Tsung-Mei Cheng: Taiwan's Healthcare System and COVID-19 Lessons for the World

This week, Isabelle and Vivien are joined by Professor Tsung-Mei Cheng, who is a Health Policy Research Analyst at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She is cofounder of the Princeton Conference, an annual national conference on health policy that brings together the U.S. Congress, government, and the research community on issues affecting health care and health policy in the United States. Professor Cheng’s current research focuses on cross-national comparisons of health systems in East Asia, and she has served as an adviser to the Strategic Review Board of the Science and Technology Advisory Group (STAG), which advises the Office of the Premier of Taiwan on policies relating to the development of science and technology including health care in Taiwan.In the episode, Professor Cheng speaks about Taiwan's single-payer healthcare system and how the country has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please be reminded that the US-Asia Institute is a nonpartisan, non-advocacy organization with no policy agenda. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the US-Asia Institute. Support the show