Cheng Huang

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Bio

Dr. Cheng Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. A demographer and health economist, Dr. Huang has conducted research on migration policy in the US and China, global disease burden evaluation, environmental regulation, climate change and health, and tobacco control, with funding support from NICHD/NIH, NIEHS/NIH, USAID, and Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation. Dr. Huang is also an affiliated faculty member of the GWU Institute for International Economic Policy. At GWU, Dr. Huang teaches courses including Global Health Economics and Finance, and Cost Effectiveness Analysis.

Expertise

Expertise:

Health Care Financing

Health Economics

Health Reform

Pharmaceuticals

Population Health

Nutrition

Global Health

Climate Change

Social Determinants of Health

Health Policy

Global Environmental Health

Education:

BA (Economics & Statistics), Xiamen University, 1998

MA (Population Economics), Beijing University, 2002

PhD (Demography), University of Pennsylvania, 2007

Research

Research:

Dr. Huang's research interests include health economics, population economics, public nutrition and poverty, environmental regulations, and tobacco control. Huang recently obtained several grants for his research on long-term consequences of early life health shock, climate change and population health, and chronic disease burden in developing countries.

Publications

Publications:

Huang C, Yu H, Koplan J, Can China deminish its burden of non-communicable diseases and injuries by promoting health in its policies, practices, and incentives. Lancet 2014; 384: 783-792
Huang C, et al.,Smoking behaviors and cessation services among male physicians in China: evidence from a structural equation model. Tobacco Control. forthcoming
Huang C, Phillips MR, Martorell R. Malnutrition in early life and adult mental health: evidence from a natural experiment. Social Science & Medicine 2014, 97:259-66
Huang C, Nichols C, et al.Ambient air pollution and adverse birth outcomes: a natural experiment study. Population Health Metrics 2015; 13:17
Huang C, et al., Cognition and behavioral development in early childhood: the role of birth weight and postnatal growth. International Journal of Epidemiology 2012; 42: 160-71
Elo IT, Mehta NK, Huang C. Disability among native-born and foreign-born blacks in the United States. Demography 2011; 48: 241-265

Huang C, Mehta NK, Elo IT, Cunningham SA, Williamson DF, Stephenson R, et al. Region of birth and disability among recent US immigrants: Evidence from the 2000 census. Population Research and Policy Review 2011; 30: 399-418

Huang C, Soldo BJ, Elo IT. Do early life conditions predict functional status in adulthood: the case of Mexico. Social Science & Medicine 2011; 72:100-107

Gu D, Sautter JM, Huang C, Zeng Y. Health inputs and cumulative health deficits among the older Chinese. Social Science & Medicine 2011; 72: 806-814

Huang C, Li Z, Venkat Narayan KM, Williamson DF, Martorell R. Bigger babies born to women survivors of the 1959-61 Chinese Famine: a puzzle due to survival selection? Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease 2010; 1:412-418

Huang C, Li Z, Wang M, Martorell R. Early life exposure to the 1959-61 Chinese famine has long-term health consequences. The Journal of Nutrition 2010; 140:1874-1878

Huang C, Elo IT. Mortality of the oldest old Chinese: the role of early life nutritional status, socioeconomic conditions, and sibling sex composition. Population Studies 2009; 63 (1): 7-20

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