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Global Health Governance: Analyzing China, India, And Japan As Global Health Aid Donors, Ann Florini, Karthik Nachiappan, Tikki Pang, Christine Pilcavage Sep 2012

Global Health Governance: Analyzing China, India, And Japan As Global Health Aid Donors, Ann Florini, Karthik Nachiappan, Tikki Pang, Christine Pilcavage

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Development assistance is a significant mechanism by which major countries exercise influence in the global health arena. Of the major Asian powers, Japan has long provided significant funding, while China and India have primarily been recipients but are beginning to increase their funding roles. This article examines the amounts, channels, modes, disease allocations and the geographic focuses of their foreign health aid, and delineates the institutional structures that govern the formulation and implementation of foreign health aid policy in each of these countries, to explore what influence China, India, and Japan have and may develop in the global health arena. …


Purging Healthcare Of Conventional "Wisdom" - An Interview With Liak Teng Lit, Lien Centre For Social Innovation Jan 2012

Purging Healthcare Of Conventional "Wisdom" - An Interview With Liak Teng Lit, Lien Centre For Social Innovation

Social Space

Liak Teng Lit is known for his iconoclastic views and for pushing the envelope on healthcare and other social causes. Social Space visits the maverick in his award-winning Khoo Teck Puat Hospital for some wake-up calls.