Shirley V. Wang is an Associate Professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Lead Epidemiologist for the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Sentinel Innovation Center. She leads the Meta-Research in Pharmacoepidemiology program, with recent projects aimed at improving the transparency, reproducibility and robustness of evidence from healthcare databases and informing when and how real-world evidence studies can draw causal conclusions to inform regulatory or other healthcare decision-making. She is currently PI on 3 NIH R01s and is also funded by FDA. Her methods work has received 3 awards from international societies.