中华人民共和国卫生部部长陈竺教授将于2012年8月29日出席在香港召开的FDI世界牙科联盟大会，会议开幕式期间将被授予FDI世界牙科健康成就奖。

P.R. China Minister of Health to receive the First Inaugural World Oral Health Recognition Award
Prof Chen Zhu, Minister of Health of the People's Republic of China, will be present at the opening ceremony of the 2012 FDI Annual World Dental Congress, on 29 August.
He will also receive FDI World Oral Health Recognition Award in acknowledgement of "his prominent leadership in strategic planning for training a new generation of stomatologists in China, for the establishment of dental schools, and for his unceasing effort in formulating oral disease preventive measures among the public in China".
Prof Chen is a hematologist, molecular biologist and professor at the School of Medicine of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, as well as Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a foreign member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences, as well as a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities.