Peter Berman, Ph.D.

Dr. Peter Berman directs the International Health Systems Group (IHSG), a multidisciplinary research, training, and service program dedicated to improving the ability of health care systems in low and middle income countries to improve health and equity in  a cost-effective and sustainable way. IHSG focuses on three main themes:

1. 1.strengthening the information base for the design and evaluation of successful health sector reform policies;
2. 2.improving health care financing, with a special focus on the development and use of national health accounts;
3. making health care services work better through development and application of innovations in provider payment, governance, organization, and regulation to both public and private sector providers.

Dr. Berman is also a Principal Investigator at Harvard for two global USAID-financed contracts.  His research includes analysis of the supply side of health care systems and the development and application of national health accounting (NHA) methods in developing countries.

Dr. Berman lectured on Health System Reforms: Major International Experiences for the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  

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Barry R. Bloom, Ph.D.

Dean Barry R. Bloom is Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health.  Dean Bloom is a leader in international health and former consultant to the White House.  Dean Barry Bloom continues to pursue an active interest in bench science as the principal investigator of a laboratory researching the immune response to tuberculosis, a disease that claims more than two million lives each year. He has been extensively involved with the World Health Organization (WHO) for more than 30 years and is a member of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Health Research.  Since his appointment as Dean of the Faculty on January 1, 1999, Dean Bloom has advanced public health through learning, discovery, and communication both at HSPH and around the globe. He has motivated a school wide transition to interdisciplinary research and evaluated the role of HSPH in Allston. Dean Bloom also oversaw the creation of the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases and the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health.

Dean Bloom currently serves as Chair Emeritus of the International Vaccine Institute. He serves as a member of the Ellison Medical Foundation Scientific Advisory Board, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics, the Earth Institute External Advisory Board at Columbia University, and the United Nations Development Programme: Millennium Development Goals Working Group on Tuberculosis. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dean Bloom received his B.A. degree and an honorary Sc.D. from Amherst College, an M.A. from Harvard University, and his Ph.D. from the Rockefeller University.

Dean Bloom lectured on Public Health: Major Achievements and Challenges at the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.   He also lectured on Public Health in Asia and presided over the Diploma Ceremony for the 2006 Program.

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David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P

David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. is Director, Institute for Health Policy and Physician at The Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
From 1987-1991 he was Senior Vice President at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, a 720-bed Harvard teaching hospital. From 1981 to 1987 he was Executive Director of the Center for Health Policy and Management and Lecturer on Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. During the late 1970s, Dr. Blumenthal was a professional staff member on Senator Edward Kennedy's Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research.
He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, and serves on several editorial boards, including the American Journal of Medicine and Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. He is also a National Correspondent for The New England Journal of Medicine. He serves on advisory committees to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Social Insurance, the Open Society Institute and other foundations.
Dr. Blumenthal was the founding chairman of AcademyHealth (formerly the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy), the national organization of health services researchers. He is also Director of the Harvard University Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement. He is recipient of the Distinguished Investigator Award from AcademyHealth, and a Doctor of Humane Letters from Rush University. He is a Senior Advisor to the Obama campaign in health policy. He has served as a trustee of the University of Chicago Health System and currently serves as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine).
His research interests include the dissemination of health information technology, quality management in health care, the determinants of physician behavior, access to health services, and the extent and consequences of academic-industrial relationships in the health sciences. For Chinese biography, please visit Here 

Thomas J. Bossert, Ph.D.

Dr. Thomas J. Bossert is a Lecturer and Director of Politics and Governance Group at the Harvard School of Public Health. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Wisconsin, Madison. For over twenty years, Dr. Bossert's research focuses on the decentralization of health care systems in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.  He has developed the innovative analytical tool called the "Decision Space Approach" based on the principal agent theory.  This approach provides a comparative tool for analyzing the range of choice over different functions allowed in decentralized establishments.  Dr. Bossert has used this in studies of decentralization in Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Morocco, Zambia, Uganda, Ghana and the Philippines.

Dr. Bossert has directed a WHO initiative to examine health systems capacity for human resource development, developing an assessment tool and applying it to Ethiopia. He has served as a consultant to the Colombian Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. As Director of the Harvard Project in Health Sector Reform in Colombia, Dr. Bossert participated in a three-year assessment of the process and performance of the health financing reform in Colombia. This research produced a major report and ten-year implementation plan and several articles in various journals. This research also produced course material for the World Bank Flagship Course on Health Sector Reform. Dr. Bossert is currently directing a research project in Central and Eastern Europe on out of pocket payments in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, and Croatia.

Dr. Bossert lectured on Health System Reforms: Other Countries' Experiences and Decentralization for the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  He also lectured on Organizational Framework and Political Framework for the 2006 Program.

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Paul Campbell, Sc.D.

Dr. Paul Campbell is the Co-Director of the China Initiative's Senior Health Executive Education Program.  He earned his doctorate in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Following his doctoral studies at Harvard, he served as Director of Management Services at John Snow, Inc. (JSI), a large health management consulting firm. At JSI he began a long-standing consultation and training connection with community health centers across the country, the "safety net providers" that provide primary care to the urban and rural poor populations in the United States. In 1989 he joined the faculty at the Boston University School of Public Health where he taught in the Department of Health Services. In 1991 he returned to the Harvard School of Public Health, where he currently has faculty appointments in two departments, Health Policy and Management and Population/International Health.  He also serves as Deputy Director of the International Health Systems Program (IHSP), which was established to assist low and middle-income countries involved in fundamental reform of the health sector. Through the IHSP Dr. Campbell managed a three million dollar four-year technical assistance project in Poland.  He currently serves as a consultant for the World Bank on health systems development in India where he first worked for a Ford Foundation project in 1992. In addition to Poland and India, he has also worked in many other countries and regions, including China, Zimbabwe, Morocco and the Eastern Caribbean.

Dr. Campbell lectured on Aging and Primary Care, Performance Measurement and Compensation, and led site visits to the Boston Elder Service Plan (PACE) Program and the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  He also lectured on Re-Engineering Primary Healthcare for the 2006 Program.  

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David Canning, Ph.D.

