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(Please click on the titles to view the presentations
and workshop papers.)
Thursday, May 24
| 6:00 pm |
Opening Reception for AWI Workshop
Chair: Peiyu WANG, Head, Department of Social Medicine and
Health Education, School of Public Health, Peking University
Host: Yonghua HU,Dean, School of Public Health,
Peking University
Welcome Remarks: Weigang FANG, Vice President for Health Sciences Center, Peking University
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8:00 pm |
Bus from Opening Reception to Shangri-La Hotel |
Friday, May 25
| 8:30 am |
Welcome and Introduction of Participants
Chair: Yonghua HU, Dean, School of Public Health,
Peking University
Yang KE, Executive Vice President, Peking University
Welcome Remarks
Richard DROBNICK, Managing Director, APRU World Institute and Director, Center for International Business Education and Research, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
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| 9:00 am |
Keynote Speech I: Emerging Public Health Issues & Threats Around the Pacific Rim
Henk BEKEDAM, China Representative, World Health Organization
slides (ppt)
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| 9:45 am |
Keynote Speech II: The Social-Economic Development and Public Health Challenges in China
Liming LEE, Vice President, Peking Union Medical College;
Professor, School of Public Health, Peking University; former Director of China's Center for
Disease Control and Prevention
slides (ppt)
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| 10:30 am |
Break
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| 10:45 am |
Panel Discussion I:
Preparing the Public Health Workforce

Chair: LIM Meng Kin, Associate Professor, Department of Community, Occupational & Family Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Lead Speaker:
Gilbert BURNHAM, Co-director, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response and Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Educating whom? and in what?
Panel Speakers:
Hua FU, Deputy Dean and Professor, School of Public Health, Fudan University
Strengthening Education of Clinical Prevention and Population Health for Medical Students
Kathy CAHILL, MPH, Deputy Director Global Health Strategies, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Perspectives from Philanthropy
Jia CAO, Dean of Preventive Medical College Third Military Medical University
(Chongqing,
China)
The Education of Military Preventive Medicine in Chinese Army
Adelheid MARSCHANG, Head, Public Health in Emergencies Unit- Health and Care Department, Secretariat of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Perspectives from a Humanitarian Network
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| 1:00 pm |
Lunch
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| 2:30 pm |
Panel Discussion II: Generating Public Health Knowledge

Co-Chair: Lynn GOLDMAN, Chairperson, Interdepartmental Program in Applied Public Health, School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Co-Chair: Tuofu ZHU, Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine, Molecular and Cellular Biology School of Medicine, University of Washington
Lead Speaker:
Sai-Kit LAM, President, Asia Pacific Society for Medical Virology and Adjunct Professor, Institute of Research Management and Consultancy, University of Malaya
Generating Public Health Knowledge in Addressing Emerging Public Health Threats
Panel Speakers:
Aikichi IWAMOTO, Professor, Institute of Medical Science, Division of Infectious Disease, Advanced Clinical Research Center, University of Tokyo
Japan-China Joint Laboratories for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
Chun CHANG, Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine and Health Education, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center
Taking the Responsibility in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control in China
Xiaomei PEI, Director, Gerontology Center, Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University
Long Term Care in China: A Public Health Perspective
Marc SCHENKER, Professor and Chair, Department of Public Health Sciences,
University of California, Davis
Immigration, Smoking and Public Health: Turning Research to Practice
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| 5:00 pm |
Poster Session & Reception
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6:00 pm |
Dinner
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Saturday, May 26
| 8:30 am |
Trans-Pacific Case Studies
Chair: Ann Marie KIMBALL, Professor, Epidemiology and Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington
and Director, APEC Asia Pacific Emerging Infections Network
Speakers:
Jeffrey DUCHIN, Chief, Communicable Disease Control, Epidemiology & Immunization Section, Public Health-Seattle & King County and Associate Professor in Medicine, University of Washington
Role of the University in Pandemic Preparedness
Vorasith SORNSRIVICHAI, International Program for Graduate Study in Epidemiology
Epidemiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University
Experience from Thailand's Deep South Violence
Agus PURWADIANTO, Head, Law and Organization Bureau, Ministry of Health Indonesia, Chief, Forensic Medicine, University of Indonesia
Disasters in Indonesia: An Ongoing Challenge
TAN Chorh Chuan, Senior Deputy President, National University of Singapore and Singapore’s Director of Medical Services during SARs
SARS and the University: Partnership During an Epidemic
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| 10:00 am |
Break
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| 10:15 am |
Panel Discussion III:
Influencing Public Health Policy and Practice
Chair: Don NUTBEAM, Provost and Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Sydney
slides (ppt)
Lead Speaker:
Stephen LEEDER, Director, Australian Health Policy Institute, University of Sydney
An academic contribution to public health policy formation
Speakers:
Dato' Dr. Anuar Zaini MD. ZAIN, Head, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia
Influencing Public Health Policy & Practices
Srinath REDDY, President, Public Health Foundation of India and
Professor, Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
Influencing Public Health Policy and Practice
Naoki IKEGAMI, Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy
Influencing Public Health Policy and Practice: An academic’s role in setting medical fees
Tuohong ZHANG, Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, Peking University
TB Control in China as an example
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| 12:15 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30 pm |
Concurrent Group Discussions

Four interdisciplinary, international groups of about 15 participants each
Group I: Communicable Diseases
Chair: Graham BROWN, James Stewart Professor of Medicine, University of Melbourne and Head of the Department of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital/Western Hospital
Group II: Non-Communicable Diseases
Chair: Dato' Dr. Anuar Zaini MD. ZAIN, Head, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia
Group III: Natural and Man-made Calamities
Chair: Eng Kiong YEOH, Director of Systems for Health, School of Public Health, Chinese University of Hong Kong; former Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority, and former Secretary for Heath, Welfare and Food, Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Group IV: Healthcare Systems
Chair: Shuzo NISHIMURA, Executive Vice-President, International Relations and Information Infrastructure and
Professor of Health Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
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| 3:30 pm |
Break
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| 4:00 pm |
University Leaders Panel Discussion
Co-Chair: Sian GRIFFITHS, Director, School of Public Health, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Co-Chair: Richard DROBNICK, Managing Director, APRU World Institute and Director, Center for International Business Education and Research, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
William BRODY, President, Johns Hopkins University
Gavin BROWN, Vice Chancellor
and Principal, University of Sydney
Jack C.Y. CHENG, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mark EMMERT, President, University of Washington
Harvey FINEBERG, President, Institute of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
SHIH Choon Fong, President, National University of Singapore
Zhihong XU, President, Peking University
Tao ZHAN, President, Shandong University
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| 5:30 pm |
Keynote Speech III
Harvey FINEBERG, President, Institute of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
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6:15 pm
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Closing Reception
Host: Zhihong XU, President, Peking University
Closing Speech
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