Pien Huang
Pien Huang is a health reporter on the Science desk. She was NPR's first Reflect America Fellow, working with shows, desks and podcasts to bring more diverse voices to air and online.
She's a former producer for WBUR/NPR's On Point and was a 2018 Environmental Reporting Fellow with The GroundTruth Project at WCAI in Cape Cod, covering the human impact on climate change. As a freelance audio and digital reporter, Huang's stories on the environment, arts and culture have been featured on NPR, the BBC and PRI's The World.
Huang's experiences span categories and continents. She was executive producer of Data Made to Matter, a podcast from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and was also an adjunct instructor in podcasting and audio journalism at Northeastern University. She worked as a project manager for public artist Ralph Helmick to help plan and execute The Founder's Memorial in Abu Dhabi and with Stoltze Design to tell visual stories through graphic design. Huang has traveled with scientists looking for signs of environmental change in Cameroon's frogs, in Panama's plants and in the ocean water off the ice edge of Antarctica. She has a degree in environmental science and public policy from Harvard.
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The CDC has lost thousands of workers since January. At a conference celebrating the work of the agency's "disease detectives," current and former staff grappled with uncertainty about the future.
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For the first time since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health secretary, vaccine advisers to the CDC are meeting to discuss vaccines for RSV, HPV, COVID and more. -
The reduction in force comes along with a reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, consolidating 28 divisions to 15. -
A tour of a grow facility in Maryland reveals the wide variety of scents from different cannabis strains. -
Dr. Dave Weldon, Trump's pick for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was withdrawn from consideration shortly before a scheduled Senate confirmation hearing. -
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., suggests that 97% of the CDC's vaccine advisory committee members have conflicts of interests. His assertion inaccurately characterizes the report he cites.
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It's the first measles death in the U.S. since 2015. More than 130 people in west Texas and New Mexico have been sickened in the outbreak so far. -
Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases. -
NPR's Pien Huang talks with Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody, a novel that serves as a love letter to the heart of Black creativity and possibility in the 1920s.
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As the dust settles from the first wave of firings at health agencies, here's how many people got cut and the impact of the roles that were lost.
