Qu Wang, MA

Short Biography
I am a graduate of Nanjing University, China, where I received my MA degree in Sociology. I also obtained the interdisciplinary academic training in the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies (HNC). After my graduation, I joined a research team in HNC, where I start my research in the field of health and human development. I then became a research fellow in the Center for Human and Economic Development Studies, Peking University. My research interests in the field of human development are health equity, health governance, social determinants of health, and maternal and child health. In the past years, I have been co-working with my colleagues in some important research projects in these related areas in China, and am now especially interested in the equity issue in maternal and child health in the perspective of governance. In my spare time, I enjoy very much practicing Chinese calligraphy, paper-cutting, traveling, and playing yoga, etc.

Research Interests
Health Governance, Health Policy, State-Society Relationship, Maternal and Child Health, Human Development, China Study

Phd Topic
Governance in Maternal and Child Health Care in Rural China (working title)

Education
Since 2007: Vienna School of Governance, University of Vienna
PhD Candidate, Political Science
2000-2001: The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies
M.A., Interdisciplinary Studies in Political Science, International Relations, History, Economics, Sociology, and Culture
1999-2002: Nanjing University
M.A., Sociology
1992-1996: South-Center University for Nationalities
B.A., Chinese Language and Literature

Present Position
2007-: Vienna School of Governance, University of Vienna
Research Fellow
2005- :Center for Human and Economic Development Studies, Peking University
Research Fellow

Previous Experience
2005-2006: China Center for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, Peking University, Research Fellow
2002-2005: The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies, Program Researcher
1996-2001: The Graduate School, Hohai University, Counselor for Graduate Students

Research Projects
2009-2010: Researcher. S.T. Lee Project on "Global Governance: Global Health Governance (GHG)", The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
2008: Principal researcher, The Feasibility of an Essential National Maternal and Child Health Package and Its Estimated Costs", funded by Chinese Ministry of Finance, and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
2008: Principal researcher, "Rural Health Service Research Project", funded by the China Primary Heath Foundation.
2007: Principal researcher, "The Role of Government Funding in the Promotion of Universal Access to Maternal and Child Health Services", funded by Chinese Ministry of Finance and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
2007: Principal researcher and co-leader, "Child Health Care Service Research Project: Financing Free Primary Health Care for Children in China", funded by Save the Children (UK).
2006: Principal researcher and co-leader, "Survival and Development of Migrant Women in China", funded by the Asia Foundation.
2004-2006: Principal researcher and co-leader, "Human Development in Wujiang, China", funded by the Ford Foundation; in charge of the researches on health and human development.
2003-2004: Principal researcher, "Social and Economic Development in Wujiang County, China", funded by the Ford Foundation; in charge of researches on health.

Publications
Articles
"The Role of Research Institutions and Think Tanks in Linking Up Governance Evidence with Policy Making in China: The Case of Healthcare System Reform" 2009, UNDP Governance Assessment Portals (Discussion Paper 7), UNDP Governance Center (Oslo) (with Minquan Liu).
"The Perspective of Human Development and Sustainable Development", 2009, Journal of Nanjing University (Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences), Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 20-30 (with Minquan Liu and Jiantuo Yu).
"China's Healthcare Reforms", 2008, in: Zhang, Kaining (ed.), Reorienting Concepts and Methodology: the 30 Years SRH in China, Social Sciences Academic Press, pp. 237-265 (in Chinese); English version forthcoming by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, the Netherlands (with Minquan Liu).
"Human Development and Health Equity: China’s Present Situations and Challenges", 2006, Twenty-first Century Bimonthly (Hong Kong), No. 98 (Dec) (with Minquan Liu). To be reprinted in: Liu, Minquan; Gu, Xin and Wang, Qu (ed.) Studies on the Value of Health and Health Inequality, forthcoming, People's University Press, Bejing.
"Amartya Sen: The Conscience of Contemporary Economists", 2006, China Reading Weekly, 6th , September.
"The Value of Health and Its Determinants: A Literature Review", 2005, China Economic Quarterly, Volume 5, Issue 1 (with Minquan Liu), to be reprinted in: M. Liu, X. Gu and Q. Wang (ed.) Studies of the Value of Health and Health Inequalities, forthcoming, People's University Press, Bejing.
"Social Transition and Change of the Marriage Concept", 2002, Xue Hai, No. 4.
"The Casting of Graduate Spirit in Moral Education", 1999, Journal of Hohai University, No. 9.
"Innovation and Modernization of Graduate Moral Education", 1999, Journal of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, No. 12.
"Graduate Moral Education in the 21st Century", 1998, Journal of Higher Education, No. 4.

