Strategy of bridging the health educational gap between Africa and Taiwan 縮短非洲與台灣健康教育落差的策略

On december 24th, 2010, Prof. David CHENG, College of Pharmacy, TMU made a unique lecture on "Strategy of bridging the health educational gap between Africa and Taiwan" .

After an explanation of the situation of phamacy education in Malawi, Prof. Cheng shared his own experience in that country and how he worked to build a sustainable partnershipbetween Taiwan and Malawi in the area of pharmacy education.

He notably explained how he succeeded in enrolling 8 students into pharmacy program in Malawi in 2006 and then how these efforts helped to create what he calls a "Big Pharmacy Family".

He also explained how these Malawian students had the opportunity to join international conferences on pharmacy in Taiwan, how they were able to get internship abroad and to be enrolled in Master degrees at TMU.

Prof. Cheng's presentation: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwxiA_OBopmCYmVjMzljZmUtMjU5Mi00YWM5LWIxZGMtN2MxYjQ1ZGI2NTYz&hl=en&authkey=CLawtvQE

Industrial Diseases: a global health concern工業病：全球衛生關注的議題

On December 17, 2010, we welcomed Dr. Paul Jobin, Director of the French Center for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC in French!), Taipei Office. Dr. Jobin gave a lecture on "Industrial Diseases: A Global health concern".

In his presentation, after having explained what the definition of "industrial diseases" was, Dr. Jobin showed how the activities of industries could have a deep impact on publich health at the local levels.
To illustrate his point, he choose two main examples: 1) Minamata mercury pollution case in Japan, and 2) the Asbestos issue in several countries (Canada, France, China, Russia, India,..).

Underlining what have been -are - the health consequences of these cases, he also underlined how social and labor movements were key actors able to put these issues on the national and global agenda and how they acted to defend the victims of these industrial diseases.

Please see Dr. Paul Jobin's presentation at TMU here: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0BwxiA_OBopmCNGMzNzEyZmItZDhhNS00NTYzLTg1OTItZmRkODc1OTI2YzYw&hl=en&authkey=COzmrLMC

Links: CEFC: http://www.cefc.com.hk/rubrique.php?id=102

Nutrition impact on Global Health營養在全球衛生的影響

On December 10. 2010, Prof. Jane Chao from the College of Public Health and Nutrition (TMU) gave a very inspiring lecture on "Nutrition impact on global health" in the framework of our forums.

In her presentation, Prof. Chao underlined two main issues: malnutrition and obesity around the world. First, after giving a short presentation of the definitions of malnutrition, mild / moderate /severe malnutrition and famine, she reminded to the audience composed of local and international students and faculties that 925 million people were still hunger people in 2010. With very telling maps she then underlined the geographical distribution of this situation around the world and highlighted how the international organizations, governments and NGOs were dealing with this issue.

Then, Prof. Chao presented the situation of obesity around the world, ranked the US., Mexico and the UK among the first three countries in terms of obesity and talked about a "globesity" crisis.

Finally, Prof Chao explained how malnutrition as well as obesity had a tremendous impact on health at the global, regional, national and individual levels.

To see Prof. Chao's presentation at TMU, please click here: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwxiA_OBopmCNzYyZTliYmItNTY0MS00NDNkLTk1ZGYtNzFkOTc2MjQ4OTNh&hl=en&authkey=COOwwcgH