Pardee Center Hosts Scholar from Italy

This summer, the Pardee Center is hosting a visiting scholar, Daniele Brombal. He is a doctoral candidate in East Asian Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, and is currently carrying out a research project aimed at analyzing institutional determinants of public healthcare policies in contemporary rural P.R.China.

Between 2007 and 2010, Daniele was Research Consultant and Health Programme Officer at the Development Cooperation in China of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, coordinating research activities aimed at assessing the level of accessibility to health care services and the extent of impoverishment due to medical expenses among rural populations and working at technical assistance projects targeting county hospitals in central and western China. In 2009, he was fellow of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN/DESA) at the Embassy of Italy in Beijing.

Daniele’s academic background include a research stay as China Scholarship Council Fellow at the School of Public Administration of Renmin University of China for the A.Y. 2006-2007. In the same institution, he was Visiting Scholar of the Health Reform and Development Center in 2010.

While at the Pardee Center, Daniele will participate as observer to the work of the Summer Fellows 2011, verifying the possibility of applying preliminary findings of his research concerning public policies in rural China to other developing countries, with special reference to those characterized by a transitional political and institutional context.