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Issue FOUR highlights

International Symposium on Innovation
in Health Service Delivery

On 22 January, the EdUHK hosted the with Dengue as a Cross-border Health Threat: The Perfect is the
International Symposium on Innovation in Health Enemy of the Good”. Dr Alex He Jing-wei, Assistant Professor in the
Service Delivery: Enhancing Trade and Creating Department of Asian and Policy Studies at EdUHK, shared his view
Value in the Asia-Pacific Region. The symposium on “Innovative Health Care Governance in China? A Wrong Key to
brought together over 70 participants, including the Old Lock”.
distinguished academics, policy makers,
practitioners and postgraduate students, to The event also provided a good opportunity to enrich students’
assess the changing landscape of health service learning experiences. Over 50 postgraduate students from both
delivery and its implications for key stakeholders. the EdUHK and the Lingnan University attended the symposium to
extend their study outside campus.

Held on the Lingnan University campus, the symposium was a Professor Tikki Pang, Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan
jointly organised event led by the Hong Kong APEC Study Centre Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of
(APECSC) of EdUHK and supported by the Centre for Asian Pacific Singapore
Studies at Lingnan University.

Professor Darryl Jarvis, Director of APECSC, welcomed the
opportunity to host the symposium, stating that “the rapidly
changing contours of the global health care landscape offer
implications for regional cooperation and human wellbeing”.

Also in attendance to deliver welcoming remarks were Professor
Joshua Mok Ka-ho, Vice President of Lingnan University; and
Mr Chris Sun Yuk-han, Head of the Healthcare Planning and
Development Office of the Food and Health Bureau.

At the symposium, Professor Tikki Pang, Visiting Professor in the
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University
of Singapore, comprehensively discussed his topic, “Dealing

Distinguished academics, policy makers, practitioners and postgraduate students assess the changing landscape of health service delivery and its implications for key stakeholders
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