On March 25, 2012, eHealth Strategy Office, in partnership with the Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, successfully hosted “Diabetes Prevention and Management: Exploratory Workshop through Western and Eastern Medicine” workshop in Guangzhou, China.

Together with renowned medical experts and doctors from Canada and Guangzhou china, we explored diabetes prevention and self-management methods through both perspectives of western and eastern medicine. Over 150 people came from Guangzhou and the surrounding area, and representatives from the Guangzhou School of Public Health attended the workshop as well. More details on the workshop are available on the Faculty of Medicine website.

Special acknowledgements to Health Canada for their generous support and sponsorship of this workshop through the International Health Grants Program.

For those interested in the original material offered at the workshop, the handout booklet is available (in Chinese). In addition, you can visit the Chinese version of iconproject.org.