Patient Insights Board Member
Chien-Chi Huang is the founder of Asian Breast Cancer Project and the former Executive Director of Asian Women for Health. A skilled and passionate community advocate, Chien-Chi was the Asian Community Program Manager at the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling from 2006 to 2011 and she spearheaded several new health initiatives addressing the unique issues and challenges facing the Asian American community. These initiatives included Asian American Problem Gambling Outreach efforts, Asian American Women’s Mental Health Symposium (now AAPI Mental Health Forum), Asian American Mental Health Forum, and Immigrants and Refugees Mental Health Network. She has participated in several CBPR (Community-Based Participatory Research) trainings and received grants from several organizations such as the Institute for Community Health Program Planning at Dana Farber, the Saffron Circle, the American Psychological Association, Massachusetts Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the Lenny Zakim Fund, Clipper Ship Foundation, Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation, Center for Community Health and Healthy Equity, and Tufts Community Research Center.
An immigrant from Taiwan and a breast cancer survivor turned advocate, Ms. Huang has spearheaded several health initiatives in Massachusetts, including the annual Asian American Mental Health Forum and the All of Us community engagement campaign. The Workforce Development Initiative trains those who are under or unemployed and finds them jobs as community health workers, providing an upstream solution to address the unique challenges facing the Asian community. Both mainstream and Asian media outlets have featured Ms. Huang’s efforts and culturally responsive approach to reducing health disparities related to gambling addiction, mental health, women’s health, and cancers.
Chien-Chi is the recipient for the Cheryl Kramer Passion Award in 2011, the Trail Blazer award in 2012, the Janice McGrath Survivor of the Year Award in 2013, the honoree of the one hundred by Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in 2014, and GK 50, the most influential people of color in Life Science and Healthcare in 2017, the Community Hero Award by ABCD in 2018, and the Laurel of Community Service award by the Cancer Prevention Foundation in 2019.
Under her leadership, Asian Women for Health is among one of the 6 recipients for the Peter Lee Healthy Communities Awards in 2013, with 12 nominations from partners and allies at the state-wide Ounce of Prevention Conference.
Motivated to lead through her cancer experience, Ms. Huang continues to participate in local, regional, and national efforts on health policy and research impacting the Asian community. Her passion for health equity and women empowerment has changed the healthcare landscape and created a pipeline of future Asian women leaders and peer health educators.