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Lessons Learned Amid a Pandemic: How the United States and China can Collaborate on Global Health Crises

Published: Aug. 10, 2020, 8:58 p.m.

In mid-July 2020, the National Committee convened a virtual session of its\xa0U.S.-China Track II Dialogue on Healthcare.\xa0\xa0Coming in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the participants focused on how our two nations can work together on global health crises in such areas as public health reforms, containment strategies, and healthcare delivery.

On\xa0July 30, 2020, the National Committee hosted a virtual public event to hear takeaways and lessons learned from the Healthcare Dialogue discussions. National Committee President\xa0Stephen Orlins\xa0led a conversation with\xa0George Gao, Director, China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention;\xa0Margaret Hamburg, Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine and former Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration;\xa0Gordon Liu, PKU BOYA Professor of Economics, Ministry of Education Yangtze River Scholar Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University; former FDA Commissioner\xa0Mark McClellan, Director, Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy, Duke University; and\xa0Julia Spencer, Associate Vice President, Global Vaccine Public Policy, Partnerships and Government Affairs, Merck.