In the context of COVID-19, the robustness of health service systems across the world has come under scrutiny that has highlighted the intrinsic fault lines. Even countries that had been categorized as having ‘better performing’ health service systems, faced challenges in managing the pandemic. This talk would take the Chinese health system as a case in point to demonstrate the evolution of a complex health system and fault lines that exist and have been accentuated especially in the Covid context. China’s health reforms have witnessed significant shifts especially since the SARS epidemic of 2002. The reforms have been consistently striving for universal access and equitable health systems and yet have fallen short of delivering during the COVID years. This talk attempts to unravel the past and the present reforms in China and what it means for the future of health systems in China and lessons that can be drawn for other health systems.
About the Panelist
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. She completed her MPhil from the same center. Previously she was Assistant Director and Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi (2012-21); Senior Programme Coordinator at the Public Health Resource Network, New Delhi (2009-12). Among other experiences, she was a Technical Consultant with the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (2004-05) and a Research Associate at the Institute of Social Studies Trust (1999-2001). Her areas of interest include studying different health service systems, health policies, and inequalities in health. She has several publications to her name.
About the Chair
Alka Acharya is the Honorary Director of 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/messageMigrant Workers’ Housing in Shenzhen: Issues and Challenges | 13th October @ 3 PM IST | Zoom Webinar
Transboundary Effects of Infrastructure Development: A View from Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin| 6th Oct
India, China, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and Regional Geopolitics| 29th September
Wednesday Seminar | Panel Discussion: China’s Position on Afghanistan | 22nd September
Book Discussion: China Inc.: Between State Capitalism and Economic Statecraft | 15th September
Wednesday Seminar | The Party and the People: CCP and the Private Sector | 8th September
Panel Discussion | 'Cross- Asiatic connections in the late 19th and 20th centuries | 1st September
Future of Cross-Strait Relations: Implications for the region and India | 25th August
Wednesday Seminar | Panel Discussion | Shifting gears of China’s post-Covid economy | 18th August
Wednesday Seminar | One Hundred Years of the CPC and the Journey Ahead | 11th August
Wednesday Seminar | Nehru, Tibet and China | 4th August
Wednesday Seminar | "Loveable" China in Times of COVID-19 : Intentions and Missteps | 28 July
Wednesday Seminar | How To Make Your Debt Count: Repaying Your Parents in Buddhist China
Wednesday Seminar | Tiananmen Square: The Making of a Protest
China's Image War - A Comparative Study of Select Newspaper Coverage on the Origin of COVID-19
Wednesday Seminar | Smokeless War: China's Quest for Geopolitical Dominance
Wednesday Seminar | Global Vaccine Supply Chain and Its Distribution: India and China
Wednesday Seminar At The Forefront, In The Background The Indo
Wednesday Seminar Japan - South Korea Contests And Cooperation
Wednesday Seminar Making It Count Statistics And Statecraft In The Early People's Republic Of China
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free