The Department of Health Management was established in February 2023. The current department head is Du Yue. There are 6 full-time teachers on the staff, including 3 associate professors and 3 lecturers; 2 postgraduate supervisors; and all 6 full-time teachers have doctoral degrees. The department traces its origins to the Teaching and Research Office of Social Medicine, which was established in 1984 under the directorship of Zhang Shilie. In 2002, it merged with the Teaching and Research Offices of Preventive Medicine (led by Zhu Lei), Health Economics (led by Tang Wanbin), and Health Administration (led by Zhou Sen) to form a single entity called the Social Medicine Teaching and Research Office. In 2012, this office was renamed the Teaching and Research Office of Social Medicine and Health Management, with Zhang Jingchao serving as the director.
The Department of Health Management is now authorized to offer first-level master’s degree program in Public Administration. It undertakes the teaching of professional courses such as “Fundamentals of Management,” “Health Administration,” “Human Resource Development and Management,” “Health Economics,” “Social Medicine,” “Hospital Management,” “Principles and Policies of Health Insurance,” and “Methods of Health Education and Health Promotion.” The target audience for these courses includes undergraduates, students enrolled in the “5+3” eight-year program, and graduate students. Additionally, the department participates in the practical teaching of undergraduate Public Administration students.
The faculty has achieved phased results in scientific research, teaching reform and discipline construction. They won the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award in 1993 and the first prize of the Tianjin Teaching Achievement Award in 2001. They have edited, co-edited and participated in the compilation of many textbooks and monographs. Among them, “Health Education” is a national textbook for the 12th and 13th Five-Year Plan, and in 2024, they participated in the compilation of the core textbook of the “101 Plan” of Preventive Medicine - “Public Health Policy and Management”. As the main participants, they participated in the project of the Ministry of Education of China, “Reform of the Teaching Content of Preventive Medicine for Non-Preventive Medicine Majors and the Construction of the Base”. In the past three years, full-time teachers have presided over 3 national-level scientific research projects, such as general projects of the National Social Science Foundation, youth projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, and industry-university cooperation and collaborative education projects of the Ministry of Education. They have participated in 6 national-level projects. They have presided over more than 20 provincial and bureau-level projects, such as key projects of the Tianjin Philosophy and Social Science Planning, science and technology planning projects of the Tianjin Science and Technology Bureau, science and technology planning projects of the Tianjin Education Commission, science and technology planning projects of the Tianjin Federation of Social Sciences, and professional construction projects of ordinary colleges and universities in Tianjin. The faculty has published more than 40 papers indexed by SCI and more than 90 papers in Chinese core journals as the first author or corresponding author.
The Department of Health Management always keeps in mind the mission of social service. First, closely centering on the construction process of Healthy China, full-time teachers of the department actively undertake policy research projects entrusted by ministries and commissions such as the National Health Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration, providing intellectual service support for the top-level design, special planning and scheme formulation in the field of national public health and medical health. Second, responding to the counterpart support work of the municipal committee and the municipal government, full-time teachers of the department participate in the co-construction of the Plateau Characteristic Medical Research Institute in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province. Focusing on common and frequently-occurring diseases in the plateau area and major diseases affecting the health of the people in the plateau, on-site epidemiological investigations, clinical medical research and achievement transformation are carried out from multiple perspectives such as epidemiology, clinical medicine, genetics, molecular biology, cytology and laboratory animal science in an all-round way to meet the health needs of the people in the plateau. Third, full-time teachers of the department actively participate in the stages of investigation, demonstration, formulation, implementation and evaluation of health and health policy measures. Starting from multiple perspectives such as promoting development, strengthening governance and emergency response, and focusing on the hot and difficult issues that serve and guarantee the entire life cycle of the masses, they actively look for entry points and put forward a number of countermeasures and suggestions to escort the high-quality development of the health and health cause and improve the well-being of the masses.
Recent honors awarded to the faculty include recognition as Outstanding Innovation and Entrepreneurship Mentors in Tianjin, national excellence as an outstanding advisor in the “Challenge Cup” extracurricular science and technology competition, and multiple local teaching excellence awards. Notably, the department’s online open course “‘Internet + O2O Blended Teaching Design Plan for Management Secretarial Studies” secured third place in the undergraduate group of PMPH MOOC online open course construction competition. Faculty members have also received the following honors: Excellent Food Science and Technology Worker in Tianjin; Outstanding Teacher at Tianjin Medical University; Most Popular Teacher among Students at Tianjin Medical University; First Prize in the Basic Teaching Skills Competition for Young Teachers at the School of Public Health; They have also successfully guided students to secure multiple national and municipal awards in entrepreneurial and innovative competitions. Teachers guided students to win two national second prizes and one third prize in the national “Challenge Cup” extracurricular technology competition for college students, three special prizes and two first prizes in Tianjin, and one National Cumulative Innovation special award; teachers also guided students to be awarded “National Excellent Team” in the 2018 “Health Poverty Alleviation Youth Action” national college student summer social practice special activity by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.
The department team has received two municipal research awards, including the second prize for research achievements in decision-making within universities in Tianjin, and has obtained 3 invention patents and 1 computer software copyright. They have completed two technology achievement identifications. Some research outcomes contributed to policy suggestions that were adopted in entirety by the Office of the Central National Security Commission and the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, subsequently included in the Decision-Making and Reference reports from the Tianjin Municipal Research Office, and incorporated into the annual key work of the Tianjin Municipal People’s Congress Standing Committee. Further accolades include one national-level talent recognition and three provincial-level recognitions, along with two teaching awards. Faculty community service efforts have been covered twice by municipal media, and one faculty member has been honored as an Outstanding Communist Party Member in the Tianjin Education System.
Faculty Composition of the Department of Health Management
Department Head: Du Yue, Associate Professor
Full-Time Faculty:
Yan Jing, Associate Professor
Shi Yu, Associate Professor
Liu Qian, Lecturer
Zhang Xinyu, Lecturer
Qi Xinye, Lecturer
