Public Health Frontier Forum Series by Prof. Shen Hongbing (1): Reform of the National Disease Control and Prevention System and the Cultivation of Public Health Talents
Date: | 23 May 2024 (Thursday) |
Time: | 12:30 – 14:00 (HKT) |
Venue: | KCTCRC, 1/F School of Public Health Building, Prince of Wales Hospital |
Language: | Putonghua |
Speaker: | Prof. Hongbing SHEN Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
Moderator: | Prof. Shelly Lap-ah TSE Associate Director (Mainland China Affairs), The JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK |
Presentation Abstract
The General Office of the State Council issued the Guiding Instructions on Promoting the High Quality Development of Disease Prevention and Control Undertakings in December 2023. Adhering to goal-orientation and problem-orientation, with system construction as the main line, capacity building as the core, talent development as the foundation, and institutional mechanism innovation as the driving force, it is a guiding document for the reform and development of the disease prevention and control system in the current and future periods. Among them, capacity, scientific research, and talent are important supports for the reform of the system. The cultivation of public health talents in universities should also comply with the needs of the national disease control system reform, deeply analyze the current situation and existing problems of public health talent cultivation, reform the cultivation mode, improve the quality of talent cultivation, and establish a talent cultivation system that meet the national strategic needs.
Public Health Frontier Forum Series by Prof. Shen Hongbing (2): Molecular Epidemiology and Big-Data Cohort Studies
Date: | 23 May 2024 (Thursday) |
Time: | 15:30 – 17:30 (HKT) |
Venue: | KCT, G/F School of Public Health Building, Prince of Wales Hospital |
Language: | English |
Keynote Speaker & Panel Moderator
Prof. Hongbing SHEN, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Welcoming & Closing Remarks
Prof. Samuel Yeung-shan WONG, Director, The JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK
Panel Presentation Facilitator
Prof. Kin-fai HO, Associate Director (Graduate Studies and Research), The JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK
Panel Speakers
Prof. William E. FUNK, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine (Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Prof. Shelly Lap-ah TSE, Associate Director (Mainland China Affairs), The JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK
Prof. Hein Min TUN, Associate Professor, The JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK
Keynote Presentation Abstract
Lung cancer has become the malignant tumor with the heaviest disease burden in the world and China. The incidence rate of lung cancer for men and women in China has increased from 2000 to 2016, especially for women with lung adenocarcinoma. The main risk factors for lung cancer include smoking, environmental tobacco smoke, exposure to ionizing radiation, occupational exposure, solid fuels, indoor and outdoor air pollution, unhealthy diet, etc. In addition, genetic factors also play an important role in the occurrence and development of lung cancer. In the past decade, dozens of genetic susceptibility genes and loci significantly associated with the development of non-small cell lung cancer have been identified, presenting patterns of high-frequency low penetrance and low-frequency high penetrance, with race and pathological type specificity. Develop a polygenic risk score (PRS) and successfully apply it to predict the risk of lung cancer, guiding individualized screening and precise prevention of lung cancer. Tobacco control is still the most effective measure for lung cancer prevention and control among people with different genetic risks in China, but reducing the incidence rate of lung cancer among non-smokers is of great significance for lung cancer prevention and control in China.
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