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Announcement | May 06, 2016
PATH announces leader for China country program
Mr. YanXiang Wang to lead PATH’s innovative product development partnerships in China
…A history of collaboration and impact
Since 1979, PATH has collaborated with Chinese government agencies, research institutes, nongovernmental organizations, and manufacturers to address the country’s health needs and build its capacity to contribute to global health. PATH’s public-private partnership model for developing health products has been key to reaching several milestones.

As leader of PATH China country program, Mr. Wang will oversee partnerships with Chinese manufacturers to develop and produce low-cost, high-quality health products across vaccines, medical devices, and drugs. PATH has collaborated with both state-owned and private companies to develop multivalent rotavirus vaccine and live attenuated influenza vaccine, and conduct overseas phase III clinical trials for bivalent oral poliomyelitis vaccine. PATH’s work with the Chinese manufacturer Chengdu Institute of Biological Products Co., Ltd., beginning in 2006, resulted in an effective and affordable vaccine against Japanese encephalitis being the first vaccine made in China to obtain World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification, and has allowed the vaccine to reach millions of children throughout Southeast Asia.

PATH also has collaborated with a Chinese private company to develop, manufacture, and introduce an innovative contraceptive—the Woman’s Condom—a next-generation female condom that studies have found to be more acceptable to users than earlier products. In March 2016, the Woman’s Condom received the prequalification from both WHO and United Nations Population Fund, an important step toward reaching more women with this inventive product.

PATH is partnering with a Chinese pharmaceutical company to seek US Food and Drug Administration approval and WHO prequalification of a locally invented drug to treat a neglected disease. In addition, the PATH China country program has efforts under way with the Chinese CDC to implement a comprehensive tuberculosis control project…