Recently, the Health Emergency Office of the National Health Commission sends a letter of appreciation to Nankai University, expressing gratitude to Professor Huang Senzhong of the School of Statistics and Data Science and Zhiying Health Data Research Center, Professor Wang Zhaojun, Professor and Executive Dean of the School of Statistics and Data Science, Associate Professor Wang Jinjie from the Institute of Binhai Development, Dr. Xu Jun from the School of Statistics and Data Science, and other members of Huang's team for their excellent work during the 2021-2022 COVID-19 pandemic.
The letter reads, your team has carried forward the spirit of continuous combat, dedication and devotion, and did not stop working even during the Spring Festival, providing timely pandemic prediction and forecast for our Committee, assisting the Party Central Committee and the State Council to make scientific prevention and control decisions, and providing theoretical support for the national epidemic prevention and control. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to your team. Thank you for your dedication when the Party, the country and the people need it.
From the end of 2021 to the present, during the COVID-19 Delta and Omicron variants pandemic, the interdisciplinary team of Prof. Huang Senzhong paid close attention to the development of the epidemic. During the Omicron outbreak in Tianjin, some team members were isolated at home, but they still insisted on working online and made timely research and judgment on the epidemic data to support decision-making departments, making Nankai's contribution to the epidemic prevention and control.