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News ReleaseUM SPH Office of Public Health Practice co-hosts forum for Chinese practitioners, in conjunction with opening of satellite office at Tianjin CDC in China.May 19, 2008, UM SPH release.
From the Tianjin CDC (TJCDC), Director General Xiexiu Wang spoke on prevalence and control of infectious disease in Tianjin. Prevention and control and non-communicable disease in Tianjin was discussed by Guohong Jiang, who is head of a related TJCDC institute. She spent January-April 2008 in residence at UM SPH as part of the UM SPH/TJCDC China Scholar Exchange and gave a similar presentation at UM in Ann Arbor at the March 2008 Grand Rounds on Public Health in China sponsored by the UM SPH Practice Office. The forum, which 180 Chinese public health workers and CDC officials attended, was timed to coincide with the opening of a new satellite location of UM SPH's Office of Public Health Practice in the building that houses the TJCDC. Tianjin is a city of about 11 million located just southeast of Beijing. UM SPH Office of Public Health Practice and the TJCDC formally agreed to their scholar exchange program in September, 2007; the satellite practice office is an outgrowth of that relationship. Goals for the institutions are to conduct applied joint research, engage in public health practice, and ultimately gain a better understanding of each other's public health systems. Several reciprocal exchanges between the countries and their students, faculty, and practitioners take place each year (see right column). Currently, three UM SPH graduate students are engaged in inaugural China Scholar Exchange internships from the UM SPH Office of Public Health Practice; they are living in Tianjin for summer 2008, working on epidemiology and health education projects in conjunction with the TJCDC. "I know the students are going to have a great experience in Tianjin, and anticipate that we’ll have a sizable number of productive collaborations over the years," said UM SPH Dean Ken Warner. Nearly a dozen major research collaborations have been proposed between the two institutions, and a process for matching interested UM SPH faculty with available projects is being devised.
See also: Michigan Today July 2008 special issue on China, including story and slideshow on SPH China Scholar Exchange. Archived proceeding of Public Health Grand Rounds on Public Health in China. UM SPH sends first college student group to work with CDC in China. Contact: Mary Beth Lewis, Office
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TIANJIN, China/ANN ARBOR, Mich.
UM SPH Dean Ken Warner, (center) and TJCDC General Director Xiexiu Wang (in burgundy jacket) cut the ribbon to open the UM SPH Practice Office in Tianjin. 
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