Sino-Singapore Online, May 8th (Chen Jing, Yang Jing, Ding Lei) On the afternoon of Beijing time on the 8th, Beijing Jiaotong University and the University of Edinburgh signed a cooperation framework agreement, and the network cloud held hands to announce the establishment of the "Total Health Research Center" (hereinafter, center).
The center plans to build a whole-health practice and training base based on Hainan Island and Chongming Island in China, as a "test field" for real-world research on the "total health" concept, to promote the cooperation and transformation of results of the whole-health industry-university-research program, and to promote the implementation of the whole-health system in China Implementation.
Both parties signed a cooperation framework agreement. Tong Kuanshe
Chen Zhu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress sent a special congratulations video. He said that the unprecedented new coronary pneumonia pandemic profoundly shows the close connection and vulnerability of the world. The development of human society must introduce a new way of thinking and condense the global consensus to work together to deal with major public health crisis challenges such as epidemics. Including the whole health concept. Chen Zhu hopes that the Health Research Center jointly established by Chinese and British universities can make positive contributions to the promotion of human health and well-being and the construction of a community of shared future for mankind.
It is reported that the concept of "total health" focuses on the relevance of humans, animals and the environment, emphasizing the solution of complex health problems from the overall perspective of "human-animal-environmental" health, and through unified cooperation of multiple institutions, interdisciplinary and cross-regional, unified collection Analyze the comprehensive information of humans, animals and the environment, build a comprehensive prevention and control network for infectious diseases, realize timely warning and effective prevention and control of new infectious diseases, and improve the overall effectiveness of the public health management system.
The Shanghai Jiaotong University, the University of Edinburgh, the Total Health Research Center and the Hainan Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pioneer District Administration signed a memorandum of cooperation, and issued the "Share One World, Build Total Health" initiative. The initiative pointed out that the integration advantages should be used to build a cross-disciplinary and cross-regional research platform to develop a "full health" discipline system. "We look forward to bridging the" blank spots "and" blind spots "between human medicine, veterinary medicine, environmental science and public health, health management and even legal disciplines, condensing the top wisdom and power at home and abroad, focusing on originality, leadership, Transformable whole-health research results seize the opportunities for future development. "
Shanghai Jiaotong University, Edinburgh University, Total Health Research Center and Hainan Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pioneer District Administration signed a memorandum of cooperation. Tong Kuanshe
It is reported that in the 21st century, with the acceleration of the globalization process, the increase in population movements, and rapid development of international trade, some public health events, including sudden infectious and food-borne diseases, have occurred frequently, exacerbating The complexity of health issues. In order to find solutions to these problems, the concept of "One Health" came into being, and it has been practiced and applied in more and more international organizations and national health governance processes.
It is understood that compared with developed countries in the world, China's "total health" practice is still in its infancy, and there is still a gap between the needs of governance to solve major public health problems using the concept of total health and the integration of health into Wance. After repeated discussions, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Edinburgh University decided to jointly establish the Whole Health Research Center.
Shanghai Jiaotong University has a number of comprehensive rankings of Jiaotong University School of Medicine, which ranks among the top medical schools in the country, as well as colleges and universities in agriculture, environmental science and engineering, life science and technology and other related disciplines. The University of Edinburgh, as the UK's top institution, took the lead in uniting medical schools and veterinary schools. It has gone through a 10-year history in total health research, and has set up the first "full health" master and doctoral degree programs in the world.
The two schools can be described as a strong alliance, which is of great significance. On the same day, Lin Zhongqin, President of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Chen Guoqiang, Vice President and Dean of Medical College of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Peter Mafison, President of Edinburgh University, Moira White, Vice President of Edinburgh University, Dean of Medical College and Veterinary College, signed the cooperation Framework Agreement.
It is reported that the Chinese director of the center is composed of the deputy dean of the School of Global Health, National Institute of Tropical Diseases, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, director of the Collaborative Center for Tropical Diseases of the World Health Organization, and the Institute of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (National Tropical Disease Research (Center) Professor Zhou Xiaonong is the director; the British director is Professor Jeff Simon, director of the Department of Agriculture and Food Safety at the University of Edinburgh, director of the International Research Institute of Agriculture and Food Safety, and assistant principal of the University of Edinburgh.
Representatives of the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Organization for Animal Health congratulated the establishment of the center through a cloud connection. It is reported that the center will comprehensively strengthen in-depth cooperation and exchanges with international organizations in the future, form a whole-health international collaboration network, organize and coordinate major projects of innovative collaborative research on global human, animal and environmental interfaces, and create radiating countries and the world along the “Belt and Road” All-health international exchange and cooperation platform of various countries.