EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: July 23-27, 2012

EVENT: Twenty-six health care professionals and graduate students from Taiwan will visit the University of Michigan next week to take part in a program that focuses on the U.S. health system, hosted by the School of Public Health’s Department of Health Management and Policy.

The week-long “Institute of Health Management” sponsored by U-M and National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) will cover topics such as financing and delivery of health care, performance evaluation for hospitals and health systems, quality assessment and management, health policy and politics, and long-term care. Participants will spend time each day in informational sessions and also will tour several local health care facilities.

Visitors include NSYSU faculty, physicians, administrators and graduate students.

Taiwan has a universal health care system, managed by the Department of Health, which requires all residents to be enrolled in National Health Insurance. The system largely has been successful in managing the nation’s health care and controlling costs, but leaders say it is underfunded.

U-M’s Department of Health Management and Policy is the highest-ranked program of its kind in the world, sitting atop the U.S. News and World Report rankings since 1993. In addition to its association with Taiwan, department faculty members are engaged in research and programs with a number of other nations, and actively are involved with U.S. health care policy.

PLACE: U-M School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor

MEDIA: Reporters are invited to any of the informational sessions at the School of Public Health, most of which are in the morning. Advance notice to organizers is requested.

SPONSORS: U-M School of Public Health’s Department of Health Management and Policy and National Sun Yat-sen University

INFORMATION: www.sph.umich.edu/hmp