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August 19, 2010

CMB Nursing Network Meets in Beijing

The deans of the eight schools in the CMB Nursing Network discussed ways to advance their shared interests in PhD training, policy research, and community nursing at an August 19 meeting at Peking Union Medical College (PUMC). The network is a channel for nursing programs at CMB-supported universities in China to cooperate in strengthening nursing education, particularly at the PhD level, and in seeking ideas and models from other countries that might be adapted for application in China.

June 27, 2010

Hong Kong Tobacco Control Study Tour

On June 21-26, 2010 in Hong Kong, a tobacco control training program and study tour took place at the School of Public Health at the University of Hong Kong with excellent coordination and logistical support by Sun Yat-Sen University School of Public Health.

June 16, 2010

CMB Presidents Council Meeting in Guangzhou

On June 15-16, 2010, CMB trustees and presidents and vice presidents of CMB Chinese grantee universities met in Guangzhou, China the 2010 CMB Presidents Council Meeting. This meeting, held every two years, was hosted at Sun Yat Sen University (SYSU) and supported by CMB.

June 14, 2010

CMB Trustee Field Trips

In the week leading up the June board meeting on June 14, 2010, CMB trustees embarked on an ambitious schedule of travel to various CMB grantees in Vietnam, Myanmar, Tibet, and Sichuan province in China. The purpose of these trips was to expose trustees to CMB’s work in Southeast Asia and to rural health in Western China.

June 14, 2010

CMB June Board Meeting in Beijing

On June 14, 2010, CMB held its semi-annual board meeting at the Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) Chapel in Beijing. This was the first board meeting to be held in China since CMB 75th anniversary ceremonies in 2006.

April 27, 2010

Beijing Launch of China Center and Lancet Series II

In Beijing on April 27, 2010, a dual launch ceremony was held to mark the inauguration of the China Center for China Health Development and the Lancet China Health Series II. The China Center launch marked an important milestone in CMB’s health policy and systems sciences (HPS) program after the first announcement of the program at the CMB President's Council meeting in 2008.

April 10, 2010

CMB President Visits Mongolia

In April 2010, CMB President Lincoln Chen visited Mongolia for four days. In the national capital of Ulaan Baatar, Lincoln was able to call on the President of the Health Sciences University of Mongolia, Professor Lkhagvasuren Tserenkhuugyin, and the Vice Minister of Health, Dr. Tsolmon Jadamba. The meetings provided an opportunity for CMB and Mongolia to review the status of its relationship, pointing towards future collaboration.

March 30, 2010

Lincoln Chen Featured in the Lancet Profile

CMB President Dr. Lincoln Chen was recently featured in the Lancet March (30, 2010).

February 23, 2010

Lancet Southeast Asia Series: Authors Workshop, Gadjah Mada Medical School, Yogyakarta, February 22-23, 2010

An ambitious and unusual Lancet series will engage scientists from 10 countries in Southeast Asia mapping health in this region which has a population size of over half a billion people, spanning wealthy countries like Singapore to extremely poor countries like Laos, populous countries like Indonesia to small states like Brunei spread across vast oceans.

February 19, 2010

Lancet-Japan Planning Meeting, Odawara, Japan, February 18-19, 2010

Japan has the longest national life expectancy in the world. It also had nearly a half century of universal health coverage. What explains the Japan health phenomenon? How can lessons from Japan be mobilized for mutual learning in Japan and around the world? Answering these questions is the purpose of a series of papers to be commissioned in a Lancet Japan initiative.

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