The predecessor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine of Shanghai Jiao Tong University was the Preventive Medicine Teaching and Research Office of the Basic Medicine Department established in 1955 in the Shanghai Second Medical University. Great progress has been made in terms of faculty, scientific research and talent development, which lays a solid foundation for the development of public health in China.

Focusing on “Healthy China” and “Digital China” among other major strategies, we follow the “Big Health” action plan of SJTUSM as our guideline, and adopts a global vision in our efforts to grasp the development trends in cutting-edge areas of public health. We have formed featured public health disciplines of Shanghai Jiao Tong University with integration of medicine and prevention, medicine and engineering, macro and micro level research, population medicine and basic medicine.  We have been selected as the national-level first-class undergraduate program, and offer Doctoral and Master Degree in public health and preventive medicine. We have several national, provincial and ministerial level research platforms including the Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Key Laboratory for Environment and Children’s Health, Shanghai Nutrition Innovation Platform Digital Nutrition Center. Our team includes 10 people designated as national level outstanding youth, national level overseas high-caliber talent or national level famous teachers, and more than 30 people designated as provincial or ministerial level talent. We carry out researches on epidemiology and medical big data, active health management and chronic disease prevention and control, nutrition and food safety, environment and health for special population groups, social medicine and public health policy, global health and One Health. Our research achievements over the past three years have been published in top academic journals such as Nature, JAMA, Cell, Nature Microbiology, Cell metabolism, and Nature Communications. A series of policy suggestions were approved or adopted by national and provincial level leaders. Our noticeable rise in the ranking of US News and ARWU puts us among the top among all Chinese universities.

Committed to developing high-caliber, cross-disciplinary, and excellent talent in public health with a global vision, we cooperated with Yale University and University of Manchester in organizing summer holiday study tours, joint education programs and dual joint masters and PhD programs. A model for developing excellent talent in public health featuring problem-orientation, scientific research training, cross-disciplinary education, practical teaching and comprehensive assessment has been put in place.

Together with the Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research and University of Edinburgh, we established the One Health Research Center. We also set up the Shanghai Jiao Tong University – Yale University Public Policy Joint Research Center and Biostatistics and Data Science Joint Center in an effort to become a healthcare think tank and medical big data center with global vision, national influence and Shanghai features.