China Initiative
China Health and Healthcare Seminar Series
Seminar Series
HIV/AIDS In China: A Potential Epidemic?
Apr 13, 2009
Konglai Zhang, MD, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology in Peking Union Medical College.
Dr. Konglai Zhang has spent most of his scientific career in the studies of epidemiology which involve infectious and endemic diseases, clinical epidemiology and child health Care system. For the last 20 years, he has been working on HIV/AIDS issues, particularly focusing on policy development and social/behavioral aspects of the problem. He is currently the Vice Chairman of the National Expert Consultatioon Committee on AIDS Control in China and the leader of Epidemiology / prevention / intervention team, Director of China AIDS Network (NGO), Vice president of Chinese Association of STDs and AIDS Prevention and Control. He is also the Committee member of AIDS Society of Asia and The Pacific (ASAP) and member of the International Epidemiological Association.
Burden & Prevention of Chronic Diseases in China: implications for Healthy China 2020
April, 2009
Frank Hu, Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Department of Nutrition and Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Hu's research has focused on diet and lifestyle determinants of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is the Principal Investigator of the diabetes component of the Nurses' Health Study, and leads two NIH-funded projects to study biochemical and genetic risk factors for cardiovascular complications among patients with diabetes in the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals' Follow-up Study. His group's findings have contributed to current public health recommendations and policies for prevention of chronic disease. His current research has expanded to investigate complex interactions among nutrition, biomarkers, and genetic factors in the development of diabetes and cardiovascular complications. Dr. Hu is also collaborating with researchers from China to study obesity, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease in Chinese populations.
The HSPH China Initiative organizes and hosts the lecture in China Health and Healthcare Seminar Series. Dr. Frank Hu, presented on "Burden and prevention of chronic disease: implication for Healthy China 2020."
A Decade of Applied Research on Gender and Health in China:
Generating Evidence and Pilot Testing Interventions
May 2008
Dr. Joan Kaufman, is a Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and founding Director of the AIDS Public Policy Training Project at the Kennedy School. She is a Senior Scientist at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis and is the China Director for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). She was a 2001-2002 Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe and was a 2005-2006 Soros Reproductive Health and Rights Fellow. Previous positions include Program Officer for the Ford Foundations China office, Lecturer on Population and Reproductive Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Senior Associate at Abt Associates, and UNFPA Program Officer for China, as well as service on advisory committees for the World Health Organization and National Institutes of Health. Her writing focuses on health and social policies, AIDS, gender equity, and reproductive health and rights. Current research includes studies on health, governance, and womens participation in Chinas countryside, Chinese AIDS orphans, and AIDS public policies. Her book A Billion and Counting examines Chinas population policy, and her edited book on AIDS and Social Policies in China was published in 2006. She received her ScD (doctorate in science) from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Occupational and Environmental Health in China: Challenges and Opportunities
April 2008
Dr. David Christiani, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Physician, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit at MGH, where he directs the Molecular Epidemiology Research Group. Dr. Christiani received his M.D. from Tufts University in 1976, followed by Masters Degrees in Public Health and Physiology from the Harvard University School of Public Health. He did his postgraduate medical training at Boston City Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. His research interests include environmental and molecular epidemiology. He has led several major research projects in the United States, including projects on molecular studies of lung cancer, esophageal, bladder, and skin cancers, pollutant-induced cancers, as well as acute lung injury and chronic obstructive lung disease. He is a leader in research on gene-environment interactions.
In addition, he has developed extensive cooperative ties with industrializing countries in Asia, Africa, and Central America since the early of 1980s, and has led and conducted many studies on environmental and occupational health in these countries. Dr. Christiani is at the forefront developing and adapting of epidemiologic and laboratory techniques to the conditions to international studies. He lived in Shanghai from 1981-2, during which time he and his Chinese colleagues initiated the Shanghai Textile Workers Study, now in its 25th year. He returns to China often. He has been an Honorary Professor at Shanghai Medical University (now Fudan University) and Tongji/Huazhong University. He is also a consultant to the Public Health Department of the Putuo District People's Government in Shanghai and the Chaoyang Hospital/Capital Medical University Respiratory Disease Center in Beijing.
Dr. Christiani lectured on Occupational and Environmental Health at the 2007 and 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Programs.
How to Measure a Country's Health System Performance: The Case of China
March 2008
Dr. Yuanli Liu, is a Senior Lecturer of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Director of the China Initiative. Dr. Liu has been teaching and conducting research studies in the areas of health financing and health system analysis since 1994 at Harvard. He was profiled by the HSPH in 2003 as one of six "Future Leaders in Public Health." He is also an Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management at Tsinghua University and the founding director of the Health and Development Institute at the Tsinghua School of Public Policy and Management in Beijing. He is also a member of the Expert Committee on Health Policy and Management of the Chinese Ministry of Health. Dr. Liu has conducted extensive studies on health policy and health system reforms in developing countries, particularly in China. Through a series of applied health policy studies and senior health policy seminars, Dr. Liu has made important contributions to the process of reforming and developing China's systems of financing healthcare for the urban poor (MEDICAID), organizing public health surveillance, pricing and distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical services, hospital governance, and delivering community health services. He helped build the China Network of Training and Research of Health Economics and Financing, which consists of nine major Chinese universities and the China Health Economics Institute.
Dr. Liu is a member of the UN Millennium Development Taskforce on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Basic Medicines. He has consulted for many international agencies, including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, as well as global corporations. He serves as the Executive Vice President of the China Foundation, Inc., a US-based think-tank and charitable organization.
Dr. Liu lectured on Health System Analysis and the American Healthcare Financing System at the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program. He also lectured on Analyzing China's Urban Healthcare Issues, Health Systems Analysis, and the U.S. Health Care System at the 2006 Program.
China Health Care Reform: The Good and the Bad
February 2008
Dr. William Hsiao, is the K.T. Li Professor of Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and he is also a qualified actuary with extensive experience in insurance. His current research focuses on developing health system economics that provide an analytical framework in diagnosing the causes for the successes or failures of a system. He has advised many nations on their health sector reforms, including Colombia, Poland, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Sweden, Cyprus, and South Africa. Dr. Hsiao has served as advisor to three US presidents and the US Congress on health and Social Security policy. He has published more than one hundred and fifty papers and several books. Dr. Hsiao was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science and National Academy of Social Insurance, and serves as an advisor to the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the International Monetary Fund.
The HSPH China Initiative organizes and hosts the first lecture in China Health and Healthcare Seminar Series. Dr. William Hsiao, presented on "China Health Care Reform: The Good and the Bad." Through the seminars series, the Initiative seeks to provide a context for information sharing and dissemination, substantive discussions on both completed and on-going research in China, and networking opportunities for students and faculty to identify future areas for collaboration. To read more about this seminar, please visit HPH NOW.