Led by Ms. Wu Qiongyu and Mr. Song Xiangdong of the Anhui Provincial Health Department, the delegation received several presentations on U.S. health issues and the ongoing work of the Maryland SPH. The delegation’s visit to the school was part of a larger trip organized by the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Foundation.
After a presentation on community services and medicine from Assistant U.S. Surgeon General RADM Carol Romano (an alumna of Maryland), Dean Robert S. Gold welcomed the group to the university. He was followed by Dr. Tongtong Wu, who discussed the school’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Dr. Muhiuddin Haider, who gave an overview of the school’s Global Health efforts and outreach.
“This visit represented another step in our ongoing collaboration with the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps as well as our efforts to expand our international collaborations,” Dean Gold said.
To end the meeting, Dean Gold gave a broad discussion of the school’s work and noted the historic relationship between the state of Maryland and the Anhui province—specifically, that former Maryland Gov. Harry Hughes established a sister city program with the province in 1980, one of the earliest such relationships to be created.
In a statement, Capt. (Ret.) Jerry Farrell, the Executive Director of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Foundation, described the visit to the Maryland SPH as “an outgrowth of an ongoing agreement between the University and the P.H.S. Commissioned Officers Foundation to collaborate with the Chinese Association of Health Education in Beijing on projects related to the promotion of global health.”
The Maryland SPH strives to foster a diverse community of faculty and students from around the world. The SPH currently has 23 international faculty members from such countries as India, China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Columbia and South Korea.
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Thanks to Daniel Kessler for these great photos.
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