The new opportunities of public health and preventive medicine under the new situation

Under the national strategy of "Health China 2030", the development of ‘public health and preventive medicine’ is facing new situations:(1) new technologies, represented by omics, have been applied in disease control and health promotion; (2) computer techonology and medical information technology are promoting the development and revolution of this discipline in the era of big data; (3) the launch of the large population-based cohort studies provide valuable opportunities for this discipline. We should focus on the aspects including omics techonologise and cohort studies, big data and disease control. We should also focus on the approach of compound research talents and research team training program and the approach to broaden the research coverage. All these will provide strong guarantee for promoting health China.