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Telling Wuhan’s stories

 

      My roots are from Wuhan and much of my family lives minutes away from the Huanan Seafood Market where COVID-19 was first recorded. Wuhan is also where my mother went to medical school and practiced as a physician.

 

      It happened to be that my academic and professional interests are at the intersection of health, environment, policy and media and I had previously shadowed for two summers in hospitals in China. Out of what may have been a combination of despair and frustration in January, I quickly got on my COVID-19 beat and joined the Duke One Health team (PI: Dr. Gregory Gray), an interdisciplinary respiratory infectious disease lab at Duke University. 

 

     With a humanitarian emergency that hit so close to home, I had to dive right in and do the one thing I could do from an ocean away: write.

Life in the ‘Cabin’: Two Months Fighting COVID-19 in Wuhan

From Wuhan to Cleveland: 10 lessons for dealing with a coronavirus shutdown

Wuhan is Home and its Doctors are Family

A Wuhan Doctor on the Front Lines

"I felt fear to the first degree,"
Dr. Wang said.
"What if I became infected? What would I do?"
Medscape Medical News

Engagements and Awards

Panel Speaker at “The Coronavirus: Human, Social, and Political Implications” 3/20/2020

"basically, if one person out of 7,000 undergrads
comes back from spring break one week later
what do we do?"
infected with the virus,
Wrote an essay on being both Wuhanese and American in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic for an academic book published by Palgrave Pivot as part of the discussion panel

Duke Cornerstone Award (student leadership award)

Recognizes an undergrad
“who positively impacted the University community from behind the scenes
with a willingness to help in whatever capacity necessary”
without seeking recognition,
Highlighted the impact of Wuhan is Home and its Doctors are Family and my efforts volunteering as a media manager for Wuhan United, a medical supply donations charity

My coronavirus advocacy was featured in the local paper: ‘Berea-Midpark grad calls for empathy during coronavirus outbreak’

Chen Chen,
a junior at Duke University, is from Middleburg Heights.
But so is China.
cleveland.com
To her, Northeast Ohio is home.