Yanzhong Huang is an expert on Chinese and global health issues, particularly health governance and security. He is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor and director of global health studies at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations. Huang has a bachelor's and master's degree from Fudan University in Shanghai and a Ph.d from the University of Chicago. Last week, his article, "The Myth of Authoritarian Superiority: China's Response to Covid-19 Revisited," was published in the China Leadership Monitor. He is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles, most recently Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and Its Challenge to the Chinese State (Cambridge University Press).
Yanzhong Huang.Illustration by Lauren Crow
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