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China’s rise to the world’s second-largest economy has led to a big increase in philanthropy in the country.

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Protesters in China are eager to see an easing of "zero-COVID" rules, but health experts warn that doing so could prompt a massive health emergency.

This symposium is organized by China Society, a student organization at the Harvard Kennedy School. ​This panel will discuss the impact of Chinas health system structure (health financing, resource allocation, care organization, regulation) on Chinas COVID-19 response strategy and its resulting outcomes. Panelists Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Director of the school-wide China Health Partnership Ning...

“On average, they don’t see the urgency. The number of cases is just not high and people have sort of returned to normal. Activities have resumed, so you can understand the desire for the vaccine is not very high,” said Winnie Yip, a professor of the practice in global health policy and economics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Vaccine hesitancy in Europe has been stoked by far-left and far-right parties, and lingering questions about the AstraZeneca shots and rare blood...

Listen to the story. A food delivery worker wearing a face mask prepares to place his customers orders at a collection point setup to help curb the spread of the coronavirus outside an office building in Beijing on Feb. 24, 2021.  Credit: Share Countries across the globe are scrambling to vaccinate everyone. With 1.4 billion people, that’s a huge challenge for China. Their goal is to inoculate about 70% of its population — which still hits the billion-dose range.  China is rolling ...

A microbiologist in China examines blood samples as part of the malaria control program December 16, 2020 – In 2010, China announced one of its most ambitious undertakings in public health: It planned to eliminate indigenous cases of malaria within a decade. The disease had a long and lethal history in the country—it’s estimated that, in 1940, China had as many as 30 million cases of malaria resulting in 300,000 deaths—and the parasite that causes it remained widespread in the early 20...