In October 2022, the “World Health Summit” was held in Berlin, the capital of Germany. Two second-year MSc-GH students were invited to attend and received research awards from the WHO. “It is a remarkable achievement that two of our students were selected from such a competitive research award,” said by their research supervisor, Dr. Qian Long, an associate professor of global health at DKU. Dr. Chenkai Wu, the Director of the MSc-GH Program, pointed out that “this also strongly demonstrates the excellent research level of the faculty and student body at Duke Kunshan University.”
Yue and Bolu focus on health policy research related to various health issues in China. Yue Suo’s research focuses on “policies related to sugary drinks,” while Bolu Yang’s research centers on “smoking bans and regulations.”
After attending the award ceremony in Berlin, Yue said: “I am very happy and surprised to have this experience of participating in an international health conference. This was also my first close contact and participation in a global health conference. I am very grateful for the recognition of my research by these two global health organizations, and I also want to thank the teachers and classmates at Duke Kunshan University for their help, especially the professors of global health who encouraged me to apply for this opportunity and inspired me to explore global health issues more deeply. I sincerely hope that there will be more voices from China on the world stage of global health in the future.”
Bolu Yang said, “I am honored to receive the support and recognition of the World Health Organization! I am also grateful for the help of the professors of the Global Health program in the early stages of the application process. They also led me to focus on tobacco control, and I hope to make more contributions to China’s future tobacco control legislation through this research.”
The World Health Summit was first held in 2009 and aims to improve global health conditions. It is one of the most important health strategy conferences in the world, bringing together international leading scientists, politicians, and business representatives to focus on and discuss key global health issues and their solutions. About 6,000 representatives from various fields from approximately 100 different countries participated in this year’s summit.
