Yanzhong Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorDirector, Center for Global Health Studies
huangyan@shu.edu
McQuaid Hall 103
973-275-2815
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Profile
Dr. Yanzhong Huang joined the Whitehead School of Diplomacy in the fall of 2003. With expertise in global health, Dr. Huang is directing the School’s Center for Global Health Studies, which examines global health issues from a foreign policy and national security perspective. He teaches courses on global health, bioterrorism, Chinese politics and U.S.-China relations. He is also the founding editor of Global Health Governance, a peer-reviewed online journal for the new health security paradigm. He has written extensively on global health governance, health security, and health politics in China.
Dr. Huang is frequently consulted by major media outlets, the private sector, governmental and non-governmental organizations on global health and China. He has testified before the Congressional Executive Committee (CECC) on SARS, briefed U.S. Senate Chiefs of Staff on avian flu, and provided consulting services to Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) on pandemic flu and human security. In 2004-2005, he joined a small group of foreign policy experts to advise the Canadian Prime Minister on the proposed L-20 meeting of key world leaders. He has appeared frequently in both electronic and print media, including Business Week, Washington Post, Star-Ledger, Newsday, NJN, Reuters, Associated Press, and Radio Free Asia (RFA). He is a regular commentator for the Voice of America China Branch. In addition he has delivered numerous speeches/presentations at the invitation of think-tanks, universities, civic groups and policy organizations, including Harvard, Columbia, Brown, John Hopkins, Council on Foreign Relations, Institute of Medicine (IOM), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
He is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations, and an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society. He also serves on the advisory board of Frontier Strategy Group (FSG) and is a member of the Security Council of Gerson Lehrman Group(GLG). He was a visiting fellow at CSIS in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago.
