Lijie Fang

Dr. Lijie Fang is an Associate Professor, and deputy director, at the Department of Social Policy, Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She received her PhD of Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Renmin University of China. She worked as a two-years post-doctor fellow in Tsinghua University of China during 2008-2010, and as a visiting Ford Foundation Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science from 2013-2014. Currently, she’s working as a visiting fellow at UN Institute for Social Development Study, as well as a collaborating researcher in the New Directions in Social Policy project.
Her research is mainly focused on health policy, elderly service, community development, and welfare regime. She’s the author of Annual Health Report of China, which is a regular chapter of The Blue Book of China’s Society, in the past four years (2012-2015).
She has been a consultant in the departments of Ministry of Health and Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Central Government in China. She is currently conducting, at the request of the local government, some pilot projects on local innovation of social policy.
She is a co-organizer of a comparative study network ＂Social Policy in Greater China＂, which is composed of seven universities and institutes from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong; as well as an initiator and organizer of the China Alliance of Local Innovation, in which 8 county governments of China, their social organization partners, and many researchers are working together to improve the local innovation of social policy. She is also the co-director of the ＂Social Policy Review＂, a by-annual book series of China.