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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.

About the Speaker: Michelle A. Williams, SM '88, ScD '91, is an internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health scientist, an award-winning educator, and a widely recognized academic leader. Prior to becoming Dean, she was Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School and Program Leader of the Population Health and Health Disparities Research Program...

On July 11th, the 2022 Tongji Summer School (TJSS2022) was officially kicked off. Nearly a thousand of outstanding students from 91 universities in 17 countries and regions gathered online on the opening ceremony. Prof. Jianguo Chen, Vice President of HUST and Prof. An Pan, Dean of the School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of HUST, delivered opening remarks. Heads of schools and depar...

Through concept analysis and case study, this lecture will interpret the important role of advancing global health in promoting sustainable development, as well as the inseparable and interlocking relationship among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

On May 3, 2022, Diabetes Care, an authoritative journal in diabetes, published online the latest research results of Professor Liu Gang's team from the School of Public Health entitled "Associations of Serum Carotenoids With Risk of Cardiovascular Mortality Among Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes". The study suggested that high concentrations of serum β-carotenoids were associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in patients with diabetes. Zixin Qiu and Xue Chen, graduate students from the School of Public Health, were the co-first authors, and Prof. Gang Liu was the corresponding author.

HUST Tongji is delighted to offer the "2022 Tongji Summer School" this summer in a hybrid online and offline format, opening to HUST and its partner institutions with free access.

On the evening of April 19, the first meeting of the Global Coalition of Deans of Schools of Public Health in 2022 was held online. The founding members of the alliance are the deans of public health schools of ten world-renowned universities, and the alliance was initiated and established by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Vanke School of Public Health of Tsinghua University. The School of Public Health of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology is the only member of China besides the School of Public Health of Tsinghua University.

Research webinar arranged by HUST and UOB scholars successfully heldSchool of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and the Bristol Medical School successfully held a webinar on March 31.

Recently, Professor Liu Gang and Professor Pan An's group from the School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, have made new progress in the field of health management of patients with hypertension. The research papers have been published on JAMA Network Open and Hypertension.On February 1st, a research paper entitled "Association of lifestyle...