Dr. David Canning is a Professor of Economics and International Health at the Harvard Schools of Public Health. Dr. Canning's research focuses on the role of demographic change and health improvements in economic development. His research on demographic change focuses on the effect of changes in age structure on aggregate economic activity, and the effect of changes in longevity on economic behavior. In terms of health, the research focuses on health as a form of human capital and its effect on worker productivity.

Before assuming his position at the Harvard School of Public Health, Professor Canning held faculty positions at the London School of Economics, Cambridge University, Columbia University, and Queen's University Belfast. Professor Canning has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. In addition, he was a member of Working Group One of the World Health Organization's Commission on Macroeconomics and Health. He is currently deputy director of Harvard's Program on the Global Demography of Aging.

Dr. Canning lectured on Economic Development and Health at the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  

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Martin P. Charns, Ph.D.

Martin Charns is Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Program on Health Care Organization Studies at Boston University School of Public Health, and Director of the Center for Organization, Leadership & Management Research (COLMR), a Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research center of excellence. Dr. Charns is a graduate of Harvard Business School, where he earned his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Business Administration with specialization in Organizational Behavior, and Case Institute of Technology, where he earned his B.S. in mathematics. He has co-authored three books, and numerous articles, book chapters and case studies on organization design and change. He has been a member of the editorial board of Medical Care Review and a regular reviewer for several journals including Medical Care and Health Care Management Review. Dr. Charns has been Chairperson of the Health Care Administration Division of the Academy of Management and has served on the national advisory committee of the Strengthening Hospital Nursing Program, sponsored jointly by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Until the establishment of COLMR in 2004, he was Director of the VA Management Decision and Research Center (MDRC), bridging research and practice. He is currently principal investigator for the evaluation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's "Pursuing Perfection" Program and of studies investigating organizational factors associated with quality of care, organizational transformation and implementation of evidence-based practices.

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Lincoln C. Chen, M.D.

Dr. Lincoln Chen is the founding Director of Harvard's Global Equity Initiative, which promotes research, education, and networking on equitable world development. Beginning July 1, 2006, he assumed the Presidency of the China Medical Board, an independent foundation based in New York that seeks to advance health in China and Asia through medical education and research.

Dr. Chen's career has spanned three professional fields - academia, philanthropy, and social service. He founded and directed the Global Equity Initiative in Harvard University's Asia Center. From 1987 to 1996, he served as the Taro Takemi Professor of International Health and Chair of the Department of Population and International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the university-wide Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.  Dr. Chen is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the World Academy of Arts and Sciences. He graduated from Princeton University (B.A.), Harvard Medical School (MD), and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (MPH). He was trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Chen served as Executive Vice-President for Strategy of the Rockefeller Foundation. From 1987 to 1996, he chaired the Advisory Committee to the Board on population and reproductive health of the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation. Since 2001, Dr. Chen has been Chair of the Board of Directors of CARE/USA, one of America's leading international relief and development organizations.

Dr. Chen lectured on Health Sector Reform and Development: the Role of Health Human Resources for the China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  He also lectured on Health Development and Reforms: The Role of Human Resources Development for the 2006 Program.

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David Christiani, M.D.

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 25^th 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.  

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Norman Daniels, Ph.D.

Dr. Norman Daniels is the Mary B. Saltonstall Professor and Professor of Ethics and Population Health at hte Harvard School of Public Health. He has written widely in the philosophy of science (Thomas Reid's `Inquiry': the Geometry of Visibles and the Case for Realism (1974; Stanford, 1989), ethics, political and social philosophy (including Reading Rawls (1975; Stanford, 1989) and medical ethics. He has published over 150 articles in anthologies and journals. He is currently conducting research on how to adapt the "benchmarks of fairness" for use in less developed countries (WHO Bulletin, June 2000), and he is working on Just Health, a descendant of Just Health Care.

A member of the Institute of Medicine, a Fellow of the Hastings Center, a Founding Member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and of the International Society for Equity in Health, he has consulted with organizations, commissions, and governments in the U.S. and abroad on issues of justice and health policy, including the United Nations, WHO, and the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine. He served as a member of the Ethics Working Group of the Clinton White House Health Care Task Force (Spring 1993), as a member of the Public Health Service Expert Panel on Cost Effectiveness and Clinical Preventive Medicine, as a member of a National Academy of Social Insurance study panel on the social role of Medicare, and as a member of a Century Fund task force on Medicare reform. He served four years as a founding member of the National Cancer Policy Board, established by the Institute of Medicine and the Commission on the Life Sciences, and on the Advisory Board of the Open Society Foundation project on Medicine as a Profession. He is currently on the International Bioethics Advisory Board of PAHO and on an IOM Committee on the use of Cost Effectiveness Analysis in regulatory contexts.

Dr. Daniels lectured on Ethical Framework for the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  

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Michael Dukakis

Michael Dukakis graduated from Brookline High School (1951), Swarthmore College (1955), and Harvard Law School (1960). Dukakis began his political career as an elected Town Meeting Member in the town of Brookline. In 1970 he was the Massachusetts Democratic Party's nominee for Lieutenant- Governor. Dukakis won his party's nomination for governor in 1974 and beat Sargeant decisively in November of that year.In 1986 his colleagues in the National Governors Association voted him the most effective governor in the Nation. Dukakis won the Democratic nomination for the Presidency in 1988 but was defeated by George Bush. Since June of 1991, Dukakis has been a professor at Northeastern University's political science department and has also taught in the senior executive program for State and Local managers at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. During the winter quarter, he is a visiting professor at UCLA School of Public Affairs.  His research has focused on national health care policy reform and the lessons that national policy makers can learn from state reform efforts.   He lectured on Leadership in the Public Sector at the China Senior Health Executive Education Program. 

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Frank Wensheng Fan, Ph.D.

Dr. Frank Wensheng Fan is a postdoctoral research fellow and Program Coordinator at the Harvard School of Public Health China Initiative.  He also conducts comparative studies on China and the U.S. health care systems.  He is interested in finding innovative ways to establish universal health coverage in China.  He has served as a consultant to the World Bank and taught World Bank Institute Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing Flagship courses in China. Dr. Fan graduated from Hubei Medical University and received his Master degree in Public Health from Shandong Medical University. He earned his Ph.D. in Administration-Health Services from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Dr. Fan lectured on the American Healthcare Delivery System at the China Senior Health Executive Education Program.   

