Seminar in Stanford to discuss health challenges of Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Asia-Pacific Research Center of US-based Stanford University is planning to run a seminar to discuss overcoming health issues facing Mongolia on April 9. Speaker for the seminar will be G.Baigalmaa, who Developing Asia Health Policy Fellow at Stanford University, who joined the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) during the 2013-2014 academic year, together with Dr N.Dashdorj, Founder and Chairman of Onom Foundation and a 2014 Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Average life expectancy in Mongolia is 65 years, much shorter than that of other East Asian countries such as South Korea (78.5 years) and China (72.5 years). Furthermore, healthy life expectancy in Mongolia is even shorter, rendering the situation even more tragic. The World Health Organization estimates that the healthy life expectancy is 53 years for males and 58 years for females. This colloquium will provide an overview of health in Mongolia and its healthcare system, with expertise from two speakers. First, Dr Baigalimaa, Developing Asia Health Policy Fellow at Shorenstein APARC, will discuss her comparative study of how knowledge of cervical cancer risk factors has influenced behavior changes in Mongolia before and after the introduction of the National Cervical Cancer Program. Second, Dr. Dashdorj will present on overview of the healthcare initiatives of the Onom Foundation, designed to mitigate excess and premature mortality of Mongolians via knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship. He will report on a March national health policy meeting in Mongolia’s capital and recent strides in health improvement made with the support of the Onom Foundation.