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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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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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