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Donald Goldmann, M.D.

Donald Goldmann, MD, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is responsible for Fellowship training, faculty relations, the innovation pipeline, and publications/knowledge management. He is also the principal IHI liaison to a number of strategic allies, including the Joint Commission, CMS, AMA, CDC, and AHRQ. Dr. Goldmann's career in clinical infectious diseases and epidemiology (with a focus on hospital-acquired infections) spans more than three decades. He remains on the infectious diseases clinical staff at Children's Hospital Boston, and he is Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health.  For Chinese biography, please visit Here  .

Kenneth G. Hermann

Dr. Kenneth G. Hermann has more than 30 years of experience in health care, including expertise in executive management and performance improvement consulting. Before joining Joint Commission Resources, Inc., Dr. Hermann provided leadership for more than five years at the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, serving most recently as Vice President for Accreditation Surveys. In this capacity, he was responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the accreditation process. Dr. Hermann's consulting expertise includes performance improvement assistance; planning for management of information; strategic business and product development; leadership education and skill building; physician/hospital relationship issues; work and process redesign; clinical credentialing, policy development and bylaws; standards and survey process education and preparation; and medication use and risk reduction. Dr. Hermann's experience in numerous health care settings has given him a broad understanding of the health care field in the United States and internationally. He has served as chief executive officer for a complex teaching hospital with affiliations in rural and urban communities, as chief operating officer for a health care benefit program for 7.5 million beneficiaries, and as director of financial programs for a health care system. He has worked in not-for-profit, government, and investor-owned health care delivery systems.

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Arnold M. Howitt, Ph.D.

Dr. Arnold M. Howitt, a specialist in public management, is Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has been a faculty member and administrator at Harvard since 1976 and has extensive experience in executive education. He currently serves as faculty co-chair of the Beijing Executive Public Management Training Program and of Leadership in Crises: Preparation and Performance. He teaches in a number of other Kennedy School executive programs, including the China's Leaders in Development Program and the HIV/AIDS Public Policy Training Program in China and Vietnam.

In his transportation and environmental research, Dr. Howitt is currently studying regulatory policy on automobile-related air pollution in China, a subject he has extensively worked on in the United States. From 2001-2003, he was a member of a National Research Council/National Academies panel that studied the effectiveness of the federal Clean Air Act and made recommendations for change in Air Quality Management in the United States (National Academies Press, 2004). From 1999-2003, he directed the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, a program on terrorism sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Howitt is co-author and co-editor of "Countering Terrorism: Dimensions of Preparedness" (MIT Press, 2003) and a contributor to "Pre-paring for Terrorism: Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response System Program" (National Academies Press, 2002). Dr. Howitt is also the author of Managing Federalism (CQ Press, 1984), a study of the federal grant-in-aid system, and co-author and co-editor of Perspectives on Management Capacity Building (SUNY Press, 1986).

Dr. Howitt lectured on Organization Leadership for the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  

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William Hsiao, Ph.D.

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.

Dr. Hsiao lectured on the Cycle of Policy Development, the Diagnostic Tree, Health System Control Knobs II: Financing and Payment, and Healthcare in Transitional Countries: Challenges and Strategies for the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.   He also lectured on Health System Performance and Control Knobs, Economic Framework for Policy Analysis, and Applying the Framework to Analyze China's Rural Healthcare Issues for the 2006 Program. 

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Frank Hu, Ph.D.

Dr. Frank Hu is an Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hu received his medical degree at Tongji Medical College in Wuhan and PhD at University of Illinois, Chicago. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. His research has focused on epidemiology and prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in both developed and developing countries. Dr. Hu is the receipient of the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award. He is also a Yangtze Scholar at Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology.

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 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.

Dr. Hu lectured on Controlling Non-Communicable Diseases for the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.   

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David Jaimovich, M.D.

Dr. David Jaimovich has almost 20 years of experience in health care, including expertise in medical staff leadership, performance improvement consulting, patient safety, hospital disaster preparedness, and transport medicine. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Illinois, and the Chief of Pediatric Intensive Care at Hope Children's Hospital. His expertise includes patient safety, quality measurement and management, hospital/physician relations, patient rights and organizational ethics, and national and international transport medicine standards.

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David G. Javitch, Ph.D.

Dr. David G. Javitch is an organizational psychologist and award-winning faculty member at Harvard University and Boston University.  Dr. Javitch is President of Javitch Associates in suburban Boston.  A management specialist, he combines field-proven managerial and psychological methods to enable individuals, teams, and departments to increase their effectiveness and contribute to an organization's bottom line success.

His consulting work focuses on job behavior issues that affect leadership, teambuilding, power conflict and change.  He has been a Visiting Professor at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.  He has also served as a consultant to the Minister of Health in Serbia.  The American Management Association and Dun and Bradstreet's Education Services Foundation have repeatedly turned to him to conduct their seminars where he always receives accolades. 

Dr. Javitch, who received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University, is a contributing member of the Institute of Management Consultants, the American Society for Training and Development and the American Psychological Association.  He is a member of the President's Circle at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is on the Board of Directors of the Men's Associates for the Rehabilitation Center for Aged.  He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center and the Small Business Executive Board of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Javitch lectured on What is Leadership? and Leading Changes at the China Senior Health Executive Education Program.   

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Nancy M. Kane, D.B.A.

Dr. Nancy M. Kane is Professor of Management in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr Kane earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.  Prior to obtaining her business training, she practiced as a hospital-based physical therapist.  Dr. Kane directs the Masters in Healthcare Management Program, an executive leadership program created for mid-career physicians leading healthcare organizations. She has taught in Executive and Masters Degree programs in the areas of health care accounting, payment systems, financial analysis, and competitive strategy.

Her research interests include measuring hospital financial performance, quantifying community benefits and the value of tax exemption, the competitive structure and performance of hospital and insurance industries, and nonprofit hospital governance.   Professor Kane consults with a wide range of federal and state agencies involved in health system design, oversight, and payment.  She is currently an outside director of the Urban Medical Group, a nonprofit physician group practice providing care to frail elderly in institutional and home settings, and a member of the Medical Payment Advisory Commission, an independent federal body advising the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare Program.

