China Environment and Health Resource Hub

Jing Fang earned her PhD from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex University, UK in 2006. Before that, she had acted as one of the Deputy Director of Yunnan Reproductive Health Research Association (YRHRA), a NGO based in Yunnan China, and had undertaken research on Chinese rural health care services, particularly women’s reproductive health issues in poor rural China for more than one decade. She also involved in providing technical support for Quality of Care Project of the National Family Planning Commission and the Improving Reproductive Health Project of the Ministry of Health as well as HIV/AIDS prevention project of Yunnan Province. In the last a few years, she focused on her study on the governance and accountability of Chinese health system. She has a professorship position at the Kunming Medical College, Yunnan Province, China and is also a member of the Gender and Health Equity Network (GHEN), an international group consisting researchers, governmental officials and practitioners in India, UK, US, China, Sweden, Mozambique and WHO. Since 2006 she has been working at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), an independent intergovernmental organization based on Kathmandu, Nepal, as a coordinator for a project entitled land use change and human health in eastern Himalaya: an adaptive ecosystem approach.

Also participates in

• Land Use Transition and Human Health in the Eastern Himalayas, 2006-2007