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FSI professors investigate how lifestyles affect health. What good does gardening do for older Americans? What are the benefits of eating organic food or growing genetically modified rice in China? They study cost-effectiveness by examining programs like those aimed at preventing the spread of tuberculosis in Russian prisons. Policies that impact obesity and undernutrition are examined; as are the public health implications of limiting salt in processed foods and the role of smoking among men who work in Chinese factories. FSI health research looks at sweeping domestic policies like the Affordable Care Act and the role of foreign aid in affecting the price of HIV drugs in Africa.

Workshop of Young Leaders in Asia Health Policy -- Celebrating the First Decade of Stanford University's Asia Health Policy Program

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The "Workshop of young leaders in Asia health policy" will take place at SCPKU on June 21, 2017, just prior to the annual primary care Forum. This special event convened in honor of the Stanford Asia Health Policy Program's 10th anniversary. It will feature short research panels by a dozen young health policy experts from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Thailand, the United States, and Vietnam. The luncheon colloquium will feature comparative perspectives on the major health policy challenges facing Asia as well as specific examples of how evidence-based policymaking can improve lives throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

 

Stanford Center at Peking University

Faculty of Medicine Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
Ngoc Minh Pham Visiting research fellow at Curtin University, Australia
Director of KHANA Center for Population Health Research, Cambodia
Gynecological Oncologist at ''Mungun Guur'' hospital, Mongolia
2016-17 Kellogg visiting fellow; Assistant Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Assistant Professor at the School of Economics, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China
China Academy of Social Sciences, China
Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Seminars

China’s Invisible Crisis: Cognitive Delays among Rural Toddlers and the Absence of Modern Parenting

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A growing body of evidence suggests that China’s schooling system, as it stands today, is unable to produce the high-skilled labor that will be needed if the nation is to avoid the middle-income trap. How does poor parenting and inadequate early childhood development attribute to this problem? Prof. Rozelle will discuss his research on cognitive delays among toddlers in rural China, and the national crisis that the country faces due to inadequate childhood development.  

 

Scott Rozelle holds the Helen Farnsworth Endowed Professorship at Stanford University and is Senior Fellow in the Food Security and Environment Program and the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) for International Studies. For the past 30 years, he has worked on the economics of poverty reduction. Currently, his work on poverty has its full focus on human capital, including issues of rural health, nutrition and education. Rozelle has been the chair of the International Advisory Board of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for the past 20 years. He is the co-director of the Rural Education Action Project (REAP). 

Registration: 

https://www.eventbank.cn/event/9642/

 

Stanford Center at Peking University

 

Scott Rozelle Senior Fellow Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Lectures

Fighting Infection: AIDS to SARS to ZIKA: Where Do We Go From Here?

 

Dr. Cohen is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health, and the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine in Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology at University of North Carolina. He received his BS from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and MD from the Rush Medical College. His research focuses on the transmission and prevention of transmission of STD pathogens including HIV. Much of his work has been conducted at the research sites he and his group have developed in Lilongwe, Malawi and Beijing, China. Dr. Cohen and his coworkers have identified the concentration of HIV in genital secretions required for transmission of HIV, and the effects of genital tract inflammation on HIV. Dr. Cohen is currently studying Zika as a sexually transmitted disease.

For registration, please send your name, affiliation, phone number and event name to: sanjiu39@stanford.edu

 

 

Stanford Center at Peking University, The Lee Jung Sen Building, Langrun Yuan, Peking University

 

Myron Cohen Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health University of North Carolina
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FROM MOLECULES TO HEALTH: THE TRANSLATIONAL POWER OF CONNECTING CHEMISTRY, ENGINEERING, AND MEDICINE

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Professor Khosla is the recipient of multiple distinguished awards including the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award (2009) and Pure Chemistry Award (2000) of the American Chemical Society, and the Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (1999).

