Building on our long and successful track record of collaboration with Chinese peer institutions to advance research, Harvard China Health Partnership paves the way to evidence-based policy solutions that affect the lives of millions of Chinese citizens. Our project sites are featured in Chinese media as reform examples.
For example, based on findings from a pilot study on provider payments, the Ningxia Provincial government decided to scale up project’s interventions from two counties and twenty-eight towns (covering about 0.6 million population) to the whole province. The provider payment interventions have been recognized by the National Family Planning and Health Commission (of China) as innovative and feasible for other rural areas of the nation to emulate. In January 2017, Yanchi County in Ningxia Province was selected as one of the 40 most innovative and impactful reform models in 2016. The project has been further identified as a key model for the nation’s county hospital reform to learn from. The project’s experience has been used as training material for the national county-hospital pilot sites.