Health Policy Innovation in Singapore: The Tools Portfolio

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31 Oct
10:00 am - 11:30 am (GMT+8)
Room 4582 (lift 27/28), Academic Bldg, HKUST
Unit
Division of Public Policy
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Speaker
Professor M Ramesh
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Moderator
Professor Alex Jingwei He
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Abstract
This seminar will describe the innovative manner in which policy tools are used to promote complementarities in of health policy in Singapore. It will argue that in public policy, it is not only the substance and procedures of the policy tools that matter, but also how they are assembled and work together. It will show that innovative use of policy tools a continuing process in a lot of incremental tinkering.

 

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Professor M Ramesh
Professor and UNESCO Chair on Social Policy Design in Asia

M Ramesh is Professor and UNESCO Chair on Social Policy Design in Asia. Previously, he was the Founding Head of the Department of Asian and Policy at the Hong Kong Institute of Education; Professor of Social Policy at the University of Hong Kong; and Chair of the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Specialising in public policy and governance in Asia with a particular focus on social policy, Ramesh has authored and edited several dozen books and journal articles . He is the founder and editor of highly ranked journals Policy and Society and Policy Design and Practice as well as the acclaimed series Cambridge Elements in Public Policy. He is currently the President of the International Public Policy Association.

Professor Alex Jingwei HE
Associate Professor, Division of Public Policy

This seminar will describe the innovative manner in which policy tools are used to promote complementarities in of health policy in Singapore. It will argue that in public policy, it is not only the substance and procedures of the policy tools that matter, but also how they are assembled and work together. It will show that innovative use of policy tools a continuing process in a lot of incremental tinkering.

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