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The 8th Global China Dialogue (GCD VIII)

Governance for Global Health

Date: Friday, 8:30-17:00, 8th December 2023

Venue: Wolfson Room & Gallery, The British Academy, London

Languages: English and Chinese

Hybrid event: In-person and online

As announced at the 7th Global China Dialogue, the 8th Global China Dialogue (GCD VIII), with the theme ‘Global Governance for Health’, will be held on 8th December 2023.

The 2020s have seen many weaknesses in our health care systems and structures emerge. The pandemic showed that health is a challenge that requires global governance and cooperation. Yet other issues such as climate change, the global prevalence of noncommunicable diseases, inadequate access to healthcare services and the lack of health workers globally show that also – the need for global cooperation to deal with transnational challenges has never been greater.

Yet healthcare has also seen some positive developments – demand has driven an increase in medical and health technology while a shift to preventive medicine and patients taking more responsibility for their health outcomes is also apparent.

Nonetheless, questions about the effectiveness of global health governance remain. The questions are longstanding and each time we have a health crisis, they are highlighted. We still need better global cooperation and global institutions, rules and collective action to meet future health challenges.

Establishing effective cooperation is potentially made more difficult by the fact that the stakeholders who make up our global health community and oversight are evolving. Today, the World Health Organization remains important but there is also a growing influence of philanthropists and new types of health organizations. They sometimes have a distinct view and impact on global health and policymaking. Moreover, global health governance includes new legal environments, public–private partnerships, financial markets, intergovernmental organizations, charities, multinational corporations and a greater involvement of non-governmental organizations.

Although the increase in actors is welcomed, the various groups contributing to this newly emerging global health system are creating a complex health ecosystem. Our current global health governance systems may fail to prevent a health crisis from becoming a global danger by not considering the greater number of actors in the field of health and the need for cooperation and coordination.

The Global China Dialogue is a great place to explore these challenges and opportunities for global health governance, especially in the Chinese context, given China’s ageing population, continued economic growth and desire to reimagine healthcare management and governance. The Healthy China 2030 strategy emphasizes the need to develop the health sector in China. China has also instituted significant regulatory reforms in the health sector, while considering healthcare in the new global governance framework.

GCD VIII consists of four panels:

Panel 1 Global Health and System Integration
Panel 2 The Challenges of Global Health Governance
Panel 3 Communicating to Improve Global Health
Panel 4 Health Governance in the Digital Space

Organizers

Global China Academy, UK
UCL Global Business School for Health, UK
ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, UK
College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, China

Organizing Committee

Chairs

Professor Tony McEnery FAcSS FRSA FGCA, Chair of Academic Council of Global China Academy; Council Member, Academy of Social Sciences; Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University
Professor Nora Colton, Director of the UCL Global Business School of Health, Former UCL Pro-Vice-Provost (Postgraduate Education) at the UCL, UK
Professor Xiangqun Chang FRSA FGCA and President of Global China Academy (GCA); Honorary Professor of University College London (2015-20); Distinguished Professor of Nankai University of China

General Secretary

Dr Boyi Li, LSE Fellow, Department of Management, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Member of Global China Academy Council

Members (in alphabetical order)

Dr Yuan Cheng, Country Head of Russell Reynolds Associates Greater China; Member of the Board of Trustees, Global China Academy
Professor Martin Jacques FGCA, Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK; Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China
Professor LI Qiang FGCA and Chinese Chair of Academic Council of Global China academy, Lifetime Professor and Former Dean of School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, China
Professor Wei Li FBA FAcSS FRSA FGCA FGCA and Non-Executive Chair of Global China Academy Council; Director and Dean of Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK
Professor Peter Schröder FGCA and Vice-president of Global China Academy; Department of History and European & International Social & Political Studies, University College London
Professor Elena Semino FAcSS FRSA, Director of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University
Professor WANG Xi, Head of Communication Department, College of Arts and Media, Tongji University, China
Professor XIE Lizhong FGCA and Chinese President of Global China Academy, Director of Research Centre for Social Theory, Peking University, China;
Professor ZHANG Xiaodong FGCA and Chinese Non-Executive Chair of Global China Academy Council, Dean of Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics; ECO of Agile Think Tank, China

Supporters (in alphabetical order)

Centre for European Reform, UK
China–Europa Forum, France
Chopsticks Club, UK
Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics
The Journal of Contemporary China and World, (ACCWS), China
Research Centre for Social Theory, Peking University, China
Research Centre for Studies of Sociological Theory and Methods, Renmin University of China
School of Sociology, Nankai University [tbc]
Society for Anglo–Chinese Understanding (SACU), UK
The British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies (BPCS), UK
The Meridian Society, UK [tbc]

Publications

All the speeches and related information will be published in the Global China Dialogue Proceedings Series (in English and Chinese).

Selected speeches may be published in the following journals:

Journal of China in Global and Comparative Perspectives (JCGCP, in English and Chinese).
Journal of Corpus Approaches to Chinese Social Sciences (JCACSS, in English and Chinese)
Journal of Chinese for Social Sciences (JCSS, in Chinese)

Registration: (Deadline: 10th November 2023)

Free: https://globalcenturypress.com/event-registration

3 tickets each for organizers, supporters and sponsors. Please specify which you represent.
1 ticket each for volunteers who provide substantial assistance to organizing and running the GCD VIII (e.g. English-Chinese translation and interpretation, videography, photography, audio recording, follow-up transcription, paperwork, accompanying speakers, registration, etc.) Please specify what assistance you are providing.

£200 (UK) for GCD VIII only

In the case of Overseas participants we offer the following packages:

Three-day package – £700
Five-day package – £980
Seven-day package £1,180

Also see Eventbrite: details to be confirmed

Contact: info@globalchinaacademy.org

Website: https://globalchinaacademy.org/global-china-dialogue-8 (available in July 2023)

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