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45 Medical Faculty News The School of Public Health is delighted to partner with the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) to offer the NAM-HKU Fellowship in Global Health Leadership. In alignment with the organisations’ mutual strategic emphasis on developing the next generation of health leaders, this fellowship scheme provides suitable candidates with the opportunity to obtain further training, education, experience, and mentoring in the field of global health. The Fellows will make visits to Washington, DC for three months each year over two consecutive years during which time they will actively learn about the work of NAM, participate in academic attachment at the HKU School of Public Health, and receive a scholarship to undertake the Master of Public Health degree programme at HKU. The scheme will initially run for three years, with one fellow to be selected each year starting in 2019. The School took the occasion of the Faculty’s 200th Congregation to make the official announcement of the fellowship at the formal ceremony on December 1, 2018. The ceremony was hosted by Professor Gabriel M Announcement Ceremony of the NAM-HKU Fellowship in Global Health Leadership Leung （ 梁卓偉 ） , HKU Dean of Medicine; and graced by Professor Victor Dzau （ 曹文凱 ） , President of the US National Academy of Medicine; and Dr Patrick Poon Sun-cheong （ 潘 燊 昌 ） , Benefactor of the NAM- HKU Fellowship & Chairman of the Harvest SCP Group Company Limited. At the ceremony, Dean Leung remarked that applicants from 30 countries across six continents have applied for the first intake, bearing testament to our global footprint.