Dr. William Wong’s research aims to help improve sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections care
University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy professor Dr. William Wong will receive $1.15 million in funding over the next five years for his highly focused research to help guide policy and decision-making to ultimately improve HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted and Blood-Borne Infections (STBBI) care.
In 2006, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Public Health Agency of Canada launched initiatives, including the highly competitive Applied Public Health Chairs Program, to gather strong public health researchers to address the gap in the amount and skills of public health researchers. The funding will allow Wong to develop policy models to rapidly evaluate the value of STBBI interventions, better predict the benefit of interventions and provide needed evidence to guide policy decision-making to improve STBBI care.
My vision is for the STBBI policy model to be a practical, interactive, evolving policy tool freely available, that enables decision-makers to conduct customized analyses, explore policy alternatives and shape STBBI policy in a timely manner.
Wong’s unique interdisciplinary training in computer science, machine learning, economic evaluation and health services research, brings a novel approach to help solve these great health challenges.
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