Harvard China Health Partnership
The Harvard China Health Partnership (HCHP) is a university-wide initiative dedicated to advancing scholarship on China’s health system, evaluating and designing health policy interventions, and improving health care in China.
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Exploring Age-Friendly Social Technology Innovations in China and Beyond
On June 17-18, 2024, the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center (长三角国家技术创新中心) in Shanghai held the “Harvard-Yangtze River Delta Age-Friendly Social Technology Innovation” seminar series. The seminars explore the design and application of medical care technologies to empower and integrate the elderly in their social systems. The discussion of age-friendly social technologies is part of a broader effort to promote the sustainable development of global aging populations—and in particular, China’s.
Harvard faculty were amongst the featured speakers including Winnie Yip, faculty director of the Harvard China Health Partnership (HCHP), and Arthur Kleinman and Hongtu Chen, directors of Harvard’s Social Technology for Global Aging Research Initiative (STGA), which co-organized the seminars.
Dr. Yip’s seminar presented the financing systems of out-of-hospital medical care in different countries in a cross-country analysis. Global perspectives were also shared by speakers from China, the United States, Singapore, Netherlands, and more.