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A Conversation with the author Sandro Galea, Well

2 September 20202 September 2020 by Victor Hoe

The Global Network for Academic Public Health will be organising a webinar session on “A Conversation with the author: Sandro Galea, Well” on Friday, September 11, 2020, at 0800-0900 hrs (USA EST) or 2000-2100 (Kuala Lumpur). Google Calendar WELL – WHAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT

APACPH Education Webinar on Post-COVID-19, 11 Sept 2020

10 September 202018 August 2020 by Victor Hoe

The Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Collaborating Centres for Health Promotion and Yonsei University is organising the APACPH Education Webinar on Post-COVID-19: After COVID-19: Paradigm shift in Public Health education on the 11 September 2020. Register Now Enquiry APACPH-Educational-Webinar-on-Post-COVID-19-SlidesDownload

Pandemic letter from America: how the US handling of COVID-19 provides the starkest warning for us all

17 August 202017 August 2020 by Victor Hoe

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. This is one of our occasional Essays on Health, this time from an Australian visiting fellow in Washington, DC. Adam Elshaug, professor of health policy, asks how one of the world’s most inequitable health-care systems has coped with COVID-19. The short

Global Network for Academic Public Health statement on the Beirut explosion

16 August 2020 by Victor Hoe

Credit: Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies The public health community expresses our deep concern and solidarity with the people of Lebanon, following the appalling explosion in Beirut of August 4th, 2020. The work of public health professionals is to protect and improve the populations’ health. The current disaster highlights multiple

Teaching in Virtual Environments

10 August 2020 by Victor Hoe

The Asia-Pacific Rim Universities Programme at the University of Southern California in collaboration with the Global STEM Education Program at the University of Oregon will be organising a three-part series on “Teaching in Virtual Environments”. First Session: Creative Ideas for Online and Remote Assessment Date & Time:August 27 at 6 pm

APJPH: Editor’s Blog – COVID-19, Malaria and Artemisinin

10 August 20209 August 2020 by Victor Hoe

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a massive impact on health and nutrition. There have now been several reports of delays to routine child vaccination programs as a result of travel and contact restrictions due to the pandemic. The effect of these delays may not be immediately obvious as children are

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

10 August 202019 July 2020 by Victor Hoe

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

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

16 July 2020 by Victor Hoe

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

APJPH Editors Blog: World Daily Deaths

13 July 2020 by Victor Hoe

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

APJPH Editor’s Blog: Herd immunity for COVID-19 is not achievable

13 July 20207 July 2020 by Victor Hoe

The COVID-19 pandemic continues its rampage throughout the world with 11.4 million cases and 540,000 deaths. The WHO estimates that 4.5% of confirmed cases will die and approximately 20% will require oxygen supplementation for low PaO2. Herd immunity. When a high proportion of a population are immune to a disease

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