Dr. Kane lectured on Regulating Hospitals and Doctors and Hospital Strategic Planning and Management for the 2006 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Programs.  She also lectured on Regulating and Managing Hospitals and How Medicare Works for the 2006 Program.  

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James Killingsworth Ph.D., MPH

Dr. James Killingsworth is the Managing Director of International Relations at JCI. He is responsible for supporting international product development, strategic market expansion and collaboration in key market areas such as the JCI Center for Patient Safety

Previously, Dr. Killingsworth served as China Country Advisor for Health System Development and Finance at the World Health Organization China Office and as Health Economist for DFID Health Economics Unit Project in Bangladesh. Before that he served as National Health Advisor to the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Planning for the 4th and 5th National Development Plans (Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California). His publications focus on health economics, health policy development and quality improvement/accreditation. He holds visiting faculty appointments at Shandong University and Peking University School of Public Health.

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Howard K. Koh, M.D.

Dr. Howard Koh is the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, and Director of the Division of Public Health Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health. He serves as Director of the Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness, the academic center that educates the public health workforce about bioterrorism and other emerging health threats. Dr. Koh served as Commissioner of Public Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1997-2003 after being appointed by Governor William Weld.

Dr. Koh graduated from Yale College, where he was the President of the Yale Glee Club, and from the Yale University School of Medicine. After training and serving as chief resident at both Boston City Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, he earned board certification in four medical fields (internal medicine, hematology, medical oncology, and dermatology) as well as a Master of Public Health degree from Boston University. Then, as a faculty member at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, he became Director of Cancer Prevention and Control as well as Professor of Dermatology, Medicine, and Public Health. He has published over 200 articles in the medical and public health literature, addressing areas such as cancer prevention, tobacco control, Asian American health issues, emergency preparedness, and skin oncology (melanoma and cutaneous lymphoma). In addition, he is Principal Investigator for the National Cancer Institute-funded initiative on cancer disparities entitled MASSCONECT (Massachusetts Community Networks to Eliminate Cancer Disparities through Education, Research and Training).

Dr. Koh lectured on Regulating and Managing Public Health Agencies and How Medicaid Works for the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.

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Eric Kupferberg, Ph.D.

Dr. Eric Kupferberg received his doctorate in the history and sociology of science from MIT and his M.A. in the history and philosophy of biology from the University of Maryland. As part of the Harvard School of Public Health, he helps direct the research and publications of the Trust Initiative, with a particular focus on health care markets and health policy. In 2006, he became the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education at Northeastern University's School of Professional and Continuing Studies. He co-teaches the Harvard Extension School course on "Forces of Change: Market Dynamics and Strategy for the Shifting Health Care Marketplace." For nearly a decade, he has taught at Harvard University and MIT, offering such courses as "The History of Germs," "Science, Alcoholism, and Addiction in 20th Century America," and "Ethical Conflicts and Political Choices in Contemporary Research." Prior to arriving at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Kupferberg directed the public programs at Harvard Medical School's Division of Medical Ethics. He has appeared on National Public Radio programs and consulted for PBS television. The American Society of Microbiology will publish his forthcoming book on The Expertise of Germs: Practice, Language and Authority in American Bacteriology, 1899-1924.

Dr. Kupferberg lectured on Forces of Change for the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  

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Paul F. Levy

Paul F. Levy was named President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in January 2002.  A major patient care, research and teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of CareGroup Healthcare System, Beth Israel Deaconess is the third largest recipient of National Institutes of Health research funding among independent U.S. teaching hospitals.

Levy served as Executive Dean of Harvard Medical School before joining BIDMC.  He established a national reputation as an administrator with his service as the executive director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, the agency charged with the cleanup of Boston Harbor, one of the largest pollution control projects in the world.  He has also served as chairman of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and Director of the Arkansas Department of Energy. 

Before joining Harvard Medical School, Levy was adjunct professor of environmental policy at MIT, where he taught infrastructure planning and development and environmental policy for seven years.  He has also maintained an independent consulting practice, providing strategic, negotiation and regulatory advice to firms in the energy, water and telecommunications arenas.

He holds bachelor's degrees in Economics and Urban Studies and Planning, and a Master's in City Planning from MIT.  He is the co-author of Negotiating Environmental Agreements (Island Press, 1999).  He coaches girls' soccer, referees youth soccer, and plays on a coed adult team.

Mr. Levy lectured on Surviving and Succeeding as a Non-Physician Hospital CEO at the China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  

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Qi Li, M.D., M.B.A.

Dr. Qi Li is a corporate manager at Partners Healthcare leading the development of Longitudinal Medical Records (LMR), an internally developed electronic health record adopted by Partners with over 5,000 physician users at all primary care and specialty clinics.  Under Dr. Li's leadership, LMR has grown to become the foundation of clinical data standards, clinical record, and workflow toolsets at Partners.  As a member of the Clinical Informatics R&D group at Partners Healthcare, Dr. Li has also led many internally and externally funded research projects to assess the effectiveness of LMR and new technologies in the areas of patient computing, alternative clinical data capture methods, natural language processing, and quality data reporting.

Previously, Dr. Li has led product management at several healthcare technology companies, including PatientKeeper, a mobile healthcare solution vendor, and McKesson Medical Management Group, a payer analytics solution provider. 

Dr. Li earned his combined M.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Tufts Medical School.  Dr. Li was also educated in China at Shanghai JiaoTong University.

Dr. Li lectured on Hospital Information Systems for the 2006 and 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Programs. 

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Marc Lipsitch, Ph.D.

Dr. Marc Lipsitch is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, with appointments in the Departments of Epidemiology and Immunology & Infectious Diseases. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Philosophy from Yale University. He attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and did his doctoral work with Robert May and Martin Nowak, receiving his D.Phil. in zoology in 1995. He did postdoctoral work with Bruce Levin at Emory University and at the CDC from 1995-1999. He has received outstanding young investigator awards from the Ellison Medical Foundation, the American Society for Microbiology, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers' Association Foundation. He is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology and Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, and is an Editorial Board Member of PLoS Medicine.

