Today marked the second day in Tianjin for the PHAST group. Yesterday the group checked out of the hotel in Beijing and traveled directly to the National CDC to hear a series of talks about the varied and important functions of the CDC network. Among the highlights was a virtual tour of the CDC's online disease surveillance and reporting system - an impressive database containing information from health centers nationwide.
We then traveled to Tianjin. A quick windshield tour revealed countless gleaming high-rise apartment buildings and offices, with countless more in various stages of construction. Tianjin is certainly a city on the rise! The group spent the afternoon in the Tianjin CDC office. Introductions to the staff were made and the group was given a tour of the impressive new building.
Today the PHAST members met for the first time as smaller groups in order to begin the week's work. The morning was mainly devoted to introductory lectures about the CDC's role in outbreak investigation, immunization services, environmental health sciences, and maternal and child health. In the afternoon, some of the smaller groups set off into the field. Tomorrow the smaller groups will scatter across Tianjin in order to investigate their topics and work on their field assignments.
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