Category: Past Events

Dr. Jianhong Zhang, MD is the President of Yanchi County People’s Hospital in Ningxia Autonomous Region in China hosted a very engaging conversation at HSPH. Before this position, he was the director of several town medical centers in Ningxia, such as Huianpu, Wanglejing, and Huamachi. In 2017, he was awarded the honorary title of “One of the 100 Best County Hospital Presidents in China”. Dr. Zhang graduated with a medical…

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Luncheon discussion with delegation from Shanxi Province, led by Dr. WEI Xiaochun Dr. Wei is currently Vice Chairman of CAPD Central Committee, Director of CAPD Shanxi Pronvincial Committee, Vice Chairman of CPCCC Shanxi Provincial Committee, Director of Health and Family Planning Commission. Others in attendance during the meeting which was a meet and greet and opportunity to share policy and research interests were the following people: Qiguang Zhang, Vice Chairman…

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As part of the “Critical Issues Confronting China” lecture series sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Prof. Winnie Yip addresses the complexities of China’s healthcare reform. For more details of the seminar series, read here.  

Dr. Winnie Yip is Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and also Director of the school wide China Health Partnership.

Founded in 2010 as a platform to provide online registration and consultation services for patients, We Doctor opened the the first online hospital in Wuzhen, a small town in the southern province of Zhejiang in December 2015. We Doctor connects doctors with patients across the nation through its mobile app and website. Patients can go through the entire process at home from online appointments, video consultations and diagnosis to e-prescriptions.…

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The Harvard Global Health Institute, in collaboration with Winnie Yip in the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, held a two-day conference at the Harvard Shanghai Center that brought together leading scholars from Harvard and China to engage in defining a shared agenda for healthcare quality.