He is an author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications on antimicrobial resistance, mathematical modeling of infectious disease transmission, bacterial and human population genetics, and, most recently, immunology. One part of his present research program focuses on the population biological and immunological aspects of colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae; most recently, he and colleagues showed that naturally developed immune responses to pneumococcal colonization may be primarily directed at conserved, noncapsular antigens and mediated through CD4+ T cells, rather than antibodies. The other part of his research involves a number of infectious diseases and focuses on mathematical modeling and the development of quantitative methods for studying disease transmission; recently, his group has made estimates of the transmissibility of the SARS virus and the 1918 pandemic influenza strain, and has developed new methods for evaluating epidemic malaria surveillance algorithms and for estimating the effects of interventions to control nosocomial infections.

Dr. Lipsitch lectured on Controlling Communicable Diseases - Avian Flu at the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  

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Eugene Litvak Ph.D.

Dr. Eugene Litvak is co-founder and director of the Program for the Management of Variability in Health Care Delivery at the Boston University Health Policy Institute. He is also is a Professor at the Boston University School of Management. He received his doctorate in Operations Research from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1977. Prior to joining Boston University he was a faculty member at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis in the Department of Health Policy & Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He still teaches the course "Operations Management in Service Delivery Organizations" at HSPH. Dr. Litvak arrived in the U.S. in 1988, and joined HSPH in 1990. Prior to that time he was a chief of the Operations Management Group at the Computing Center in Kiev, Ukraine. His research interests include operations management in health care delivery organizations, cost-effective medical decision-making, screening for HIV and other infectious diseases, and operations research. Dr. Litvak is an author of more than 60 publications in these areas. Dr. Litvak was the Principal Investigator in the "Emergency Room Diversion Study" supported by the grant from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee "The Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System". He is also Principal Investigator in many research and hospital operations improvement studies. He also serves as a consultant on operations improvement to several major hospitals and is a faculty of the Institute for Health Care Improvement, where he has developed curriculum, and teaches "Managing Hospital Operations" Program.

Dr. Litvak lectured on Hospital Logistics Support for the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program. 

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Yuanli Liu, Ph.D.

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.    

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Yichen Lv, Ph.D.

Dr. Yichen Lu is the Elkan Blout Principal Research Scientist for HAI (Harvard School of Public Health's AIDS Initiative). Dr. Lu heads the Initiative's China project and serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for International Vaccine Development, Inc., a non-profit organization that promotes vaccine research and development in developing countries, and as Special Professor and Director of the Nankai University Vaccine Laboratory in Tianjin, China. The focus of much of the research in Dr. Lu's laboratory is vaccine research and development, particularly T-cell vaccines. Additionally, he has worked extensively on simian/human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) as well as HIV, an approach that allows for general primate retrovirus research.

One of Dr. Lu's major findings involves a model for anthrax-based vaccine design. In collaboration with the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Dr. Lu's group plans to test the new candidate AIDS vaccine in human studies in the US and southern Africa. Dr. Lu holds a number of patents for his research findings, and served on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS' AIDS Vaccine Expert Panel in 1997. He is the first editor of the book "AIDS in Asia". He holds a Ph.D. from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Lu lectured on Controlling Communicable Diseases - HIV/AIDS for the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  

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Leonard J. Marcus, Ph.D.

Dr. Leonard J. Marcus is founding Director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Dr. Marcus is also founding Co-Director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a collaborative effort of HSPH and the Kennedy School of Government, developed in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House, and the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Defense. In addition, he is Associate Director of the HSPH Center for Public Health Preparedness, funded by the CDC.  In recent years, Dr. Marcus has played a leading national and international role in terrorism preparedness and emergency response, developing the conceptual and pragmatic basis for "connectivity" - the coordination of "people, organizations, resources, and information to best catch, contain, and control a terrorist or other public health threat," and "meta-leadership"- "overarching leadership that strategically links the work of different agencies and levels of government."

Dr. Marcus is the lead author of the primary text in the field, Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration. The book was selected as co-recipient of the Center for Public Resources Institute for Dispute Resolution 1995 "Book Prize Award for Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution". He teaches HSPH courses on negotiation and conflict resolution and leadership. In 1992, he co-founded Health Care Negotiation Associates (HCNA), a national consulting, mediating, and training organization. His international work includes assignments in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Dr. Marcus completed his doctoral studies at The Heller School of Brandeis University. He was selected as a Fellow for the Kellogg National Leadership Program from 1986-1989.

Dr. Marcus lectured on Leadership in Emergency Response at the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  He also lectured on Public Health Emergency Responses at the 2006 Program.

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James J. Mongan, M.D.

Dr. James Mongan is President and CEO of Partners HealthCare in Boston, an integrated health system founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital.  A professor of health care policy and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Mongan also serves on the board of the Commonwealth Fund and chairs its Commission on High Performance Health Systems.

Prior to being appointed president and CEO of Partners in 2003, Dr. Mongan was president for seven years of Massachusetts General Hospital, the largest and oldest teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.  He also served for 15 years as executive director of the Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, a large public hospital, and served as dean of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. 

A native of San Francisco, Dr. Mongan received his undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, and his medical degree from Stanford University Medical School.  He completed his internship at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco and served for two years in the U.S. Public Health Service.

Dr. Mongan presented an overview of the Partners HealthCare system at the China Senior Health Executive Education Program. 

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George Moseley, Ph.D.

Dr. Moseley lectured on Managing a Hospital’s Most Important Resource – Its People for the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  He also lectured on Human Resource and Management Culture for the 2006 Education Program. 

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Christopher J.L. Murray, Ph.D.

Dr. Murray is the Director of the new Institute for Health Metrics and Education at the University of Washington, which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and UW.  A member of the faculty of the UW Department of Global Health, Dr. Murray was previously director of the Harvard University Initiative for Global Health, and is a former senior official at the World Health Organization (WHO).

Dr. Murray lectured on Setting Priorities by Policy Markers at the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.

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Peter J. Neumann, Sc.D.

Dr. Peter J. Neumann is Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts-New England Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, where he was previously Associate Professor of Policy and Decision Sciences. His research focuses on the role of cost-effectiveness analysis in health care decision making. He has conducted numerous economic evaluations of medical technologies, including evaluations of treatments for Alzheimer's disease. He also directs a project to develop a comprehensive registry of cost-effectiveness analyses in health care.

