From Editors
CHPAMS Newsletter is a monthly e-newsletter from the China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS). The Newsletter serves as a communication platform to provide updates and activities related to CHPAMS and information of potential interest for CHPAMS members.
CHPAMS Activities and Announcement
CHPAMS Reception at 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Vancouver
CHPAMS will hold a reception at the 4th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Vancouver, Canada. CHPAMS members are welcomed to participate and develop new and continued fellowship and friendship. If interested, please email Dr. Harry Zhang (qzhang@odu.edu) with subject line “CHPAMS Vancouver”.
Time: November 16th, 2016 (Wednesday) at 7PM
Location: TBD
Contact: Dr. Harry Zhang (qzhang@odu.edu)
CHPAMS is Recruiting Editors for the WeChat Public Account
CHPAMS is now recruiting volunteer editors for its Wechat public account. Editors are expected to work on one Chinese article (about 2000 characters) with other editors each month. Everyone who is interested is welcome!
Contact: Qian Shi (qshi2@tulane.edu) & Dr. Liang Wang (WANGL2@etsu.edu)
Member’s Corner
CHPAMS founding member Dr. Youfa Wang was recently appointed as the founding Dean of the Global Health Institute (GHI) at the Xi'An Jiaotong University, Xi'An, Shannxi, China. GHI was formally established on September 18th. GHI is the first global health research institute in Western China. In a global perspective, GHI focuses on the prevention and control of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs), systems science and big data in medical research, drug safety and policy research, health system and health policy research, food safety and nutrition research, child development and health research, mobile health research, development and promotion of individual health service and other health related hot issues. GHI has multiple open faculty positions with attractive salary and benefit packages. If interested, please contact Dr. Yaling Zhao (zhaoyl666@xjtu.edu.cn).
Dr. Youfa Wang，MD, PhD (Nutritional Epidemiology) has been working as special expert for World Health Organization (WHO) and many other international organizations, such as serving as the Chair of the Nutritional Epidemiology Section of the American Society for Nutrition. Centered in Nutrition and epidemiology, Dr. Wang conducted his studies in several important fields of public health and health-related directions. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, led over 20 research projects sponsored by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Ministry of Health and other agencies, and received more than 23 million dollars research funding as Principal Investigator.
Graduate Programs
Master Degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
The 1-year master degree course in epidemiology and biostatistics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong will open for application from November 1, 2016 to April 15, 2017. Those interested can visit the following websites for detailed information. The program's website: http://www.clinicalresearch-cuhk.hk/or The CUHK Graduate School website: http://www.gs.cuhk.edu.hk/
[Location: Hong Kong, China]
Application dates: November 1, 2016 to April 15, 2017
Jobs
Assistant or Associate Professor
Health Policy, Services and Management, Department of Environmental Health-Division of Public Health
University of Cincinnati-College of Medicine
[Location: Cincinnati, OH]
Deadline: Open until filled
Faculty Positions
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
[Location: Los Angeles, CA]
Deadline: December 15, 2016
Assistant Professor of Health Administration
Department of Public Affairs, Henry W. Bloch School of Management
University of Missouri-Kansas City
[Location: Kansas City, MO]
Deadline: Open until filled
Professor/Reader of Nursing Research and Education
Adult Nursing and Paramedic Science
University of Greenwich
[Location: London, United Kingdom]
Deadline: October 23, 2016
Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Social and Behavioral Pharmacy or Health Outcomes, Department of Pharmacy Practice
Purdue University College of Pharmacy
[Location: West Lafayette, IN]
Deadline: December 31st, 2016
Open Rank Faculty Position in Clinical Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
[Location: Indianapolis, IN]
Deadline: Open until filled
Full time Faculty Positions – Healthcare Management
Boston University School of Public Health
[Location: Boston, MA]
Deadline: Open until filled (Applications will be reviewed beginning on November 1, 2016)
Full time Faculty Positions - Health Economics
Department of Health Law, Policy and Management
Boston University School of Public Health
[Location: Boston, MA]
Deadline: Open until filled (Applications will be reviewed beginning on November 1, 2016)
Professor, Division of Health Care Policy & Research
University of Colorado – School of Medicine
