Source: School of Public Health
Written by: Guili Yuan
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

The 3rd Global Risk Forum (GRF) One Health Summit was held on 4-6 October 2015 in Davos, Switzerland. Prof. Jiahhai Lu from School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University attended this conference as the only Chinese representative. His poster, entitled “A One Health Approach for Studying on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Guangdong” was awarded the Best Poster Prize. 

 

The Best Poster Prize

The GRF One Health Summit is an annual conference that promotes and fosters an integrative approach in managing health risks at the interface of human-animal-environmental health with a strong link to food safety and security, and to agriculture. Over 250 researchers, policy makers and practitioners working on issues broadly in the area of public health, veterinary medicine, agriculture, biodiversity, ecosystem services, sustainable development and natural capital, in both developed and developing countries, gathered to find solutions to today's most pressing issues.
 

 

The president of GRF Walter J. Ammann and Prof. Jiahai Lu

Professor Jiahai Lu, from School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, is currently a PhD supervisor on Epidemiology and Microbiology as well as a principal investigator (PI) in the Laboratory for Tropical Disease Control and Prevention and Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Severe Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Technology. His particular field of interest includes vaccinology, epidemiology of infectious diseases, and prevention and control on zoonotic diseases. He is also the first person to promote the development of One Health in China. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in influential journals home and abroad such as Science, Physiological Genomics, Respiratory Research, Vaccine and BMC Infectious Diseases, and more than 30 papers have been cited by SCI, among which he served as the first author or corresponding author. Besides, He acts as the editorial board member of journals in China like Chinese Medical Journal, Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine and International Journal of Virology as well as the reviewer of some international journals like Vaccine and BMC Infectious Diseases.