The document outlines the strategies and missions of the China National Health Development Research Center (CNHDRC), established in 1991 to provide technical consultancy for health development and reform. It details the organization's structure, its engagement with policymakers, the successes in influencing health care reform, and the challenges faced in a rapidly changing environment. The CNHDRC emphasizes the importance of mutual learning and international collaboration in health development.

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Zhenzhong ZHANG, Yunping WANG
China National Health Development Research Center
From Research to Policy:
CNHDRC Strategies

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Outlines
 The need in practice
 Objectives and missions of CNHDRC
 Strategies employed
 Key successes and constraints
 Outlook for international communications

3. The need in practice
 Characters underlying the process of China social and
economic reform: more involvement of consultation
agencies
 Ongoing health reform: comprehensive demand for
evidence-based consultation
 Significant opportunities for CNHDRC
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4. Objectives and Missions of CNHDRC
 China National Health Development Research Center
(CNHDRC) formerly known as CHEI, a national think-tank
 Established: 1991
 Affiliations: MoH, China
 Objectives: provide technical consultancy on health
development and reform for policy makers.
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Information knowledge
Missions: transfer

6. Strategies Employed
1. Organizational structure: MoH orientied & reach to other
ministries at central level
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“Express channel”
to departments of
MoH
“Binding” with other
ministries
Assumed the policy
consultant for central
government

7. 2. Targeting the needs of policy makers
 Priorities on their agenda
 Prospective + foundamental + applied research
 Combine the mid-long research with quick-response research
3. Developing network
 China Network for Training and Research on Health Economics
and Financing
 China Health Development Forum (CHDF)
 Scaling-up international partners
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Strategies Employed

8. 4. Wide study fields for policy incubating:
 Maintaining a sound cooperation with local
governement in programmes
 Engage policy makers and health managers in learning
process
 Generalize and synthesis experience from local
practice
 Upwards + outwards tansmit models
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Strategies Employed

9. Key successes and constraints
 Successes:
 Policy recommendations be included in the health care
reform plan;
 Policy brief submitted to CPC Central Committee, State
Council and get their feedbacks;
 Research capacity of local officials strengthened
 Constraints/challenges:
 Learning by doings in a rapid change period
 Research comes after policy
 Capacites in doing research and packing it up
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10. Reflections
 Target the needs of policy makers matters a lot
 Take good use of policy “windows” to insert
 Engage the policy makers in the learning process
 Stand on the shoulders of giants in the networks
 Increasing mutual learning with international communities –
health development has no boundary
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