Victor Hoe

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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APACPH International Webinar 2.0 on COVID-19 pandemic

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The Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health will be organising the “APACPH International Webinar 2.0 on COVID-19 pandemic – Developing and Accomplishing COVID-19 Exit Strategy Plan” on the 16th June 2020 (Tuesday) at 11.00 am (Malaysia/Singapore/Taiwan) / 10.00 am (Vietnam). Click here to register for the Webinar

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Postponement Date for the 52nd APACPH Conference

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Due to the unavoidable circumstances in view of the ongoing current development of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have announced that the 52nd APACPH Conference had been postponed. The host of the next conference, Airlangga University had proposed a new date for the conference and APACPH agreed. We are glad to inform that the 52nd APACPH

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COVID-19 recovery requires nimble policymaking: Experts

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The expert from the meeting of the First APACPH Webinar on COVID-19 has highlighted several issues that are important to ensure the smooth recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the main issues and measures highlighted in the meeting were: The gradual easing of restriction will be unavoidable over the coming

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APACPH International Webinar on COVID19 response in the Region

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The International Webinar on COVID19 response was organised by the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Medical Association. The expert panel presented a range of views from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Australia.   The webinar was developed at short notice

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APACPH-SLMA International Webinar on COVID-19

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The Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) in collaboration with Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA), cordially invites you to the following public webinar: ‘BREAKING THE TRANSMISSION CHAIN THROUGH COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT’ on the 30 April 2020 (Thursday), 9.30 am Colombo, 11.30 am Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Perth, and Singapore – Please click

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Universities that are making a Social Impact

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The Times Higher Education just released its University Rankings for 2020 in the area of social impact.  This was assessed by University contributions to the SDGs based upon three criteria, research, stewardship and outreach. The scores from the top three SDG’s and SDG 17 were combined to create the rankings.

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APACPH President’s Letter

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Dear respective APACPH members, Happy new year to you all. I hope you celebrated the start of 2020 in good spirits with family and friends. Now that we’re a few days into the new year, it’s good to look ahead and think about what this year may bring us. I

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