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Y. Tony Yang

Endowed professor of health policy, George Washington University
Dr. Yang’s scholarship focuses on the impact of law and policy on healthcare delivery and population health outcomes. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was an FDA Regulatory Science Fellow (jointly organized by the National Academy of Medicine), and an AcademyHealth Health Policy Fellow (jointly organized by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics). His academic contributions include over 200 peer-reviewed articles. He is a member of the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on clinical and policy considerations for new tuberculosis (TB) vaccines and serves as Co-Editor in Chief of Health Policy and Technology, a peer-reviewed healthcare journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine. He also serves on the AcademyHealth Education Council and the Board of Directors for the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Dr. Yang holds graduate degrees in Public Health (Harvard), Health Policy and Management (Harvard), and Law (University of Pennsylvania).