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China: Community Health and Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Lu Yuan, Academic Director
Lu Yuan received her BA in Chinese Literature and Journalism from People's University, Beijing. She worked for seven years as a journalist with Xinhua, the official news agency of China, and as editor of the publication «Chinese Journalist.» During 1989-90, Ms. Lu was a Parvin Fellow on a journalism training program sponsored by the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. She taught Chinese at Banaras Hindu University in north India as part of her MA degree work in Chinese Language Teaching from the School for International Training. In addition to her visits to Tibet and the minority regions of Mongolia, Ningxia, and Yunnan, Ms. Lu lived for three years in Kathmandu, Nepal, while her husband Sam was Co-Director of the SIT Nepal program. Currently enrolled as a PhD candidate in China Studies through the University of Technology, Sydney, Lu Yuan has been the Academic Director of the SIT China program since its inception in the fall of 1994 and the summer Public Health and Traditional Chinese Medicine Program since 2004.