health and development institute (hadi) was founded in december 2006 as a collaboration between the tsinghua school of public policy and management (tsppm) and the harvard school of public health (hsph). the current director of hadi is qunhong shen (school of public policy and management, tsinghua university).yuanli liu (founding director of hadi; school of health policy and management, union medical college), xue lan (dean of schwarzman scholars), keqin rao (former vice president of the chinese medical association), angang hu (director of the center for china studies) are hadi’s academic advisors.
in the context of building a healthy china, the tsinghua school of public policy and management has given play to its own experience in policy research and consulting, by integrating tsinghua’s multidisciplinary advantages, hsph’s powerful research capacity and harvard’s prominent international reputation, the tsinghua school of public policy and management founded the health and development institute.
health and development institute aims to become a productive research & educational platform and an influential think tank. in pursuit of high-level and forward-looking development, hadi carries out a series of health & development-related projects and activities in research, consultancy and education.
—academic research
by carrying out research on social and economical determinants of health and key issues in health reform and development, hadi has fruitful academic achievements and effectively pushed forward the development of public health, health economics and health management, as social science disciplines. larger completed research projects include a comprehensive study on china’s health system reforms (“tsinghua proposal”), a comprehensive assessment of community health reform in beijing, studies on china’s public health reform, and the china cigarette tax initiative. right now, hadi is conducting the project “prophase study on beijing 10-year planning of health system reform”.
—policy consultancy
to promote health for all people, hadi made a series of constructive suggestions based on rigorous studies of health policy and practical problems of health reform and development. hadi not only conducted health development planning and health policy for central and local governments but also provided policy consultation and assessment to push forward china’s health system reform. many policy suggestions made by hadi in fields such as system design and advancing of self-motivated health services, performance assessment of local health reforms, management of pharmaceutical care, drug supervision of medical institutions and construction of public health systems, the integration of health services and management of county-township-village health care provision, mobile health system innovation, evaluating frameworks of public hospital performance, healthy china 2020 strategic planning, active health, pharmaceutical care system, pharmaceutical talent team construction, new drug evaluation, comprehensive medical, health supervision and so on have exerted significant influence.
—education and training
as an education platform, hadi undertakes the teaching of many courses such as health economics, public health management, provides academic guidance for masters and mpa students on their thesis studies and conducts training projects for high-profile health talents and training projects commissioned by local governments targeted towards health administrators. thanks to the china senior health executive education program, which is conducted by hadi and china initiatives at the harvard school of public health, over 300 top health policy makers and senior healthcare administrators have graduated from this program and now play important leadership roles in china’s health sector.
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