Dr. Neumann has contributed to the literature on the use of willingness to pay and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) in valuing health benefits. His other research has focused on the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of health economic information, and the role of clinical and economic evidence in informing public and private sector health care decisions, including those made by the Medicare program. He has published widely in the medical literature and is the author of Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Improve Health Care (Oxford University Press, 2005). He is a contributing editor of Health Affairs and a member of the editorial board of Value in Health. Dr. Neumann is currently serving as President of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR), and a trustee of the Society for Medical Decision Making. He has also held various policy positions in Washington, including Special Assistant to the Administrator at the Health Care Financing Administration. He received his Ph.D. in health policy and management from Harvard University.

Dr. Neumann lectured on Regulating the Pharmaceutical Industry for the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  He also lectured on Regulating and Organizing Medical Devices and Pharmaceutical Industries for the 2006 Program.  

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Stephen N. Oesterle, M.D.

Dr. Stephen N. Oesterle is the Senior Vice President for Medicine and Technology of Medtronic Inc. He is a 1973 summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College and received his medical doctorate from Yale University in 1977. His internship and residency years were at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1977-80 and he served a fellowship in interventional cardiology at Stanford from 1981 to 1983. Dr. Oesterle joined Medtronic in 2002, after serving as Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard University Medical School and Director of Invasive Cardiology Services at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

A teacher and innovator in the field of cardiac catheterization, Dr. Oesterle developed and directed interventional cardiology programs at Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles from 1986 to 1991; at Georgetown University in 1991 and 1992 and at Stanford University from 1992-98.  While at Stanford, Oesterle established the University Medical Center's first endovascular device laboratory. Subsequently, he founded a similar medical device development laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital where he and his colleagues sought unique, minimally invasive methods for treating coronary disease, valvular disease, rhythm disturbances and heart failure.

Dr. Oesterle lectured on Industry Perspectives at the 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  

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Jay B. Pieper

Jay B. Pieper has been a director of Eclipsys since May 1996. Since May 1995, Mr. Pieper has served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Treasury Affairs for Partners HealthCare System, Inc., the parent organization of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is also President of Partners International Medical Services LLC. Mr. Pieper serves on the Board of Directors of Biopure Corporation, a manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, and is a member and past director of Financial Executives International.

Mr. Pieper lectured on Partners HealthCare's International Collaborations at the China Senior Health Executive Education Program.

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Michael E. Porter, Ph.D.

Mitchell T. Rabkin, M.D.

Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and trained in internal medicine and endocrinology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Rabkin was President of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital (1966-1996) and, following its merger with Deaconess Hospital, President of its parent organization, CareGroup (1996-1998). He is Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Institute Scholar at the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. 

A former Chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Dr. Rabkin is a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He is Chair of the Advisory Committee to the President of Huashan Hospital, a major teaching hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai. Dr. Rabkin is also a director of the Washington Advisory Group (www.theadvisorygroup.com), an LECG company providing strategic counsel and management consulting to leaders of companies, universities, governments, and not-for-profit organizations. Most clients are engaged in scientific and engineering R & D, health care or in higher education, either as a major activity or as a key element of their mission.

Dr. Rabkin lectured on How to Be an Effective Hospital CEO for the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.    He also lectured on The Role of the Private Sector in Financing and Provision at the 2006 Program.  

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Michael Reich, Ph.D.

Dr. Michael Reich is the Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1981. Dr. Reich's research program addresses the political dimensions of public health policy. He is particularly interested in the health and population policies of poor countries, the politics of policy-making processes, and pharmaceutical policy. A major area of Dr. Reich's research examines access to medicine in developing countries.

Dr. Reich has conducted various studies on the political economy of health policy reform, in both developed and developing countries. He has developed an applied research tool (a Windows-based software program) for analyzing the political dimensions of public policy. This tool, called PolicyMaker, provides a computer-assisted guide for strategic thinking about policy reform. The software leads the user through a step-by-step analysis of the policy content, positions and power of major players, opportunities and obstacles to policy change, and strategies for change. The method can be used for health policy reform as well as other areas of public policy. A free version of the software is available on the internet (www.polimap.com). Dr. Reich and his collaborators have applied the method for analyzing health reform issues in more than ten countries, in collaboration with national governments and international agencies. The method is used in policy courses around the world, including the World Bank Flagship Course on Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing.

Dr. Reich lectured on Politics and Policy and Health Sector Reforms in Mexico at the 2007 and 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Programs. 

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Marc Roberts, Ph.D.

Dr. Marc Roberts is a Professor of Political Economy at the Harvard School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1968. In recent years, Dr. Roberts has focused much of his work on health sector reform around the world. Working with the World Bank, he has offered training sessions for senior leaders and managers from many countries in the U.S. and overseas. With three colleagues he has completed a handbook on how to think about health sector reform that is published by Oxford Press.

In the U.S. context, Dr. Roberts continues as an active consultant helping organizations adjust to changing market conditions. He is also a co-leader of a new school of Public Health initiative on the role of trust in the health care system and how managers can build trust to reinforce their market position.

Dr. Roberts also has continuing interest in the clinical and philosophical basis of health care policy. Recent papers in this area include an essay offering a framework for thinking about health ethics, and an analysis of the ethics of public- private partnerships in international health.

Dr. Roberts lectured on Health System Control Knobs I: Organization and Health System Control Knobs III: Regulation for the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  He also lectured on Health Sector Reforms in Transitional Countries and A Case Study at BIDMC for the 2006 Program.  

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Anthony Saich, Ph.D.

Dr. Anthony Saich is the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. He is Faculty Chair of the Asia Programs and the China Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. This work includes significant training programs for national and local officials from China, including a program to help Beijing officials prepare for the Olympics. He also sits on the Executive Committees of the Fairbank Center and the University's Asia Center. From 1994 until July 1999, he was the Representative for the China Office of the Ford Foundation. Prior to this he was the director of the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands. He first visited China as a student in 1976-77 and has been there for longer or shorter trips almost each year since. Currently, he is also a guest Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China. He has advised a wide range of government, private and not-for-profit organizations on work in China and elsewhere in Asia. He is a member of the Trustees of the China Medical Board of New York and International Bridges to Justice. His current research focuses on the interplay between state and society in China and the respective roles they play in the provision of public goods and services at the local level. He has written several books on developments in China, including: Chinas Science Policy in the 80s (1989); Revolutionary Discourse in Maos China (1994, with David E. Apter); The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party (1996); The Governance and Politics of China (2004); AIDS and Social Policy in China (2006, with Joan Kaufman & Arthur Kleinman). He studied political science in the U.K. and has taught at universities in England, Holland, and the U.S.

