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Please join us for a lecture:

Educational Policies and Healthy Aging in China

Xi Chen, Associate Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Yale University

Moderated by: Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work; Director, China Center for Social Policy

A considerable amount of attention has been paid to the relationship between education and the promotion of one’s own health. This talk will present our latest evidence and discuss both the upward and downward multigenerational impacts of educational reforms in China over the past few decades on healthy aging.

Cosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Columbia China Center for Social Policy, and the Columbia School of Social Work.

Online via Zoom. Registration information will be provided soon.

The pandemic that swept the world since early 2020 has triggered various levels of response from different countries in Asia. While some countries in the region have been hailed as exemplary, others became cautionary tales. Join our panelists, Qin Gao – Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, Director of China Center on Social Policy, Columbia, Jayati Ghosh – Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Duncan McCargo – Director, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Professor of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, to discuss the varying effects, response, and outcome of the pandemic in this very diverse region. Moderator: Moderator: Jose Antonio Ocampo, Co-director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA.

Registration for this event is required. Zoom link will be shared with those who register one day prior to the event. Please register here.

This event is sponsored by the Economic and Political Development concentration at SIPA; Weatherhead East Asian Institute; China Center for Social Policy, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, and Southeast Asian Student Initiative.