International Summer School of the Joint Laboratory of International Cooperation on Environment and Health

This summer school will run for 8 weeks, with its detailed curriculum and implementation plan as follows:

Week 1: Health Risk Assessment of Air Pollution from a Global PerspectiveMode: LecturesInstructors: Academician Tao Shu, Academician Zhu Tong, Researcher Yu Yunjiang, and professors in relevant fields from our school.

Week 2: Health Impacts of Climate Change under the Dual Carbon Strategy and Prevention-Control StrategiesMode: LecturesInstructors: Academician Dai Yongjiu, Professor Huang Cunrui, Professor Kan Haidong, and professors in relevant fields from our school.

Week 3: Environmental Pollution Health Risk Assessment Technologies Based on the Chinese PopulationMode: Field practice + LecturesInternational students will be taken to cohort study bases of our research team, including the Nanning Assisted Reproduction Cohort and Maoming Birth Cohort, for on-site teaching, combined with relevant theoretical lectures.Lead Instructor: Professor Dong Guanghui, together with professors in relevant fields from our school.

Week 4: AI-Based Health Risk Assessment and Prevention-Control Strategies for Emerging ContaminantsMode: LecturesInstructors: Academician Jiang Guibin, Professor Dong Guanghui, and professors in relevant fields from our school.Focusing on the 14 categories of emerging contaminants specified in China, this module will cover AI and machine learning–based health risk assessment, and introduce advanced technologies and concepts of prevention and control in China.

Weeks 5 - 8: Recruitment and Assessment of Representative Populations in Environmental EpidemiologyMode: Field practice + LecturesOn-site teaching will be conducted at community research sites in Guangzhou and Shenzhen, guiding international students on how to recruit representative populations from community residents and improve participant compliance and response rates.