Project Director
Email patrick_tang@nciom.org
Patrick Yao Tang, MPH, is a project director at the North Carolina Institute of Medicine. Before joining the team, he was a program manager at Peers for Progress in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. In that role, he led local, national, and international research projects and consulted on mutual and peer support interventions for health and well-being. Through this work, he developed a deep appreciation for the personal and systemic challenges that people face when living with diabetes, cancer, and mental health struggles. Patrick earned his Master of Public Health in Health Behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Bachelor of Arts in Molecular Biology from Princeton University.