China's Chronic Disease Transition

Global Health Lecture Series: Visions for Change
USC Annenberg School for Communication

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 : 5:00pm to 7:00pm; Wednesday, December 9, 2009 : 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Multiple Locations

Free. To RSVP, email global.health@usc.edu.


Dr. Gonghuan Yang presents on China’s new disease burden and the shift from infectious disease to a global chronic disease epidemic.

Dr. Gonghuan Yang, deputy minister of Health at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, is a pioneer in China’s work on tobacco control and its chronic disease transition. She earned her medical degree from West-China Medical University in 1982, and studied epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1987 to 1988. Yang has published more than 70 academic papers in international and national journals and has written more than 10 monographs and books.

December 8
Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium

December 9
University Park Campus, Davidson Conference Center

 

Ivette Flores Guintu
(323) 865-0419

http://globalhealth.usc.edu