Victor Hoe

APJPH Editor’s Blog 19 July 2020: A COVID vaccine trial

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Corona virus continues its relentless march around the world. As of last night, there have been 14.3 million cases and 602,000 deaths from COVID-19. WHO is currently registering more than 260000 new cases every day.  These figures are likely to be a considerable underestimate of the true number. The COVID-19

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Global Network for Academic Public Health statement on the World Health Organization’s response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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In the present global context, where there are widespread inequities in health and healthcare between and within countries, and public health systems frequently deprived of resources, a pandemic caused by a respiratory pathogen capable of human transmission was always going to have disastrous consequences. The World Health Organization (WHO) has

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APJPH Editors Blog: World Daily Deaths

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The virus continues on its unrelenting course throughout the world. With no vaccine likely to become available in the near future, public health measures are all that we have to fight it.  Premature relaxation of public health standards has resulted in renewed outbreaks.  The alternative is to allow the spread

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APACPH Management Board Meeting 2/2020

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Minutes of Meeting Venue: via Skype Call Date: 7th July 2020 Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am Malaysia time The meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m. by President, Dr. Low Wah Yun. Attendance Present: Prof. Dr. Low Wah Yun – President Prof. Dr. Agustin Kusumayati – President-Elect and

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APACPH International Webinar 2.0 on COVID-19 pandemic – Developing and Accomplishing COVID-19 Exit Strategy Plan

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The Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health has successfully organised the “APACPH International Webinar 2.0 on COVID-19 pandemic – Developing and Accomplishing COVID-19 Exit Strategy Plan” on the 16th June 2020. There were more than 500 participants from Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, China, Gambia, India, Indonesia, India, Japan,

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Editors Blog – from APJPH: Getting tired of COVID-19 restrictions? It really works. New evidence emerges

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The classic public health response to an epidemic of a highly infectious disease that we teach in our Schools of Public Health is to: Develop a Case Definition. Since COVID19 symptoms overlap with other viral infections, e.g. upper respiratory tract infection, influenza. While ‘clinical suspicion’ is useful, it must be

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COVID19- WeCanChange

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The Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo have started the initiative WeCanChange one month ago to tackle COVID-19 in the world. They have four social media accounts for the WeCanChange. They have pages on Facebook and LinkedIn. They also have an account

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