Dr. Saich lectured on the Changing Roles of Government in China at the China Senior Health Executive Education Program.  

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Leonard Schaeffer

Leonard Schaeffer is the founding Chairman & CEO of WellPoint, the nation's largest health insurance company.  Mr. Schaeffer's public service included appointments as Administrator of the federal Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS), Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget of the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Director of the Bureau of the Budget for the state of Illinois, Chairman of the Illinois Capital Development Board, and Deputy Director of the Illinois Department of Mental Health.  Mr. Schaeffer is a graduate of Princeton University and was the Regent's Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley in 2006.  Mr. Schaeffer currently serves on the Board of Directors for Allergan, Inc. and Amgen, Inc.; Board of Fellows for the Harvard Medical School; Board of Trustees for The Brookings Institution; National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine; Advisory Boards for the National Institute for Health Care Management and RAND Health; Advisory Council for the Department of Economics at Princeton University; and the Board of Councilors for University of Southern California.   

Mr. Schaeffer lectured on the Role of the Private Sector in Healthcare at the China Senior Health Executive Education Program.   

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Yuanyuan Shen, Ph.D.

David A. Shore, Ph.D.

Dr. David A. Shore teaches the popular Harvard graduate courses "Strategic Marketing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Positioning, Branding, and Building Trust" and "Forces of Change: Market Dynamics and Strategies for a Shifting Health Care Marketplace." He frequently delivers keynote addresses and workshops, and has consulted on six continents. He chaired the first, second, and third national executive Conferences on Branding, Positioning and Competitive Strategies for the Health Care Industries.  He is the author of The Current State of Trust in the American Healthcare Enterprise: Physicians and Managed Care in Changing Times (2004), The Trust Prescription for Healthcare: Building Your Reputation with Consumers (Health Administration Press, 2005), and editor of The Trust Crisis in Healthcare: Causes, Consequences, and Cures (Oxford University Press, 2006).  His forthcoming book is on stakeholder conflicts and the tragedy of the commons and will be published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Shore is Associate Dean and Executive Director of the Center for Continuing Professional Education at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Shore lectured on Hospital Branding at the 2006 and 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Programs.  He also lectured on Forces of Change in Health Care at the 2006 Program.  

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Richard Siegrist, M.B.A.

Mr. Richard Siegrist is Senior Vice President and General Manager of WebMD Quality Services.  He was previously co-founder and CEO of HealthShare Technology, Inc., which was acquired by WebMD in March 2005.  WebMD Quality Services focuses on comparative information and decision support for hospitals, health plans and employers. He is also Adjunct Lecturer on Management at the Harvard School of Public Health where he has taught financial management, management control and decision support for the last 20 years in the graduate, executive and physician education programs. 

Mr. Siegrist was previously a co-founder and Vice President of Transition Systems, Inc. (TSI), a leading cost accounting and decision support vendor for hospitals that is now part of Eclipsys.  He began his career in healthcare at New England Medical Center in Boston.

Mr. Siegrist received a B.A. in Political Economy from Williams College, an MS in Accounting from the NYU Graduate School of Business, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.  He is also a CPA.

Mr. Siegrist lectured on Hospital Budgeting and Cost Control at the 2006 and 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Programs.   

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Peter L. Slavin, M.D.

Peter L. Slavin, M.D., is the President of Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School
Dr. Slavin graduated from Harvard College in 1979, Harvard Medical School in 1984, and Harvard Business School in 1990.
He did his training in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1984 to 1987. While on staff at MGH, he attended Harvard Business School and developed the hospital's first quality and utilization management program. In 1994, he was appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer.
In 1997, he was recruited to serve as the first president of the recently merged Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, the adult teaching hospital of the Washington University Medical Center. In 1999, he returned to Boston to serve as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, which included over 1,700 physicians and employed nearly 1,000 of them.
In January 2003, he was appointed to his current position. Massachusetts General Hospital is the third oldest hospital in the United States and is the largest Harvard teaching hospital. MGH operates over 900 inpatient beds, has an annual operating budget of over $1.9 billion per year, is the largest employer in the City of Boston, and has the largest research program (over $500 million per year) of any hospital in the United States.
Dr. Slavin teaches internal medicine at MGH and health care management at Harvard Medical School.

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Elaine Ullian

Elaine Ullian is President and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Medical Center. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and the Board of Boston University Medical Center Hospital recruited Mrs. Ullian in 1994 to lead a process wherein the city hospitals and the private, non-profit BU Medical Center Hospital would be merged. Prior to her role as President of BU Medical Center Hospital, she served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Faulkner Hospital. Before assuming the presidency of Faulkner Hospital, she held leadership positions at New England Medical Center Hospital and with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.Mrs. Ullian is active in many professional and service organizations. She is a member of the Boston Public Health Commission and is the former Chair of the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals. Mrs. Ullian is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. In May 2006, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Health Care for All. In January 2002 she was the recipient of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Pinnacle Award for Lifetime Achievement. Also in 2002, Mrs. Ullian was the John D. Thompson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yale University.Mrs. Ullian is an Associate Professor of Boston University School of Public Health and a member of the faculty at the Harvard University School of Public Health. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Tufts University and a Masters Degree from the University of Michigan.  For Chinese biography, please visit Here.

James Ware, Ph.D.

Dean James Ware is Dean for Academic Affairs and Frederick Mosteller Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health.  Dean Ware's research interests focus on methods for the analysis of longitudinal and environmental data, and on the application of biostatistics to environmental epidemiology and clinical research. During the 1980s, Dean Ware developed statistical methods for the design and analysis of longitudinal studies, with application to studies of the health effects of air pollutants. That research led to new methodology for the analysis of longitudinal data, and to many publications on the health effects of air pollutants. This work also stimulated research on errors of measurement and their effects on the design and analysis of studies. With colleagues Nan Laird and Garrett Fitzmaurice, Dean Ware recently completed a book on methods for analysis of longitudinal data.

