Zoon Wangu

Dr. Wangu is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UMass Medical School and attending physician in Pediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology at UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center. She also serves as clinical faculty at the Ratelle STD/HIV Prevention Training Center at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Dr. Wangu received her BS in Biology and Art History from Tufts University, MD from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and completed pediatric internship and residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. She was a primary care pediatrician in Cohasset, MA before starting her fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Boston University Medical Center. During fellowship, Dr. Wangu focused her research on low-grade HPV-infected anogenital tissue and its potential role in HIV acquisition and transmission, for which she received the Massachusetts Infectious Diseases Society’s Maxwell Finland Award for Excellence in Research. Her current clinical interests include adolescent health, pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis in adolescents. Her current research interests include methods of STI and contraceptive knowledge assessment and prevention in high-risk adolescents; pharmacy education and collaboration to optimize implementation of expedited partner therapy; and long-term outcomes of congenital syphilis infection and exposure.