Yangmu Huang, tenured associate professor and Deputy Director of Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, adjunct researcher of Institute for Global Health and Development, Peking University, and visiting scholar at the Institute of Development Studies.

Her research area includes global health governance, R&D and global health, nutrition and food safety, and health emergency, from a health equity perspective, especially focuses on improving R&D and access of public goods for vulnerable populations. She has spent the past decade exploring the full innovation-to-access solutions for global health, including vaccines, medical countermeasures, antimicrobial products, neglected-disease technologies, nutritional products, and traditional medicines. She has led more than 30 research grants supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, national ministries, and United Nations agencies, and has been selected for China’s National Young Talent Program. She has authored or co-authored over 80 scientific publications, including papers in The Lancet, BMJ, and their affiliated journals. Beyond academia, she serves as a technical advisor to Chinese government ministries and as a consultant to organizations such as the WHO, UNICEF, and the Gates Foundation. Through over a decade of scholarship, international negotiation, and field-based collaboration with partners in more than 30 countries, Dr. Huang has worked to amplify China’s contributions to global health while strengthening equitable R&D of public goods worldwide.