Credit: Tianjin Medical University
Tianjin Medical University (TMU) School of Public Health was founded in 1979. The first dean was Guanyi Geng, a distinguished epidemiologist in China. Over the past decades, the school has developed rapidly into a specialized, multi-level teaching and research centre. The public health and preventive medicine discipline was elevated to a key construction discipline of the “211 Project” and a first-class discipline in Tianjin.
The school has a long and proud history of teaching. The school has cultivated approximately 2,380 undergraduate students and 740 graduate students pursuing public health. Preventive medicine is a national first-class undergraduate major, while epidemiology, nutrition and food hygiene are national first-class courses. TMU School of Public Health staff have been awarded the “National Teaching Achievement Award” three times.
The school regards serving the national strategy of “Healthy China” as an important mission. It has established the first “5+3” integrated preventive medicine major in China. The school has established a Public Health Emergency Research Center to strengthen the research on the response and disposal of public health emergencies. In order to strengthen the public health and disease prevention and control system, TMU and Nankai University cooperated to build Tianjin Joint Research Institute of Public Health and Health Care.
The school has four scientific-research platforms and hosts many programmes of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Important breakthroughs have been made in the following research areas: health risks of persistent organic pollutants and air pollution, the development of recommended daily iodine intake for Chinese population, folate in relation to cognitive neurodevelopment, autism spectrum disorders and diabetes research.
With a long history of multilateral collaboration in education and research all around the world, the school promotes international cooperation with 12 colleges including Yale University and University of Toronto.