Introduction

School of Public Health of Tianjin Medical University, which initially named the Faculty of Health of Tianjin Medical College, was set up in 1979. In 1995, the Faculty of Health of Tianjin Medical College became today’s the School of Public Health of Tianjin Medical University,with a construction area of more than 6000 square meters.  


The first dean and founder of the faculty was Professor Guanyi Geng, famous epidemiologist. Currently, the dean of school is Dr Naijun Tang, Famous Professor and doctoral supervisor, as well as the Party Committee secretary  of school is Ms Xiumin Zhang, researcher.


Currently there are 72 faculty members in the school including 18 professors and 26 associate professors and 28 lecturers, among them 11 are doctoral supervisor and 30 are master supervisors. There are 22 staff members in school, including 12 technicians and 10 administrators. School of Public Health consists of eight DepartmentsIncluding Departments of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Epidemiology, Health Statistics, Occupational and Environmental Health, Child Adolescent and Women’s Health,   Toxicology and Sanitary Chemistry ,  Social Medicine, Mathematics,Central Laboratory.and four Scientific Research Teaching Platform namely, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Prevention Medicine Education. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environment, Nutrition and Public Health. Center for International Collaborative Research on  Environment Nutrition and Public Health. Nutritional Epidemiology Institute, Tianjin Medical University.   


The school has the specialties of Preventive Medicine and Health Administration for undergraduate students. The school offer five doctoral program(three years), which are Epidemiology and Health statistics, Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, Child Adolescent and Women's Health and Health Administration Upon completion of a bachelor's degree and eight master programs for postgraduate(three years), which are Epidemiology and Health statistics, Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, Child Adolescent and Women's Health, Health AdministrationHealth ToxicologyMPHMAS.       


The school has 5 clinical training hospitals and 18 specialties training bases include Tianjin Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), Tianjin Institute of Food Hygiene Inspection and Supervision, Tianjin Railway CDC, Tianjin Economic Development Area CDC, Tianjin Hebei District CDC, and Tianjin Dongli District CDC and Tianjin Occupational Disease Hospital, etc.   


For the past three years, 43 programs of National Natural Science Foundation were hosted by the school. Totally acquired research funds more than 27.56 million RMB.  In addition,2 programs of  the Ministry of Science and Technology and 72 programs of provincial and ministerial levelwere hosted by the school.


The school promotes international cooperationand now has established stable relationship of cooperation with 12 collegesincluding  University of Groningen, University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, University of Texas at Austin, Colorado State University, Pennington Biomedical Research Center,Vanderbilt University, Boston University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of Toronto, Dundee University, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and Tohoku University Japan. Contents of the cooperation includes the mutual visit of deans, directors and teachers, cooperative training of Master, the cooperation of applying research fund, etc.


Address:School of Public Health,Tianjin Medical University, No 22 Qixiangtai  Road,Heping  District,Tianjin 300070, P R China

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