Yanzhong Huang is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also professor and director of global health studies at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations, 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. Huang has written extensively on global health and China. He has published numerous reports, journal articles, and book chapters, including articles in Survival, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Washington Post. 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) and Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State (2020). He has testified multiple times before congressional committees and is regularly consulted by major media outlets, the private sector, and governmental and nongovernmental organizations on global health issues and China. He serves on the expert board of CSIS Commission on Strengthening American Health Security and as a cochair of the commission’s China working group, he is co-author of Advancing U.S.-China Health Security Cooperation in an Era of Strategic Competition (CSIS, December 2021). He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, a board member of the Institute of Global Health (Georgia), and an Academic Advisor of the Center for China and Globalization. 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.