Wan Yanhai

Wan Yanhai (万延海)
Born (1963-11-20) November 20, 1963 (age 60)
NationalityChinese
CitizenshipAmerican
Known forAIDS Activism in China and internationally
Scientific career
FieldsPublic health, Medicine
In this Chinese name, the family name is Wan.

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.