Yanzhong Huang

Yanzhong Huang is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he directs the Roundtable Series on Emerging Powers and Global Health Governance, as well as the Roundtable Series on Universal Health Coverage. He is also an associate professor and director for global health studies at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, where he developed the first academic concentration among U.S. professional schools of international affairs that explicitly addresses the security and foreign policy aspects of health issues. He is the founding editor of Global Health Governance: The Scholarly Journal for the New Health Security Paradigm.

Dr. Huang has written extensively on global health governance, health diplomacy and health security, and public health in China. He has published numerous reports, journal articles, and book chapters, including articles in Foreign Affairs, Survival, and Bioterrorism and Biosecurity, as well as op-ed pieces appearing in the New York Times, Toronto Star, and South China Morning Post, among others. His forthcoming book looks at the health system transition in contemporary China, including the health care reform, government ability to address disease outbreaks, and food and drug safety.

Dr. Huang is a research associate of the National Asia Research Program (NARP), an associate fellow of Asia Society, and a visiting professor at Nanjing Medical University. He is frequently consulted by major media outlets, the private sector, and governmental and nongovernmental organizations on global health issues and China. He has taught at Barnard College and Columbia University. He was a visiting senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore and a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. He received his PhD degree from the University of Chicago.