Xiaobin Wang

XIAOBIN WANG, ScD ‘91 the Zanvyl Krieger Professor of Children’s Health, is a board-certified pediatrician and a molecular epidemiologist whose work unites biomarkers, clinical medicine, epidemiology and disease prevention. Dr. Wang has led a dozen large-scale molecular and environmental epidemiological studies on reproductive health, preterm birth, food allergies, obesity, autism and precursors of pediatric and adult diseases. Dr. Wang has authored and co-authored 200 publications, including articles in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and The Lancet. Her work has contributed to the understanding of environmental exposures, genetic susceptibility and gene-environment interactions in complex human diseases. Dr. Wang served as a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Understanding Premature Birth and Assuring Healthy Outcomes; and  a member of National Academy of Medicine Committee on Food Allergies: Global Burden, Causes, Treatment, Prevention, and Public Policy. Dr. Wang directs the Center on Early Life Origins of Disease in the Bloomberg School’s Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, whose mission is to understand the root causes of  important clinical and public health problems in diverse populations. The center is also actively engaged in translating scientific knowledge into clinical and public health practices that can lead to advancements in early prediction, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases across the lifespan and generations. The center is committed to training a new generation of maternal and child health professionals and researchers. Dr. Wang received her medical degree from Beijing Medical University, a Master of Public Health from Tulane University and a Doctor of Science degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed a three-year research fellowship in environmental Epidemiology at Harvard and a residency in pediatrics at Boston University Medical Center. Before joining Hopkins, Dr. Wang was a professor of pediatrics, and director of the Mary Ann and J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research Program at Children’s Memorial Hospital/Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.