Reports
"A Study of the Contents and Costs of an Essential National Maternal and Child Healthcare Package", report submitted to the Chinese Ministry of Financen and UNICEF (with Minquan Liu and Xiaolin Wang, et al.), November 2008.
"The Rural Community Healthcare Services in China", report submitted to the China
"A Study of the Role of Central Funding for Maternal and Child Healthcare Services in Rural China" (both Chinese and English), report submitted to the Chinese Ministry of Finance and UNICEF (with Minquan Liu, Xiaolin Wang, and Xin Gu, et al.), December 2007.
"Financing Free Primary Health Care for Children in China”, report submitted to Save the Children (UK) (with Minquan Liu) November, 2007.

Translation
UNDP, Readings in Human Development, edited by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and A.K. Shiva Kumar, currently being translated into Chinese (with Minquan Liu), to be published by the People's University Press, Beijing.
Michael Marmot, 2004, Status Syndrome: How Our Position on the Social Gradient Affects Longevity and Health, Bloomsbury Publishing, translated into Chinese (with Feng Xinlin), published by China People's University Press, 2008

Invited Academic Conference Papers
"Governance of Maternal and Child Health Care in Rural China", presented at the Annual Conference of Association of Asian Studies (AAS), for the session: "Bringing Health Care Services to Vulnerable and Marginalized Groups in China: Perspectives and Evidence from Minorities in Xinjiang, Women and Elderly People", 25-28 March, Philadelphia, USA.
"Global Health and Development: The Case of China’s Experience in International Health Assistance", presented at the Workshop on Global Health Governance, organized by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 28-30 September 2009, Bellagio, Italy.
"The Role of Research Institutions and Think Tanks in Linking Up Governance Evidence with Policy Making in China", presented at the "Roundtable Discussion on the role of Think Tanks and Research Institutes in Bringing Governance Evidence into Policy”( with Minquan Liu).T he Oslo Governance Centre of UNDP, and the Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC) of the Prime Minister’s Office of Egypt, January 18-20, 2009,Cairo, Egypt.
"Governance in Health", presented at the Workshop of Chinese Rural Human Resource for Health (HRH) Project, hosted by the Department of Public Health and Department of International Development, Oxford University, 13-14 December 2008, Oxford, UK.
"An Analysis on Rural-Urban Disparity in Children’s Nutrition", presented at the Second Academic Conference of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association (with Minquan Liu), , 4-6 November 2006, Hebei, China.
"Health and Equity from the Perspective of Human Development: China’s Reality and Challenges", Background Paper, International Conference on Health and Development: Health, Development, Equity, (with Minquan Liu et al.),  26-27 October 2006, Beijing, China.
"Human Development Perspective and Sustainable Development", China Environmental Science Conference (with Minquan Liu and Jiantuo Yu), August 2006, Suzhou, China.
"Child Health and Nutrition in China: A Review" (in English), presented at the Pratichi Trust Annual Meeting (with Minquan Liu), 30 March-1 April, Kolkata, India.
"Income Inequality & Self-Reported Health in Rural China" (in English), presented at 2005 Annual Conference of Chinese Economists Society on Sustainable Economic Growth in China: Investing in Human Capital and Environment, (with Minquan Liu) June 2005, June 2005, Chongqing, China.
"Health and Its Determinants from the Human Development Perspective: A Case Study in China", presented at the first Annual Conference of the Consortium for Western China Development Studies  (with Minquan Liu), June 2004, Chengdu, China.
"A New Perspective on Graduate Moral Education Based on the Analysis of Psychological Trait and Group Culture", presented at the National Conference of Graduate’s Morality Education, held by the Chinese Academic Degree & Graduate Education Committee, October 1998, Dalian, China.

Forthcoming Books
A Study of the Role of Central Funding in Maternal and Child Health: The Essential Package and Costs, to be pubished by the China Science Press, Beijing, September 2010, in Chinese (with Minquan Lin and Xiaolin Wang).
Studies on the Value of Health and Health Inequalities, to be published by the People's University Press, Beijing, June 2010, in Chinese (joint editorship with Minquan Liu and Xin Gu).
Revamping China's Rural Healthcare System: Imperatives and Challenges, to be published by the China Science Press in 2010, in Chinese (with Minquan Liu et al.).

Awards and Prizes
KWA Fellowship, University of Vienna, 2009
The Chinese Young Health Economists Research Fellowship, Peking University, 2005-2006.
Scholarship for Chinese and American Studies, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, 2000-2001.
The First Prize of the National Essay Competition on Moral Education for Graduate Students, the Chinese Academic Degree & Graduate Education Committee, 2000.
Wu Zelin Scholoarship, South-Center University for Nationalities, 1995.

Supervisors
Prof. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
Prof. Anthony James Saich, Director of Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Contact
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