SESH Global

Co-founder and Chair of the Advisory Board:

Joseph (MD, PhD, AM) is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Chair of the SESH Advisory Committee. Joe is the study principal investigator on two United States National Institutes of Health R01 grants that evaluate crowdsourcing to enhance HIV services. He has implemented over 30 crowdsourcing challenge contests and has a special interest in collective intelligence and crowdsourcing. He has helped to organize crowdsourcing contests in China, Thailand, Vietnam, the United States, Australia, South Africa, and globally. He helped with the SIHI practical guide and the ongoing spurring social innovation through crowdsourcing projects from TDR global.

SESH manager and advisory board member:

Weimaing (MD, PhD) is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a member of the SESH Advisory Committee. Weiming currently leads one grant from the UNC Center for AIDS Research evaluating crowdsourcing approaches to HIV self-testing. He manages several large crowdsourcing projects in China now and has a special interest in epidemiology and evaluation. He serves as Assistant Director at UNC Project-China and mentors undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows interested in challenge contests.

SESH Postdocs and Faculty Advisors:

Rayner Kay Jin Tan, PhD

Fengshi Jing, PhD, Director of IUR
Marley, Gifty Anyeley Dedei, PhD
Fan Yang, PhD
Dan Wu, PhD
Fengying Liu, MD
Stephen Pan, PhD
Hongyun Fu, PhD
Chongyi Wei, DrPH
Larry Han , Director of Strategy

SESH Implementation Team:

Anna Fan，Director
Shufang Wei, Communication Director
Qinyi Liu, Project Coordinator
Yusha Tao, Proejct Coordinator
Yue Nie, Administrator

SESH Research Assistants:

Xumeng Yan, MA
Yongjie Sha, MA
Ying Lu, MA
Yuxin Ni, MPH
Qianyun Wang, MSW
Tong Wang, MS

SESH Students:

Nachuan Wu-Undergraduate Student at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Zhicong He- Master Student at Shantou University

Shiyi He- Master student at Xi'an Jiaotong University

SESH Advisory Team:

Ben Cheng

Ben Cheng is managing director of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation where he has been involved with all aspects of strategic planning, organizational development, and growth of global multi-sectoral HIV partnerships.

Rosanna Peeling

Rosanna Peeling is Professor and Chair of Diagnostics Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is an authority on novel STD/HIV diagnostic technology and how this technology can be scaled up in low- and middle-income settings.

Kevin Fenton

Dr.Kevin Fenton is Director of Health and Wellbeing at Public Health England and Honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Joseph Tucker

Dr. Joseph Tucker is an infectious disease physician and social scientist focused on improving sexual health services in China. He co-founded SESH in 2011.

Weiming Tang

Dr. Weiming Tang is the manager for SESH Global. He received his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and his M.D. and M.S. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Nanjing Medical University (China).

Dee Poon

Dee Poon graduated from Harvard College in 2004 with a BA in philosophy, and is currently the Chief Brand Officer of PYE, a premium shirting brand at the Esquel Group.

Samuel Galler

Samuel Galler is a DPhil student at Oxford University studying the intersection of NGOs, technology, and HIV in China. He directed SESH in 2013 for its initial phase in Hong Kong.

Past SESH students:

Alice Zhang -Medical student at University of Maryland School of Medicine

Gabi Stein – Undergraduate Student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Larry Han – Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University

Maya Durvasula – Undergraduate Student at Duke University

Siyan Meng – Masters Student at Boston University

Philip Zhang – Medical Student at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School Of Medicine

Wilson Guo – Undergraduate Student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lucy Best – Undergraduate Student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Henry Feng – Undergraduate Student at Duke University

Julia Watson – Medical Student at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Katherine Li Medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College

Bingyao Huang– Masters Student at South China Normal University

Nancy Yang -- Medical Student at University of Minnesota Medical School - Twin Cities

Past SESH team members:

Cedric Bien – Medicine resident, Montefiore

David Schaffer -Medical Student at UNC

Jessica Mao – OBGYN resident at Johns Hopkins

John Best – Neurology resident at University of Pennsylvania

Julie Kim – Community Organizer at NYC’s Mayor Office of Immigrant Affairs

Kathrine Meyers – China Director at Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center

Krystal Zhang – Research Assistant at Hong Kong Baptist University

Lai Sze Tso – Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT

May Tangthanasup – Research Assistant in Guangdong Province

Ramon Lee – Recent graduate and current research coordinator at Harvard Medical School

Rosa Cui – OBGYN resident at Columbia University

Songyuan Tang – Professor of Public Health at Kunming Medical University

Terrence Wong – Medical student at UNC

Yilu Qin - Medicine resident at Yale

Bolin Cao – Assistant Professor at Shenzhen University

Chuncheng Liu – PhD student in sociology and science studies at UCSD

Rong Fu - Research Coordinator at Guangzhou CDC

Xiayan Liu - Project Director

Yu Zhang- Acting Director

Ye Zhang- Research Assistant

Huanyu Bao- Administrator

Yehua Wang- Research Assistant

Yuan Xiong- Research Assistant

Wenting Huang- Research Assistant

Amy Lee- Administrator

Tom Fitzpatrick- Research Assistant

Guangquan Shen- Research Assistant

Victoria Wang- Research Assistant