This presentation was given by Zhenzhong ZHANG and Yunping WANG of the China National Health Development Research Center at the Global Symposium on Health System Research.

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Zhenzhong ZHANG, Yunping WANG
China National Health Development Research Center
From Research to Policy:
CNHDRC Strategies

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Outlines
 The need in practice
 Objectives and missions of CNHDRC
 Strategies employed
 Key successes and constraints
 Outlook for international communications

3. The need in practice
 Characters underlying the process of China social and
economic reform: more involvement of consultation
agencies
 Ongoing health reform: comprehensive demand for
evidence-based consultation
 Significant opportunities for CNHDRC
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4. Objectives and Missions of CNHDRC
 China National Health Development Research Center
(CNHDRC) formerly known as CHEI, a national think-tank
 Established: 1991
 Affiliations: MoH, China
 Objectives: provide technical consultancy on health
development and reform for policy makers.
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Information knowledge
Missions: transfer

6. Strategies Employed
1. Organizational structure: MoH orientied & reach to other
ministries at central level
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“Express channel”
to departments of
MoH
“Binding” with other
ministries
Assumed the policy
consultant for central
government

7. 2. Targeting the needs of policy makers
 Priorities on their agenda
 Prospective + foundamental + applied research
 Combine the mid-long research with quick-response research
3. Developing network
 China Network for Training and Research on Health Economics
and Financing
 China Health Development Forum (CHDF)
 Scaling-up international partners
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Strategies Employed

8. 4. Wide study fields for policy incubating:
 Maintaining a sound cooperation with local
governement in programmes
 Engage policy makers and health managers in learning
process
 Generalize and synthesis experience from local
practice
 Upwards + outwards tansmit models
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Strategies Employed

9. Key successes and constraints
 Successes:
 Policy recommendations be included in the health care
reform plan;
 Policy brief submitted to CPC Central Committee, State
Council and get their feedbacks;
 Research capacity of local officials strengthened
 Constraints/challenges:
 Learning by doings in a rapid change period
 Research comes after policy
 Capacites in doing research and packing it up
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10. Reflections
 Target the needs of policy makers matters a lot
 Take good use of policy “windows” to insert
 Engage the policy makers in the learning process
 Stand on the shoulders of giants in the networks
 Increasing mutual learning with international communities –
health development has no boundary
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