Professor Xian Huang Gives Book Talk on Health Politics and Policy in China

In the talk, Professor Huang combined multiple data sources to describe the transformation of China's social health insurance and analyze how it is distributed. She revealed that Chinese leaders have a strategy of "stratified expansion," perpetuating a particularly privileged program for the elites while developing a modest health provision for the masses.

You can watch the video of this lecture here. This lecture was moderated by Qin Gao, Professor and Director of the Columbia China Center for Social Policy, which co-hosted the lecture with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.