Faculty Profile - Wenqi Gan | Department of Public Health Sciences

Wenqi Gan, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
wgan@uchc.edu
Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Dr. Gan is an Epidemiologist and Biostatistician, with over 20 years of experiences in planning and conducting epidemiologic studies and statistical analyses. He is experienced in study design and implementation, data collection and management, statistical analyses and interpretation, automatic data processing and data visualization, and report writing and dissemination. Dr. Gan will play a key role at the UConn School of Medicine in providing assistance and support in research methodology including study designs, statistical methods, and data analytics. Meanwhile, Dr. Gan is interested and has expertise in epidemiologic research about cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, environmental health, occupational health, substance use disorders, and health disparities and disadvantaged populations.

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Gan WQ, Buxton JA, Palis H, Janjua NZ, Scheuermeyer FX, Xavier CG, Zhao B, Desai R, Slaunwhite AK. Drug overdose and the risk of cardiovascular diseases: a nested case-control study. Clinical Research in Cardiology (online ahead of print).

Dr. Gan received systematic training in preclinical sciences, clinical medicine, preventive medicine, environmental and occupational health, especially methodological training in epidemiology and biostatistics. He has a medical degree in Preventive Medicine from Shanghai Medical University, a MPH in Occupational Epidemiology from Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, a MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Alberta, and a PhD in Environmental Epidemiology from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Gan has more than 20 years of experiences in epidemiologic research about cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, environmental health, occupational health, substance use disorders, and health disparities and disadvantaged populations. He is interested and experienced in study designs, statistical methods, and data sciences including automatic data processing and data visualization. Over the past 20 years, he has published 70 peer-reviewed papers including 31 first-author papers, and reviewed 121 manuscripts for academic journals.