Health policy research is able to provide prospecting and effective reference and suggestion for "top-level design" of the new medical reform. Advocacy Coalition Framework is a very important model for the research policy change that synthesizesinstitutional economics, political science and other theories and has strong explanatory power in many policy areas of high-income countries. However, China is still in its infancy. this study introduced the main ideas of the framework, development, application status of health policy field at home and abroad, and put forward the future research direction in the field of health policy that in order to promote the application of the framework in health policy research in China, improve the theoretical and scientific levels of the policy research