Shuyuan Huang

Faculty

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Shuyuan Huang

MPH PhD RN

Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow

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Shuyuan Huang, Ph.D., MPH, RN, is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Huang’s research focuses on the intersection of chronic disease prevention (e.g., diabetes, cardiovascular disease), maternal health, and minority and immigrant health. Her research program aims to develop culturally and linguistically sensitive lifestyle/physical activity interventions through mHealth technology for cardiometabolic disease prevention among postpartum Asian/Chinese immigrants with a recent history of gestational diabetes. Her current research projects are supported by NIH/NIMHD and the Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar Award, which aim to characterize the accelerometer-based 24-hour activity and cardiometabolic risk profile and to describe the multi-contextual barriers and facilitators to meeting physical activity and sleep guidelines in Chinese American women with a history of gestational diabetes. Huang is also a certified lifestyle coach for the CDC National Diabetes Prevention Program.

She joins NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing as part of the NYU Provost’s postdoctoral fellowship program. Prior to joining NYU Meyers, Huang was a nursing doctoral student at Yale School of Nursing. Her dissertation study examined the physical activity and sedentary behavior of Chinese immigrants in the US with a history of gestational diabetes using accelerometers. She identified an inactive and sedentary lifestyle of this high-risk population, as well as culturally relevant and modifiable factors associated with these two behaviors. Before that, she worked as a Program Officer at an international humanitarian agency, CARE USA, to promote sexual and reproductive health (e.g., family planning) among women in resource-limited countries.

Huang has received the New York University Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship, Connecticut Nurses’ Foundation Scholarship Award, Sigma Theta Tau Delta Mu Professional Development Award, Dean Margaret Grey Ph.D. Fellowship, and China Medical Board Next Generation Fellowship.

PhD, Nursing – Yale School of Nursing (2022)
MSN, Nursing – Central South University (2016)
MPH, Behavioral Science and Health Education – Emory University (2013)
BSN, Nursing – Xi’an Jiaotong University (2010)

American Diabetes Association
Eastern Nursing Research Society member
Society of Behavioral Medicine
Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity (CAHPE) Pilot Study Award (2023)
Heilbrunn Nurse Scholar Award (2023)
Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship, New York University (2022)
Professional Development Award, Sigma Theta Tau Delta Mu (2022)
2nd Place, 2020 ENRS Peer-Reviewed Doctoral Paper Presentation (2020)
PhD Fellowship, Dean Margaret Grey (2019)
McLeod-Blue-Skye Nursing Scholarship, Yale School of Nursing (2017)
China Medical Board Next Generation Fellowship, Emory University (2011)

Effectiveness of interventions involving social networks for self-management and quality of life in adults with diabetes: A systematic review protocol

Yang, K., Liu, Y., Huang, S., Ma, X., Lu, F., & Ou, M. (2020). JBI Evidence Synthesis, 18(1), 163-169. 10.11124/JBISRIR-2018-004041
Abstract
Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this systematic review is to explore the effect of interventions involving social networks on self-management and quality of life in adults with diabetes. Introduction: There is growing evidence that interventions involving social networks have a positive impact on people with diabetes through social support and social participation. However, the existing literature or protocols relate to only one type of diabetes, a certain population, or one type of intervention involving social networks. This study will comprehensively assess the impact of interventions involving social networks on self-management and quality of life for all types of diabetes. Inclusion criteria: This study will consider studies that compare interventions involving the social networks (families, friends and peers) of adults with all types of diabetes with interventions that do not involve social networks. Methods: We plan to collect relevant randomized and non-randomized controlled trials for systematic evaluation and meta-analysis by searching PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL Complete, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, and Google Scholar. Studies published in English from database inception to the present will be included. After the search, two researchers will independently screen the literature according to inclusion and exclusion criteria, evaluate the selected literature critically and extract the relevant data required, then meta-analysis will be performed using Joanna Briggs Institute System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information. Systematic review registration number: PROSPERO CRD42019135949.