Strategic Thinking on Strengthening China’s National Immunization Program

Yanfeng Ge has been engaged in social policy research at the Development Research Center of the State Council since 1990. He is now a researcher and first-level inspector in the Social Security and Health Care Research Department and Social and Cultural Development Research Department.

Main research areas include social security, labor and employment, health care system reform, education system reform, and public sector reform. He has participated in and led many policy research works in related fields. In recent years, he has focused on medical and health policies and aging issues.

Shenglan Tang, Mary D B T and James Semans International Professor of Medicine and Global Health at the Department of Population Health Science, Duke Medical School Professor, Duke Kunshan University.

Dr. Shenglan Tang is the Professor of Medicine and Global Health at Duke Global Health Institute. He is also Associate Director of DGHI for China Initiatives, and Executive Director of the Global Health Program at Duke Kunshan University in China, as well as Director of Research Hub for Asia-Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies/WHO, which has research projects in Cambodia, Nepal, Vietnam, and other Asian countries. In November 2015, he was elected to serve as the president of the Chinese Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CCUGH)at his time of employment at Duke Kunshan University. Tang has more than 30 years of experience undertaking research on health systems reform, disease control, and maternal and child health in China and other countries, and has provided consultancy services on health systems strengthening to many international organizations and governments of developing countries. In 2012, Tang came to Duke from the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), based in Geneva, where he was Unit Leader for TB/HIV and Health Systems. Before his assignment at WHO, Tang was a faculty member at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the UK, and the School of Public Health of Fudan University (former Shanghai Medical University).

Jiahui Zhang, Director of Social Security and Health Care Research Department, Social and Cultural Development Research Department, Development Research Center of the State Council.

Her main research areas are health policy and elderly service policy. In the past five years, she has participated in more than 20 international and domestic cooperative research projects and served as the main coordinator of several research projects. She has conducted in-depth and systematic research on the construction of multi-level medical security systems, improvement of graded diagnosis and treatment systems, deepening reform of drug policies, financing and salary systems of public hospitals, prevention and control strategies of major infectious diseases, scientific response to population aging, construction of elderly service systems and personnel training, and long-term care insurance. Her research and policy recommendations, such as deepening reform in the field of pharmaceuticals, conducting national negotiations on the prices of special drugs, development goals of the elderly service system, and key issues of legislation on elderly services, have been approved by leaders, playing an active role in policy adjustment in related fields.

Shenglan Liu, Associate Researcher, Department of Social and Cultural Development Research, Development Research Center of the State Council.

She mainly engages in policy research relative to medical and health system reform, medical security, drug policy, and pharmaceutical innovation. She has completed several related topics and authored or co-authored many research reports. The topics she has participated in include "Research on some key issues of future medical and health system reform", "Research on major public policies to actively deal with population issues", "Healthy aging: a two-wheel drive between policy and industry", "Improving fertility and related policies", and "The development of a new health care system." She is also the project leader of the study  "Breaking the Barriers to Commercial Health Insurance Development and Improving Multi-level Medical Security System".