The global pandemic of the novel coronavirus has posed a major challenge to the world's health care system and has also caused a new impact on the global economy in the shadow of the downside. The COVID-19 pandemic is making countries around the world pay more attention to health and hygiene issues and jointly improve the level of global public health governance.
Today we want to know the Zou family, in the current era of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, he has written a number of decision-making consultation reports, for the leadership of decision-making and epidemic prevention and control of the epidemic to actively provide advice, he was awarded "Guangdong Province to fight SARS advanced individual", is the field of public health management deep-rooted - Zou Guanjiao.
Zou Guanjiao is a "Xinglin Young Scholar" and researcher at the School of Public Health and Management of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. Master of Administration from Sun Yat-sen University, Master of Health Management, Planning and Policy from the University of Leeds, UK, ph.D. in Global Health from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. He has long been engaged in global health, infectious diseases and chronic disease service delivery, system and policy research.
Guangdong Province fights against SARS advanced individuals
Zou Guanjiao was born in Meizhou, Guangdong Province, to a family of teachers, and was admitted to the School of International Cultural Exchange of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in 1996, majoring in English (International Business Secretary).
After graduating from university in 2000, he entered the Guangdong Provincial Health and Medical Foreign Cooperation Service Center, engaged in the management of guangdong provincial foreign aid medical teams and foreign exchanges, and "drilled" in this position for eight years.
In the spring of 2003, an outbreak of SARS pneumonia broke out in Guangdong. Guangdong is the first case of SARS to be found in the mainland, and it is also one of the areas with the most serious SARS epidemic. Zou Guanjiao was transferred to the "SARS Office" of the Provincial Health Department, responsible for foreign affairs liaison and foreign exchanges. During this period, he had the honor to participate in the visiting reception and translation work of officials and experts of international organizations such as the World Health Organization, and was rated as "Advanced Individual in The Fight against SARS in Guangdong Province" by the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Guangdong Provincial Government due to his hard work and outstanding performance.
For his profession and role, Zou Guanjiao has a clear positioning, "Although we are not on the front line, it is equally important to act as a bridge for the health system to communicate with foreign countries and transmit China's voice and energy to the world." As a translator, he conveyed Guangdong's successful practice in fighting SARS to officials and experts of international organizations. ”
Constantly break through yourself and reinvent yourself
From the field of English language to the field of public health, Zou Guanjiao knew that he still had many deficiencies. After some deliberation, he decided to continue his studies, and from then on, he began to shift his focus and begin a more professional and deeper study of public health. Since then, Zou Guanjiao has opened a life mode of reading and working at the same time.
Subsequently, he obtained a master's degree in administration from the School of Politics and Public Administration of Sun Yat-sen University, and then was sent to study at the Nuffield International Centre for Health and Development at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom with honors, and obtained a master's degree in health management, planning and policy, and obtained an "excellent master's degree".
In order to be able to apply his professional knowledge that he has studied so hard for many years, Zou Guanjiao decided to step out of the "comfort zone". After some thought, he decided to resign from his original unit and devote himself to a large-scale research project in developing countries led by the Nuffield International Centre for Health and Development at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. From inside the system to outside the system, from home to abroad, Zou Guanjiao has continuously broken through himself, reinvented himself, and realized his own value in serving the cause of public health. Although the path of life is changing, what remains unchanged is his benevolent heart of "not a healer, better than a healer" and the original intention of "public action in the world and health in garrison".
The mountains and rivers are exotic, and the wind and moon are the same day
Fan Zhongyun said in the "Record of Yueyang Lou", "If you live in the height of the temple, you are worried about the people, and if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you are worried about the king." From ancient times to the present, intellectuals have been the conscience of society. As a scholar of colleges and universities, Zou Guanjiao believes that scholars and doctors must have a basic feeling of "the great power of the country" no matter what position they are in.
Recently, the news of the resurgence of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has touched the hearts of countless people.
Zou Guanjiao worked on a TEN-year PROJECT IN the UK from 2008 to 2018, and carried out implementation research on the prevention and control of infectious diseases and chronic diseases in China and Africa. Zou Guanjiong has said that through the experience of the Ebola outbreak in China and West Africa, the importance of social mobilization and community participation in public health crisis events has been emphasized.
If Africa wants to control the spread of the virus across the continent, it will rely on rigorous testing, prevention and control measures. However, the health systems of West African countries are still fragile. From the previous experience of the fight against Ebola in West Africa, social mobilization and community participation should be at the forefront of this fight against the epidemic.
In the fight against COVID-19, China learned lessons and experience from SARS in 2003, adopted a strong social mobilization policy, and gave full play to the strength of all walks of life, which greatly improved the people's awareness of epidemic prevention and behavioral norms, enabling China to control the epidemic in a relatively short period of time.
Zou Guanjiao has also written a number of decision-making consultation reference reports, putting forward constructive opinions and suggestions such as strengthening the normalization of prevention and control of grass-roots health care institutions, strengthening the construction of fever clinics, building a solid airport epidemic defense line, building a health and epidemic prevention system with Chinese characteristics, and improving the emergency treatment capacity of emerging infectious diseases with traditional Chinese medicine characteristics, which have been adopted and included in internal publications such as "Southern Think Tank Special News", and have received instructions and attention from relevant leaders in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou City, providing decision-making reference and intellectual support for the government in the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Zou Guanjiao said, "In the public health crisis, I think we must be a 'returner', not just a passer-by or spectator", "Only when everyone exerts subjective initiative and collective wisdom can we truly cope with the crisis." ”
In the era of globalization, human beings live in a "global village", and the fates of all countries are closely related, and it is already a community of human destiny of "you have me, I have you". Zou Guanjiao believes that "mountains and rivers are exotic, the wind and moon are the same day" and "the virus has no borders", only by strengthening confidence, cross-border, cross-departmental, multi-disciplinary, multi-field concerted efforts, united response, crossing the ideological and cultural gap, comprehensively strengthening international cooperation, can we gather a powerful joint force to defeat infectious diseases, work together to win the struggle between mankind and major infectious diseases, and safeguard the homeland for mankind's common survival and development!