Making Health Service Delivery More Effective: Is Free Healthcare a Solution?
GHRC is excited to invite you to a thought-provoking symposium on October 22, 2024, where we will explore the complexities of healthcare systems and discuss whether free healthcare a solution to enhance the effectiveness of health service delivery.
The seminar will be featured by Prof. Shenglan Tang, director of the Global Health Program at Duke Kunshan University and a renowned expert in health systems and policy research. We will also bring diverse voices from DKU students to share views and observations about their countries’ health services. Two students, Dominika Wilczok (Class of 2026) and Chillion Munyiri (Class of 2024), will give presentations at the event, talking about the health systems in Poland and Kenya, respectively.
The symposium will provide a global lens on healthcare models, address the pressing challenges within China’s healthcare system, and open the floor to engaging discussions on potential solutions.
Symposium Agenda
17:45-19:00, October 22, 2024
2103 Academic Building, DKU
17:45-18:00 Opening Video
Street Interview on Global Healthcare Systems
18:00-18:05 Student Sharing
Healthcare in Poland
Dominika Wilczok
18:05-18:10 Student Sharing
Healthcare in Kenya
Chillion Munyiri
18:10-18:40 Keynote Lecture
Making Health Service Delivery More Effective: Is Free Healthcare a Solution?
Prof. Shenglan Tang
Lecture Abstract
Healthcare system is very complex. It is a hot topic capable of evoking a range of emotions and debates worldwide. The lecture given by Prof. Shenglan Tang will first provide an overview of the major types of the different health service delivery systems globally, followed by the frameworks of what make a good health system. Prof. Tang will also offer his insights on China’s health system reforms in the past decades, as an observer, a participant, and one of the key drivers. The final part will address several hot topics – free healthcare, renumeration for doctors, and healthcare expenditure control, etc. – and he will share his views, especially some potential solutions to on-going challenges facing the Chinese healthcare system.
18:40-19:00
Q&A and Discussion
About the Speakers
Shenglan Tang, PhD
- Mary & James Semans Professor of Medicine Department of Population Health Science, Duke Medical School.
- Director of the Global Health Program at Duke Kunshan University, China.
- Research Professor of Global Health Duke Global Health Institute, USA & SingHealth-Duke-NUS-Global Health Institute, Singapore.
Dr. Shenglan 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, Dr. Tang went to Duke University 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, Dr. Tang was a faculty member at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in UK and at the School of Public Health of Fudan University (formerly Shanghai Medical University).
Dominika Wilczok
- Class of 2026, Neuroscience
- Nationality: Poland
- A researcher focusing on AI-driven approaches to combat aging
Chillion Munyiri
- Class of 2024, International Relationships and Affairs
- Nationality: Kenya
- Intern at the United Nations Beijing Office
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