Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Center on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford Health Policy
The Europe Center
Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Rural Education Action Program
Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies
Center for Innovation in Global Health
Stanford Center at Peking UniversityJanuary 24th, 2011
Aging Asia now available
Shorenstein APARC AnnouncementIn conjunction with its launch of a three-year research initiative to study the effects of demographic change in Asia, the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center is pleased to announce the publication of Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea. The book covers a diverse range of issues of demographic change, including intergenerational transfers in Japan, marriage and the elderly in China, pension reform in South Korea, and the Asia-Pacific diabetes epidemic.
November 29th, 2010
On demographic change in East Asia: An interview with Karen Eggleston
Shorenstein APARC, FSI Stanford Q&AThis year, the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) has engaged in leading-edge research on demographic change in East Asia. Karen Eggleston, director of the Asia Health Policy Program at Shorenstein APARC, discusses the recently published book Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea, and a workshop on the economic, social, political, and security implications of demographic change in East Asia, held January 20-21 at Shorenstein APARC. 
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November 18th, 2010
An Asian dimension to the Stanford Center for Population Research
Shorenstein APARC NewsThe Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and its Asia Health Policy Program have joined with other centers and programs across the university as collaborative partners for the new Stanford Center for Population Research. Read more »
September 21st, 2010
Asia Health Policy Program working papers join Social Science Research Network
Shorenstein APARC NewsThe Asia Health Policy Program working paper series on health and demographic change in the Asia-Pacific has now joined the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), broadly disseminating working papers to the social science research community. Read more »
May 18th, 2010
New evidence of defensive medicine from an empirical study on Taiwanese obstetricians
Shorenstein APARC NewsEmpirical evidence from Taiwan finds that greater malpractice liability can prompt physicians to perform more services without necessarily improving patient health. 
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April 9th, 2010
Health reform spans the Pacific
Shorenstein APARC NewsWhen searching for insights about how other countries deal with similar challenges, Americans often look to Europe and Canada. Rarer is the comparison to counterparts across the Pacific. Yet President Obama has clearly articulated the vision of the US as a Pacific Nation, and there are developments around the Pacific rim that merit consideration in our debates. Read more »
December 29th, 2009
NGO "Pioneers for Health" promoting tobacco control in Yunnan, PRC
Shorenstein APARC in the news: The Economic Daily 经济日报 on December 19, 2009Two news articles report on the activities of "Pioneers for Health," a health policy non-governmental organization founded in China a year ago with help from AHPP faculty affiliate Matthew Kohrman. Read more »
December 15th, 2009
Working paper series on health and demographic change in the Asia-Pacific
Shorenstein APARC NewsDecember 2009 marks the first anniversary of the launch of the Asia Health Policy Program's working paper series on health and demographic change in the Asia-Pacific. Read more »
November 18th, 2009
The Social Determinants of Health: Application to Developed and Developing Asia
Shorenstein APARC NewsGlobal health disparities were the topic of a special event November 11th co-sponsored by the Asia Health Policy Program of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Center for Health Policy / Primary Care and Outcomes Research. presentation available
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October 20th, 2009
Comparing health systems through the lens of pharmaceutical policy: A new book
Shorenstein APARC NewsA newly published book examines how pharmaceuticals and their regulation play an important and often contentious role in the health systems of the Asia-Pacific, focusing on China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia, and India.
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August 24th, 2009
Anti-smoking efforts in China: Matthew Kohrman interviewed by China Radio International
Shorenstein APARC Q&A: China Radio International on August 13, 2009AHPP faculty affiliate, Matthew Kohrman, was interviewed by China Radio International (CRI) on August 13th, 2009 about tobacco control in China. As CRI reports, "tobacco control is always a difficult subject for law makers... Still, there appears to be a growing movement -- including in China -- to control tobacco sales."
