Dr. Aimee Huang, MD, MPH
Instructor in Investigation, Department of Medicine, MGH
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Aimee Huang is a health disparities and health equity researcher whose work focuses on documenting and addressing health inequities among minoritized populations. Her research spans chronic diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular health, reproductive health, mental health, and HIV/AIDS, and employs mixed-methods approaches to quantify disparities, explore their root causes, and develop evidence-based interventions.
Her work includes a study published in Cancer that quantified sexual orientation-related cancer disparities, identifying a disproportionate cancer burden among lesbian women. Dr. Huang has also investigated prostate cancer screening behaviors, skin cancer risk factors, and care utilization patterns across sexual orientation and gender identity. Additionally, she has contributed to qualitative research published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, which examined how multi-level vulnerabilities influence health service utilization among minoritized populations, particularly sexual minority women.
As a junior faculty at the Mongan Institute, Dr. Huang’s most recent work focuses on implementing solutions to address disparities identified through formative research. She leads sub-projects within two PCORI-funded studies: one exploring agile healthcare delivery in a rapidly evolving landscape, and the other evaluating interventions to prevent burnout among ethnically diverse frontline providers in residential care facilities.
In addition to her research, Dr. Huang is dedicated to teaching and mentorship and contributes to the Health Equity Data & Delivery Science Certificate Program at the Mongan Institute. She also mentors students and trainees, supporting the development of future health equity researchers.
Dr. Huang earned her Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and received her medical degree from Charles University First Faculty of Medicine. She was an NCI-Harvard T32 Research Fellow and received her postdoctoral training at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School.