Wan Yanhai

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wan.
Wan Yanhai (万延海)
Born (1963-11-20) November 20, 1963 (age 61)
NationalityChinese
CitizenshipAmerican
Known forAIDS Activism in China and internationally
Scientific career
FieldsPublic health, Medicine

Wan Yanhai (Chinese: 万延海; pinyin: Wàn Yánhǎi; born 20 November 1963) is a Chinese-American AIDS activist. His "frank and aggressive" approach toward AIDS has led to frequent run-ins with authorities, including a month-long detention in 2002 that made international headlines and sparked a successful international campaign for his release.[1]

Wan has won numerous human rights awards and is a former Fulbright Fellow and 2003 Yale University Global Fellow.[2] Wan is currently the director of the country's foremost AIDS-awareness group, the Beijing-based Aizhixing Institute of Health Education.[citation needed]

Wan has lived in the United States since 2010, and became an American citizen in 2018.

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  2. ^ "WAN Yanhai". Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program. Retrieved 2024-05-18.