Leaders from a number of the world’s most influential organisations converged on Griffith’s South Bank campus on Monday 11 July 2011 to celebrate with 28 international scholars on their completion of graduate training programs in public health leadership.
The event follows the establishment of partnership agreements between Griffith’s Centre for Environment and Population Health (CEPH) and internationally distinguished public and environmental health institutions.
These included the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Ministry of Health; the Indonesian Ministry of Health; the Vietnamese Health Environment Agency, Ministry of Health; the International Centre for Diarrhoea Disease Research of Bangladesh and the Tanzanian’s Mzumbe University.
Griffith University Vice Chancellor Professor Ian O’Connor officially opened the event and was joined by Dr Jeannette Young, the Chief Health Officer of Queensland Health, who spoke on the challenges these graduates are now set to face concerning global health.
L-R: Dr Eun Woo Nam, Director, Healthy Cities Research Centre, Yonsei University; Mr Liu Weiliang, Chinese Consul of Education; Mr Sun Dali, Chinese Consul General in Brisbane; Prof Sue Berners-Price, PVC SEET, Griffith University; Primo Alui Joelianto, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia; Prof Ian O’Connor, VC and President, Griffith University; His Excellency, Lt. Gen. Masud Uddin Chowdhury, High Commissioner for Bangladesh in Australia; Prof Cordia Chu, Director, CEPH, Griffith University; Ms Michele Robinson, Director of International Collaboration, Qld Dept of Justice and Industrial Relations; Dr Jeannette Young, Chief Health Officer, Qld Health; and Prof Dr Aris Junaidi, Education Attache, Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia.
Congratulatory remarks were also expressed by prominent international diplomats and health experts, including His Excellency, Lt.Gen. Masud Uddin Chowdhury, High Commissioner for Bangladesh in Australia; His Excellency Mr Primo Alui Joelianto, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia in Australia and Mr Sun Dali, Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Brisbane; and Dr Nguyen Huy Nga, Director, Vietnam Health Environment Agency, Ministry of Health, People’s Republic of Vietnam (recorded message from Vietnam).
Other guests in attendance included community leaders such as two former governors of Rotary Club Asia-Pacific, New York State Rotary Clubs, former Shanghai Rotary Club Secretary Dr Lee Wah Hee; and three Presidents of Community Leaders: Chinese Club in Queensland, Indonesian Society of Queensland and the Bangladesh Community in Queensland.
Griffith and delegates with Public Health Leadership Fellows (L-R): Mr Liu Weiliang, Chinese Consul of Education; Mr Xia Liang; Mr Yuxi Cao; Ms Nan Yi; Mr Sun Dali, Chinese Consul General in Brisbane; Prof Ian O’Connor, VC and President, Griffith University; Ms Zhang Qi; Ms Zhang Rui; Ms Wang Yuan; Mr Zhang Meibian; Mr Yang Bo; Mr Thomas Toh, Regional Director, Greater China, Griffith University.
The Griffith CEPH provides intensive training for overseas health and environmental personal and senior executives from Asia, Australia and parts of eastern Africa, as well as a range of opportunities for student exchange.
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