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Yanzhong Huang

Senior Fellow for Global Health

Expertise

Global health governance; health and international security; health diplomacy; public health in China/East Asia.

Programs

Global Health Program

Press/Panels

Article

When Pigs Float

Yanzhong Huang was quoted by China Economic Review about food safety regulations in China.

Video Interview

China's Cancer Villages

Yanzhong Huang was interviewed by Huffington Post Live about health and pollution concerns in China.

Article

DIY Dialysis

Yanzhong Huang was quoted in Newsweek about access to medical devices like lung ventilators and dialysis machines in China.

Article

Greasing the Wheels

Yanzhong Huang was quoted in China Economic Review about food safety in China.

Article

China's Worsening Food Safety Crisis

Yanzhong Huang explains in The Atlantic how food-borne diseases affect an estimated 300 million Chinese consumers every year.

Article

China's chaotic health care drives patient attacks

Yanzhong Huang was quoted by the Associated Press about public discontent with China's health care system and specifically a upturn in violent attacks by patients. This article was reprinted by the Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Straits Times, ABC News, and many other news outlets.

Article

China's Corrupt Food Chain

According to Yanzhong Huang, food-safety scandals highlight both the collapse of business ethics and Beijing's failure to keep pace with an expanding market economy.

Article

Health Agency Overshadowed but Vital

Yanzhong Huang explains why the World Health Organizations plays a vital role in global health, but needs to undergo specific reform to retain its position.

Panel

Emerging Practices in Global Health Cooperation: Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa

CSIS Global Health Policy Center hosted this half-day conference in which Yanzhong Huang discusses the involvement of the BRICS in global health activities. He suggested that some of the BRICS, such as China, engage in global health policy and programmatic efforts to demonstrate that they are responsible international stakeholders, able and willing to respect international rules and adopt a normative multilateral approach to global health governance.

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Article

China Prepares for Big Entry into Vaccine Market

Yanzhong Huang was quoted in this Associated Press piece about the challenges in increasing regulatory capacity in China. This article has been reprinted in more than 121 media outlets worldwide.

Article

China's Aching Lapses in Healthcare

Yanzhong Huang was profiled along with his recent Foreign Affairs article "The Sick Man of Asia" in this Forbes piece.