China Partners and Programs

China Partners and Programs

Public health research, degree courses, professional development and leadership capacity building:

Capacity building (PDF public health capacity building).

In public health capacity building CEPH has a strong and active working relationship with China CDC. A pilot Master of Sciences in Public Health (MScPH) program, from 2004 to 2005 produced 33 graduates from China CDC, 15 with Graduate Certificates, and 18 with Master degrees. From 2007-08, through winning two rounds of AusAID Australian Leadership Awards, CEPH provided China CDC a year-long public health leadership

program to 32 practitioners with leadership potential nominated nationwide from China. Currently there is a full range of degree and non-degree public health programs on offer, including post-doctoral, PHD, Master of Sciences in Public Health, Master of Environment and Health Leadership and Management, intensive professional development courses and professional short courses. Short courses cover a wide range areas such as health promotion planning and evaluation, healthy settings development (healthy cities, workplaces, hospitals, schools, communities), food safety, environmental health, occupational health, reproductive health promotion, public health research design. Joint Master of

Sciences in Public Health degree course partners are China CDC, Schools of Public Health of Peking University and Sun Yat-sen University.

The CEPH Centre has established a fruitful working relationship with many academic, Chinese government and non-government institutions in the areas of public health leadership and health promotion capacity building for disease control and prevention, gender and women’s health, environmental health and healthy settings, occupational health and botanical medicine for population health. Key partners come from the national, provincial and municipal levels of Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Beijing, shanghai, Hangzhou, etc), Guangdong Provincial Health Bureau, Women’s Research Institute of the All-China Women’s Federation, and Universities such as Peking University, Sun Yat-sen University, The Peking Union Medical University, and Zhejiang University.

MOU on migrant children at Peking U Dr Wang Yu and China CDC delegation visiting GU

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IcDEPH/CEPH Academics:

Prof Cordia Chu, Director Dr Peter Davey, Deputy Director Dr & Adj. Prof Max Reynolds Dr Shannon Rutherford Dr Patricia Lee Mr Ermi Ndoen Support Staff: Ms Maggie Barber Ms Rebecca Collingwood Ms Yan Wang Research Scholars Ms Cathy Wu Ms Nunik Kusumawardani Ms Bonnie Li Ms May Chang Ms Yan Wang Ms Sumei Li Mrs Sri Irianti Ms Katya May Mr Paul Johnston Mr Phung Tri Dung Ms Zoe Murray Mr Arie Djoekardi Mr Trevor Green Ms Barbara Bao Guo Mr Roy Bing Zhu

Griffith University Staff Members:

Prof Ian Lowe Prof Des Connell Prof Zhihong Xu Prof Roy Rickson

A/Prof Lawrence Crissman A/Prof David Schak Prof David Shum Dr Philip Williams Dr Kees Hulsman Dr Jin Gao Dr Andrew Chan Dr Larry Crump A/Prof David Bromwich Dr Igor Agranovski Dr Sarah Rickson Dr Peter Daniels

Mr Karlson 'Charlie' Hargroves Ms Cheryl Desha Dr Neil Harris Dr Bernadette Sebar Ms Judith Dean Dr Zoe Wong Mr Jason Byrnes

UNIVERSITY AND MEMBERS OF CEPH involved in the China Program

Visiting Professors

Prof Ershun Zhong, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Prof Xingming Song, PU

Post-doctoral fellow

Dr Emma Gao, Peking U

Adjunct Members from China: Prof Zheng Xiaoying, IcDEPH, IPR, PU Prof Song Xinming, IcDEPH, IPR, PU A/Prof Chen Gong, IcDEPH, IPR, PU A/Prof Hu Yukun, IcDEPH, IPR, PU Prof Wang Yan, Public Health, PU Prof Wang Linghong, China CDC Prof Li Liming, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Prof Liu Bohong, All China Women’s Federation,

Prof Zhang Sengnien, Shanghai CDC Prof Wang Yu, China CDC

Prof Ling Wenhua, Sun Yat-sen U Prof Albert Lee, Chinese U of HK A/Prof Charles Chan, Chinese Poly. U Prof Jiang Lifang, Sun Yat-sen U Prof Zhang Yonghui, Guangdong CDC Prof Wang Quiqiang, PU First Hospital Prof Liu Qiyong, China CDC

