Jenny Su Awarded Harvard’s Public Health Leadership Award

NCKU President Huey-Jen Jenny Su will be the first foreign graduate to receive the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Leadership Award in Public Health Practice.

AsianScientist (Oct. 12, 2017) – Dr. Huey-Jen Jenny Su, the incumbent President of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan, will be presented with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s 2017 Leadership Award in Public Health Practice.

President Su will receive the award at a ceremony on Sunday, October 14, in Boston, United States.

As a public health expert, she is nationally recognized for her timely and effective mobilization of multidisciplinary teams to assist the government with minimizing casualties during two emergency events, a dengue fever outbreak in Tainan City in 2015 and a magnitude 6.4 earthquake which rattled southern Taiwan in 2016, demolishing buildings and trapping dozens in the rubble in the University’s immediate community.

Su has devoted most of her research efforts to the topic of air pollution and related health effects, with particular emphasis on the rising global concerns about airborne microbial hazards. She was an expert member of the committee that prepared the World Health Organization report on Guidance for Biological Agents in the Indoor Environment.

She has also served on the National Committee for Air Pollution Abatement as well as the National Council for Sustainable Development where she advised and supervised national programs on assessing health risks associated with environmental exposure.

Su not only conducts first-class research but also effectively shapes governmental policies through her leadership and strategic communications to key policy makers.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s 2017 Leadership Award in Public Health Practice is given to only one person annually. President Su will be the first foreign graduate to receive award in this category since its establishment in 2011.

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Source: National Cheng Kung University.
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