CONTENTS Hong Kong Tobacco Control Study Tour
CMB President's Council Meeting in Guangzhou
CMB June Board Meeting in Beijing
CMB Trustee Field Trips
Beijing Launch of China Center and Lancet Series II
CMB President Visits Mongolia
Lincoln Chen Featured in the Lancet Profile
Lancet Southeast Asia Series: Authors Workshop, Gadjah Mada Medical School, Yogyakarta, February 22-23, 2010
Lancet-Japan Planning Meeting, Odawara, Japan, February 18-19, 2010
CMB 2010 Shenyang Conference on Priorities in Chinese Medical Education
Professor Xia of Jiujiang
Vietnam Hoi An Lancet Southeast Asia Workshop
CMB Launches Rural Medical Network in Western China
CMB Launches Faculty Development Awards
Tibet Visit by CMB Trustees Delegation
CMB China Nursing School Network Meeting
Advancing Health during Economic Crisis - Speech by CMB President Lincoln Chen
CMB Partners with Global Health Workorce Alliance
The Lancet to Launch Series on Health in Southeast Asia
President and Trustees Call on Myanmar Minister of Health
Second West Lake Forum on Health Policy in China
CMB Distinguished Professorships
China strives to be world leader in science, expert say
Global Health Metrics and Evaluation: Current State and Future Directions
Photos from February, 2008
CMB Launches the "China Medical Tobacco Initiative" in Beijing
July 22, 2009
 
Top: Dr. Lincoln Chen with leaders of 13 CMB grantee universities holding the signed compact.
Bottom: Dr. Lincoln Chen with conference host, PUMC President Liu Depei. The “China Medical Tobacco Initiative” was officially launched in Beijing on July 22, 2009. Over 100 participants from both national and international organizations attended this launching ceremony opened by leaders of China’s Ministry of Health and leaders of international organizations. After the launching ceremony, program officers of 13 CMB grantee universities and other medical professionals joined in a workshop to discuss how medical professionals can become personal role models of tobacco control and how tobacco control in medical schools and hospitals can lead the way to broader smoke-free zones.
This program is based on a unique strategic partnership between the China Medical Board and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch a tobacco control program that is focused exclusively on medical professionals – China Medical Tobacco Initiative. The 5-year program is funded by the Gates Foundation, with execution by the CMB working closely together with its 13 grantee medical universities and their affiliated hospitals. The Initiative will involve the creation of “smoke free campus” and “smoke free hospital”, the promotion of tobacco control in medical education and improving the service quality of cessation therapy provided in hospitals. At the same time, this program will support China’s tobacco control intervention and policy research and the building of medical leadership.
At the launching ceremony, the leaders of 13 CMB grantee universities together with the CMB President Dr. Lincoln Chen signed “The Compact” that pledges all medical universities, professional associations and related organizations to work together to reach the ultimate goal of a “smoke free china”. By this, all medical universities solemnly pledge that they will exercise the social responsibility of medical schools to safe guard public health; faculty and students will not smoke, not persuade others to smoke and not give smoke as presents; all medical campus and affiliated hospitals will be entirely smoke free. Tobacco control will be built into the medical education curriculum; research around tobacco control will be conducted. At the same time, CMB solemnly pledges it will fully support China’s tobacco control efforts working closely with China’s medical universities and other organizations.
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