China's Chronic Disease Transition

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

12/08/2009 5:00PM - 7:00PM

USC
Address: Health Sciences Campus, Aresty Auditorium
Cost: Free
Website: web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/32/event/870267

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.

Contact: Ivette Flores Guintu
Phone: (323) 865-0419
Email: ieflores@usc.edu

Sponsor(s): USC Global Health