Strategies for cultivating public health professionals to address biosafety challenges of Hainan Free Trade Port

Abstract

Efficient prevention and control of biosafety risks is a critical guarantee for implementing the Hainan Free Trade Port construction strategy, and also the primary task for Hainan public health development. The unique natural environment, global flow of people and goods, and local weak public health foundation make the Free Trade Port face challenges of potential biosecurity crises, especially outbreaks of imported emerging infectious diseases at any time. The COVID-19 pandemic has promoted the innovation of global public health concepts. The Hainan provincial authorities attach great importance to the role of the One Health concept in construction of public health systems. The present article analyzes the biosafety risk factors of the Free Trade Port, the demand for public health talents, the research and development of One Health in universities, the advantages and disadvantages of talent cultivation, and proposes a public health talent cultivation approach that meets needs of Hainan Free Trade Port construction.

Keywords

Free Trade Port / Bio-safety / Emerging infectious diseases / Public health / One Health

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

Funding

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Project (72361127506).

Data availability statement

Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study.

Authors’ contributions

Zhang RG completed the literature review and wrote the manuscript. Liang WJ, Huang HR, Long WF and Liu YR reviewed this manuscript, performed edition and gave scientific ideas. Lu JH provided funding, supervision and reviewed this manuscript.

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