http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/Recent news from AHPPen-usPublic domainhttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/images/feed-icon-48x48.jpghttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/60http://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3307The Asia Pacific Observatory of Health Systems and Policies is a new regional initiative to promote evidence-based health policymaking in the Asia-Pacific region. The Observatory represents a unique partnership of governments, development agencies, and the research community working together.]]>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3307?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3297The Asia Health Policy Program offers the opportunity for leading health policy experts from low-income Asian countries to come to Stanford as visiting fellows for three to nine months between Sept. 1, 2012 and Aug. 31, 2013. Applications accepted until Mar. 5, 2012.]]>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3297?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3263Tobacco now kills 90 times more people each year than HIV/AIDS in China. China's tobacco industry is closely tied to the global industry, and the Asia Health Policy Program is working to establish a new field of research on its history, beginning with a Mar. 2012 conference at the new Stanford Center at Peking University. Robert Proctor, a Stanford historian and author of a groundbreaking new book on the global tobacco industry, will take part.]]>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3263?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3200When Siyan Yi was a medical student in Cambodia 12 years ago, he volunteered with a collaborative government-NGO project to provide young women at high risk for HIV/AIDS -- the victims of sexual exploitation -- with housing, vocational training, medical care, and psychological support. Cambodia at that time had one of Asia’s highest HIV-infection rates. That rate has dropped by half, thanks to government policy measures, international NGO support, and the efforts of medical professionals like Yi.]]>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3200?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3140As lifestyles in China are changing, so too is the ability for people to care for their elderly family members at home. American healthcare companies are beginning to eye China as a potential market for senior residential facilities. Asia Health Policy Program director Karen Eggleston spoke with NPR about possible models for providing affordable, quality care for China's elderly.]]>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3140?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3053What influence might graphic warning labels have on cigarette sales? Matthew Kohrman is studying that question with experimental methods in Southwest China. Kohrman's research is generating much-needed data in support of the expansion of China's warning label system. Among the countries increasingly adopting graphic labels, the United States will require visual warnings on all cigarette packages by next fall.]]>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3053?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3039Can social, economic, and policy changes turn a period of growing old-age dependency into one of positive opportunity and growth in China? Qiong Zhang and Asia Health Policy Program director Karen Eggleston explore this challenging question in a recent China Brief article. They look back into several decades of China's history and also consider the current demographic picture of one-child families, gender imbalance, declining fertility rates, and a healthy and prosperous aging population.]]>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/3039?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2951As an undergraduate student majoring in East Asian studies, Crystal Zheng spent two summers conducting extensive HIV/AIDS-related field research in China's Yunnan province and Shenzhen special economic zone. Zheng worked closely with primary thesis advisor Karen Eggleston, director of the Asia Health Policy Program (AHPP) at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. In the end, the project shaped the direction of her future academic and professional interests as well as contributed to potentially far-reaching program improvements for a key health policy challenge in China. In the short time since its 2007 founding, AHPP has empowered the research of numerous Stanford University students like Zheng -- emerging scholars, researchers, and thought leaders -- through its teaching and mentoring activities.]]>Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2951?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2941Tobacco is the single greatest cause of preventable death in the world today, including in China where cigarette smoking is a popular pastime. "The [tobacco] industry in China is run by the Tobacco Monopoly Administration, a central government administrative body created in the 1980s, also known as China Tobacco Corp.," said Matthew Kohrman in a February 2011 interview with NPR's Morning Edition. China nonetheless issued a nationwide indoor smoking ban on May 1. Speaking with Al Jazeera English on the first day of the ban, Kohrman predicted that Chinese citizens will increasingly comply with the ban even if in fits and starts initially. "It all has to do with implementation," he suggested. "It all has to do with changing the culture of smoking and people’s thinking about it—that takes time."]]>Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2941?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2527AHPP faculty affiliate Matthew Kohrman quoted in prominent media outlets about tobacco control efforts in China.]]>Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2527?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2843The Asia Health Policy Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) is pleased to announce its new Asia Health Policy Postdoctoral Fellows: Ang Sun of Brown University (2011-2012) and Yuki Tagaki of Harvard University (2012-2013). The research of these two postdoctoral fellows will complement the Shorenstein APARC research initiative on demographic change in East Asia.]]>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2843?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2825The Asia Health Policy Program is delighted to announce the inauguration of a fellowship program for young health policy experts from developing countries in Asia. The first Developing Asia Health Policy Fellow will be Dr. Siyan Yi from Cambodia. Cambodia has recently created a School of Public Health and is facing an increasing burden of chronic disease, while the burden from infectious diseases such as tuberculosis remains significant. Since Dr. Yi's research interests lie in health promotion and risky behaviors, he could someday be instrumental in helping to set policies to address the public health challenges Cambodia will face.]]>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2825?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2773East Asia's demographic landscape is rapidly changing and comparative academic research is crucial to help guide well-informed decisions in the many policy areas that are affected, such as security, economics, and immigration. From January 20 to 21, the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center gathered subject experts from numerous fields for two days of lively and productive presentations and dialogue to help identify key research issues and questions for its new, three-year research initiative on this significant subject. A public panel discussion was held on January 20, featuring eight scholars from across the United States and Asia. The issue of aging featured prominently in their presentations, as did fertility rates and immigration. A full audio recording of the panel discussion and summaries of the presentations are now available.]]>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2773?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2734In conjunction with its launch of a three-year research initiative to study the effects of demographic change in Asia, the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center is pleased to announce the publication of Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea. The book covers a diverse range of issues of demographic change, including intergenerational transfers in Japan, marriage and the elderly in China, pension reform in South Korea, and the Asia-Pacific diabetes epidemic.]]>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2734?rsshttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2667This year, the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) has engaged in leading-edge research on demographic change in East Asia. Karen Eggleston, director of the Asia Health Policy Program at Shorenstein APARC, discusses the recently published book Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea, and a workshop on the economic, social, political, and security implications of demographic change in East Asia, held January 20-21 at Shorenstein APARC.]]>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://asiahealthpolicy.stanford.edu/news/2667?rss