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.
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Pien Huang

Reporter, Science Desk

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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Thursday

An aerial image taken on Aug. 10, 2023 shows destroyed homes and buildings burned to the ground in Lahaina in the aftermath of wildfires in western Maui, Hawaii. Rumors and conspiracy theories quickly flourished after the fire, hampering relief efforts. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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How rumors and conspiracy theories got in the way of Maui's fire recovery

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Tuesday

Why hikers on the Pacific Coast Trail are coming down with norovirus

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Sunday

Norovirus is breaking out in the wilderness — with busy hiking trails to blame

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EIS officer Arran Hamlet walks into the Government Meadows site to conduct environmental sampling for norovirus. Mia Catharine Mattioli/CDC hide caption

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Friday

Advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended a new RSV vaccine to protect newborns by immunizing their moms late in pregnancy. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,/AP hide caption

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Thursday

The Princess Nahi'ena'ena Elementary School in Lahaina is closed pending the results of air, water and soil tests. Pien Huang/NPR hide caption

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Some parents in Lahaina fight to keep their school — and kids — together

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Tuesday

Some Lahaina parents push to reopen school local schools

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Friday

Danilo Andres, 60, outside his home in Lahaina. The fire jumped his home and a surrounding cluster. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Their house miraculously survived the wildfire, but no longer feels like home

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Saturday

Their house miraculously survived the wildfire, but it no longer feels like home

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Friday

A group of volunteers with Maui Medic Healers Hui gather before heading out to help people affected by the fires in Lahaina. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Weeks after the fire, the response in Maui shifts from a sprint to a marathon

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Tuesday

Hawaii officials will study longer term health consequences of Lahaina fire disaster

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Sunday

GOP state legislatures target progressive prosecutors

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Saturday

The growing movement against noise pollution

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Sunday

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How hardworking microbes ferment cabbage into kimchi

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Friday

How to navigate the rise in COVID cases this summer

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Wednesday

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Study suggests that exposure to different smells could help improve memory

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Saturday

RSV can be dangerous for infants. A new treatment to prevent the respiratory illness is on track to be available this fall. JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images/Tetra images RF hide caption

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RSV prevention shot for babies gets OK from CDC

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Friday

It's still summer, but doctors are already thinking about upcoming RSV season

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Wednesday

Tuesday

The FDA has approved RSV shots for babies

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Tuesday

Maternal death rates have been consistently highest among Black women. But they are also rising among other racial groups. JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images/Tetra images RF hide caption

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The rate of pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. is going up, study shows

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