Theme: On Public Health Emergency given the context of Covid-19

Speaker:Nora Ann Colton

Time and Date: 16:30-18:00， November 11， Thursday，2021.

Location: Online

Feishu Meeting：https://meetings.feishu.cn/s/1he8m6xe8ouf6?src_type=1#

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Sponsors: Center for University Student Cultural Education of UESTC

Organizers: Center for West African Studies of UESTC

Over the past few years, with the Covid-19 pandemic, we have heightened awareness concerning health and healthcare. Although the pandemic has increased public awareness of health, we have been witnessing an increase in demand for healthcare services that have strained our healthcare systems even before the pandemic. The need for effective healthcare systems and services could not be greater given global demographic changes and lifestyle changes leading to increases in non-communicable diseases.  These factors are impacting health and creating a pressing need for more access to quality care.  When we take all these factors together, we see an urgent need to increase the number of health professionals and the need to rethink our healthcare eco-systems. In this lecture, we will explore some of the emerging themes in terms of healthcare management, such as systems thinking for population health management and more preventive healthcare rather than healthcare systems mainly focused on treatment.

Professor Nora Colton is the Director of the UCL Global Business School of Health.  She is a health and development economist with extensive experience in change management and strategy.  Previous to this role, she was the  UCL Pro-Vice-Provost (Postgraduate Education) and Joint Director of Education at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Hospital.  She has been a Professor of International Economics at Drew University, USA; Dean of Business and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at University of East London (UEL), UK; and a visiting professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Electronic Science and Technology (UESTC), Chengdu, China as well as the American University in Beirut (AUB), Lebanon.

She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, UK.  She also has studied and taught at several leading universities, including Harvard University; W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University; American University in Cairo; American University in Beirut and  Barcelona Business School at University Pompeu Fabra, Spain. She also holds a certificate in Change Management from Cornell University in the USA.

She has been the recipient of a serial Fulbright and a Carnegie Foundation grant to conduct fieldwork in the Middle East.

She is the author of numerous journal articles concerned with Middle Eastern economics and politics.  She is also co-author of a book with Elsevier Press entitled Middle East Finance: Missed-opportunities or Future Prospects and has a book forthcoming with Palgrave-Macmillan on the political economy of Yemen.  She has also been a series editor of a book series on Middle East Economics through Palgrave-Macmillan. More recently, she conducts research and publishes on healthcare management and strategic leadership.

She has a particular interest in change management as it relates to the healthcare sector and has designed programmes and taught on healthcare management postgraduate degree programmes as well as health-related executive education and training programmes.