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12:00-1:30 PM ET
Panel 1: “Development and Governance Challenges in Public Health"
“Universalism and Governance in the Post-Pandemic Moment”
Joseph Wong
Vice-President, International Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation, Munk School; Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto.
“Japan Innovates: Improving Health and Medicine in the Developing World”
Kathryn Ibata-Arens
Vincent de Paul Professor of Political Science, DePaul University.
“China, Covid-19, and global health governance”
Yanzhong Huang
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations.
3:00-4:30 PM ET
Panel 2: “Development, Climate Change, and Climate Migration"
“Making Sense of the Climate-Green Tech Acceleration Under Suga and Kishida”
Yves Tiberghien
Professor of Political Science and Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research; Director Emeritus, Institute of Asian Research; Director, Center for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia.
“Deservingness Criteria and Public Support for Refugee Admission”
Nicholas A.R. Fraser
Policy Innovations Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University.
"The Global Geopolitics of China's Low Carbon Transition"
Joanna Lewis
Provost Distinguished Associate Professor and Director, Science, Technology and International Affairs (STIA), Georgetown University.
Moderator: Christina L. Davis
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Department of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
This symposium is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Undergraduate Japan Policy Network, the Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Takemi Program in International Health.
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Additional Resources
- Fumio Kishida, "Human Security and Universal Health Coverage: Japan's Vision for the G7 Hiroshima Summit." The Lancet 401, January 20, 2023.
- Carmen Jacqueline Ho, Hina Khalid, Kimberly Skead, and Joseph Wong. "The Politics of Universal Health Coverage." The Lancet 399, May 17, 2022.
- Kathryn Ibata-Arens, Pandemic Medicine: Why the Global Innovation System is Broken, and How We Can Fix It. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2021.
- Yanzhong Huang, "The COVID-19 Pandemic and China's Global Health Leadership," Council on Foreign Relations, Council Special Report No. 92, January 2022.
- Yves Tiberghien, "Kishida's Cllimate Policy and Opportunities for U.S.-Japan Cooperation." Asia Policy 18:1, January 2023; and "The Indo Pacific's green industrial policy race," East Asia Forum, November 1, 2022.
- Nicholas A.R. Fraser and Go Murakami, "The Role of Humanitarianism in Shaping Public Attitudes Toward Refugees." Political Psychology 43:2, April 2022.
- Margaret M. Jackson, Joanna I. Lewis, and Xiliang Zhang. "A green expansion: China's role in the global deployment and transfer of solar photovoltaic technology." Energy for Sustainable Development 60, February 2021.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, G7 Hiroshima 2023 webpage.