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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The shot will help shield newborns from RSV in the early months of life, when they're especially vulnerable to severe illness. -
Schools remain closed after the deadly fires on Maui. Parents say it's important to keep their community from being displaced indefinitely.
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It's unclear when water and power will be restored in Lahaina, but one family is working hard to ready their home for return anyway.
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Officials and volunteers say addressing mental health needs and trauma will likely take years.
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More than three weeks after the deadly wildfires on Maui, what health support are survivors needing, and how are they getting it at a community level?
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An age-old technique transforms vegetables and spices into a popular condiment with a zesty, funky taste. The key? Nurturing the right community of microbes. Here's how the magic happens.
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A new study shows being exposed to different smells could help improve learning and memory. It also suggests that when we age, our sense of smell declines along with memory.
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A CDC advisory committee discusses how to implement a new RSV shot for babies in advance of this fall's expected spike in cases.
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Emergency rooms report when patients visit with health problems caused by heat. Find out when and where rates of illness are spiking, and explore trends over the last five years.
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Starting this fall, babies in the U.S. will be able to get a shot that protects them from a severe respiratory illness caused by RSV. The FDA gave its approval on Monday.
