellow at Harvard School of Public Health.

• Honorary Visiting Professor, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Singapore
• Senior Fellow, ThinkWell Institute, USA
• Affiliate faculty, Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. USA

• Healthcare Economics, Financing, and Health System Strengthening
• Resource Tracking and Management for Primary Healthcare and PHC-led People-Centered Integrated Delivery System
• Global Health Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation

• Health Economics
• Healthcare Financing
• Comparative Healthcare System
• Policy Analysis for Global Health

• Ph.D. in Population Health (Health Economics concentration), University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA, 1998-2002.
• Takemi Fellow, International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1994-1995
• Visiting Scholar, Health Economics and Health Management, University of Wisconsin/Madison, WI, USA, 1989-1990
• MD, Medicine. Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China, 1980-1986.

• Senior Policy Advisor, Senior Program Officer; Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) (2011-2025)
• Principal Associate/Senior Health Economist; Abt Associates Inc. (2008-2011)
• Assistant and Clinical Associate Professor, Yale School of Public Health (2002-2012)
• Associate Professor and Acting Director, Health Economics Department at Beijing Medical University, China (1986-1998)
• Deputy Director and a Senior Fellow at the National Health Economics Institute of the Ministry of Health, China (1993-1998)

• Carried out consulting activities with development partners—including the World Bank, WHO, UNICEF, ADB, AfDB, USAID, FCDO (formerly DFID), and GIZ; and with LMIC governments on capacity building, policy development, and health systems strengthening

• Hong Wang, Helena Legido-Quigley, Asaf Bitton: People-Centered Integrated Primary Healthcare System Development in Asia and Beyond. World Scientific. 2025
• Pengyu Xu, Yazhen Ying, Debin Xu, Shitong Huan, Lindu Zhao, Hong Wang, Impact of an innovative bundled payment to TB health care providers in China: an economic simulation analysis, BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 May 3;24(1):577
• The Lancet Global Health Commission on financing primary health care: putting people at the centre. Kara Hanson, Nouria Brikci, Darius Erlangga, Abebe Alebachew, Manuela De Allegri, Dina Balabanova, Mark Blecher, Cheryl Cashin, Alexo Esperato, David Hipgrave, Ina Kalisa, Christoph Kurowski, Qingyue Meng, David Morgan, Gemini Mtei, Ellen Nolte, Chima Onoka, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Martin Roland, Rajeev Sadanandan, Karin Stenberg, Jeanette Vega Morales, Hong Wang, Haja Wurie. Published online April 4, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(22)00005-5
• Hong Wang and Peter Berman, Tracking Resources for Primary Health Care: A framework and practices in low- and middle-income countries. World Scientific. 2020
• Nathalie Maele, Ke Xu, Agnes Soucat, Lisa Fleisher, Maria Aranguren, Hong Wang. Measuring Primary Healthcare Expenditure in LMICs. BMJ Global Health. Feb 2019
• Jeremy Veillard, Krycia Cowling, Asaf Bitton, Hannah Ratcliffe, Meredith Kimball, Shannon Barkley, Laure Mercereau, Ethan Wong, Chelsea Taylor, Lisa Hirschhorn, and Hong Wang. Better Measurement for Performance Improvement in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: The Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI) Experience of Conceptual Framework Development and Indicator Selection. Milbank Quarterly (2017). 95(4): 836-883.
• Dan Kress, Yanfang Su, Hong Wang, Assessment of Primary Health Care System Performance in Nigeria: Using the Primary Health Care Performance Indicator Conceptual Framework. Health System & Reform (2016) 2:4
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• Hong Wang, Kimberly Switlick, Christine Ortiz Beatriz Zurita, Catherine Connor. Health Insurance handbook: How to Make It Work, World Bank, 2012
• Hong Wang and Nancy Pielemeier, Community-based health insurance: An evolutionary approach to achieving universal coverage in low-income countries. Journal of Life Sciences 6 (2012) 320-329
• Ha T.H. Nguyen, Laurel Hatt, Mursaleena Islam, Nancy L. Sloan, Jamil Chowdhury, Jean Olivier Schmidt, Atia Hossain, Hong Wang. Encouraging Maternal Health Service Utilization: An Evaluation of the Bangladesh Voucher Program. Social Science & Medicine. 74(7):989-96, 2012
• Hong Wang, Licheng Zhang, Winnie Yip, William Hsiao, “An experiment in payment reform for doctors in rural China reduced some unnecessary care but did not lower total costs”. Health Affairs 30(12):2427-2436, 2011
• Hong Wang, Winnie Yip, Licheng Zhang, William Hsiao, “The impact of rural mutual health care on health status: evaluation of a social experiment in rural China”, Health Economics, Vol 18 Supplement 2, S65-S82, 2009
• Licheng Zhang and Hong Wang. Dynamic Process of Adverse Selection: Evidence from A Subsidized Community-Based Health Insurance in Rural China, Social Science & Medicine, 67: 1173-1182, 2008
• Hong Wang, William Hsiao, Licheng Zhang, Winnie Yip. Adverse Selection in A Voluntary Rural Mutual Health Care Insurance Scheme in China. Social Science and Medicine, 63:1236-1245, 2006.
• Hong Wang, Winnie Yip, Licheng Zhang, Lusheng Wang, William Hsiao. Community-based health insurance in poor rural China: the distribution of net benefits. Journal of Health Policy and Planning, 20(6):366-374, 2005.