# Jung Eun-kyung, former head of the Wuhan COVID-19 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(1)Jeong Eun-kyung said, “The salary of medical officials is small, but it is worth fighting measles.”
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(1)Chung Eun-kyung, former head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a future doctor scientist training program
(2)”Why is a doctor working as a public servant when you’re having a hard time with less salary?” However, I chose to do something in the public interest, and it was a small reward, which motivated me to continue my work.”
(3)Jeong Eun-kyung, a professor of family medicine at Seoul National University School of Medicine who fought on the front lines of COVID-19 after serving as the first head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said this during a special lecture for medical students at Osong Life Science Complex in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province on the 19th

(1)In 1994, he served in public service at a public health center in Yangju-gun, Gyeonggi-do
(2)Professor Han Jeong said, “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS.”
(3)·After discussing SARS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, MERS, and COVID-19, he cited measles eradication as the most rewarding thing Citing the introduction of policies such as mandatory vaccination certificates when entering Japanese elementary schools between the ages of 8 and 16, he said, “Since then, the incidence has fallen, so I declared measles eradication in 2006 and received measles eradication certification from the World Health Organization WHO in 2016.” “If I were a clinician, I would have treated and treated measles patients, but I was able to fight measles because I was a doctor official,” he said. “Doctoral officials are people who manage the health of society.”

(1)Professor Chung is the head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2020 to 2022
(2)Regarding South Korea’s response to COVID-19, he said, “Healthy life expectancy in other developed countries, including the United States, has fallen significantly, but South Korea has remained that way until 2021.” He also said, “The socioeconomic impact of COVID-19, such as personalization and polarization of self-centrism shown by COVID-19, is still being evaluated.”
(3)From the 15th to the 19th, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted a field training program to train public health personnel in the future This year’s program was attended by 39 fourth-graders of Sungkyunkwan University’s medical school An official from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explained, “It is a program to provide prospective medical personnel with an opportunity to explore various career paths such as health care policy and medical science.”