# Social Technology for Global Aging Research Initiative at Harvard ![she_tu_wang_500742828_gong_yuan_li_de_wan_nian_sheng_huo_fei_qi_ye_shang_yong_.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5401/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/hstga/files/she_tu_wang_500742828_gong_yuan_li_de_wan_nian_sheng_huo_fei_qi_ye_shang_yong_.jpg?itok=vvpL4Z_B) *By adding social care to technology, we create a social technology that provides solutions for older people along with the care they require.* Arthur Kleinman ## Highlight Reference Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults [ Read more arrow\_circle\_right ](http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2021.729149/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Public_Health&id=729149) ![Arthur Kleinman](/sites/g/files/omnuum5401/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/hstga/files/tu_pian_1.jpg?itok=Y7gn7VAw) ### **Arthur Kleinman** Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University Professor of Social Medicine and Global Health and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Faculty Director, Social Technology for Global Aging and Eldercare in China Initiative at Harvard ## Welcome! ### **Director's Words** Social Technology for Global Aging is a collaborative research program involving faculty and students from Harvard and from China. It involves faculty from six of Harvard's schools as well as from Tsinghua, Fudan, Minzu and Nanjing Post and telecommunications Universities. The central idea is to bring together anthropologists, engineers, physicians, design and public health experts and business school faculty in every facet of research concerned with improving eldercare from planning and implementation through evaluation. In this way, we seek to give voice to local inhabitants and professionals so that they can inform interventions which contain both social and technological components and which reflect the core concern to improve the lives of older persons, including those with disabilities, and their family and community caregivers. By so doing, we also seek to develop interdisciplinary methods that can be used to address global aging in other global settings such as the U.S. This website is established to invite viewers to learn about our program's projects, including our seminars, symposiums and the specific research activities of our faculty and students. The project is hosted by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine of Harvard Medical school and is funded by the Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute in Nanjing. ## Latest News [### Professor Arthur Kleinman Featured in T China Cover Story “Arthur Kleinman and His Disciples” ](/news/prof-kleinmans-impactful-tour-asia) May 01, 2026 Professor Arthur Kleinman was recently featured in a major long-form profile published by T China on May 1, 2026, titled “Arthur Kleinman and His Disciples” (《凯博文和他的中国弟子们》). The article reflects on Professor Kleinman’s decades-long intellectual and... [### Professor Arthur Kleinman Interviewed by South China Morning Post on Aging, Care, and China–US Collaboration ](/news/stga-held-its-regular-seminar-featuring-palliative-care-china) May 06, 2026 Professor Arthur Kleinman was recently featured in an interview with the South China Morning Post discussing the global challenges of aging societies, the limits of technological solutions, and the importance of international collaboration in addressing... [### Professor Gao Jun Visits Harvard to Strengthen JITRI Collaboration with STGA ](/news/person-event-student-affiliates) July 07, 2026 On July 2, 2026, Professor Gao Jun, Vice President of the Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI), visited Harvard University to learn more about the Social Technology for Global Aging (STGA) initiative. During his visit, Professor Gao... [Yuan Wang](/people/yuan-wang) [ More arrow\_circle\_right ](/news)