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HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL Dr Chee Hsiang Liow is committed to improving community health in poverty-stricken areas of rural China.
He won the 2014 Australia China Alumni Award for research and innovation.
Dr Chee began his career in Singapore and in 2002 joined Bless China International (BCI), a non-government organisation operating in China’s Yunnan Province providing healthcare, community development and child services to 42,000 people annually.
He spent two years designing and improving BCI’s Village Doctor Training Program, which has now trained more than 500 doctors.
And he is also responsible for designing a multi-pronged pilot HIV/AIDS prevention program that targeted 30,000 high-risk candidates.
Dr Chee trained village doctors and nurses in Myanmar in basic healthcare and HIV management, as well as facilitating the design of an HIV/tuberculosis care and monitoring structure in four states in Myanmar.
In 2007 he assisted the Clinton Foundation in training Prefecture Hospital Infectious Disease doctors in optimal HIV/AIDS treatment in Yunnan and he has partnered with China National Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in various research projects including serving as principal investigator in a study of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases among sex workers.