Dr Zixuan Wang PhD, MSc, BMedSci, FHEA

Dr Zixuan Wang

School of Pharmacy
Assistant Professor

Contact details

Email
z.wang.11@bham.ac.uk
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Zixuan Wang is an Assistant Professor in Pharmacoepidemiology, who joined the School of Pharmacy in the School of Health Sciences in June 2024. She is a medicine background epidemiologist with expertise in epidemiological methodologies and medication research with Real-World Data in large healthcare databases. Her research interest includes but not limited to pregnancy, paediatrics, psychiatry and cardiovascular pharmacoepidemiology. She is involved in the Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) undergraduate degree programme.

Qualifications

  • Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • PhD in Pharmacoepidemiology
  • MSc in Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition
  • BMedSci in Clinical Medicine

Biography

Dr Zixuan Wang completed her PhD study in School of Pharmacy at University College London and Research Fellowship in London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on Pharmacoepidemiology. With a research interest in medication safety and effectiveness, she has conducted and published various population-based studies in highly regarded peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA and Lancet family of journals, in the area of pregnancy, paediatrics, psychiatry, cardiovascular and cancer.

Teaching

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Zixuan Wang is seeking highly organised and motivated PhD candidates for research in the area of pharmacoepidemiology, in particular the following area:

  • Medication safety in pregnancy
  • Polypharmacy/Comorbidities
  • Mental Health in women and children
Zixuan is also interested in supervising interdisciplinary research with environmental epidemiology, such as air pollution and climate change.

Research

  • Medication safety in pregnancy
  • Polypharmacy / Comorbidities
  • Mental Health in women and children
  • Air pollution / climate change and drug prescription

Other activities

Memberships:

  • International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology
  • International Society of Pharmacovigilance
  • Asia Pharmacoepidemiology Network

Publications

Highlight publications

Wang, Z, Chan, AYL, Coghill, D, Ip, P, Lau, WCY, Simonoff, E, Brauer, R, Wei, L, Wong, ICK & Man, KKC 2021, '', JAMA internal medicine, vol. 181, no. 10, pp. 1332-1340.

Wang, Z, Chan, AYL, Ho, PWH, Wong, KHTW, Brauer, R, Besag, FMC, Ip, P, Howard, LM, Lau, WCY, Taxis, K, Wei, L, Wong, ICK & Man, KKC 2022, '', World Psychiatry, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 322-323.

Ju, C, Wei, L, Man, KKC, Wang, Z, Ma, T-T, Chan, AYL, Brauer, R, Chui, CSL, Chan, EW, Jani, YH, Hsia, Y, Wong, ICK & Lau, WCY 2022, '', The Lancet Public Health, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. e335-e346.

Brauer, R, Alfageh, B, Blais, JE, Chan, EW, Chui, CSL, Hayes, JF, Man, KKC, Lau, WCY, Yan, VKC, Beykloo, MY, Wang, Z, Wei, L & Wong, ICK 2021, '', The Lancet Psychiatry, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 1071-1082.

Recent publications

Article

Wang, Z, Yu, Q, Warren-Gash, C, Bhaskaran, K, Leyrat, C, Cheung, KS, Chui, CSL, Chan, EW, Wong, ICK, Banerjee, A, Smeeth, L, Douglas, IJ & Wong, AYS 2025, '', NPJ Cardiovascular Health, vol. 2, 11.

Wang, Z, Yuen, ASC, Wong, KHTW, Chan, AYL, Coghill, D, Simonoff, E, Lau, WCY, Wong, ICK, Park, S & Man, KKC 2024, '', Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 160, 105635.

Wang, Z, Mathewman, J, Tazare, J, Yu, Q, Cheung, KS, Chui, CSL, Chan, EWY, Bhaskaran, K, Smeeth, L, Wong, ICK, Douglas, IJ & Wong, AYS 2024, '', BMC Medicine, vol. 22, 597.

Chobanov, JD, Wang, Z, Man, KKC, Dayib, E, Lip, G, Hingorani, AD, Leung, WK, Wang, ICK, Mongkhon, P & Lau, WCY 2024, '', Open Heart, vol. 11, no. 2, e002792.

Ma, T, Wang, Z, Qin, X, Ju, C, Lau, WCY, Man, KKC, Castle, D, Chang, WC, Chan, AYL, Cheung, ECL, Chui, CSL & Wong, ICK 2023, '', Sleep, vol. 46, no. 10, zsad124.

Wang, Z, Man, KKC, Ma, T, Howard, LM, Wei, L, Wong, ICK & Brauer, R 2021, '', Schizophrenia Research, vol. 229, pp. 55-62.

Ma, T-T, Wong, ICK, Whittlesea, C, Man, KKC, Lau, W, Wang, Z, Brauer, R, MacDonald, TM, Mackenzie, IS & Wei, L 2021, '', BMC medicine, vol. 19, 24.

Wang, Z, Brauer, R, Man, KKC, Alfageh, B, Mongkhon, P & Wong, ICK 2021, '', British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, vol. 87, no. 11, pp. 4101-4123.

Reutfors, J, Cesta, CE, Cohen, JM, Bateman, BT, Brauer, R, Einarsd贸ttir, K, Engeland, A, Furu, K, Gissler, M, Havard, A, Hernandez-Diaz, S, Huybrechts, KF, Karlstad, 脴, Leinonen, MK, Li, J, Man, KKC, Pazzagli, L, Schaffer, A, Schink, T, Wang, Z, Yu, Y, Zoega, H & Br枚ms, G 2020, '', Schizophrenia Research.

Wang, Z, Wong, ICK, Man, KKC, Alfageh, B, Mongkhon, P & Brauer, R 2020, '', Psychological Medicine.

Ma, T, Wong, ICK, Man, KKC, Chen, Y, Crake, T, Ozkor, MA, Ding, L, Wang, Z, Zhang, L & Wei, L 2019, '', PLoS ONE.

Alfageh, B, Wang, Z, Mongkhon, P, Besag, FMC, Alhawassi, TM, Brauer, R & Wong, ICK 2019, '', Paediatric Drugs.

Wang, Z, Ho, PWH, Choy, MTH, Wong, ICK, Brauer, R & Man, KKC 2018, '', Drug Safety.

Comment/debate

Wang, Z, Wong, ICK & Man, KKC 2022, '', JAMA internal medicine, vol. 182, no. 3, pp. 355-356.