Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health

Tufts Asian American Alumni Association invites you to join us for an exciting virtual discussion of The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health with author Dr. Monica Wang, A07.

In The Collective Cure, author, public health researcher, and proud Jumbo Dr. Wang explores a simple but powerful idea: our health is shaped not only by doctors and hospitals, but by the environments, relationships, and communities that surround us every day. 

This engaging one hour conversation will explore how everyday conditions influence well-being, and how individuals and communities can work together to build healthier environments. Our moderator for the evening will be Dr. MyDzung Chu, Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of ADAPT Coalition.

Audience Q&A will follow. Registrants will receive the Zoom link via email closer to the event date.
Bonus: The first 25 registrants will receive an e-copy of The Collective Cure! 
(Redemption instructions will be sent to applicable registrants in June.)

Speaker Bio: Dr. Monica L. Wang is an Associate Professor at Boston University School of Public Health, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor of Public Health Post. She is an award-winning public health leader, researcher, educator, and author of The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health (Beacon Press, 2026). Her work explores how everyday conditions, including income, housing, neighborhood environments, and social connections, influence health across the United States and globally.

Over the past decade, she has led major NIH-funded research initiatives to improve nutrition and chronic disease and secured over $6 million in research funding. She has authored more than 75 peer-reviewed publications in top journals such as JAMA, JAMA Pediatrics, and The American Journal of Public Health, with her work featured in NPR, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, National Geographic, and The Boston Globe.

 Dr. Wang’s honors include national awards from the Society of Behavioral Medicine and recognition as a 40 Under 40 Leader in Health by the National Minority Quality Forum. She obtained her doctoral and master's degrees from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and completed her postdoctoral training at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Moderator Bio: Dr. MyDzung Chu is an assistant professor in the Departments of Medicine and Public Health and Community Medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and Faculty Researcher in the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center. She also directs the ADAPT Coalition at Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, a community-academic coalition committed to advancing the health and visibility of underserved local communities across Greater Boston.

 As an environmental epidemiologist, Dr. Chu is invested in community-engaged research on environmental and social determinants of health and well-being, particularly in Asian and immigrant communities. Her current research focuses on climate and environmental exposure inequities in Boston's Chinatown and dietary sources and glycemic health effects of heavy metals exposures in perinatal populations.

 Dr. Chu received her BA in Neuroscience from Smith College, MSPH in Environmental Health and Epidemiology from Emory University, and PhD in Population Health Sciences from Harvard University. As a Vietnamese American native of Springfield, Mass, she has been trained as a Gates Millenium Scholar, JPB in Environmental Health Fellow, Agents of Change Fellow in Residence, and was named Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 in 2023.