Crystal Huang

Crystal Haijing Huang is a Senior Economist and Director at IDinsight, where she leads impact evaluations and mixed-methods research to help our partners (foundations, NGOs, and governments) make evidence-informed policy decisions. She has worked across areas in global health and behavioral science including: water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), HIV, vaccine hesitancy, mental health, and maternal and child health. She is also currently a co-lead on IDinsight’s strategy for evaluating the impact of AI-driven tools and innovations.

She currently serves as Principal Investigator on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01-funded randomized trial in Uganda that tests behavioral economics-based incentives to improve ART adherence among HIV-positive youth. Other recent projects include an RCT of poverty-targeted sanitation subsidies in rural Ethiopia and a nationally representative panel survey of health behaviors in the Philippines.

Crystal previously worked at RAND Corporation, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. She holds a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, an M.A. in International and Development Economics from Yale University, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Crystal was born in China, grew up in the Philippines and now lives with her family in Princeton, New Jersey.