Georgetown-Fudan Partnership Includes Frank Wong, Ph.D., NHS

Georgetown University has signed a cooperative agreement with Fudan University, one of the most prominent universities in China, to support world class research, innovation in higher education, and greater mutual understanding between the people of China and the United States.

Several schools at Georgetown will be involved in the partnership. Frank Wong, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of International Health, will represent the School of Nursing & Health Studies in the agreement. He will continue to work together with scholars from Fudan’s School of Public Health to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS.

Wong is an international expert in the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, has overseen a multimillion-dollar research portfolio with substantive grant support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and has offered congressional testimony on related issues.

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In related news, Wong has been invited to participate in The International Seminar on Interventions of HIV/STDs Prevention in Hainan Province. The event is co-sponsored by the Hainan Province CDC, the University of Nebraska, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also speaking on HIV prevention targeting Chinese male migrants at the Center for Epidemiology and Biostatistics of the School of Public Health at Chinese University of Hong Kong.