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UNC hosted Min at campus events, and he visited Research Triangle Park as well as
Duke and N.C. State universities.
Speakers at the health conference will include top leaders from the National People's
Congress and the Chinese ministries of finance, health, and labor and social
security, as well as U.S. scholars including Dr. Lincoln Chen, director of the Global
Equity Center at Harvard University's School of Government and president of the
China Medical Board, a grant-making organization, and Dr. Teh-wei Hu, professor
emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health.
RTI International is the major conference sponsor, along with Quintiles Transnational
Corp., both multinational corporations based in Research Triangle Park. Other
sponsors include the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes
Research, several Chinese government offices, and other organizations including
the China Association of Enterprise with Foreign Investment R&D-based
Pharmaceutical Association Committee (RDPAC).
Moeser will arrive in Beijing Dec. 8. Activities the following day will include a meeting
with Dr. Linna Hao, director of the Division of International Collaboration, National
Population and Family Planning Commission, one of the largest social service
agencies in China. Participants will include UNC Dean Jack Richman and Professor
Shenyang Guo. UNC has worked with the commission for two years, hosting
delegations in Chapel Hill to provide training and information on topics including
reducing aggressive behavior in elementary school children. A resulting pilot
program in two Chinese sites has more than 900 participants.
On Dec. 10, Moeser will visit the Great Wall at SiMatai. He and the UNC delegation
will attend an opening reception and dinner with leaders participating in the
health-care conference, which begins Dec. 11.
Other stops will include Lenovo's Beijing Innovation Center, Tsinghua University and
a tour of Quintiles facilities at Peking Union Medical College. At Tsinghua, Moeser
will see a new Center for Logistics and Digital Strategy recently established with
UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. Along with the Chinese Academy of
Sciences, the school and the university has sponsored two conferences on Olympic
logistics in advance of the 2008 summer Olympics in China. Activities have included
bringing a Chinese delegation to the Atlanta airport to learn about security.
On Dec. 12, Moeser will deliver a speech about the importance of globalization in
higher education to faculty and students at Peking University and will receive an
honorary professorship, one of the highest honors a Chinese campus pays to
international scholars.
Moeser will travel to Shanghai Dec. 13. He will attend a lunch with UNC alumni and
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