Yanzhong Huang is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Professor at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations. He is specialized in global health (diplomacy, governance, and security) and China studies (domestic politics and U.S.-China relations). He has published numerous reports, journal articles, and book chapters, including articles in Foreign Affairs, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and The Economist. In 2006, he coauthored the first scholarly article that systematically examined China’s soft power. He is the author of Governing Health in Contemporary China (2013), Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State (2020), and The COVID-19 Pandemic and China’s Global Health Leadership (2022). He has testified multiple times before congressional committees and is regularly consulted by major media outlets, the private sector, and governmental and nongovernmental organizations. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and a member of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security. In 2012, he was listed by InsideJersey magazine as one of the “20 Brainiest People in New Jersey.” He was a research associate at the National Asia Research Program, a public intellectuals fellow at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, an associate fellow at the Asia Society, a visiting senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore, and a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Tsinghua University. He obtained his B.A. and M.A. degrees in international politics from Fudan University and his Ph.D. degree in political science from the University of Chicago.
