Huang was born in
Cigu District,
Tainan, in 1963. He was one of five children in a family of Taiwanese doctors. His father, Huang Huihuang, was a physician. His sister,
Huang Chih-hsien, is a political commentator, and his younger brother, Su Tzu-yun (who took his mother's surname), is a researcher at the Taiwan Center for Security Studies at
National Chengchi University. After attending
Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School, Huang graduated from
National Taiwan University with a
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in
agronomy. He then pursued graduate studies in the United States at
Harvard University and
Yale University. He earned a
Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) from the
Harvard Kennedy School in 1993 and a
Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) from the
Yale School of Medicine in 2001. ==Political career==