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Yanzhong Huang

Senior Fellow for Global Health

Expertise

Global health governance; health and international security; health diplomacy; public health in China/East Asia.

Programs

Global Health Program

Press/Panels

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DIY Dialysis

Yanzhong Huang was quoted about access to medical devices like lung ventilators and dialysis machines in China.

Article

Greasing the Wheels

Yanzhong Huang was quoted in this article about food safety in China.

Panel

Public Health and Political Crises behind China’s Growing Tobacco Epidemic

While China's remarkable economic growth has been one of the most impressive achievements of the last quarter century, the country is also facing an ongoing smoking-related health crisis. The John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings will hosted a discussion of China's tobacco epidemic health crisis and its political ramifications.

Panel

Financing Innovation and Technology in Healthcare: Developing Cost-Effective Medical Solutions

One of the leading stimuli for global economic growth in the past two centuries has been advances in medical sciences. While innovation and technology in healthcare have played an integral role in improving the quality and quantity of life, these breakthroughs can be costly. There is no dearth of scientific opportunity, yet a limited number of blockbuster biomedical breakthroughs are reaching the market, and there remains no consensus on how to provide optimal value for money for investments in healthcare IT infrastructure.

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China's chaotic health care drives patient attacks

Yanzhong Huang was quoted about China's Health Care System in this Associated Press article about public discontent with China's health care system and specifically a upturn in violent attacks by patients. This article was reprinted by the Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Straits Times, ABC News, and many other news outlets.

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China's Corrupt Food Chain

According to Yanzhong Huang, food-safety scandals highlight both the collapse of business ethics and Beijing's failure to keep pace with an expanding market economy.

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Health Agency Overshadowed but Vital

Yanzhong Huang explains why the World Health Organizations plays a vital role in global health, but needs to undergo specific reform to retain its position.

Panel

Emerging Practices in Global Health Cooperation: Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa

CSIS Global Health Policy Center hosted this half-day conference in which Yanzhong Huang discusses the involvement of the BRICS in global health activities. He suggested that some of the BRICS, such as China, engage in global health policy and programmatic efforts to demonstrate that they are responsible international stakeholders, able and willing to respect international rules and adopt a normative multilateral approach to global health governance.

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China Prepares for Big Entry into Vaccine Market

Yanzhong Huang was quoted in this Associated Press piece about the challenges in increasing regulatory capacity in China. This article has been reprinted in more than 121 media outlets worldwide.

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China's Aching Lapses in Healthcare

Yanzhong Huang is profiled along with his recent Foreign Affairs article "The Sick Man of Asia" in this Forbes piece.