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By Bi-Fang Chung Photography by Hongwei Hsu

In front of the media, Chen Hsiu-Hsi, associate dean of the School of Public Health at National Taiwan University, is highly specialized in epidemiological research, but this is not an ambition he has had since childhood; he gradually discovered his love of scientific research in the course of his clinical training in the field of dental hygiene. In the course of his clinical training as a dentist, he gradually realized that he liked the fun of scientific research, and decided to enter the field of public health research.

Chen Hsiu-hsi talked about his choice to take off his white robe and go into public health community service, and said, "This society still needs to add a little bit of heterogeneity, and there are different cross-fields of human resources cultivation, in order to maintain Taiwan's position as the top of the healthcare field. In order to make healthcare more diversified, it is necessary to have professionals with medical backgrounds, and gradually introduce other areas of science, technology, literature, and social sciences, and Chen Xiu-xi, is the earliest group of people to be impacted by the change of the times.

In the course of his clinical training as a dentist, he encountered a variety of oral problems, and he thought to himself, "It seems that many of the problems encountered by the patients are not just personal, and this kind of clinical work of the dentist can really achieve the purpose of preventive health care. He observes that the origin of many diseases is not only in the individual, but also involves the interaction between the patient's behavior and the environment, and even with psychological and social policies, all of which have a great relevance.

This inspired him to pursue research, and so he was actively exposed to the field of public health during his internship, and attracted by the epidemiological and biostatistical research methods, he pursued his studies in the Institute of Public Health at the then Yang-Ming Medical College (now Yang-Ming University).

After graduating from the Institute, Chen Xiu-xi wanted to enter the public service and join the defense of the country, so she took the Health Administration Examination and successfully obtained the qualification for the examination; she also actively pursued publicly-funded study and successfully applied for admission to the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, which was the first time she began her journey in the life of the public defender.

At Cambridge University, he studied for a PhD in biostatistics, and at that time, he was y influenced by the thinking of the European socialist system, and he was actively concerned about the standard of equality of health for the public, and he thought about how to popularize more advanced medical services, and then he brought them back to Taiwan to give back to society.

By chance, Chen participated in a cancer screening program in Sweden. "European socialist countries have had the concept of cancer screening for a long time," he said, "and he believes that the state has an obligation to protect the public from preventable chronic diseases and cancers, and therefore *** spares no effort to promote health screening programs and implement them in the community. In contrast, the United States, because there is a health insurance system, but must be through a private contract in order to get health protection, for those who can not afford the premiums, they can not enjoy good health care, "health care should be added to the people's health care issues, to be considered complete.

Embracing the idea of giving back to society

After returning to China in 1996, when the domestic universal health care system was just starting out, the domestic medical system was in the process of changing, and the concept of health screening was also budding, "the people of Taiwan should be like the people of the socialist countries in Europe, with equal rights and interests in health." With this in mind, he wanted to apply his field research experience in Sweden to the public health services in China, and was actively involved in the planning of a local health screening study.

Whether it was teaching or research, it was something Chen Hsiu-hsi loved. Therefore, even though he had already taken over the faculty position at NTU's School of Public Health, he still nurtured the grassroots health workers through school education to strengthen the relevant knowledge and background, and used it as the seed of preventive healthcare; on the other hand, he was actively involved in the community's cancer screening program, and started to plan for the "Community Integrated Family Screening" activity, which combined breast cancer, colorectal cancer, and other cancerous diseases, with the development of a new cancer screening program. On the other hand, it has also actively participated in community cancer screening programs and begun planning the "Community Integrated Family Screening" campaign, which combines breast, colorectal, oral, liver, and cervical cancers with chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia, and reaches out to the community and remote villages on a family basis. This model has been cited by many county and city health units in the future, and has been praised by the American Association of Cancer Medicine and the Society of Family Medicine.

In addition, he has also successfully built a screening platform using mathematical statistics to accurately assess the health of the population, establish a personalized healthcare model for breast cancer, and develop diagnostic risk markers for colorectal cancer.

Educational mission, nurturing new blood

With a background as a clinician, an academic, and a mission to educate the next generation, Chen carefully analyzed the significance of these different roles for himself. He pointed out that clinicians have their limitations and influence on patient care, "but if you want to enter the field of preventive medicine, you will be involved in national policy; policy is a matter of public ****, academics can have more focus.

He explained with the public health field, "The complete connotation of public health should be the public **** administrative affairs plus health issues composed of cross-cutting fields of study, to foreign countries, in the past, there is no independent department within the university education, but in each department to have a public **** health professional a discipline, is to be used for the public with the way of policy and legal norms, so that the masses of health can achieve the maximum standard of happiness. The health of the public is regulated by policy and law in such a way that the health of the public can reach the greatest possible standard of well-being." But if you are a clinician, you can only see a single patient, and you can take care of a limited number of people, which is very different from the thinking of academics who focus on research.

In addition to her love of research, Chen also carries a strong educational mission: "The middle-aged generation born in the post-war baby boom is like the 'quicksand generation', the so-called sandwich generation, where there are parents to take care of, as well as children to raise and promote. Because of this, the mission of passing it on has become even more important.

"As an academic, you have to be at the forefront of industry and policy, and you have to be constantly looking for new ideas and innovations to help policy development, and that's what's most attractive," he said. He said that his other identity is a professor, so he is happy to support the younger generation, and often encourage students: "life along the way is not everything as originally expected and planned, we must continue to learn in the process, to enrich themselves, until the future useful when you can be put to use.

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The trend in public health is IT

Referring to the current state of the public health system in China today, Chen Xiuxi believes that, institutionally, technology has had a profound impact on the way young people think, especially in the booming IT industry, which has entered the post-IT era, and the education system has changed, affecting all of medical education.

"Now that public health needs to be analyzed with big data, the use of big data has changed the education system for the younger generation, as well as the structure of industries in various fields, including the Internet of Things and the use of hand-held devices, and the content of education must change as well."

"We are now in a position to analyze and analyze big data, and we are now in a position to analyze and analyze big data.

As Chen Hsiu-hsi was recently invited to the 2020 Precision Cancer Prevention Summit, the use of big data as the basis for precision medicine can achieve the precision of personal healthcare while also generating an effective distribution of healthcare resources, which will allow Taiwan to pursue valuable healthcare and utilize limited resources for those in need, and maximize the health benefits. This will allow Taiwan to pursue valuable health care and use limited resources for those in need, maximizing health benefits.

He also provided a clear definition of precision medicine, which utilizes limited resources to maximize benefits, such as using expensive anti-cancer drugs on the most needy and effective cancer patients to increase the average life expectancy.

Religious doctrine, soothing and nourishing

Weekday research, teaching business busy, in the end there is no time to rest? When it comes to health care, Chen Hsiu-hsi smiled coyly, "I actually rarely take a vacation, and even when I do, it's all in my head. However, in his younger days, he loved hiking, and in the process of hiking, he could enjoy thinking, but now he is busy working, in the limited time, the knee is not good situation, gradually changed to jogging or walking.

"I'll jog twice a week, and I can run five kilometers at a time," he said, adding that he would exercise simply to keep away from the three highs, and that in the past he had chosen to run on a treadmill in the gym, and that now, because of the seriousness of the new Coronavirus outbreak, he had switched to jogging on the embankment or to walk, and that he had continued to think about the creative ideas during the running process and the ways to improve the teaching, the treatment of the world's various failures, and the ways to improve them.

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