Mingyi Tsomo, a member of the 14th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee and an associate professor at the University of Tibetan Medicine (UTM) in Tibet autonomous region, is committed to building the UTM into a world-class university. She aims to strengthen international exchanges as well as personnel training related to traditional Tibetan medicine.

Mingyi Tsomo was admitted to the School of Tibetan Medicine when she was only 12 years old. After her graduation from the junior vocational school, she became a medical worker in Nyainrong County People's Hospital.

In the early days of her career, Mingyi Tsomo had to ride a horse for about eight hours a day when she conducted medical tours across pastoral areas.

Mingyi Tsomo told herself that she must do something to improve grassroots health conditions when she conducted a field survey in remote areas of Qonggyai county in Shannan in 1999.

Later, she received her bachelor's and master's degrees at the UTM and became a teacher there.

With the support of the UTM, she studied in the UK and got a master's degree in public health in 2008. In the following decade, she earned a doctoral degree in medical anthropology at Humboldt University of Berlin and continued with post-doctoral education at the University of Oxford and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

All research topics Mingyi Tsomo worked on during her decade-long overseas study were closely related to traditional Tibetan medicine. She also chaired eight international conferences, promoted the popularization of traditional Tibetan medicine at universities in nearly 20 countries, published 10 SCI papers and six SSCI papers, and participated in the writing as well as compilation of six professional books in cooperation with overseas publishing houses.

In 2017, she returned to the UTM and played a leading role in applying for the Lum medicinal bathing of Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan Medicine) to be included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

She also wrote and published two English books on public health and special education in Tibet to promote international development of traditional Tibetan medicine.

As a veteran teacher at the UTM, Mingyi Tsomo has advocated integrated development of modern education and traditional Tibetan medicine to further improve public health.

Noting that there are still some limitations in the development of traditional Tibetan medicine, Mingyi Tsomo called for more efforts to strengthen personnel training, beef up database building, and enhance the voice and influence of traditional Tibetan medicine in the international community.