RUNDOWN:
17:45     Registration
18:00     Opening Remarks
18:05     Fireside Chat
18:35     Audience Q&A
18:55     Closing Remarks
19:00     Networking Drinks
19:30     End

ASHK Members and Northwestern, Kellogg, and Kellogg-HKUST Alumni: HKD 150
Non-Members: HKD 200

Asia Society Hong Kong Center is proud to host a fireside chat with Professor Craig Garthwaite, the Herman R. Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services, Professor of Strategy, and Director of the Program on Healthcare at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. In this dialogue, Professor Garthwaite will discuss global trends in healthcare innovation with Mr. James Chau, President of the China-United States Exchange Foundation and World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador.

How do cross-border cooperation, collaboration, and research lead to innovations in healthcare? In the current environment, what challenges do healthcare entrepreneurs and innovators face in bringing new products to market, and what opportunities do they see? How can better government policy advance innovation? How will new technologies, like AI, promote innovations in healthcare? Join Asia Society to hear from Professor Garthwaite about the global landscape for healthcare innovation and to answer these questions and your own.

Professor Craig Garthwaite is the Herman R. Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services, a Professor of Strategy, and the Director of the Program on Healthcare at Kellogg (HCAK). He is an applied economist whose research examines the business of healthcare with a focus on the interaction between private firms and public policies.

His recent work in the payer and provider sectors has focused on the private sector effects of the Affordable Care Act, the impact and operation of Medicaid Managed Care plans, the responses of non-profit hospitals to financial shocks, and the economic effects of expanded social insurance programs such as Medicaid and Medicare for All.

Professor Garthwaite also studies questions of pricing and innovation in the biopharmaceutical sector. In this area he has examined the effect of changes in market size of investments in new product development, the evolving world of precision medicine, expanded patent protection on pricing in the Indian pharmaceutical market, the innovation response of United States pharmaceutical firms to increases in demand, and the relationship between health insurance expansions and high drug prices.

His research has appeared in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and the New England Journal of Medicine.  In addition, he is a frequent media commentator appearing in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and The New York Times. He has also appeared as a guest on various television and radio shows such as Nightly Business Report and NPR Marketplace. In 2015, Professor Garthwaite was named one of Poet and Quants 40 Best under 40 Business School Professors.   

Garthwaite received a B.A. and a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and his PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. Prior to receiving his PhD, he served in a variety of public policy positions including the Director of Research for the Employment Policies Institute. He has testified before the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives and state legislatures on matters related to the healthcare markets, prescription drugs, the minimum wage, and health care reforms.

James Chau is President of the China-United States Exchange Foundation and World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador.

Born in London, he has earned a special reputation as a television news anchor who has interviewed world leaders in politics, science, and culture. They include Nobel Peace Prize laureates Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Muhammad Yunus, and Aung Sang Suu Kyi, as well as Bill Gates, Christine Lagarde, Elton John, Jane Goodall, Winnie Mandela, and Madam Peng Liyuan. He was a main anchor on China Central Television and a guest presenter on BBC World News.

Mr. Chau leads the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a non-governmental organization that builds trust between the world’s two leading economies. Founded by Mr. Tung Chee-hwa, its honorary advisors are the late Dr. Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State, and Mr. Robert Rubin, former Secretary of the Treasury. Based in Hong Kong, it partners with two American presidential legacies: The Carter Center and the George H.W. Bush Foundation.

His engagement in global health began with the United Nations during the AIDS epidemic. This experience shaped his belief in the transformative outcomes when science, civil society, and political leadership are allowed to freely combine. Since 2016, he has served as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Sustainable Development Goals and Health, appointed by Director-Generals Dr. Margaret Chan and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Mr. Chau studied at the Royal Academy of Music, King’s College London, and Cambridge University. He completed an Executive Education course at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

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