In view of the shortcomings in past personnel training models, the present reform and study were undertaken in two stages, one of theoretical study and one of perfection via practice. In the first stage, top studies were made in a deep-going way on lifelong education models, the framework of multi-purpose personnel training systems in the field of health cause management was designed, and research on training goals, curriculum systems, syllabuses and textbooks, and teaching quality assessment systems was conducted. In the second stage, reform in teaching contents, educational methods and means, and construction of teaching facilities was implemented, focusing on the criteria for comprehensive quality assessment.

Based on the lessons and experience from the country's fight against SARS, the paper analyzes the problems and shortcomings in its public health emergency reaction. It also describes the pubhc health systems set up in America, Britain and Japan in response to emergent events. With regard to the building up of a public health emergency system that conforms to the situation in China, the following proposals are put forward: (1)establishing effective command networks, such as setting up a national crisis management commission and formulating corresponding laws and regulations and crash programs; (2)establishing unimpeded information networks, such as setting up a national disease monitoring and reporting system and urban symptom monitoring systems; and (3)establishing tight prevention and treatment networks, with the network of prevention being composed of the headquarters, disease prevention and control institutions, medical institutions, health supervision institutions, experts commissions, and cooperation centers for tackling key problems in science and technology.