Shan Huang

Global Health Specialist

Working groups

shan.huang@burnet.edu.au

Background

Shan is a Public Health Practitioner specialising in Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition. Prior to joining Burnet, Shan worked and lived overseas, predominantly in the Asia Pacific region including Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Lao, and PNG. Program management, planning, implementation and formative research has been the main focus of her work.

Shan and her team piloted the first mobile health (mHealth) application on newborn health in rural Cambodia which sent life-saving voice messages about care-seeking behaviour directly to mothers and caregivers of neonates. This won the Gold Medal at the ASEAN ICT Awards in 2015.

Qualifications

2011: Master of Public Health (Monash)
2006: Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Monash)

Positions

Nutrition Consultant – UNICEF EAPRO, Lao PDR and PNG
Nutrition Advisor – Save the Children, Action Against Hunger, ChildFund (Cambodia)
Health Program Manager – People in Need (Cambodia)
International Nutritionist – FAO (Cambodia)
Nutrition Officer – Ministry of Health (Nepal)

Awards

2024: National Travel Fellowship

Burnet publications

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13 Jul 2024

Ivermectin therapy for young children with scabies infection: a multicentre phase 2 non-randomized trial

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific

Shan Huang, Ben Coghlan

03 Jul 2024

Reliability of anthropometric measurements of a digi‐board in comparison to an analog height board in Namibian children under 5 years

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Shan Huang

01 May 2024

Use of digital technologies for staff education and training programmes on newborn resuscitation and complication management: a scoping review

BMJ Paediatrics Open

Shan Huang, Sayaka Horiuchi, Tasmyn Soller, Rachel Smith, Joshua P. Vogel, Tasmyn Soller, Sayaka Horiuchi, Shan Huang, Rachel Smith, Joshua P. Vogel

Current projects

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Open to students

Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies (HMHB)

A collaborative research program aimed at providing life-saving health care for women and children in Papua New Guinea.

Grow Healthy, Grow Strong

We're working together to improve rates of under nutrition and stunting of children in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

Tackling antimicrobial resistance in Papua New Guinea

By 2050, antimicrobial resistant bacteria (AMR) could cause 10 million deaths annually. Our collaborative project supports Papua New Guinea’s domestic AMR response.

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