Abstract: With the coming of new public health,which changes its mission from disease treatment to disease prevention,how to scientifically carry out public health decision-making and practice has become an important subject.This study analyzes the history and experience of the development of evidence-based public health in developed countries by literature review.By comparing with the situation in developed countries,we found that the public health evidence-based decision-making is still in its early stage in China and there are some problems to be solved urgently although some progresses have been achieved.Based on the experiences of developed countries,we put forward some suggestions on the establishment of theories on evidence-based public health,the accumulation of evidence and the establishment of database,in order to promote the development of evidence-based public health in China.