Rate My Professor Anna Wang

Dr. Yuanyuan Anna Wang serves as an adjunct lecturer in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine within Monash University's Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. She is also a research fellow at the Monash University Suzhou campus, a position she commenced in August 2022, and an external supervisor at Southeast University in Jiangsu, China. Wang earned her PhD in Health Economics from the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2022, with a thesis titled 'The Effect of Health Information on Online Takeaway Menus.' She previously obtained a Master in Management from the University of Liverpool in 2018, focusing on hearing aid adoption, and a Bachelor in Statistics from Shanxi University of Finance and Economics in 2010, examining technological progress in the fruit industry.

Her research interests encompass health economics, nutritional epidemiology, digital dietary interventions, health policy, discrete choice experiments for patient preferences in treatments, particularly non-pharmaceutical interventions, and cost-effectiveness analyses, including those for National Centralized Drug Procurement policies and lifestyle medicine interventions for type 2 diabetes and its complications. Wang has authored eight peer-reviewed publications, six in JCR Q1 journals, five with impact factors exceeding 10, contributing to an i10-index of 5. Key works include 'Air pollution increases the risk of frailty: China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)' in the Journal of Hazardous Materials (2025), 'Assessing the effect of health labels on online food choices' in Food Quality and Preference (2025, first author), 'Digitalization in omnichannel healthcare supply chain businesses: The role of smart wearable devices' in the Journal of Business Research (2023), 'Understanding circular economy adoption by SMEs: a case study on organizational legitimacy and Industry 4.0' in Industrial Management & Data Systems (2023), and 'The Impact of the University Built Environment on Students’ Mental Health and Well-Being: A Systematic Review' (2024 conference paper). She has secured six external research projects in 2024–2025, totaling nearly AUD 260,870, and supports UN Sustainable Development Goals such as good health and well-being, decent work and economic growth, sustainable cities and communities, and responsible consumption and production. One of her first-authored papers, 'Study on Influencing Factors of Hearing Aid Use Among the Elderly,' was recognized as a Highly Cited Paper in Essential Science Indicators (ESI). Wang teaches units including HSC5020 Foundations of health promotion and program planning, HSC5040 Introductory epidemiology, and HSC5051 Introductory biostatistics, and is accepting PhD students.