The Project Results National Dissemination Workshop “Achieving UN Health Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in China by 2030: Developing Evidence-based Policy Options for Action” was held at the China World Hotel in Beijing on May 5, 2018. The event was organized by Duke University and Duke Kunshan University with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Research Department of Social Development, Development Research Center of the State Council.
The China Health SDGs project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is to help the Chinese government develop and implement feasible, and effective health policies to achieve the health-related SDGs. The team, led by Shenglan Tang, the Mary DBT & James Semans International Professor of Medicine and Global Health at Duke University and Executive Director for Global Health Program at Duke Kunshan University in China, proposed evidence-based recommendations for both central and local governments after the two-year in-depth study one linked specifically to achieving the health-related SDG and Healthy China targets 2030, and the other directed towards improving the general health and welfare of the Chinese people.
