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This symposium is organized by China Society, a student organization at the Harvard Kennedy School. ​This panel will discuss the impact of China's health system structure (health financing, resource allocation, care organization, regulation) on China's 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 Yi, Professor at Peking University School of Public Health Zhang Yuntao, Vice President and Chi...

“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 clots caused attitudes to darken in major countries, with only 23% of French respondents viewing th...

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 out two of its own vaccines — Sinopharm and Sinovac — but it hasn’t been able to conduct tr...

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 2000s. But by leveraging technology, implementing robust surveillance strategies, and firmly integrati...