Congratulations to all Team HBV Collegiate Chapters for winning the first place on the EV Thanksgiving Points Challenge, with a total of 128,054 points! The top 3 chapters with most points are Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley, hence each will receive a large portion of the award. Congratulations! Thank you, donors, for investing your hard-won points in us. Most importantly, thank you, East Villager and Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation for making this challenge possible and for your generous support of Team HBV Collegiate Chapters. We will use every penny of the award to fight against hepatitis B and liver cancer through our educational outreach events on our campuses and in our communities. Through this challenge, we have learned what our united force can do, and we are inspired to carry on that momentum to make greater changes in our society.

 We just heard from student presenters of U.S. Team HBV Collegiate Chapters and China Sunshine Volunteer Chapters. They were all wonderful =) We all have learned a lot from each other's experiences and event strategies, and now we are more equipped and prepared to organize successful hepatitis B outreach events in our campuses and communities. Here are some amazing events that our chapters have presented about today:

Harvard- HBV education in Chinatown ESOL class

Cornell- B-aware certificate program, composing of 3 HBV classes

UPenn- hepatitis B charity basketball tournament

UC Berkeley- poster signing during World Hep B Day, which is on May 19

Duke- Jade Ribbon Dance as a form to communicate and express the effect of HBV

UC Davis- Jade Ribbon Campaign Benefit Concert called Lyrical Expression

Jiatong University in Shanghai, China- Hug Campaign, where HBV carriers hold signs that say "HBV can not be transmitted via hug; please hug me" 

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China- Practices of Publicity for Hep B in Tsinghua

MinZu University, Beijing, China- many local projects in MinZu

You all are amazing!! All your works are very inspiring! Go, Team HBV!!!

We started the day 2 of the Team HBV Collegiate Chapter Conference at Stanford. We have many amazing speakers lined up, including:

Dale Hu, MD. MPH, Epidemiology Research Team Leader, Epidemiology and Surveillance Branch, Division of Viral Hepaitits, US Center of Disease Control and Prevention

Samuel So, MD, FACS, Executive Director, Asian Liver Center at Stanford University.

Dr. Hu is currently presenting about the hepatiits B epidemics and what we can do as students. You can watch the livestream of our conference on your laptop or via ipone on East Villager. Get as many members of your chapters to log onto EV as possible. There will be several prizes giving out  today, for chapters with most blogs, for individuals with best blogs, etc. Rebecca Hu, President of UC Berkeley chapter won a prize for having the best blog last night. Yay!

Come and watch all the amazing professional and student speakers we have today- learn more about how to fight against this hepatitis B epidemics, learn from other people's experiences, and be inspired!!

Friday, November 13th- Today is the day 1 of the Team HBV Collegiate Chapter Conference. Yay! It was great to finally meet everyone and match their faces to voices I've been skype conferencing with for the past couple years. Yay! Of course, it was also wonderful  to see all the amazing staff at the Asian Liver Center again, and meet everyone at East Villager as well as Ping and Amy Chao Family Foundation =) We had a nice dinner, good welcome speeches, fun introduction of everyone, and an awesome jeopardy game at the end. The jeopardy questions were composed of random questions about Team HBV, ALC, EV, HBV, etc. Students were split into 6 tables and compete eachother for questions by pounding on tables. It was choatic but lots of fun! I didn't have chance to meet everyone today, so I can't wait for Day 2! Yay!