Chen Chen

Chen Chen is a research associate for Think Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Before coming to CFR, she was a community reporting fellow at KTOO Public Media in Juneau, Alaska. She studied global affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar in Beijing, China. She has interned with public health organizations in the U.S. and China, conducted infectious disease research, and is a science journalist with articles published in outlets such as Medscape Medical News, The Plain Dealer, The Third Pole, and Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism. 

A community health worker adds chlorine to water while internally displaced people gather to fill their buckets at the water point in Muna Garage IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria, on October 23, 2022.
Governance

The Future of Community Health Workers in Global Health

by Tom Frieden, Chen Chen, Krishna Jafa

Over-performing, but under-utilized

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Gender

Health Practitioners Say #MeToo

Unmasking widespread sexual harassment and abuse in the global health sector

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Governance

Drug-Resistant Malaria Is Up 1,000 Percent in Myanmar

Civil conflict and disease compound in the eastern border regions

Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman (L) and Mohamed Eisa at a conference in Khartoum, February 2023.
Governance

The Doctors Who Return Home

by Chen Chen

A death in Sudan’s diaspora and a collapsed health system

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Belgium's Minister of Development Cooperation Meryame Kitir visit a WHO-backed mRNA vaccine hub, in Cape Town, South Africa, February 11, 2022. REUTERS/Shelley Christians
Governance

Strengthening Epidemic Preparedness at the Country Level

by Tom Frieden, Chen Chen, Janneth Mghamba, Mohammed Lamorde

Health security approaches and challenges

A passenger wearing a protective face mask is seen from the window of a bus, after the provincial government started easing the lockdown restrictions and allowed to resume city public transport in Sindh, as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Karachi, Pakistan June 3, 2020. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro
Governance

The Expansion of Virtual Emergency Care

by Chen Chen, Rahul Sharma

Phones, cameras, and call centers improve patients’ access to health care in Pakistan

Jill Biden listens as Namibia's first lady Monica Geingos speaks, at a conversation with spouses of leaders attending the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, in Washington, DC, on December 14, 2022.
Gender

Women Leaders in Global Health

Three women discuss why they chose a career in global health and what inspired them to become leaders

Women delegates in ethnic minority costumes leave the Great Hall of the People following the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing, China March 4, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
Gender

Women in China After Zero-COVID

by Chen Chen

China’s future will be determined by its gender policies

Min Min rock climbing in a top-rope set up in Yangshuo, China. 2022. Photo courtesy of Min Min.
Gender

Risk, Pregnancy, and Extreme Sports

by Chen Chen

Athletes and experts weigh in

Luciana Messias dos Santos, 29, cooks using firewood outside her home in the Estrutural favela in Brasilia, Brazil, August 31, 2022.
Poverty

Tackling Air Pollution Starts at Home

by Sumi Mehta, Michael Brauer, Chen Chen, Tom Frieden

Rapidly developing countries critically need clean household energy  

Relatives and neighbors attend the funeral of a woman surnamed Liu, as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, at a village in Tonglu county, Zhejiang province, China, January 9, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song
Aging

COVID Deaths in Rural China

by Chen Chen

Funerals and traditions during Spring Festival travel

Basotho shepherd and dog looking out from a mountain ledge, in Thaba Tseka, Lesotho. Photo courtesy of Edwin Remsberg
Migration

How Shepherds Access Health Care in Lesotho

by Chen Chen

Hurdles and innovations for nomadic and semi-nomadic people