[Location: Denver, CO]
Deadline: Open until filled (Please email to arose@tylerandco.com)
Assistant or Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy
Department of Health Management and Policy
Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
[Location: Philadelphia, PA]
Deadline: December 15, 2016
Assistant Professor Position
Health Administration Program
University of North Florida
[Location: Jacksonville, FL]
Deadline: Open until filled (Applications will be reviewed beginning on October 17, 2016)
Assistant or Associate Professor of Public Health and Outcomes Research
Department of Pharmacy Practice
College of Pharmacy - Mercer University
[Location: Atlanta, GA]
Deadline: Open until filled
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Community Health
Healthcare Delivery Science, Department of Population Health
NYU Langone Medical Center
[Location: New York, NY]
Deadline: Open until filled (Send cover letter and CV to: shawn.hoke@nyumc.org)
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Community Health
Human and Organizational Development
Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College
[Location: Nashville, TN]
Deadline: December 31, 2016
Assistant/Associate/Full Professors in Human Health Sciences
University of California Merced
[Location: Merced, CA]
Deadline: December 1, 2016
Associate or Full Professor and Department Chair
Department of Health Policy and Management
Georgia Southern University
[Location: Statesboro, GA]
Deadline: Open until filled (Applications will be reviewed beginning on November 1, 2016)
Assistant Professor for Health Sciences
California State University, East Bay
[Location: Hayward / Concord / Online, CA]
Deadline: Open until filled (Applications will be reviewed beginning on September 26, 2016)
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Health and Healthcare Disparities
Department of Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
[Location: Baltimore, MD]
Deadline: Open until filled
Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Population Studies of Infectious Diseases
NYU School of Medicine
[Location: New York, NY]
Deadline: Open until filled (Send cover letter and CV to: joel.ernst@med.nyu.edu)
Assistant or Associate Professor of Health Policy
Emory University
[Location: Atlanta, GA]
Deadline: November 15, 2016
Tenure-Track Assistant or Associate Professor
Health Policy and Management Department
Yale School of Public Health
[Location: New Haven, CT]
Deadline: December 1, 2016
Scholarships & Fellowships
CDC Steven M. Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[Location: Atlanta, GA]
Deadline: January 27, 2017
China Scholarship Council - East-West Center Joint Program for Scholars, Students and Administrators
The East-West Center (EWC)
[Location: Honolulu, HI]
Deadline: February 22, 2016
Conferences
The 10th China Health Technology Assessment Forum
Conference Dates: November 12 - 13, 2016
[Location: Hangzhou, China]
East Lake International Forum for Outstanding Overseas Young Scholars
Conference Dates: December 25 - 28, 2016
Registration Due: November 25, 2016
[Location: Wuhan, China]
UCLA Summer Institute on Longitudinal Research & 2017 International Conference on Global Health
Conference Dates: Aug 15-17, 2017
Abstracts Due: TBD
[Location: Los Angeles, CA]
Research Update
Wang, H., Naghavi, M., Allen, C., Barber, R. M., Bhutta, Z. A., Carter, A., ... & Coggeshall, M. (2016). Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet, 388(10053), 1459-1544.
Vos, T., Allen, C., Arora, M., Barber, R. M., Bhutta, Z. A., Brown, A., ... & Coggeshall, M. (2016). Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet, 388(10053), 1545-1602.
Kassebaum, N. J., Arora, M., Barber, R. M., Bhutta, Z. A., Brown, J., Carter, A., ... & Cornaby, L. (2016).
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE), 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet, 388(10053), 1603-1658.
Forouzanfar, M. H., Afshin, A., Alexander, L. T., Anderson, H. R., Bhutta, Z. A., Biryukov, S., ... & Cohen, A. J. (2016). Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet, 388(10053), 1659-1724.
Wang, H., Bhutta, Z. A., Coates, M. M., Coggeshall, M., Dandona, L., Diallo, K., ... & Hay, S. I. (2016). Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet, 388(10053), 1725-1.
Kassebaum, N. J., Barber, R. M., Bhutta, Z. A., Dandona, L., Gething, P. W., Hay, S. I., ... & Lopez, A. D. (2016). Global, regional, and national levels of maternal mortality, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet, 388(10053), 1775-1812.774.
China University Global Health Writing Group. (2016). Harnessing China’s universities for global health. The Lancet, 388(10054), 1860-1862.
Zhao, Y., Zhang, S., Li, W., & Chen, L. (2016). Pursuing excellence in graduate medical education in China. The Lancet, 388(10054), 1859-1860.
Zeng, Y., & Hesketh, T. (2016). The effects of China’s universal two-child policy. The Lancet, 388(10054), 1930-1938.