China

While China has registered significant health achievements, it faces daunting challenges in the reform of its health system, especially in educating its professional health workforce and in research to guide health interventions. As in all complex modern economies, China is calling upon its intellectual assets and mobilizing evidence-based knowledge in order to craft an equitable, effective, and efficient health system.

Through its emphasis on scientific excellence, CMB grant-making aims to build essential capacities in population-based health policy and systems sciences and strengthen the next generation of academic leaders. It gives particular attention to advancing the field of health policy and systems sciences, building capacity in medical education, and controlling one of the country’s most preventable public health threats, tobacco consumption. 

Social equity is a priority for China’s policy-makers, but rural areas lag far behind urban centers in ensuring equitable access to basic health services. CMB seeks to increase demand for and support of rural health workers, especially in Western China, where its grantees are forming a rural health network.

CMB also pursues international partnerships to complement its long-standing relationships with many of China’s leading medical universities.  Through these partnerships, it can help mobilize resources – financial, academic, and technical – to support mutually identified and agreed upon activities that strengthen Chinese and Asian academic capacities.  These include philanthropic partnerships, with foundations such as Rockefeller Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Atlantic Philanthropies; academic journals such as The Lancet; academies of sciences and other scientific bodies; and universities around the world.