This grant of $276,960 over four years will support the strengthening of the South China Center for Medical Educational Research and Development in Xiangya School of Medicine, one of four centers of medical education launched by the CMB in 2004-6. The Project will entail Xiangya assuming leadership to foster community and public health education in China’s leading medical schools through creating a consortium of partners involving a minimum of four schools of each type from each of the four regions of China. Inculcation of community medicine and public health will address one of the key deficiencies of medical education in China, according to the CMB-supported GMER pilot studies. Activities to be supported are bringing together consortium leaders to assess curricular content, propose curricular improvements, and share curricular approaches. Regular semi-annual meetings will be conducted by the consortium to facilitate the sharing and exchange processes.