MScPh and Leadership Fellows

Ms Haiqing Wang Ms Biao Guo Ms Wenjun Wang Ms Liping Zheng Ms Haiming Luo Mr Yanming Li Mr Xiaohui Hou Mr Wuqi Qiu Mr Zhendong Tong Mr Liming Wu Mr Zheng Dai Mr Yong Lu Mr Cunrui Huang Mr Canrui Jin Ms Jingjing Xi Ms Eryong Liu Ms Zheng Liu Ms Yingying Jiang Ms Xiaowen Peng Mr Lei Cao Mr Jun Sun Mr Wenjun Ma Mr Tie Song Mr Huanyu Wu Ms Huihui Xu Ms Lijun Xie Ms Mimi Wang Mr Shengmin Lu Mr Haijun Quo Mr Li Xie Mr Wei Xia Mr Changjun Bao Ms Jianhua Duan Ms Yan Bi Ms Shuyun Xie Mr Xiaoqiu Liu Mr Wenhua Hu

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環境與人口健康研究中心

The Centre for Environment & Population Health

CEPH is committed to:

• Sustainable health development;

• Improve equity and access to primary health care and health promotion;

• Strategic planning for population health; • International links and partnership.

CEPH’s approaches to research, education and practices of Public Health:

– Integrative and system approach

– ecological understanding and

– interdisciplinary approach to problem solving • Courses are designed to offer critical skills and

practical solutions to deal with health needs of populations in the Asia-Pacific Region

環境與人口健康研究中心的宗旨

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CEPH PhD Research scholars from China (current):

Sumei Li, Risk Communication Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders in China's Western Areas (Australian Endeavour PhD Award scholar)

Yan Wang, Barriers to International Collaborations in Health

Bao GUO, Evaluation of national EFI Survelliance System in China

Bing ZHU, Barriers to and risk communication for immunization success for floating population in China Post-doctoral research:

Prof Xinming SONG, Institute of Population Research, Peking University Wenjin GAO, School of Public Health, Peking University

格利菲斯大学

致力于公共卫生研究与人才培养

是中国疾病预防与控制的合作伙伴

Building Partnership with China in

Strengthening Public Health Workforce Capacity in Disease

Control and Prevention

Public Health Capacity Building

Partnership in place with

Peking University

China CDC

Beijing CDC

Shanghai CDC

Sun Yat-sen University

Peking Medical Union College

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Professional short courses in environmental health and food safety management in China

Short Courses on Port Health and Quarantine for

Decision-makers, officials and planners

Shenzhen delegation

Short course participants from Shanghai Leadership fellows enjoying social functions

China Partners and Programs

Public health research

CEPH is working closely with returned graduates to make contributions to environment and population health through research to analyse and develop strategies to address serious public health challenges such as immunization for floating populations, management of drug-resistant TB, iodine deficiency among children, occupational injuries and illnesses in factories, and prevention of HIVAIDS sharp injuries by health care workers, mother-to child HIVAIDs prevention, health impact assessment, etc. Current focus and research consortium development are on the following areas:

– Migrant children’s health development (PDF on migrant children research)

– Risk communication and decision-making in public health

(PDF on risk communication research)

– Healthy and active ageing (PDF on gender and health development)

– Occupational health and safety (PDF on occupational health)

– Climate change and health (in development phase)

MOU on migrant children at Peking U Occupational Health Project Members

Advising Governments on the planning and development of healthy and sustainable cities: Integrating Environment, Health & Socio-economic development into urban planning and management

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The Centre’s Director, Prof Cordia Chu and Deputy Director, Dr Peter Davey have been actively involved with healthy settings development in the Asia-pacific Region. (see PDF on

Environment Program)

Environmental Health & Development

_{在健康城市的议程下，健康是整}

合都市计划、管理和发展的一部

份。基于需求评估和透过多部门

合作创造地方和都会的整合性计

划，其宗旨是为全体人民创建更

佳的健康和生活质量。

CEPH has MOU with the following Chinese partners on healthy cities:

Shanghai Health Education Institute

Shanghai Municipal Health Promotion Committee Hangzhou Municipal Government

China program areas of focus:

Environmental Health and Healthy Settings

In partnership with Shanghai Municipal Health Promotion Committee, CEPH members have been involved in the facilitation of healthy cities capacity building and assisted with the 2005 Shanghai International Conferences on Healthy Cities.

