
In 1957, Li Huanying politely declined the invitation of the World Health Organization to "renew the five-year contract". She deeply felt that New China was waiting for prosperity and needed the return and support of overseas students. In 1950, the World Health Organization was established, and Li Huanying was recommended as the first officials.ĭuring her seven years in office, she traveled throughout Asia, Africa and America, and worked tirelessly to prevent and treat the spread of venereal diseases and yaws in poor and backward areas, and was praised by the World Health Organization.ĭuring the period, seeing the intertwined conditions of poverty and disease in many countries, she became even more concerned about the motherland.

After graduation, she stayed at the Department of Microbiology. In 1946, she went to Johns Hopkins University to study for a master's degree in bacteriology and public health. Li Huanying was born in Beijing on August 17, 1921.Īfter studying medicine for 6 years, she graduated with honors from the Shanghai Tongji University School of Medicine in 1945. Photo courtesy of Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University and Beijing Institute of Tropical MedicineĬaring for the motherland, return to China and participate in the construction of New China This is Li Huanying, a world-renowned leprosy prevention expert, Beijing Friendship Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, and a researcher at Beijing Institute of Tropical Medicine, who has devoted himself to leprosy prevention and treatment after returning from the United States for more than 60 years.ĭata map: Li Huanying walked across the single-plank bridge into Leprosy Village. He is still an "office worker", working on the front line of leprosy prevention and treatment research a hundred-year-old is still concerned about the progress of leprosy treatment.

She did not wear gloves or gowns, and shook hands with leprosy patients she was over 90 years old. China News Service, Beijing, August 19 (Reporter Du Yan) In the 1970s, it was an era of discoloration of "hemp".
