Diplomacy Professor Receives Fellowship for Work on China  

Yanzhong Huang, an assistant professor at the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, has been selected by the National Committee on U.S.- China Relations as a 2008-2010 Public Intellectuals Program Fellow. The program, founded by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Starr Foundation, is dedicated to "developing the capacity of next generation policy leaders" with regard to China. This year, it selected a group of 20 young American scholars, "who, in the tradition of earlier China hands, have the interest and potential to venture outside of academia and play significant roles as public intellectuals." Fellows will be funded to attend two annual National Committee-sponsored conferences in Washington, D.C., a weekend meeting in San Francisco, and a group trip to China. They may also have the opportunity to accompany a National Committee-sponsored delegation during the next three years. For more information: (http://www.ncuscr.org/pip). 

Effective September 1, 2008, Huang will be promoted to Associate Professor at the Whitehead School. With expertise in global health, Huang directs 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. Huang has written extensively on global health governance, health security, and health politics in China.