Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 20, 2007|Volume 35, Number 26

Health issues faced by China's
migrants is focus of symposium

Scholars from the United States and China will gather at Yale on Thursday, April 26, for a one-day symposium on migration and health in China.

Titled "The Well-Being of a Floating Population," the symposium will be held 9 a.m.-5 p.m. in Rm. 203 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. It is co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale and the Yale-China Association.

The symposium will focus on important health issues faced by China's 147 million migrants. With more than 10% of its population on the move, China is facing major challenges as it tries to address the many social consequences brought about by internal migration, most of which has been rural-to-urban in nature, says Hongping Tian, Yale-China Association program officer for health programs.

"Although China's internal migrants have provided the muscle behind the nation's rapid economic progress, they have remained socially, economically and culturally marginalized in their new urban settings," she says. "The SARS outbreak in 2003 and China's highly visible HIV/AIDS epidemic brought a new sense of urgency to the health status of this group, who mostly go without any form of health insurance and have limited means to access China's existing health care system."

With rapid changes occurring in China and an intense debate on China's health system under way, adds Tian, knowledge regarding the current health status of this population remains limited and scattered. The symposium will seek to expand understanding and promote dialogue about these issues.

Featured speakers will include Jennifer Holdaway, Migration Program, Social Science Research Council; Suyun Hu, Institution of Population and Development Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China; Xiaoliang Li, Division of Maternal Child Health, School of Public Health, Kunming Medical College, Yunnan, China; Zai Liang, State University of New York-Albany; Xiushi Yang, Old Dominion University, Virginia; and Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip, Harvard School of Public Health.

The symposium is free and open to the public, but those interested in attending must register in advance by contacting Kari Heward, Yale-China staff assistant, at kari.heward@yale.edu.

The symposium is made possible by support from the Council on East Asian Studies, the U.S. Department of Education and Sun Hung Kai Properties-Kwoks' Foundation Limited.

The Yale-China Association is a private, non-profit organization that contributes to education in and about China and to the furtherance of knowledge, understanding and friendship between the Chinese and American people. The Council on East Asian Studies, part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, provides a forum for academic exploration and support related to the study of China, Japan and Korea. For more information on the Yale-China Association, visit www.yalechina.org. For more information on the Council on East Asian Studies, visit http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies.

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