Bi-National Conferences

The official name of the conference is "the 3rd International Academic Conference on Environmental and Occupational Medicine". Since it was the first time the California Department of Public Health - Environmental Health Investigations Branch (CDPH - EHIB) as a sponsor along with Shanghai CDC organized the conference it is also called "the 1st Shanghai-California Conference on Environmental Health". The speakers were from Fu Dan University and several governmental agencies (i.e., CDPH - EHIB, Shanghai Center for Disease Control, and United States Environmental Protection Agency). In addition to technical activities, conference participants also engaged in various cultural and social activities (e.g., day trips to Suzhou, Hangzhou, etc.)

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2nd Shanghai - California Conference on Environmental Health

October 16-19, 2006; Kunming Hotel, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

This was the 2nd California-Shanghai CDC Conference on Environmental Health (also The 4th International Academic Conference on Environmental & Occupational Medicine). Except CDPH - EHIB and Shanghai CDC, Kunming Medical College (KMC), School of Public Health (SPH) was one of the major sponsors for the conference. Dr. Ping Liu - dean of SPH, KMC invited more than 20 speakers from countries outside of China such as the USA, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia Japan, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan etc. There were many speakers from major Chinese universities, research institutes. Around 200 people attended the conference. The topics covered a broad range of environmental and occupational health.

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The Concept & Practice of Molecular Epidemiology in Public Health

November 12-15, 2008; Hope Hotel, Shanghai, China

Our Fogarty International Training program held the first workshop -- The Concept & Practice of Molecular Epidemiology in Public Health in the end of 2008. The participants were from universities, research institutes in the Yangzi River triangle, the east part of China. Faculties are world famous professors from the United States and the Great Brittan. The goal of this workshop is to provide training on large scale molecular epidemiology studies and establishment of bio-specimen repositories.

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