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UM SPH signs memorandum of understanding with the Shanghai CDC in China: The memorandum includes provisions for training exchange and research collaborations between UM SPH and Shanghai's CDC. The first group of scholars from Shanghai will arrive in Ann Arbor in early 2012 for a four-month training program.
UM SPH has long-standing ties with the Tianjin CDC and China's national CDC, and is a key participant in the recently-opened, $14 million University of Michigan/Peking University Joint Institute. UM SPH Dean Martin Philbert and Professor Matthew Boulton attended the signing of the MOU at the Shanghai CDC in October 2011. "China is the growing economic power in the world," Boulton said. "This has been partially manifest by their staggering and very rapid investment in building their public health system."

"We're exceptionally proud of our collaborations with China's public health system," says SPH Dean Martin Philbert.
Pictured: Professor Matthew Boulton (bottom row, left) and Dean Martin Philbert (right of Boulton) with members of the Shanghai CDC, sign a memorandum of understanding. Signing took place at the Shanghai CDC, October 2011.

University of Michigan Opens New Joint Institute with Peking University: UM SPH Dean Martin Philbert along with SPH professors Matthew Boulton and Kai Zheng, attended the October opening of a new $14 million joint institute with Peking University in September 2011. The joint institute is devoted to collaborative research that leverages the unique strengths of both universities to advance global health. During their visit, Philbert and Boulton met with the dean and faculty of the Peking University School of Public Health to discuss research and training collaborations between their two institutions. The institute was established by UM Medical School and Peking University Health Science Center in order to conduct collaborative research and exchanges. SPH Professor Zheng co-directs the bio-repository and biomedical informatics core of the joint institute.
Pictured: UM SPH Dean Martin Philbert (l) and Professor Matthew Boulton (r), with Weigang Fang, co director of the UM-PUHSC Joint Institute Executive Committee, vice president of Peking University Health Science Center and Professor of Pathology

A global partnership is strengthening public health training in India and providing opportunities for UM SPH faculty and students to deepen their understanding of the health issues confronting the world’s second most populous nation. A memorandum of understanding between the University of Michigan and KLE University, in Belgaum, a city of 43,000 in southern India, was signed by UM SPH dean Ken Warner and KLEU vice-chancellor Chandrakant Kokate in May 2008. Under the terms of the agreement, SPH faculty members will give lectures at the Institute of Public Health at KLEU, and KLEU will periodically send visiting scholars to Ann Arbor to sit in on lectures, labs, and discussion sessions at SPH. The students in India will have access to UM SPH's Certificate in the Foundations of Public Health online program. Graduate students from both institutions will also take part in educational exchanges. “The emergence of formal institutions to train people in public health in India is a brand new development,” Warner says. “We’re excited to be in on the ground floor to help one of our fellow institutions of higher learning begin this critical form of education.”

Symposia

Video from talks and proceedings of the UM SPH all-school symposium on the Global Crisis of Aging.

An all-school symposium on 'Global Health: The Challenge of Inequality' brought University of Michigan School of Public Health students, faculty, and guests together in 2004 to address growing evidence of the ways in which the health of people in developed countries is increasingly linked to that of people in the Third World. It launched a course of inquiry to be continued formally and informally in classrooms, internships, and ensuing symposia.

At her 2011 annual fall address, UM President Mary Sue Coleman announced that the University of Michigan will launch the Third Century Initiative to develop innovative ideas about global challenges and opportunities, and to advance the greater good. It will use $50 million in existing funds during the next five years to develop innovative, multidisciplinary teaching and scholarship approaches to such topics as climate change, poverty and malnutrition, energy storage, affordable health care and social justice challenges. The initiative will encompass teaching, research and service efforts.

In January 2009, Dean Ken Warner of UM SPH and Guor-Cheng Fang, President of the Board of Trustees of Hungkuang University in Taiwan signed a Memorandum of Understanding between their institutions. It will promote development of mutually productive research and training collaborations.