VANIA WANG
Department of Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
vaniawang [at] ucsb [dot] edu
EDUCATION
MPH | Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, UC Berkeley
BSc | Microbiology, University of Washington
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Slum and urban health
- Spatial ontologies
- Social network analysis
- Exponential random graph models
- Dynamic modeling of HIV transmission
CURRENT PROJECTS
- Developing mapping methods that utilize volunteered geographic information and agent-based stochastic simulation to map dynamic urban spaces in least developed countries
- Exploring bridging as a potential for sustaining HIV epidemics by modeling sexual ties between men who have sex with men (MSM) and women in Seattle, Washington State
- Population size estimation of men who have sex with men in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, China, by using online respondent driven sampling methods