Dean Ware directed the statistical center for the Brain Injury Trial, a randomized trial comparing two strategies for protecting the brain during surgery to repair transposition of the great arteries in infants. In 1993, the Harvard School of Public Health was selected to serve as the Data Coordinating Center for the Treatment of Lead Exposed Children Trial. This trial, sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, is investigating the benefits of chelation to lower blood lead levels in children with high blood lead levels resulting from environmental exposures. Dean Ware serves as the Director of the Coordinating Center.  Dean Ware is a statistical consultant to the New England Journal of Medicine, teaches a course on clinical trials at HSPH, and writes occasional papers on statistical issues in clinical research. Dean Ware received his B.A. degree from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.

Dean Ware provided an Introduction to the Harvard School of Public Health at the 2007 and 2006 China Senior Health Executive Education Programs.  He also presided over the 2007 Diploma Ceremony.   

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Daniel Wikler, Ph.D.

Dr. Daniel Wikler is the Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.  His current research interests are ethical issues in population and international health, including the allocation of health resources, health research involving human subjects, and ethical dilemmas arising in public health practice.

He served as the first Staff Ethicist for the World Health Organization, and remains a consultant to several WHO programs. Dr. Wikler was co-founder and second president of the International Association of Bioethics and has served on the advisory boards of the Asian Bioethics Association and the Pan American Health Organization Regional Program in Bioethics.

Dr. Wikler is presently co-director of the Program on Ethical Issues in International Health Research at the School of Public Health. In addition to a program of both empirical and theoretical research on ethical issues in health research, particularly in developing countries, the Program offers fellowships for scholars in developing countries and sponsors an intensive each year for an international clientele. Versions of the course have been taught in ten developing countries.

Dr. Wikler currently is co-director of a collaborative project with the PRC Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization to join Chinese colleagues, including former Program fellows, in an effort to enhance the China’s capacity for ethical review of health research. A frequent lecturer on ethics and health in the PRC and Hong Kong, Prof. Wikler holds honorary appointments at two Beijing research institutions.

Dr. Wikler lectured on Access and Resource Allocation for the 2007 China Senior Health Executive Education Program.

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Fred Young, M.D., MPH, MBA

Dr. Fred Young is the CEO of Mission Healthcare System in Taiwan.  He received his M.D. from National Taiwan University Medical School, his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, and his MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management.  He is currently also the General Manager of Mission Healthcare Technologies Inc., the President, Min-Sheng General Hospital, Lun-Tan Campus, and an Associate Lecturer at the National Taipei Institute of Nursing and Yuan Zi University.

Dr. Young lectured on Healthcare Quality and JCI Accreditation at the China Senior Health Executive Education Program.    

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Benjamin Zander

Benjamin Zander started his early musical training under the guidance of his father, in his native England, with lessons in cello and composition. When he was nine, Benjamin Britten, England's leading composer, took an interest in his compositions and invited the family to spend three summers in Aldeburgh in Suffolk where he lived. He left school when he was fifteen, to study in Florence with the great Spanish cello virtuoso, Gaspar Cassadó, who was his teacher and mentor for the next five years. In 1964 Benjamin Zander completed a degree at London University, winning the University College Essay Prize, and a Harkness Commonwealth Fellowship for post-graduate work at Harvard. Boston has been his home ever since. In 1967 Mr. Zander joined the Faculty of the New England Conservatory, where he teaches the Interpretation Class, conducts the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and regularly conducts the Conservatory's orchestras. In 1979, he became the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. In their twenty-eight seasons together they have performed an extensive repertoire, with an emphasis on late Romantic and early Twentieth Century composers, including a traversal of the complete cycle of symphonies of Gustav Mahler. To celebrate the orchestra's 25th Anniversary in 2003-2004, the BPO completed an all-Mahler season, including a concert of Mahler's Second Symphony in Carnegie Hall. The BPO has recorded five extremely succesful CDs, all of which are listed in the Penguin Guide of the Best recordings of the Past 20 years. Their recording of The Rite of Spring was named as one of the ten most important Musical Events of 1992 by the New York Times.
Benjamin Zander has established an international reputation as a guest conductor. He has conducted the Israel Philharmonic for three consecutive years, and conducted orchestras as diverse as the Bournemouth Symphony, the Scottish and Irish National Orchestras, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the Malaysian Symphony, the St Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, and appeared with the National Youth Orchestra of New Zealand, and the Australian Youth Orchestra.
Benjamin Zander has an extensive speaking career, traveling the world lecturing to organizations on leadership. He has recently returned from Davos, Switzerland where he was the final keynote speaker at the World Economic Forum. The best-selling book, The Art of Possibility, co-authored with his partner, leading psychotherapist Rosamund Zander, has been translated into sixteen languages.
Mr. Zander was awarded the 2002 "Caring Citizen of the Humanities" Award by the International Council for Caring Communities at the United Nations.
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Qi Zhou, M.D., MBA, Sc.M

Dr. Qi Zhou is director of quality management and health informatics at Tufts Health Plan. As a business owner, Dr. Zhou developed and implemented the first public reporting of the Physician Quality Profile in 2001. For the past ten years, he has led the department of more than 20 clinical and analytical professionals and created several quality of care and disease management programs for primary care physicians, provider groups, and integrated delivery networks. His responsibilities include physician specific member satisfaction surveys, quality research, clinical program effectiveness and ROI analysis. Under his leadership, his team has been the major contributor for the plan ranked #2 of the America's Best Plan award from NCQA and US News and World Report. As a co-investigator, he participated in several NIH funded clinical outcomes research and peer reviewed journal articles. Dr. Zhou graduated from Shanghai Medical University in 1985 and served as a health care policy analyst and project official at the Ministry of Health from 1985 to 1990. During his tenure at the MOH, Dr. Zhou was involved in several national initiatives, including the development of the national policy on chronic disease prevention and treatment; National Cancer Prevention and Cardiovascular Diseases Management; the integrated medical care delivery system; and the National Hospital Accreditation and tiering program. He obtained his MBA with a concentration in health care management from Bryant University in 1993 and Master of Science from Harvard School of Public Health in 2005. Dr. Zhou is a member of the American College of Physician Executives and a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.

Dr. Zhou lectured on "What is Managed Care?" and led a site visit to Tufts Health Plan for the China Senior Health Executives Training Program.  

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