The ICS-CSMCH Public Health Resource Portal is a repository of materials consisting of peer-reviewed articles, working papers, primary sources, books, and reports. Compiled under the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) and the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health (CSMCH), Jawaharlal Nehru University, the portal is aimed at expanding the scope of China Studies in Public Health and assisting scholars interested in engaging with this area. The database primarily focuses on resources related to public health and medicine in China. Most of the references pertaining to the period from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. It covers the Mao period and later developments that include liberalization and health sector reforms from the late 1970s. The resource portal will include all the published materials that have been put together in the ICS Health Unit and as a part of the course on Comparative Health Systems offered by Prof. Rama Baru at CSMCH. It has been compiled to assist undergraduate and postgraduate students and established scholars interested in exploring and researching public health in China.
About the Speakers
Prof. Patricia Uberoi is an Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi. She served as the Chairperson of the Institute of Chinese Studies from 2015-2021. A sociologist by training, Dr. Uberoi has taught Sociology at the University of Delhi and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and retired as a Professor of Social Change and Development at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research interests center on aspects of family, kinship, gender, popular culture, and social policy with respect to both India and China.
Prof. Rama V. Baru is a Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and an Honorary Fellow, at the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, India. She is also an Honorary Professor at the India Studies Centre, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China. Her major areas of research interest include the commercialization of health services, infectious diseases, comparative health systems, and health inequalities.
Dr. Madhurima Nundy is a Fellow in Health and Human Development at the Centre for Social and Economic Progress, New Delhi. She holds a Ph.D. in Public Health from the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Prof. Alka Acharya is the Honorary Director of the ICS and Chairperson at the Centre for East Asian Studies, SIS, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has been teaching courses on Chinese Foreign Policy and Political Economy to Master's and M.Phil students and guiding doctoral research since 1993. She is the joint editor of Crossing a Bridge of Dreams: 50 years of India-China and has contributed chapters to many books and journals. She has authored a book China & India: Politics of Incremental Engagement, published in 2008, and most recently edited a volume titled Boundaries and Borderlands: A Century after the 1914 Simla Convention (Routledge, New York 2023). She was nominated by the Indian government as a member of the India-China Eminent Persons Group (2006-2008) and a member of the National Security Advisory Board of the Government of India for two terms (2006-2008) and (2011-2012).
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/instituteofchinesestudies/messageTHE CITIES IN HISTORY AND THE ORIGINS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA | 15TH FEBRUARY 2023 | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
THE CONTINENTAL-MARITIME CONUNDRUM IN HISTORY AND THE EMERGING SINO-US SCUFFLE TO CONTROL GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS | 8TH FEBRUARY 2023| WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
BOOK DISCUSSION | CHURCHILL AND INDIA: MANIPULATION OR BETRAYAL? | 1ST FEBRUARY 2023 | SPECIAL LECTURE
SPACE CAPABILITIES & CHINA'S MILITARY STRATEGY | 18TH JANUARY 2023 | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
ICS WEDNESDAY SEMINAR | HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEMS IN CHINA: CHALLENGES IN THE TIMES OF COVID-19| 11TH JANUARY 2023
ICS-HYI DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN CHINA STUDIES | 21TH DECEMBER 2022 @ 3 P.M. IST | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
SPECIAL EVENT | THE LIMITS OF TOLERANCE: CHINA'S ZERO-COVID POLICY AND SOCIETAL RESPONSE | 16THDECEMBER
FOREIGN AND ECONOMIC STRATEGIES OF A GLOBALIZING CHINA AND INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS DURING THE PERIOD OF JIANG ZEMIN (1926-2022) | 14TH DECEMBER | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
POLITICS AND POLICIES OF STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES IN THE JIANG ZEMIN ERA | 7TH DECEMBER | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
JOINT OPERATIONS CAPABILITIES OF THE WESTERN THEATRE COMMAND OF THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY | 30TH NOVEMBER | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
CONDUCTING RESEARCH IN INDIA AS A FOREIGN CHINA SCHOLAR | 23RD NOVEMBER | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
MISSILES ACROSS THE 38TH PARALLEL: IMPLICATIONS FOR EAST ASIA | 9 NOVEMBER | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
MECHANISMS CONTRIBUTING TO CHINA’S TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS| 2ND NOVEMBER | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
LIU CIXIN AND THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM: GLOBAL AND DOMESTIC IMPACT AND IMPLICATIONS OF CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION | 26TH OCTOBER | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
ACTIVE DEFENCE IN CHINA’S MILITARY STRATEGY: DECIPHERING CHINESE MILITARY THINKING | 19TH OCTOBER | WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
THE 20TH PARTY CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA: A CURTAIN RAISER | 12TH OCTOBER- WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT FOR BUSINESSES IN CHINA: INDIAN NARRATIVES| 28TH SEPTEMBER- WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
RUSSIA-CHINA RELATIONS AND THE SCO -21ST SEPTEMBER- WEDNESDAY SEMINAR
XI JINPING ADMINISTRATION’S FOREIGN POLICY ON THE UKRAINE “WAR” AND TAIWAN STRAITS | 31ST AUGUST WEDNESDAY SEMINAR |
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