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.
Contact Dr. Liu at yuanliu@hsph.harvard or (617) 432-4623.
Dr. Paul Campbell
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. Jing Wu is a 2007-2008 Takemi
Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also the first
Michael McNally is the Associate Director of International Advancement at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is responsible for securing funding from individuals and institutional sources to advance key international initiatives. Prior to Harvard University, McNally worked at MIT, where he served as Regional Director within the Office of Leadership Giving, overseeing a team of major gift fundraisers in the New England region. Before working in leadership giving, Mike served as program officer for the Lemelson-MIT Program, a nationwide public education initiative promoting invention and innovation through annual awards and an extensive outreach campaign. Earlier in his career he worked as a program advisor to the Harvard affiliated LASPAU (Academic and Professional Program for the Americas), where he managed special projects in tertiary education sector in collaboration with The World Bank, Venezuelan Ministry of Education (Fundayacucho), Colombian Ministry of Education (Colciencias), USAID, Fulbright Commission and U.S./Canadian universities. Mike graduated with a B.A. from Boston College and later earned an M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.