May 16, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Invited by Dr. Yuanli Liu, Dr. WU Fan, Director of Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention and a delegation visited Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Wu had a meeting with Dr. Wafaie Fawzi, Chair of Department of Global Health and Population and Dr. Michelle Williams, Chair of Department of Epidemology and discussed future collaborations. The delegation visited HSPH facilities.
April 27, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts Nearly 200 faculty, staff and students from HSPH expressed great interests in the splendid display of Chinese arts, music, songs and dance at the China Culture Night at HSPH. Organized by HSPH China Initaitive and HSPH Chinese Students and Scholars Association, this event provided audiances rare opportunity to learn Chinese culture and art. Professor Peichen Xu, a famous painting artist, exhibited his traditional Chinese ink…
Is emergency medical service a basic right for everyone? What is the best way to develop an emergency medical security system in China? Harvard faculty, scholars and students are looking for an answer to this important health care issue. At a recent HCHRG seminar, Dr. Yuanli Liu, HSPH China Initiative Director, presented preliminary results of the study “Developing an Emergency Medical Security System in China: Necessity and Feasibility”. Founded…
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Lecture by Dr. John R. Watt, a renowned historian on Chinese public health and medical history, is currently vice president of the ABMAC Foundation. Dr. Watt is author of several books on Chinese history. He also have led many study tours to China for American educators to enhance their capacity to teach about US-China relations. Based on his near published book “Saving Life in Wartime China: Epidemics, Wars, and the…
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Dr. Zhanchun Feng, Professor of Health Management School of Huazhong University of Sciences & Technologn in Wuhan, China and a visiting scholar at HSPH China Intiative introduced his on-going study of Performance Evaluation of Public Health in Rural China.
Lecture by 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…
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Lecture by 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…
Lecture by Dr. Joan Kaufman, 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…
Lecture by Dr. David Christiani, 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.…
Lecture by Dr. Yuanli Liu, 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…
