Dr. Z. Jennifer Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Health at the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University. Currently, she is also a visiting Epidemiologist in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). In the past 5 years, Dr. Huang’s research has focused increasingly on the special needs and circumstances of young immigrant families, with a particular focus on the multilevel social and familial influences on maternal and child behavior and health. She has an extensive portfolio of peer-reviewed publications on behavioral and healthcare services research focused on disparities in health among immigrant mothers and children using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Dr. Huang also served as a PI of a recently completed pilot study to assess the impact of acculturation on health care access of children in Chinese immigrant/refugee families, funded by Children’s National Medical Center. Recently, she participated in a qualitative studies on migrant workers’ HIV risk factors in Shang Hai, China and is the PI or CO-PI on several grants that are under review at NIH (NIMH, NIAIDS). She also teaches an undergraduate course on Epidemiology in NHS.
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