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Flora Dadong Wu
MPH
PhD Student
UCL Centre for International Health and Development
Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1EH
t: +44 (0)207 905
f: +44 (0)207 404 2062
dadong.wu.10@ucl.ac.uk
Biography:
Flora holds a Bachelor of Medicine from the Central South University, China and
a MPH from the University of Hong Kong. She registered as a Public Health
Doctor in China in 2008, and worked for three years in the Center for Chronic
Disease Control in Shenzhen, China in control of sexually transmitted diseases.
She was the programme associate of a pilot programme to prevent congenital
syphilis by providing universal antenatal screening for syphilis and treatment
for mothers found to be infected. In January 2011, Flora started her PhD
research in generation of political priority and variance of policy
implementation to prevent congenital syphilis and other mother-to-child
transmitted infections in China. Her field work in China is funded by WHO and is
based in the National Center for STD Control, China CDC.
Publications: Wu D-D, Hong F-C, Feng T-J, et
al. Congenital syphilis: refining newborn evaluation and management in
Shenzhen, southern China. Sex Transm Infect. 2010;86(4):280-284.
