Rate My Professor Angela Difeng Wu

Angela Difeng Wu is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. She holds a BA (Hons) in Psychology with first-class honours from Trinity College Dublin, awarded in 2019, where her final-year research project received the Regional Winner award for Psychology from the Global Undergraduate Awards. In 2020, she completed an MSc in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology with distinction at the University of Oxford. She earned her DPhil in Primary Health Care from the University of Oxford in 2024, with research funded by the British Heart Foundation examining the relationship between smoking cessation and recurrence of cardiovascular disease and mental health outcomes, as well as approaches to reframing smoking cessation support in clinical practice.

Wu serves as module coordinator for Health Behaviour Change, Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care, and Knowledge Into Action, and as Medical Undergraduate Coordinator of Evidence-Based Medicine. She also acts as module tutor for Systematic Reviews and supervisor for MSc Evidence-Based Health Care and DPhil Primary Care Health programmes. Her research focuses on smoking cessation interventions, including evaluations in financial support and social housing settings, systematic reviews on electronic cigarettes for quitting smoking, and evidence gap maps on interventions for quitting vaping. She is affiliated with the Oxford Tobacco Addiction Group and the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, and leads patient and public involvement for the SAVINGS trial. Key publications include a 2023 paper in JAMA Network Open on smoking cessation and changes in anxiety and depression, and a 2022 Cochrane review on smoking cessation for secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.