On 21 February, 2022, an online public event China and the World in the Post-COVID Era: a new agenda of public policy has been held to celebrate the launch of the LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub.

At the beginning of the event, Bingchun Meng, Co-director of the Hub, Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, announced the launch of the Hub and introduced the visions and missions of the Hub: to support collaborative research on global public policy, foster multidisciplinary cooperation and enhance communication between Fudan and LSE, to generate research of global impact. Andres Velasco, Council member of the LSE-Fudan Research Centre, Dean and Professor in the School of Public Policy, made brief remarks congratulating on the launch of the Hub and sending wishes.

In the event, an interdisciplinary panel of experts, Bill Bikales (Harvard-trained economist, former Lead Economist in the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in China), Xiaobo Lü (Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science in Barnard College, Columbia University), Xuefei Ren (Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Michigan State University) and Winnie Yip (Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the school wide China Health Partnership), discussed key public policy challenges that China and the world faces post-pandemic.

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