Huanguang "Charlie" Jia, MPH, PhD, is currently a Research Health Scientist with VA Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center at Gainesville, concurrently Center Investigator with University of Florida’s Brooks Center for Rehabilitation Studies, and Courtesy Professor with University of Florida’s Department of Health Services Administration.

Dr. Jia received his medical training from a health school in Shanxi, China, received his M.P.H. in health policy and administration, and Ph.D. in medical anthropology from UNC at Chapel Hill. In addition to his teaching work at Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, and at UNC School of Nursing at Chapel Hill, he has served as Director of World Bank Office at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing, China. He has worked as clinical research associate at UNC School of Medicine, and provided research coordination, data management, statistical, analytical and methodological support, research questionnaire design and research progress report preparation for a six-year multi-center multi-treatment phase III clinical trial on functional bowel disorders. His 1998 report to the project's Data Safety and Monitoring Board was adopted by the National Institute of Health as model progress report for its related clinical trial projects.

Dr. Jia will serve on the Operations Committee, Methods/Database Core, Dissemination Core, and Administrative Core. He will also be an investigator on the Goal 1 Guidelines Study Team, Goal 2 Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Study Team, and Goal 4 Depression Management Team.