PROF. YUANLI LIU, FOUNDING DIRECTOR, HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH CHINA INITIATIVE

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Dr. Yuanli Liu, serving on the faculty of the Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard School of Public Health, is founding director of the Harvard School of Public Health China Initiative since 2005. The China Initiative aims at helping advance health and social development in China by carrying out series of applied research studies targeting China’s major unresolved public health and health system issues, regular policy dialogues to help drawing road maps for China’s social sector reforms and development, and senior health executive education programs to help produce a critical mass of open-minded and well informed health sector leaders. He is also Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management at Tsinghua University and director of the Health and Development Institute at Tsinghua School of Public Policy and Management in Beijing.  Professor Liu has been teaching and conducting research in the areas of health policy and health system analysis since 1994 at Harvard, and has carried out extensive research and policy consultation work in many African and Asian countries. In particular, he has been closely involved in helping inform China’s policy making process for series of reforms and strategic developments in its health sector since 1993, including a 8-year survey and intervention study (1993-2001) on improving access to healthcare in China’s poor rural areas and the most recent work on Healthy Beijing 2020 – developing China’s first 10-year strategic plan for effectively combating diseases and improving population health. He serves on the Expert Committee of Health Policy and Management and the Expert Committee on Healthy China 2020, both of which are established by the Chinese Ministry of Health to help develop strategies for China to deal with major infectious as well as non-communicable diseases. Dr. Liu also served on the United Nations Millennium Development Taskforce on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Basic Medicines.  He consulted for many international agencies including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO as well as global corporations.  

Dr. Liu received his MD and MPH from Tongji Medical University in 1987, MS in health policy and management from Harvard University in 1988, and PhD in health services research, policy and administration from University of Minnesota in 1995.

刘远立教授简介： 哈佛大学公共卫生学院中国项目部主任，博士生导师，清华大学公共管理学院卫生与发展研究中心主任。刘远立于1987年获得同济医科大学医学硕士学位，1988年获得哈佛大学科学硕士学位，1995年获得明尼苏达大学哲学博士学位。1994年起任职于美国哈佛大学公共卫生学院，从事国际卫生政策与管理的科研和教学工作长达16年，是“卫生体系学”创始人之一，并从2000年至今在哈佛大学担任该学科的博士生导师。2005年被任命为哈佛大学公共卫生学院中国项目部主任，负责领导哈佛大学与中国在医疗卫生领域的学术交流与合作，其中包括：1.与中国卫生部合作举办“中国卫生发展与改革高级国际研修班”（300多名毕业生分别来自中央和各省、市负责卫生与社会发展的厅局长和大型医院院长）， 2. 开展重大卫生政策与管理问题的应用性研究，3.与中央党校合作举办“中国社会发展论坛”。2006年又被清华大学公共管理学院聘为卫生与发展研究中心主任，负责领导中心围绕健康发展和卫生政策领域开展学术研究、政策咨询和教育培训等活动。