In addition to his role as the founding Director of Stanford ChEM-H, he serves on the Board of Directors of Protagonist Therapeutics (PTGX) and is a member of the Scientific Policy Committee of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. His laboratory research focuses on problems where deep insights into enzymology and metabolism can be harnessed to improve human health. 

For registration, please send your name, affiliation, number and event title to: sanjiu39@stanford.edu 

 

The Lee Jung Sen Building, Langrun Yuan, Peking University

 

CHAITAN KHOSLA Director, Stanford ChEM-H, and Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor, School of Engineering; Professor of Chemistry, and, by courtesy, of Biochemistry Stanford University
Lectures

MULTI-SCALE DATA FUSION FOR PRECISION MEDICINE

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Vast amounts of molecular data characterizing the genome, epi-genome and transcriptome are becoming available for a wide range of cancers. In addition, new computational tools for quantitatively analyzing medical and pathological images are creating new types of phenotypic data.  Now we have the opportunity to integrate the data at molecular, cellular and tissue scale to create a more comprehensive view of key biological processes underlying cancer. This integration can have profound contributions toward predicting diagnosis and treatment. Prof. Gevaert will discuss current work in progress to tackle challenges in biomedical multi-scale data fusion. Olivier Gevaert is an assistant professor at Stanford University focusing on developing machine-learning methods for biomedical decision support from multi-scale biomedical data. 

For registration, please send your name, affiliation, number and event title to: sanjiu39@stanford.edu

 

 

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The Lee Jung Sen Building, Langrun Yuan, Peking University.

Please bring a photo ID and enter Peking University through the NE Gate.  

Olivier Gevaert Assistant Professor, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR), Department of Medicine Stanford University
Lectures

Medtech Hackathon brings students together to transform Chinese healthcare delivery

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Now in its second year, the seminar developed by Dr. Robert Chang, digital health inventor and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Stanford University, recently came to a close at SCPKU, having trained twenty more of the next generation of rising healthcare entrepreneurs.  The seminar is a one-of-a-kind hospital immersion and educational experience with cross-cultural interdisciplinary student teams from Stanford and Peking University on a design sprint culminating in a live pitch in front of investors.  The grand-prize Huawei Bluetooth wearable went to each member of the winning team, MonitorREIN, who presented a novel way to monitor kidney transplant patients at home using a specialized gel insert capsule in the bladder.  Audience attendees also had a chance to win Xiaomi Mi Band wearables through a Wechat drawing. 

 

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Pitch Day winning team Team Purple MonitorREIN
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This year, the course was sponsored by Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Peking University School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in partnership with Prof. Dongmin Chen and Prof. Melody Li, and Director Huang from the Tongtai Zhongyi Traditional Chinese Medicine Institute.

The Medtech Hackathon event blends biodesign, design thinking, lean launch, business model canvas, and expert mentorship to help four teams of the brightest minds of medical, computer science, engineering, and business students tackle pain points in the Chinese medical system.  The students shadow physicians and interview patients to identify unmet needs and market opportunities. Then, they brainstorm solutions and develop rapid prototypes to test their ideas while obtaining real user feedback.  Along the way the teams incorporate real-world business models and receiving valuable feedback from physicians, digital health entrepreneurs, and investors while enjoying the entire process and building life-long friendships.

 

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Marshmallow challenge teamwork
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Besides MonitorREIN, the three other teams were Carnation Health focused on a telemedicine approach to postoperative orthopedic care, CANCAN trying to reduce smartphone-related neck strain using VR gaming, and Huhu, a real-time crowdsourced nursing platform for minor injuries.

“This year’s class was particularly impressive with their creativity and depth in business planning as well as the sophistication of their presentations in such a short time,” said Dr. Chang. “China has matured in the digital health and e-commerce markets, and the rapid pace of innovation in online to offline combined with sharing economies business models will certain benefit multiple industries around the world.”  The course is set to expand to include Peking University faculty next year.  Visit the program website for more details. 

 

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Final Pitch Day
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Dr. Robert Chang can be reached at rchang3@163.com

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