Yuexuan Chen

Yuexuan Chen is a medical student at the University of California, Los Angeles and former research associate for Think Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. She was previously a community reporting fellow at KTOO Public Media in Juneau, Alaska. She studied global affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar in Beijing, China. She has 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. 

Governance

Transparency Misinterpreted: CDC Vaccine Policy and Conflicts of Interest

A former CDC director says the idea that the agency’s vaccine advisors profited from their recommendations is a fallacy

Gender

Health Practitioners Say #MeToo

Unmasking widespread sexual harassment and abuse in the global health sector

Governance

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

Civil conflict and disease compound in the eastern border regions

Governance

The Doctors Who Return Home

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

Governance

The Expansion of Virtual Emergency Care

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

Gender

Women Leaders in Global Health

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

Gender

Women in China After Zero-COVID

China’s future will be determined by its gender policies

Poverty

Tackling Air Pollution Starts at Home

Rapidly developing countries critically need clean household energy  

Aging

COVID Deaths in Rural China

Funerals and traditions during Spring Festival travel