{"id":40698,"date":"2015-10-15T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=40698"},"modified":"2015-10-15T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T12:00:32","slug":"global-health-economics-expertowu-alumnus-to-speak-receive-honorary-degree-oct-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/global-health-economics-expertowu-alumnus-to-speak-receive-honorary-degree-oct-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Health Economics Expert\/OWU Alumnus to Speak &amp; Receive Honorary Degree Oct. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OWU alumnus William C. Hsiao, Ph.D., has helped to design health system reforms and universal health insurance programs for countries including China, Colombia, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Uganda, Vietnam, and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0has served as an adviser to three U.S. presidents and to the U.S. Congress, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Health Organization, and International Labor Organization. Today, Hsiao\u00a0is considered one of the world\u2019s foremost experts in health economics.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 20, Hsiao will present at free public lecture and receive an OWU honorary Doctor of Laws degree for his global efforts to improve health care for hundreds of millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>Hsiao, who majored in physics and mathematics at Ohio Wesleyan, will speak at<strong> 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 in Benes Room B<\/strong> of Hamilton-Williams Campus Center.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us for this very special event.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Office of the President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OWU alumnus William C. Hsiao, Ph.D., has helped to design health system reforms and universal health insurance programs for countries including China, Colombia, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Uganda, Vietnam, and the United States. He\u00a0has served as an adviser to three U.S. presidents and to the U.S. Congress, World Bank, International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}