Resources
- A video recording of the event is available here in English.
- 中文翻译 – Chinese translation is available as two files, Part 1 and Part 2.
- Read media coverage in the Harvard Gazette.
The Harvard China Health Partnership hosted speakers from Hong Kong, China, and Harvard for a special dinner seminar to discuss complex questions about COVID-19 and the response in China.
- What could China have done differently in light of incomplete and uncertain knowledge of the new virus?
- Is China’s response unique to its governance structure or are there global lessons to be drawn?
- What did China learn and not learn from SARS in 2003 and why?
- Has ten years of health reform in China, plus a quadrupling of government spending on health, prepared China better for this outbreak?
- What is the role of social media and digital health in this outbreak?
Panel Discussants:
- Gabriel Leung, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Helen and Francis Zimmern Professor in Population Health, University of Hong Kong; Member of the World Health Organization expert team on COVID-19, with recent field visit to Wuhan; and Harvard Chan MPH Alumnus
- Alex Ng, Vice President of Tencent Healthcare; Former Deputy Director of China Program, Head of Health and Innovation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Harvard Chan MPH Alumnus
- Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health
- William Hsiao, K.T. Li Research Professor of Economics
- Marc Lipsitch, Professor of Epidemiology
- Winnie Yip (Moderator), Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics
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