Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1999

Family Medicin e into a School o f Public Health to raise public awareness of the importance of prevention through training and research activities and to achieve 'Health for A i r ' . A New School for the New Century The School of Public Health w i l l consist of five divisions: Occupational and Environmental Health, Epidemiology an d Biostatistics, Health Care Policy, Personal H e a l t h , and F a m i l y Medicine. It w i l l also have man y r esea r ch centres. It w i l l offer under- graduate and postgraduate programmes and provide training for public health workers, health education workers, and dieticians. The school building w i l l be constructed on a site at the Prince of Wales Hospital with a donation of HK$51 mi l l i on from the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, and is expected to be completed in early 2001. Vice-Chancellor Prof. Arthur K.C. Li (middle) with Dr. Margaret Chan (right 3) OF the Department of Health, Dr. E.K. Yeoh (right 2) of the Hospital Authority, Mr. David Eldon (right 5) of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Ltd., and other faculty members at the ground-breaking ceremony Chinese University Bulletin S p r i n g ‧ Summer 1999 24