If you don’t know about the Beijing Healthcare Forum, it’s a discussion group formed by two Fulbright scholars, Ray and Jared, in Beijing. Every two weeks or so (sometimes the breaks between each discussion are longer) they bring together a diverse community of Chinese and Western healthcare professionals and scholars to debate a question brought on by some article that’s caught their eye.

I’ve never been, but co-managing editor of Asia Healthcare Blog, James, assures me that the conversations are vibrant.

There’s a meeting this week, the details and directions are below.

The article that this discussion draws from can be found here.

Dear Beijing Healthcare Forum,

We’re excited to continue our bi-weekly meetings after a very long hiatus! We hope you’re well rested from the break.

Our next Beijing Healthcare Forum will be Thursday, March 18th. It will continue to be at Luce Restaurant. 周四晚(3月18号)会议的地点是Luce餐馆, 从鼓楼大街地铁站往南走300米, which is 300m south of the Gulou subway station on the east side of the street (see below for details and attached map). This week’s presentation will be in English.  这次演讲人要用英文讲话。 We will have participant translators available for non-English speakers.

Meeting Details 会议的细节:

Language: English
Date: Thursday, March 18th
Time: 8:00PM (Discussion starts promptly at 8:45PM.)
Where: Luce Restaurant
Address: 138 Jiugulou Dajie, Dongcheng District, Beijing (The building is bright red; See attached map)北京市东城区旧鼓楼大街138号 (房子是红色的; 请看附件内的地图)
Ph #: 8402.4417

“What is Child Survival and How is it Relevant to China?”
“儿童存活是什么? 跟中国有什么关系?”

This next meeting’s speaker will be Barbara Bale. A brief bio of Ms. Bale is below:
下 次会议的演讲人是Barbarba Bale. 演讲人简介:

Barbara Bale has been living in SE Asia (Hong Kong, Ha Noi, Phnom Penh) since 1987. She obtained her BA Hons and Registered General Nurse qualification at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, then undertook a further 18 months training to qualify as a Registered Midwife. Following practice as a hospital based midwife in the UK and Hong Kong, she moved into social development and NGOs by joining the Vietnamese asylum seeker and refugee programme of Save the Children UK in Hong Kong.

In 1996, she completed her MA in medical anthropology at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London. Mrs. Bale moved to Viet Nam and spent the next decade working for a number of different health and development agencies (Save the Children US, PATH, UNFPA, WHO), mostly on maternal-child health.

Mrs. Bale moved to Cambodia in 2006 and to Beijing in September 2009. She is currently the newborn and child survival director for the China Programme of Save the Children (UK).

从1987年起一直生活在东南亚（香港、河 内、金边）。

在英国Sheffield Hallam University本科毕业并获得注册护士资格，之后经过18个月的培训成为注册助产士。在 英国和香港的医院作为助产士工作一段时间后进入社会发展领域及非政府组织，在英国救助儿童会设在香港的越南政治避难者及难民项目工 作。

1996年在伦敦大学非洲及东方研究学院获得医学人类学硕士学位。之后为越南的多个卫生及发展机构工作（美国救助儿童会，PATH, 联合国人口基金，世界卫生组织等），工作主要侧重在妇幼保健方面。

2006年搬到柬埔寨，并于2009年9月搬到北京-目前是英国救助儿童会婴幼儿健康项目总监。

Homework 功课:

Summary of The Lancet Child Survival Series : BASICS II; Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival; 2008.

We encourage everyone to take advantage of Ms. Bale’s expertise and invite your friends! Thanks and please let us know if you have any questions.

请邀请你的朋友,同事和任何对于医疗保健事业感兴趣的人来参加我们的活动！谢谢！

Ray and Jared
邓 腾和高志忠