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Making an impact on policy and increasing Asian-pacific collaboration through the China- Australia Public Health Law Research Project
The China-Australia Public Health Law Research project is designed to increase China’s technical capacity for policy development through cross-national comparison and research into local model law for Essential Public Health Service (EPHS). Approved by the China-Australia Health and HIV/AIDS Facility (CAHHF) at the end of 2008, the project is led by the Office for Public Health Policy Research, China Center for Disease Control (CDC), in partnership with Kangzhong Health Education Center; Chaoyang District CDC, Beijing; Zhejiang Provincial CDC; and La Trobe University, Australia.
Some progress has already been made both in promoting Asian-Pacific collaboration and developing policy. For example, the research team working on an evidence review for a model law on EPHS for migrant populations took the opportunity to attend the Ministry of Health’s meetings to revise the Enforcement Regulation of the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in PRC, and contributed their initial findings. This research is also providing reciprocal aid to the Pacific Islands, as it has enabled the project’s Australian consultants to develop model public health laws. This demonstrates how collaboration and exchanging experience between specialists in Australia and China can mutually impact on public health policy development in both countries, while also providing knock-on benefits to other countries in Asia Pacific.
This research was further advanced by a recent seminar on needs assessments of model public health laws for migrant populations. The CAHHF manager, Mr. Dong Shengli, participated in the seminar (please see photograph below).
