{"id":50857,"date":"2016-10-03T08:29:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=50857"},"modified":"2019-02-21T15:19:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T01:19:14","slug":"office-of-public-health-hosts-uh-fudan-public-health-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/03\/office-of-public-health-hosts-uh-fudan-public-health-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Office of Public Health hosts UH-Fudan Public Health Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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UH<\/abbr> President David Lassner gives welcome remarks at the UH<\/abbr>-Fudan Public Health Summit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa Office of Public Health Studies<\/a> (OPHS) hosted a UH<\/abbr>-Fudan Public Health Summit September 26–28. Eight faculty members from Fudan University<\/a> and Wuhan University<\/a> in China—including Wen Chen, dean of the Fudan School of Public Health—attended the summit at East-West Center’s<\/a> Jefferson Hall.<\/p>\n

During the summit, UH<\/abbr> Mānoa signed an agreement with Fudan University for 2016–2021 renewing the decade-long collaboration between the OPHS<\/abbr> and Fudan University School of Public Health. The UH<\/abbr>-Fudan agreement formalizes a BS\/MS<\/abbr> fast track program, also called the 4+1+1 Program. Students who pursue and successfully earn bachelor degrees at Fudan in preventive medicine study may then pursue a fast-track master’s degree in public health at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> President David Lassner<\/a><\/strong>, School of Social Work<\/a> Dean Noreen Mokuau<\/a><\/strong> and OPHS<\/abbr> Director Kathryn Braun<\/a><\/strong> gave opening remarks, emphasizing the value of and their support for international exchange and collaborations.<\/p>\n

“The successful 10-year relationship between UH<\/abbr> Mānoa and Fudan University in public health is testament to the evolving need for international partnerships on global health,” stated Mokuau.<\/p>\n

The summit’s main purpose was to highlight and promote academic exchange and research between UH<\/abbr> Mānoa and China. Summit speakers shared views on health policy and reform, aging, environmental degradation and global health challenges—all important areas of public health.<\/p>\n

Developing research through international exchange<\/h2>\n
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Skip Burkle, Senior Fellow with Harvard’s Humanitarian Initiative, addresses summit attendees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“More than 125 Chinese students and faculty have visited UH<\/abbr>, and more than 80 UH<\/abbr> students and faculty have visited China. They all have benefited from this international exchange program by developing research credentials and experience,” said Yuanan Lu<\/strong>, the professor who has led OPHS<\/abbr> since 2007. “The objective of our UH<\/abbr>-China program is to enhance public health education globally and to promote international cooperation with China, the most populated country in the world.”<\/p>\n

Over the past ten years, OPHS<\/abbr> has worked with four leading schools of public health in China, including Fudan and Wuhan universities. Besides student and faculty exchange, research collaborations between OPHS<\/abbr> and China have resulted in more than 50 peer-reviewed publications in environmental health, social and behavioral health, health policy and management and epidemiology.<\/p>\n

OPHS<\/abbr> pioneered fast-track degree programs at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa, with its first agreement with Wuhan University in 2008. To date, OPHS<\/abbr> has developed such agreements with four universities in China—Wuhan, Fudan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Nanchang.\u00a0OPHS<\/abbr> also has agreements in place with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology<\/a> (Germany), the University of Tokyo<\/a>, Korea University<\/a> and Catholic University of Korea.<\/p>\n

To further strengthen the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa<\/abbr>-China partnership, OPHS<\/abbr> has established the China-Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Public Health Exchange Fund at the UH<\/abbr> Foundation. To donate, go to the UH<\/abbr> Foundation Website<\/a> and search for account 12748304, or contact Yuanan Lu at (808) 956-2702 or yuanan@hawaii.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The summit promoted academic exchange and research between UH<\/abbr> Manoa and China, highlighting important areas of public health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[134,449,596,9],"class_list":["post-50857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-international","tag-public-health-sciences","tag-myron-b-thompson-school-of-social-work","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50857"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90705,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50857\/revisions\/90705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}