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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
 


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

 

9:00 am

Keynote Speech I:  Emerging Public Health Issues & Threats Around the Pacific Rim

Henk BEKEDAM, China Representative, World Health Organization
slides (ppt)

 

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)

 

10:30 am Break

 

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
 

1:00 pm Lunch

 

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




5:00 pm

Poster Session & Reception

 

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
pdf Experience from Thailand's Deep South Violence

Agus PURWADIANTO, Head, Law and Organization Bureau, Ministry of Health Indonesia, Chief, Forensic Medicine, University of Indonesia
pdf 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
pdf SARS and the University: Partnership During an Epidemic  

 

10:00 am Break

 

10:15 am Panel Discussion III: Influencing Public Health Policy and Practice pdf
                    
Chair: Don NUTBEAM, Provost and Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Sydney
ppt slides (ppt)

Lead Speaker:

Stephen LEEDER, Director, Australian Health Policy Institute, University of Sydney
pdf 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
pdf Influencing Public Health Policy & Practices 
                       
Srinath REDDY, President, Public Health Foundation of India and Professor, Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
pdf Influencing Public Health Policy and Practice 

Naoki IKEGAMI, Professor and Chair, Department of Health   Policy
pdf 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
pdfTB Control in China as an example 

 

12:15 pm Lunch

 

1:30 pm Concurrent Group Discussions pdf

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

 

3:30 pm Break

 

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

 

5:30 pm Keynote Speech III

Harvey FINEBERG, President, Institute of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences

 

6:15 pm



Closing Reception

Host:  Zhihong XU, President, Peking University
pdf Closing Speech

   

 



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