The Centre’s Director, Prof Cordia Chu and Deputy Director Dr Peter Davey have a long history of working with Shanghai on healthy settings development including healthy cities, workplaces and schools.

As early as 1993-1996 Prof Chu became a WHO consultant for the Shanghai Health Education Institute on the WHO sponsored Healthy Urban China Project which included healthy cities, health-promoting workplaces and schools projects.

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The project on enhancing occupational heath and safety training in China has been awarded a grant from the Australia-China Foundation. The long-term vision for the project is to develop a sustainable and meaningful partnership to promote workplace health and safety through capacity building, collaborative research, and the sharing of relevant expertise and information. The

immediate aim is to strengthen OHS training capacity in the Guangdong health workforce to enable them to deal with pressing occupational health challenges. Thus, while the MOU covers a range of OHS activities, the initial focus is on identifying training needs and the

development of useful supportive material, especially the translation and adaptation of Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene. (see PDF on Newsletter article)

Enhancing Occupational Health and Safety Training

in China: An Australia-China Partnership

Signing the MOU on May 18, 2008 in Guangzhou are Prof Huang Hanlin from Guangdong Prevention and Treatment Center for Occupational Diseases, Prof Ian O’Connor, Vice Chancellor of Griffith University, and Madam Deng Yenzheng,

Guangdong Institute of Health Inspection. Mr Huang Fei (middle back row), the Deputy Director-General of the Guangdong Health Bureau was the witness to the MOU.

The Australian Book on Principles of Occupational Health and Hygiene

The Australian text Principles of Occupational Health and Hygieneis recognised by the Australian Institute of Occupational

Hygienists (AIOH) and offers a systematic and comprehensive overview of occupational health hazards and hazardous environments applicable to a range of commonly encountered industrial and organisational settings. The book’s authors, leading industry

professionals and educators, explain how to use occupational hygiene processes to identify key workplace hazards including chemical agents such as dusts, metals and gases, physical agents such as noise, radiation, temperature extremes, and microbiological agents. They also outline the procedures needed to assess the risk from such exposures and to control and manage those risks effectively. Chapters are illustrated with useful tables, diagrams, flowcharts and pictures, reflecting the combination of basic theory, factual health knowledge and the intensely practical nature of the interventions needed to manage hygiene hazards in the workplace. This textbook, rich in information and useful professional practices, has gained international recognition and is used in many postgraduate health and safety courses as an introduction for training professional hygienists.

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Gender and Population Health

Research Focus (See Gender and population program):

Gender, Sexual & Reproductive Health Policy

The example of this work is a four stage reproductive health project with the All-China Women’s federation funded by the Ford foundation which has resulted in 17 provincial projects and thousands of women in disadvantaged areas. The project also produced a set of training material, a book and a draft policy paper.

(see PDF)

HIVAIDS local decision making and risk

communication

Current projects include:

Liew & Chu (2006-08) “Risk and Heterogeneity: AIDS and SARS Policymaking in China,” an ARC funded project;

An international research consortium on risk communication and public health decision-making in emergencies with 20 members including 3 CEPH staff and 17 CEPH graduates who are also researchers at China’s national or provincial level CDCs. The 17 sub-projects in various stages of developing risk communication strategies include disaster management, infectious disease outbreaks, mother to child HIVAID transmission, food safety, environmental pollution and occupational safety incidents. (see PDF)

Population Health: Lifecycle approach to

reproductive and population health

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Migrant children’s health

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Adolescent health

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Postnatal health

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Menopausal health

Collaboration on Disease

Prevention and Treatment

applying MAC

From left to right:

Professor WANG Guiqiang, Peking University First Hospital Dr Wang Yan, Peking University First Hospital

Prof Jian Lifang, Sun Yat-sen University Dr Zhou Sumei, Sun Yat-sen University

Partners: Griffith University

Peking University Sun Yat-sen University

Working on Dengue Fever

Influenza Selected Cancers

Hepatitis

(see PDF on Australasia Botanical Medicine for Population Health)