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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How will the Trump administration's cuts to HIV research impact the progress that's been made towards ending the epidemic in the U.S.?
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NPR's Pien Huang takes a journey to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to hear from youth voices about how they're telling the story of America on the 4th of July.
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Scientists in Chicago are mapping some fascinating evolutionary changes to local rodents — and how humans may have contributed to that change.
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The Ukrainian military says that today it attacked airfields in Russia, where fighter jets used to bomb Ukrainian cities are stored. They say it's an attempt to weaken the Kremlin's war machine.
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First time novelist, Aisling Rawle, has just published "The Compound" - a book set in a semi-dystopian reality TV show.
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The number of people dead rose Saturday after the "catastrophic" flooding from Friday Morning along the Guadalupe River in central Texas. Houston Public Radio's Dominic Anthony Walsh reports from the area.
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The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted on the flu vaccine, raising concerns about a rarely used preservative. Medical groups worry this will "sow distrust" in vaccines. -
For the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all the members of the vaccine committee, it is meeting in Atlanta. -
Tick bites are are on the rise this and they can carry some nasty illnesses. Which are most common depends where you live. Here's what to know to protect yourself. -
Data from CDC indicates this may be a bad tick season. Experts offer tips to reduce your chance of coming down with Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis and other tickborne diseases, and what to watch out for.
