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On March 18, an academic event organized by the School of Public Health was held at the Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Professor Koh Woon Puay from the Clinician Scientist Development Unit, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and Dr. Rajkumar Dorajoo, Senior Scientist at the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology an...

On September 6, 2023, an original study entitled "Associations between Urinary Concentrations of Disinfection Byproducts and in Vitro Fertilization Outcomes: A Prospective Cohort Study in China" was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, the top journal with excellent reputation in field of environmental health. This study, led by Prof. Zeng's team at the School of Public Health, Tongj...

On July 28, 2023, Diabetes Care recently published the new findings of Professor Liu Gang's team from the School of Public Health entitled "Associations of Habitual Calcium Supplementation With Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Individuals With and Without Diabetes". The study suggested that habitual use of calcium supplements was significantly associated with a higher risk of CVD...

   On January 10, 2023, PLoS Medicine, an authoritative journal in medicine, published online the latest research results of Professor Liu Gang's team from the School of Public Health, entitled "Healthy lifestyle behaviors, mediating biomarkers, and risk of microvascular complications among individuals with type 2 diabetes: A cohort study". Geng Tingting (post-doctor student) and Zhu Kai (doct...

On February 14, 2023, a prestigious statistics journal "The American Statistician" published online the latest research results of the research group of Prof. Ping Yin from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Prof. Nianjun Liu from Indiana University Bloomington entitled "MOVER-R and penalized MOVER-R confidence intervals for the ratio of two quantities" (https://www.tandfonline.c...

Latest research published in Nature Human Behaviour showed that:How to cook for a healthy lifeOn December 8, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour published online the latest research results of Professor Tangchun Wu from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Professor Liming Li from Peking University entitled "Cooking and future risk of all-cause and cardiopulmonary mortality"[1]. Associate...

Speaker : Ming Guoli, Academician of National Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, USA Time : 9 : 00 am on September 28, Beijing time ( 9 : 00 pm ET ) Language : EnglishLive Link:https://wx.vzan.com/live/tvchat-1453766601?shauid=S3LAuaARAG6VYumDgcrgXw**Live Link Code :Lecture topic：Applying novel technologies to understand neurodevelopment and neu...

On August 5 at 4:30 pm, the closing ceremony of 2022 Tongji Summer School (TJSS2022) was held at the Academic Report Hall of Tongji Medical College and streamed live. Prof. Jianguo Chen, Vice President of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, together with heads of schools and departments of HUST attended the ceremony that was moderated by Dr. Jie Chen, Director of the Office of Intern...

In the face of the new challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic of the century and the new task of implementing the China's 2020 health, the Office of International Affairs and the School of Public Health further implemented the spirit of the national education opening-up document in the new era and the specific requirements of the 14th Five-Year international exchange plan of Huazhong Univers...

Governments often talked about evidence-based policy making in public health and clinical medicine. However most national health agencies tend to be bogged down by operations, with a diminished bandwidth to curate evidence and best practices to inform policy setting. Partnerships between academia and policy makers thus present a powerful opportunity for the advocacy, design, and monitoring of health policies and national programmes in health. Such partnerships however cannot be left to chance, but must be deliberately nurtured by a governance framework that explicitly supports the regular flow of information and ideas between academia and government agencies. In this session, I will introduce the value proposition of academic-government partnerships in health, and to illustrate a few national policies that benefitted from such partnerships.