Yunnan Health and Development Research Association

Promoting equal health and development for men and women.

Goals

To provide research, personnel training, and social services in order to promote public health and societal development. We also provide consultation and technological support to policy-making departments.

Major Projects

• Project operation: Carrying out the design, implementation, evaluation and technological support for health and social development projects commissioned by Chinese and international organizations.
• Specialized Training in the Field of Health and Social Development
• Information Exchange: Published a newsletter and collected translations
• Policy Advocacy: Advocated for equal health and other public services, and for reproductive rights
• Social Work Services
• Applied Research

Major Achievements

• 1994 - 2008, Published 19 monographs and translations on reproductive health and health in the social sciences
• 1994 - 2010, Held 16 International Reproductive Health Cooperation Conferences, National-level Conferences for Professionals, and Training Courses
• 2002, Held the 6th Asia-Pacific Social Sciences and Medicine Conference, during which chairperson Dr. Kaining Zhang was selected as the secretary-general of the Asian-Pacific Network of Health Social Sciences
• 2008, named by the China Association for Science and Technology as an Earthquake Disaster Relief Advanced Group. Selected as a leading group for family planning in Western China, promotion of Tibetan minority health, and pregnancy and post-natal health care in Tibetan and the surrounding regions.

Major Funders

National Population and Family Planning Commission of P.R. China, United Nations Population Fund, Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Center for Women

Major Partners

International organizations, government institutions, social organizations, and community groups

Distinctions

We focus on community development for impoverished and minority communities and disadvantaged groups. We emphasize gender sensitivity, ethnic culture sensitivity, and the application of participatory methods. We encourage the integration of medicine and the social sciences, theory and practice, international theory and Chinese reality, and theoretical research and social services.