Eggleston and colleagues receive award for research on China's dramatic pre-1980 health improvements

Official growth in Chinese life expectancy between 1950 and 1980 ranks among the most rapid in documented global history, yet virtually no study has quantitatively assessed the determinants of those longevity gains. Recently Karen Eggleston received notice of an award from Stanford's Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging--supported by the National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Aging--for a study entitled "Health Improvement under Mao and Its Implications for Contemporary Aging in China." Eggleston will undertake this study jointly with colleagues Grant Miller (Stanford) and Hongbin Li (Tsinghua, PRC).

Conference on Healthcare Payment Incentives in the Asia-Pacific

The comparative health policy program is pleased to announce that a conference on "Provider Payment Incentives in the Asia-Pacific" will be held November 7-8, 2008, at the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University in Beijing, P.R. China. We welcome empirical and theoretical research analyzing how reimbursement incentives shape health and healthcare behavior in the economies of the Asia-Pacific. We especially welcome evaluations of policy reforms and natural experiments impacting health service provider incentives. Please email papers or extended abstracts to Karen Eggleston by June 1, 2008.

Announcing the Asia-Pacific Health Policy Forum

The Comparative Health Policy Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center is pleased to announce the launch of the Asia-Pacific Health Policy Forum to promote collaboration among social scientists studying health and healthcare in the Asia-Pacific region. Our asiahealthpolicy website includes a link to the Forum, which provides a searchable database of researchers studying health and healthcare in the Asia-Pacific by discipline, topic, and country or region. With the active participation of colleagues throughout the region, the Asia-Pacific Health Policy Forum can be a valuable resource for research, teaching, and input to health policy discussions.

Young Kyung Do Awarded Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Health Policy

The comparative health policy program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center is pleased to announce that Dr. Young Kyung Do has been awarded the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Health Policy for 2008-2009.