As a fundamental component of its program, the HSPH China Initiative organizes the China Social Development Forum to discuss critical social policy issues with leading scholars and policy-makers in China. As a global leader in knowledge creation and transfer, the Harvard School of Public Health has the capacity to help China effectively address major concerns in social sector development through collaborative research and communication. The inaugural Forum was successfully held June 22-23, 2007 in Beijing with prominent leaders from Harvard, the Central Party School, and Tsinghua University and other Chinese and international organizations in attendance.
China Initiative (CI) currently has plans underway to host the second Social Forum in Boston in the Fall of 2009. The forum will focus on the intersection of the global economic crisis and the issue of social development, as it relates to China. CI has invited an array of US and Chinese scientists, scholars and senior government officials from China to participate in the 2009 forum. The forum is expected to be a highly engaging and extensively informative event, which will culminate in the publication of a book, highlighting a number of the Forums' presentations.
