Dongqing Wang, PhD, MPH

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Titles and Organizations

Assistant Professor, GCH 

Contact Information

Phone: 703-993-3578
Email: dwang25@gmu.edu
Building: Peterson Hall, Room 5111

Biography

Dr. Dongqing Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global and Community Health. 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 in low- and middle-income countries. Wang's research addresses knowledge gaps related to gestational weight gain by pooling individual participant data from national surveys, observational cohort studies, and randomized controlled trials. Another key area of Wang’s work is the impacts of maternal nutrient and food supplementation on the short- and long-term health of mothers and children. Wang is also 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. Before coming to Mason, Wang was a Research Associate in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Research 

Grants

“Effectiveness and feasibility of BEP targeting strategies, Ethiopia” (role: co-I), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Award number INV-042705, August 2022-December 2025. Total budget: $4,999,379; Mason budget: $241,459.    

"Knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and practice related to gestational weight gain in Tanzania: a mixed methods study to inform antenatal interventions" (role: PI), GMU College of Public Health Pilot Grant, January 2023-December 2023. Total budget: $50,000.  

"Family planning and anemia: an assessment of evidence and opportunities" (role: co-I), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Award number INV-042771, October 2022-October 2023. Total budget: $971,969; Mason budget: $47,455.  

“Prenatal and postnatal vitamin B-12 supplementation and breast milk status of B-12 in Tanzania” (role: PI), Thrasher Research Fund, Award number 15507, July 2020-June 2023. Total budget: $26,750.

Selected Publications (See CV for full list)

Wang D, Shahab-Ferdows S, Lweno ON, Hampel D, Method B, Yelverton CA, Nguyen CH*, Aboud S, Allen LH, Fawzi WW. The effects of prenatal and postnatal high-dose vitamin B-12 supplementation on human milk vitamin B-12: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in Tanzania. Am J Clin Nutr. In Press.

Perumal N, Wang D, Darling AM, Liu E, Wang M, Ahmed T, Christian P, Dewey KG, Kac G, Kennedy SH, Subramoney V, Briggs B, Fawzi WW, members of the GWG Pooling Project Consortium. Suboptimal gestational weight gain and neonatal outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: an individual-level participant meta-analysis. BMJ. In Press.

Darling AM, Wang D, Perumal N, Liu E, Wang M, Ahmed T, Christian P, Dewey KG, Kac G, Kennedy SH, Subramoney V, Briggs B, Fawzi WW; members of the GWG Pooling Project Consortium. Risk factors for inadequate and excessive gestational weight gain in 25 low- and middle-income countries: An individual-level participant meta-analysis. PLoS Med. 2023 Jul 24;20(7):e1004236. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004236. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37486938.

Wang D, Adedokun OA, Millogo O, Madzorera I, Hemler EC, Workneh F, Mapendo F, Lankoande B, Ismail A, Chukwu A, Assefa N, Abubakari SW, Lyatuu I, Okpara D, Abdullahi YY, Zabre P, Vuai S, Soura AB, Smith ER, Sie A, Oduola AMJ, Killewo J, Berhane Y, Baernighausen T, Asante KP, Raji T, Mwanyika-Sando M, Fawzi WW. The Continued Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Education and Mental Health Among Sub-Saharan African Adolescents. J Adolesc Health. 2023 Apr;72(4):535-543. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.11.012. Epub 2022 Nov 28. PMID: 36635187; PMCID: PMC9701646.

Wang D, Shinde S, Drysdale R, Vandormael A, Tadesse AW, Sherfi H, Tinkasimile A, Mwanyika-Sando M, Moshabela M, Bärnighausen T, Sharma D, Fawzi WW. Access to digital media and devices among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: A multicountry, school-based survey. Matern Child Nutr. 2023 Apr 4:e13462. doi: 10.1111/mcn.13462. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37014184.

Liu E, Wang D, Darling AM, Perumal N, Wang M, Ahmed T, Christian P, Dewey KG, Kac G, Kennedy S, Subramoney V, Briggs B, Fawzi WW. Effects of prenatal nutritional supplements on gestational weight gain in low- and middle-income countries: a meta-analysis of individual participant data. Am J Clin Nutr. 2022 Dec 19;116(6):1864-1876. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqac259. PMID: 36130877.

Wang D, Chukwu A, Mwanyika-Sando M, Abubakari SW, Assefa N, Madzorera I, Hemler EC, Ismail A, Lankoande B, Mapendo F, Millogo O, Workneh F, Azemraw T, Febir LG, James C, Tinkasimile A, Asante KP, Baernighausen T, Berhane Y, Killewo J, Oduola AMJ, Sie A, Smith ER, Soura AB, Raji T, Vuai S, Fawzi WW. COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and its determinants among sub-Saharan African adolescents. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2022;2(10):e0000611. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000611. eCollection 2022. PMID: 36962540; PMCID: PMC10022111.

