Programs

China Environment and Health

Generating new research on the connection between health, environment, and development in China

A Chinese public health expert (far right) teams up with a British anthropologist to interview members of rural families in Yunan about their environmental health concerns, May 2009.

China's rapid industrialization and urbanization have given rise to a range of environmentally-related threats to human health. While the medical issues are becoming clear, the social dimensions of these problems have yet to be fully explored. The SSRC's China and the Environment Initiative seeks to assess the state of current knowledge on the relationship between the environment and health in China and to foster collaboration among researchers from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, ranging from social science to medical and environmental science. Our goal is to promote the generation and dissemination of new, social science-based research on these issues through conferences, forums, workshops, institutional collaborative grants, and an international resource exchange.
Program Director
Jennifer Holdaway
Program Coordinator
Zengming Song