Like Chang, Lung plans to return to Taiwan in the next year or so with her doctorate and continue her work there. There are strong ties between the Department of Environmental Health and Taiwan. We have just renewed a formal agreement with National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan. Only recently, we had a video conference with some of the folks there. We have established and continue to establish well-developed contacts with a number of countries.
China is a good example.
We have a faculty member, Xiping Xu, a physician who got his M.D. in China, his Ph.D. in Japan, then came to Harvard and got a master's, and now is on our faculty. He's put together a Web network of Chinese universities, government officials, and factories. We have a number of graduates who have gone back to positions of prominence in their homelands. Through them we are beginning to form partnerships with other universities in Korea, Japan, Mexico, and elsewhere. Another country with which SPH is strengthening ties is Kuwait.