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APJPH Editor’s Blog: The Real Impact of COVID-19

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The current situation is that 40 million confirmed cases have been reported. However, this is a gross under-reporting and the true total is more likely about 300 million cases. A total of 1.1 million deaths. IT will take years to finalise the true total as in many countries we will

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APACPH Conference 2020 – in the news

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The Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Conference 2020 was highlighted in Sri Lanka’s Daily FT newspaper. The APACPH Conference 2020 will be a Hybrid three-day conference from 7-9 December. The conference is organised by the APACPH with collaboration from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Medical Association

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APACPH 2020 virtual online conference is now open for registration

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The Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health is one of the most influential international academic organisation in the Asia-Pacific region. Together with the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Colombo and the Sri Lanka Medical Association will be organising the first APACPH Virtual Online Conference 2020. The annual APACPH conference

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APACPH Virtual Online Conference 2020

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In the time of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the conference 52nd Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health conference has been postponed to March 3rd and 4th, 2021 which will be held at the Shangri-La Hotel Surabaya, Indonesia. In its place, for the very first time in the history of APACPH, a virtual

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A Conversation with the author Sandro Galea, Well

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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