Wang D, Darling AM, McDonald CR, Perumal N, Liu E, Wang M, Aboud S, Urassa W, Conroy AL, Hayford KT, Liles WC, Kain KC, Fawzi WW. Plasma concentrations of leptin at mid-pregnancy are associated with gestational weight gain among pregnant women in Tanzania: a prospective cohort study. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2021 Oct 6;21(1):675. doi: 10.1186/s12884-021-04146-0. PMID: 34615489; PMCID: PMC8495974.

Wang D, Schwinger C, Urassa W, Berhane Y, Strand TA, Fawzi WW. Comparing Attained Weight and Weight Velocity during the First 6 Months in Predicting Child Undernutrition and Mortality. J Nutr. 2022 Jan 11;152(1):319-330. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxab338. PMID: 34549299; PMCID: PMC8754579.

Wang D, Shinde S, Young T, Fawzi WW. Impacts of school feeding on educational and health outcomes of school-age children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. J Glob Health. 2021;11:04051. doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.04051. eCollection 2021. PMID: 34552720; PMCID: PMC8442580.

Wang D, Chukwu A, Millogo O, Assefa N, James C, Young T, Lankoande B, Workneh F, Hemler EC, Korte ML, Mattei J, Soura AB, Sie A, Oduola A, Berhane Y, Fawzi WW. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Adolescents' Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-Country Study Using a Telephone Survey. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Jun 23;105(2):331-341. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.20-1620. PMID: 34161298; PMCID: PMC8437167.

Wang D, Natchu UCM, Darling AM, Noor RA, Hertzmark E, Urassa W, Fawzi WW. Effects of prenatal and postnatal maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation on child growth and morbidity in Tanzania: a double-blind, randomized-controlled trial. Int J Epidemiol. 2022 Dec 13;51(6):1761-1774. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyab117. PMID: 34151973; PMCID: PMC9749718. 

Wang D, Wang M, Darling AM, Perumal N, Liu E, Danaei G, Fawzi WW. Gestational weight gain in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling analysis using nationally representative data. BMJ Glob Health. 2020 Nov;5(11). doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003423. PMID: 33177038; PMCID: PMC7661366.

Wang D, Karvonen-Gutierrez CA, Jackson EA, Elliott MR, Appelhans BM, Barinas-Mitchell E, Bielak LF, Huang MH, Baylin A. Western Dietary Pattern Derived by Multiple Statistical Methods Is Prospectively Associated with Subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis in Midlife Women. J Nutr. 2020 Mar 1;150(3):579-591. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxz270. PMID: 31687759; PMCID: PMC7443736.

Wang D, Karvonen-Gutierrez CA, Jackson EA, Elliott MR, Appelhans BM, Barinas-Mitchell E, Bielak LF, Baylin A. Prospective associations between beverage intake during the midlife and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. PLoS One. 2019;14(7):e0219301. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219301. eCollection 2019. PMID: 31291324; PMCID: PMC6620009.

Wang D, Jackson EA, Karvonen-Gutierrez CA, Elliott MR, Harlow SD, Hood MM, Derby CA, Sternfeld B, Janssen I, Crawford SL, Huang MH, El Khoudary SR, Chae CU, Baylin A. Healthy Lifestyle During the Midlife Is Prospectively Associated With Less Subclinical Carotid Atherosclerosis: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation. J Am Heart Assoc. 2018 Dec 4;7(23):e010405. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.118.010405. PMID: 30482079; PMCID: PMC6405552.

Wang D, Campos H, Baylin A. Red meat intake is positively associated with non-fatal acute myocardial infarction in the Costa Rica Heart Study. Br J Nutr. 2017 Aug;118(4):303-311. doi: 10.1017/S000711451700201X. PMID: 28875869.

Wang D, Hawley NL, Thompson AA, Lameko V, Reupena MS, McGarvey ST, Baylin A. Dietary Patterns Are Associated with Metabolic Outcomes among Adult Samoans in a Cross-Sectional Study. J Nutr. 2017 Apr;147(4):628-635. doi: 10.3945/jn.116.243733. Epub 2017 Feb 15. PMID: 28202634; PMCID: PMC5368585.

Awards

  • Emerging Leader in Nutrition Science, American Society for Nutrition, 2021

Affiliations

Degrees

  • PhD, Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 2019
  • MPH, Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 2016
  • MBBS, Clinical Medicine, Peking University, 2014