Bulletin No. 2, 2011
46 Chinese University Bulletin No. 2, 2011 ACU Conference of Executive Heads at CUHK The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Conference of Executive Heads 2011, entitled ‘Higher Education in Hard Times—Risk, Reputation, Reform: Developing New Business in a Changing Environment’, was held in Hong Kong from 6 to 8 April 2011. It focused on critical issues that heads of institutions need to know when developing future business strategies. The conference on 7 April was held on CUHK campus. Prof. Jack C.Y. Cheng (left), Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK, presented the session on ‘Update Review of Higher Education in China’, sharing the latest developments in higher education in China pertaining to its major projects and pilot reform programmes, research development in major universities, problems and challenges in mainland higher education, and China’s five-year educational development plan. AIDS Guru Holds Seminar at CUHK Dr. David Ho, the world-renowned AIDS researcher who developed ‘cocktail therapy’ for HIV patients, held the seminar ‘Challenges of HIV/AIDS at the Bench, in the Clinic, and from the Field’ on 28 April 2011 at CUHK. Dr. Ho talked about the various aspects of HIV/ AIDS, from the origins of the AIDS epidemic, the discovery of its causative agent—human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cellular factors that facilitate or restrict virus replication, the intervention to block transmission, the decline in AIDS mortality in the US with the use of combination antiretroviral therapy since 1995, the suffering of AIDS patients in China, to the need of policies to increase public awareness. intellectual cross-currents International Conference on HIV Research in China The international conference ‘ I ntegrating Social Sciences with Public Health in HIV Work in China’ was held from 25 to 27 March 2011 in Guangzhou. Jointly organized by the Centre for Health Behaviours Research, School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK; the Centre of Medical Anthropology and Behavioral Health, School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University; and China National Centre for STD Control, the conference was well attended by about 110 prominent figures in the field.
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