Medical experts from the University of Queensland of Australia at the working session with Hanoi Medical University. (Photo: VietnamPlus)Hanoi (VNA) - Medical experts from the University of Queensland of Australia had a working session with Hanoi Medical University (HMU) to develop collaborative projects that aim to enhance the capacity of the health system and improve the health of Vietnamese people, especially in the field of preventive medicine.
Chairman of the HMU Council Professor Ta Thanh Van said that under the Vietnamese Government’s "active preventive medicine" programme, the healthcare sector is developing toward a people-centred approach. They include managing health risk factors, disease prevention, primary healthcare, and improving community health. These efforts have resulted in an increase in the life expectancy of Vietnamese people and a reduction of child and maternal mortality rates, he said.
Vietnam has successfully controlled many dangerous epidemics and achieved the United Nations Millennium Development Goals on combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and reducing child malnutrition.
Over the past years, the Institute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health under HMU has strived to innovate teaching, research and international cooperation, and has had a positive social impact in advocating for the development of strategies and policies relating to health.
An important milestone in international training and cooperation activities is that the institute has built and implemented an international master's training programme in public health for the first time in Vietnam with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through Southeast Asia One Health University Network.
To date, the institute has conducted eight courses with students from many countries in the region and around the world.
Representatives of Hanoi Medical University at the meeting with experts from Australia. (Photo: VietnamPlus)According to Professor Van, in recent years, the HMU has gradually internationalised existing training programmes as well as offered new majors. The exchange of lecturers and students has been strengthened along with the organisation of training courses that are linked with foreign universities.
He said he hopes that through cooperation in research and training between the University of Queensland and partners in Vietnam, many lecturers from the HMU will be able to study for a PhD at the Australian university in the near future.
A strategic workshop on cooperation in research and training between the University of Queensland and partners of Vietnam was held on October 4 - 5, during which scientists had fruitful discussions, laying the foundation for collaborative projects.
Participants at the workshop said that it is necessary to have joint efforts and coordination of the domestic health sector and support from international organisations to realise Vietnam’s sustainable development goals until 2030. Included in the fields of health are those ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic, tuberculosis and malaria, and reducing child and maternal mortality.
The Prime Minister in July issued Decision 841/TTg on the Roadmap for the implementation of Vietnam's sustainable development goals by 2030.
Since its inception in 1902 under the name Indochina Medical College, the HMU has established itself as a leading medical university in the country.
In the future, the university aims to develop into a research-oriented one, a leading centre for research, scientific application and technology transfer and creating momentum for the development of medical knowledge and science in Vietnam./.
