by ghgovernance | Dec 20, 2018 | Africa, Asia, Complete Issues, Fall 2018 Issue, Trade, World Health Organization
VOLUME XII, NO. 2 FALL 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS Full Text Chinese Global Health Diplomacy in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges Olivia Killeen, Alissa Davis, Joe Tucker and Benjamin Mason Meier Regional Health Security: An Overview of Strengthening ASEAN’s Capacities...
by ghgovernance | Jan 19, 2016 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Health Security
By Patrick Jarkowsky, Young Voices Blog Seventy years ago, on December 11, 1945, Sir Alexander Fleming, Sir Howard Walter Florey, and Ernest Boris Chain shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect...
by ghgovernance | Oct 13, 2015 | Asia
By Jingyi Hu, Young Voices Blog In June, the State Council issued a series of measures to accelerate the development of private hospitals. This new move toward healthcare reform aims to increase the competitiveness of private hospitals in order to alleviate the...
by ghgovernance | Aug 22, 2015 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Governance, Uncategorized
Blog by Yanzhong Huang, Editor of Global Health Governance and Senior Fellow for Global Health photo credit: Chinese flag in Shanghai via pixabay Despite higher government spending, public hospitals remain a hindrance to genuine healthcare reform in China, says...
by ghgovernance | Jul 31, 2014 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog
Laurie Garrett and Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellows for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations In mid-July, the Chinese city of Yumen in the northwestern province of Gansu sealed itself off and placed 151 people in quarantine after a man was exposed to a Himalayan...
by ghgovernance | Jul 17, 2014 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Governance
Yanzhong Huang, Editor of the Global Health Governance Journal and Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations Six years ago today, sixteen infants in China’s Gansu Province were diagnosed with kidney stones. All of them had been fed milk powder that...
by ghgovernance | Jul 1, 2014 | Asia, Governance, Transnational Campaigns
By Susan Hubbard, Senior Associate at the Japan Center for International Exchange In the spirit of the current World Cup mania, I am reminded of the historic decision that Korea and Japan made to combine their competing bids to host the 2005 World Cup. By doing so,...
by ghgovernance | Jun 26, 2014 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Maternal Health
By Yanzhong Huang For those who were born in the Chinese countryside in the 1970s, the story of my birth—as my mother used to tell me—is not atypical. When the labor pains began, my mom sent my siblings to the local midwife asking her to come and deliver the baby at...
by ghgovernance | May 7, 2014 | Asia, Emerging Powers, Global Health Governance Blog, Uncategorized, Young Voices
by Raghavendra Madhu (Health Governance and Policy Practicioner) and Lalit Yadav (Research Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health) With the general elections 2014 in full swing in the world’s largest democracy, it is interesting to see the proposition of...
by ghgovernance | Apr 30, 2014 | Asia, Community Health, Industry, Young Voices
By Jeanifer Uwaechie, Rutgers University in New Brunswick It is no longer news that the Chinese economy has made great strides in recent years. In the past 10 years in particular, China has achieved what developed countries did in several decades or even centuries....
by ghgovernance | Sep 30, 2013 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog
Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. One month ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) quietly lifted the ban on processed poultry imports from China. This...
by ghgovernance | Sep 26, 2013 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog
Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. These days we’ve been used to China being the land of “the first,” “the largest” and “the highest.” However, not all of these...
by ghgovernance | Aug 29, 2013 | Asia, Climate Change, Global Health Governance Blog, Young Voices
Cecilia Zvosec, Young Voice Blogger MPH Candidate, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health MIA Candidate, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Twenty years of scientific research has warned of the impact greenhouse gas (GHG)...
by ghgovernance | Jul 24, 2013 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, Uncategorized
Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. There is a Chinese saying, Yi Ye Zhi Qiu, which means “Knowing that autumn is coming by seeing a single leaf fall.” This...
by ghgovernance | Jul 15, 2013 | Asia, Global Health Governance Blog, World Health Organization
Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. Being an incorrigible tea drinker and a big fan of Chinese herbal products, I was disheartened by two reports released by...
by ghgovernance | Apr 3, 2013 | Asia, Global Health Diplomacy, Global Health Governance Blog, Noncommunicable Diseases
Yanzhong Huang, Editor Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations This is a cross-post with CFR’s Asia Unbound Blog. It’s been a busy week for global health. With the Indian Supreme Court’s landmark decision to dismiss Novartis AG’s attempt to...