Shufang Zhang joined UNRISD in June 2011 to coordinate the project on Migration and Health in China. Shufang obtained her doctoral degree in health economics from Harvard University and worked at the World Bank Institute managing training portfolios for senior Chinese government officials on poverty reduction and sustainable development. She is a founding member of the Chinese Health Policy and Management Society and served on the Board of Directors of the Chinese Economists Society and the Corporate Environmental Advisory Council of Dow Chemical Company.
Shufang’s research interests include health care financing, the monitoring and evaluation of health interventions, health and labour productivity and smoking behaviour.