Min-Sheng General Hospital to Host International Symposium on Public Health Policies

Min-Sheng General Hospital will be hosting an international symposium on public health policies at its Ching Kuo Campus Saturday, October 23, 2010. Invited speakers are prominent faculty members of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and leading academics and policy makers in Taiwan. Among others are Professor James Yager, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School, Professor Lei-Yu Shi the Director of Johns Hopkins’s Primary Care Policy Center, and Professor Tung-Liang Chiang, Dean of the School of Public Health of National Taiwan University. They will be discussing issues of preventive medicine, primary care and community medicine.

Prior to the symposium, Dr. Fred Yang, the CEO of Missioncare will extend an invitation to Johns Hopkins School of Public Health to explore ways to cooperate to further improve the state of public health in Taiwan. As the pioneer and leader in the implementation of international quality standards in health care organizations in Taiwan, Min-Sheng General Hospital is keen to gain advice and expertise from the prestigious institution.

The event is organized by the Taoyuan County Department of Health, under the aegis of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of China, and is sponsored by Missioncare the parent company of Min-Sheng General Hospital, and Education Development Corporation (EDC) the agent of the DrPh program with the Bloomberg School of Public Health in Asia.