In an update announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in April 29, Peking University was selected as its partner in the Western Pacific Region to set up the WHO training center for biomanufacturing and so joined its global training network. This designation marks the international recognition of Peking University’s strengths and contributions in the fields of global health, access to medicines, regulatory science, and biomanufacturing capacity building. It also means that the university will engage further in regional workforce training and capacity building for biomanufacturing under the WHO framework. WHO announced its partner institutions in the other five regions (Africa, the Americas, South-East Asia, Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Western Pacific) in the same update.

As a key player in China’s global health education and research, Peking University has long been committed to advancing global health equity, strengthening health systems, improving access to medicines and health technologies, developing regulatory science, and promoting international health cooperation. Going forward, the Department of Global Health at Peking University School of Public Health and other relevant teams will uphold the principles of openness, collaboration, interdisciplinary innovation, and global health service. Leveraging its strengths in global health, public health, pharmacy, medicine, life sciences and related interdisciplinary fields, the university will respond to the practical needs of countries in the region. It will actively engage in cultivating biomanufacturing professionals, developing training curricula, upgrading technical and regulatory capacities, and building regional cooperation networks, thereby making greater contributions to enhancing the local production capacity of health products and strengthening health security resilience across the region and the globe.

For more information, please refer to the official WHO announcement: WHO expands global biomanufacturing workforce network to strengthen equitable access and health security.

Written by: Fan Xiaofei

Edited by: Liu Xin

Source: School of Public Health