Jin Huang is the Irving Louis Horowitz Professor in Social Policy in the Brown School, the associate director for research in the Center for Social Development, and an internationally renowned expert in the development of social policies that support family and child well-being. His work centers on financial capability and asset building (FCAB) programs for disadvantaged populations, such as low-income children, children with disabilities, children of immigrants, and youth in transition to adulthood. Huang’s research aims for universal policies that offer financial capability and structured asset building for all.

Findings from Huang’s research have contributed to improvements in FCAB policies in the United States, Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, and elsewhere. His research has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA Pediatrics, the American Journal of Public Health, Social Science & Medicine, Social Service Review, and Social Science Research. In 2024, he was named to the Stanford University-Elsevier list of the World’s Top 2% of Scientists in social work.

Huang is a noted leader in the social work profession. A fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, he serves as a member of the board of directors of Influencing Social Policy and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Policy Practice and Research. He is also one of the network co-leads of the Grand Challenges for Social Work initiative’s Network to Build Financial Capability and Assets for All. Huang is active in the Society for Social Work and Research, the Council on Social Work Education, the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the Financial Social Work Commission of the China Association for Social Work Education.

Huang began his career as a practitioner working with people with disabilities in the United States and China, and that work continues in his research on family-focused interventions.

Recent Media Coverage

Huang inducted into American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
Center for Social Development. January 30, 2025

In China, a new tool for financial social work
Center for Social Development. May 16, 2024

Global conference connects social work, research and policy
Center for Social Development. December 19, 2023

Parents’ views of universal asset-building policies for children
Center for Social Development. December 7, 2023

Evidence, vision for Children’s Account policy at Singapore event
Center for Social Development. November 30, 2023