Tencent launches project to improve skills in public health

Tencent Charity Foundation launched a project aimed at improving the professional skills of public health talent in collaboration with the Administrators Training Center of the National Health Commission, the Health Human Resources Development Center under the NHC, and other organizations and foundations.

The training project covers a new systematic curriculum, seminars, case analysis and practices. It will help expand the team of public health professionals systematically and improve scientific research and practice related to public health.

Chen Juhong, vice-president of Tencent Holdings Ltd, said the company supports the long-term and systematic capacity building in the country's public health field, especially given the recent resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Improving the skills of public health talent is relevant to enhancing public health capacities systematically, Chen added.

"The COVID-19 pandemic has brought us a lot of enlightenment, which includes reforming and improving the public health system and reinforcing the cultivation of public health talent," said Li Liming, a professor at Peking University's School of Public Health.

Zhang Xue, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said enhancing the capabilities of public health talent plays a key role in the construction of public health security governance.