How the Public Health Crisis Undercuts Beijing’s Global Ambitions

Join Dean Eliot A. Cohen and Dr. Yanzhong Huang, Professor at Seton University and Senior Fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, with moderation by Andrew Mertha, Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Director of the China Studies Program at Johns Hopkins SAIS, for a timely discussion on the impact of China’s public health crises, including COVID-19, on China’s global ambitions. This conversation will highlight key lessons learned in Dr. Huang’s new book, Toxic Politics: Chinas’ Environmental Health Crisis and its Challenge to the Chinese State.
Dr. Yanzhong Huang, an alumnus of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directs the Global Health Governance roundtable series. He is also a professor and the director of global health studies at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations, where he developed the first academic concentration among U.S. professional schools of international affairs that explicitly addresses the security and foreign policy aspects of health issues. He is the founding editor of Global Health Governance:? The Scholarly Journal for the New Health Security Paradigm.