From Editors
CHPAMS Newsletter is a monthly e-newsletter from the China Health Policy and Management Society (CHPAMS). The Newsletter serves as a communication platform to provide updates and activities related to CHPAMS and information of potential interest for CHPAMS members.
Dr. Harlan Krumholz is a cardiologist and health care researcher at Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital. He received a BS from Yale, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and a Masters in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard University School of Public Health. He is the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine and Director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, one of the nation’s first and most productive research units dedicated to producing innovations to improve patient outcomes and promote better population health. He is also a Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, which prepares talented physicians to become future health care leaders.
Call for Nominations: 2018 Rising Scholar Best Paper Award
CHPAMS's 2018 Rising Scholar Best Paper Award is to recognize outstanding peer-reviewed publications that are published in 2018 and authored by CHPAMS members who are in their early career stage. Candidates for this award must be registered CHPAMS members who are either current students or within five years since receiving their last academic degrees. For more information, please visit CHPAMS website for details on eligibility and required documents.
To nominate or self-nominate a candidate for this award, the nominator must email the following required application documents to Dr. Haidong Wang (wanghaidong@gmail.com) by January 15, 2019, using a subject line “2018 CHPAMS Best Paper Award application”.
A brief one-page cover letter describing the nominee and the nominated publication, including a statement that the first, corresponding and senior authors concur with the submission of the publication for this Award
A PDF copy of the paper published in 2018 or in press form
Nominee’s short bio or resume (one or two pages)
CHPAMS will announce the winner(s) in the first week of March, 2019. Winner(s) will receive a plaque and a $100 or equivalent award.
Call for Nominations: 2018 CHPAMS Inspiration Award
CHPAMS Inspiration Award recognizes member’s determination to overcome significant barriers and achieve beyond-expectation accomplishments in scientific research, community services, or innovative activities.
Nominations for 2018 individual and/or group award are currently open. For more details, please see attachment or visit our website www.chpams.org. Qualified members should send an application letter with no more than 1,000 words to Dr. Xi Chen (xi.chen.edu@gmail.com) by January 26, 2019. The winner(s) will be announced in the first week of March, 2019. The winner(s) will receive $500 at minimum and an award plaque.
Jobs
United States
Associate Professor - Clinical Informatics, Public Health, or Health Outcomes
Binghamton University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Deadline: Open until filled
[Location: Johnson City, NY]
Research Faculty Position in Primary Care/ Family Medicine/ Population Health/ Health Services
Duke University School of Medicine
Deadline: Open until filled
[Location: Durham, NC]
Assistant Professor/Health Services & Outcomes Research
West Virginia University School of Pharmacy
Application Deadline: Open until filled
[Location: Morgantown, WV]
Director of San Francisco Bay Area Experiential Training
The UCSF School of Pharmacy, Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Deadline: Open until filled
[Location: San Francisco, CA]
Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Epidemiology
Miami University
Application Deadline: February 4, 2019
[Location: Oxford, OH]
Associate/Full Professor in Social Work
College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Application Deadline: January 21, 2019
[Location: Chicago, IL]
Tenure-Track Faculty Position at Assistant or Associate Rank
The Department of Health Services Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina
Deadline: Open until filled
[Location: Columbia, South Carolina]
Biostatistician Fellowship
The University of California, San Francisco
Deadline: Open until filled
[Location: San Francisco, CA]
China
Chair Professor, Junior Faculty Positions
Frontier Institute of Science and Technology (FIST)
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Deadline: Open until filled
[Location: Xi’an, China]
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor in Public Health
College of Natural Sciences, School of medicine
Zhejiang University
Deadline: Feb 14, 2019
[Location: Hangzhou, China]
Faculty Positions (open rank) in Global Health
Duke Kunshan University
Deadline: Open until filled
[Location: Kunshan, China]
Lecture/Associate Professor in Public Health
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Health and Environmental Sciences
Deadline: January 7th, 2019
[Location: Suzhou, China]
Postdoctoral fellow
Xi’an Jiaotong University
Deadline: Open until filled
Contact: hanxiaoht@xjtu.edu.cn; 029-82668755
[Location: Xi’an, China]
Conferences
United States
Annual Conference of Consortium of Universities for Global Health
Conference time: March 8-10, 2019
[Location: Chicago, IL]
Annual Conference of the Population Association of America
Conference time: April 10-15, 2019
[Location: Austin, TX]
China
Silk Road International Spring Symposium for Distinguished Young Scholars Conference
Conference time: April 13-14, 2019
Registration time: January 1-March 15
[Location: Xi’an, China]
Research Updates
Xiao, Dan, and Chen Wang. "Rising smoking epidemic among adolescents in China." The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 7.1 (2019): 3-5.
Wang, Yue, and Weibing Wang. "Importance of tuberculosis vaccination targeting older people in China." The Lancet Global Health (2019).
Wei, Min, et al. "Rising mortality rate of cervical cancer in younger women in urban China." Journal of general internal medicine (2019): 1-4.
McGurgan, Iain John, et al. "Blood Pressure and Risk of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in China." Stroke 50.1 (2019): 38-44.
Wang, Minghuan, et al. "Trends in smoking prevalence and implication for chronic diseases in China: serial national cross-sectional surveys from 2003 to 2013." The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 7.1 (2019): 35-45.