On July 11, 2020, the "International Seminar on the COIVD-19 pandemic Epidemic Prevention and Control Strategies" actively prepared by the School of Medicine and Health Management of Tongji Medical College of the HUST was successfully held. More than 400 experts and students from well-known universities at home and abroad had participated in this online video seminar, and fully exchanged the viewpoints of the current situation and response strategies of the COIVD-19 Pandemic from different nations. The seminar funded by the HUST’s double-class COVID-19 special project was targeted to discuss the designation of construction and related strategies, providing ideas for policy-makers.

The seminar was presided over by Professor Tao Hongbing, the Deputy Dean of the School of Medicine and Health Management. Moreover, Hu Ruimin, the Deputy Director of the International Exchange Office of our school, and Feng Zhanchun, the Dean of the School of Medicine and Health Management of Tongji Medical College, delivered speeches respectively. They gave speeches in the background and emphasized the significance of this seminar. In addition, they gave a brief introduction and expressed sincere gratitude and warm welcomes to the speakers and all of the participants at home and abroad on behalf of the HUST’s International Exchange Office and the School of Medicine and Health Management.

This meeting was mainly launched with the theme of prevention and control strategies in the context of COIVD-19. In the morning, Professor Liu Tingfang from Tsinghua University, Professor Fu Qiang from St. Louis University, Professor Li Bingqin from University of New South Wales, Australia, Researcher Liu Lingrui from Yale University had jointly conducted discussions on the three important relationships in the fight against the epidemic of COVID-19, and in-depth exchanges were conducted from different angles, for example, the analysis of the anti-epidemic effect of St. Louis in the United States and the epidemic control capabilities of Singapore, South Korea, and China, and the response strategies of the Yale and Stanford medical systems in the medical treatment of the COVID-19. Professor Tao Hongbing had exchanged strategies for epidemic prevention and control from the perspective of medical resource allocation, and emphasized the importance of the deployment and effective utilization of medical resources combined with peacetime and wartime in the construction of a major epidemic prevention and control system.

In the afternoon of the seminar, Professor Wei Sheng from School of Public Health, Professor Chen Yingchun from School of Medicine and Health Management, Deputy Secretary Sun Hui of Affiliated Union Hospital, Director Li Gang of Outpatient Office of Tongji Hospital, and Liu Yulin, Associate Hospital of Affiliated Tumor Hospital (Hubei Cancer Hospital) Professor Liu Chengbin, deputy dean of the School of Social Sciences of HUST had respectively introduced the epidemiological characteristics of the COVID-19 in Wuhan, basic prevention and control capabilities, management of shelter hospitals, outpatient management under normal prevention and control, and diagnosis and treatment of tumor patients from the perspectives of lifestyle alteration and the control of infectious diseases. They have unreservedly shared the experience and strategic ideas of Wuhan in the fight against the epidemic and presented the "Huazhong University Experience" to the world.

The seminar ended smoothly at 5 pm. In response to the epidemic situation, this seminar adopted an online format. The guests, teachers, and students had a thorough discussion on the topics of the report while answering questions for the participants. The collision of ideas and in-depth discussions in the seminar strengthened professional exchanges among major universities and provided the reference for the construction of major epidemic-related systems and the formulation of strategies in the future.