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Jennifer Tang, MD, MSCR, is a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member researching family planning, maternal neonatal health and global women’s health. She is involved with UNC Project Malawi.

MD, MSCR
Professor, Global Women’s Health, UNC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
UNC-Chapel Hill
Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program

Area of Interest

Dr. Tang is an OB-GYN provider and clinical researcher based in Chapel Hill, NC. She completed her undergraduate degree at Rice University, medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, and OB-GYN residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital. She then moved to NC in 2010 to complete a Masters in Clinical Research at the UNC School of Public Health and a Fellowship in Family Planning. She lived in Lilongwe, Malawi from 2012-2017, where she helped start the country’s first OB-GYN residency program and UNC Project-Malawi’s OB-GYN research program. Her projects have been funded by the NIH, PCORI, CDC, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, ACOG, and World Bank.

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Areas of Research

  • Family planning
  • Cervical cancer prevention
  • Maternal neonatal health
  • Global women’s health