August 21st, 2009
China Radio International interviews AHPP program director about China's health reforms
Shorenstein APARC in the news: China Radio International on August 21, 2009In April, China announced an ambitious health care reform plan that aims to provide universal access to basic care for all Chinese while enhancing population health initiatives, strengthening service delivery, improving risk pooling, and significantly increasing government funding for the health sector. China Radio International interviewed Karen Eggleston, Asia Health Policy Program Director, about China's health care reform for the radio program "People in the Know." The program, aired on August 21, can be heard online.
July 21st, 2009
"The Role of the Private Sector in Health" symposium held in Beijing
Shorenstein APARC News"The Role of the Private Sector in Health" was the topic of a full day symposium held July 11th at the Beijing International Convention Center. Read more »
May 3rd, 2009
AHPP sponsors special journal issue on health service provider incentives
Shorenstein APARC NewsThe director of the Asia Health Policy Program served as guest editor of the International Journal of Healthcare Finance and Economics for the summer 2009 issue. Read more »
March 5th, 2009
Postdoctoral fellow in Asia health policy combines legal and economic expertise
Shorenstein APARC AnnouncementThe Asia Health Policy Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center is pleased to announce that Brian K. Chen has been awarded the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Health Policy for 2009-2010. Read more »
March 2nd, 2009
Economic and social implications of rapid demographic change in China, Japan, and Korea
Shorenstein APARC NewsOn February 26, 2009, the Asia Health Policy Program and the Stanford Center on Longevity co-sponsored a conference entitled "Aging Asia: Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and Korea." 18 papers, conference agenda available
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Leading Pacific Rim universities collaborate on population health research
Shorenstein APARC NewsThe Asia Health Policy Program hosted meetings of the public health research project of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities World Institute on February 24-25 at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Read more »
December 11th, 2008
Asia Health Policy Program launches working paper series
Shorenstein APARC NewsThe Asia Health Policy Program has launched a new working paper series on health and demographic change in Asia with a working paper on informal caregiving for the elderly in South Korea.
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December 3rd, 2008
Stanford students learn about health and healthcare in East Asia
Shorenstein APARC NewsDemographic change and long-term care in Japan, chronic non-communicable disease in China, national health insurance in South Korea, TB control in North Korea, pharmaceutical policy in the region and global safety in drug supply chains -- these are some of the topics explored in a new Stanford course, "Health and Healthcare Systems in East Asia." Read more »
October 27th, 2008
Gender imbalance in China
Shorenstein APARC, AHPP, SCP NewsDr. Marcus Feldman of Stanford's Biology department discussed the sex-ratio imbalance and gender studies in China in the first of three colloquia on "The Implications of Demographic Change in China," co-sponsored by the Asia Health Policy Program and the Stanford China Program. 
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July 17th, 2008
Comparative pharmaceutical policy and "prescribing cultures"
Shorenstein APARC NewsThe July/August issue of Health Affairs, the leading U.S. health policy journal, focuses on China and India. The special issue includes an article on China's pharmaceutical policy by five contributors to "Prescribing Cultures and Pharmaceutical Policy in the Asia-Pacific," a book forthcoming in 2009 from the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center series with Brookings Institution Press. 
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July 16th, 2008
Does it matter how you pay doctors and hospitals? Evidence from the Asia Pacific
Shorenstein APARC NewsThe organizing committee of the "Provider Payment Incentives in the Asia Pacific" conference -- including health economists from Shorenstein APARC, Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Seoul National University -- reviewed submissions in June 2008 and accepted sixteen. The conference papers cover payment issues in Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Tajikistan, the Philippines, and the US, examined from a range of disciplines (e.g., economics, health services research/health policy, public health, medicine, and ethics). Read more »
April 3rd, 2008
Eggleston and colleagues receive award for research on China's dramatic pre-1980 health improvements
Shorenstein APARC, CHP/PCOR, FSI Stanford NewsOfficial 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). Read more »
March 10th, 2008
Announcing the Asia-Pacific Health Policy Forum
Shorenstein APARC NewsThe Asia 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 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. Read more »
February 11th, 2008
Young Kyung Do Awarded Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellowship in Comparative Health Policy
Shorenstein APARC NewsThe Asia 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. Read more »
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