Dr Huang is also a Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, Director of the Center for Systems and Community Design, and Co-Director of the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center (CDC-designated) at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.

Previously, Dr. Huang played a leading role at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the integration of systems science and public health.

Dr. Huang has had a long history of research and policy leadership in the area of obesity and chronic disease prevention. In addition, he is passionate about systems-oriented community health, design for health, public health entrepreneurship, and strategies for collective impact. Dr. Huang has lectured and published extensively on these and other topics.

In addition to his varied academic research endeavors, his current work also focuses on innovation at the intersection of business, design, and health, including the founding of a new public health entrepreneurship platform, Firefly Innovations (www.firefly-innovations.com). Dr. Huang received the US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Innovation Award in 2010 and the NIH Director’s Award in 2011. In addition, he received the National Cancer Institute Award of Merit in 2012 and was named Distinguished Scientist by the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2013. Dr. Huang holds a PhD in Preventive Medicine and a Masters of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Southern California, a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from IE Business School (Madrid, Spain), and a Bachelors of Arts (BA) in Psychology from McGill University (Montreal, Canada).