The Department of Health Management now has 8 teachers, including 1 professor, 1 associate professor, 1 associate researcher and 5 lecturers.
The department is mainly responsible for teaching Fundamentals of Management, Health Service Management, Health Education and other courses, undertaking education and teaching reform projects at all levels, participating in developing monographs and textbooks. In 2017, the department’s course Health Education was named a key teaching reform project by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. In 2018, the course Health Education won a third prize in the micro-course making undergraduate group of the National PMPH MOOC Competition. Health Education (3rd Edition), a textbook planned by the former National Health and Family Planning Commission (current National Health Commission) for the 13th Five-Year Plan Period, was published by People’s Medical Publishing House, with the department’s professor as editor in chief. In 2018, the department got Shanghai Municipal Education Commission’s application-oriented undergraduate public service management program building project. The department actively explores and improves the university-enterprise cooperative teaching model. It has established cooperative practice bases with 32 hospitals/enterprises/institutions/community health service centers.
The department’s in-depth and extensive studies on TCM preventive treatment service model, health policy, community health service, health education and health management have yielded fruitful results, gradually forming a team capable of health management teaching and research characterized by TCM. In recent years, it has undertaken 26 scientific research projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Health Commission, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Municipal Health Commission and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. Targeting hot issues in Shanghai’s health reform, it has undertaken 6 projects concerning Shanghai’s health policy. In recent years, the department has published more than 100 academic papers, 12 of which have been included in SCI.