Professor CHEN received his M.D. degree in social medicine and health management from Shanghai Medical University in 1998 and completed a research fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health from August 2000 to May 2001. Currently, he serves as Director of PuDong Preventive Medicine Institute, Fudan’s Foreign Affairs Office, Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan Affairs Office, and and the Confucius Institute. He was the Dean of the School of Public Health at Fudan University from April 2013 to June 2017. Professor Chen is often invited as an investigator and advisor by national and municipal governments for various research programs on the Chinese healthcare system, national and provincial health insurance, pharmacoeconomics and pharmaceutical policy, health financing, etc. He has more than 120 publications in international and Chinese health economics and management journals. He was elected Excellent Talent in the New Century by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2008.

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