APRU Global Health Workshop 2014 Agenda

September 24-27, 2014

Wednesday, September 24
11:00 AM-12:30 PM Steering Committee Meeting
1:00 PM-5:00PM SPECIAL WORKSHOP
Topic: Developing Best Practices/Guidelines for GH International Practicums
10:00 AM-6:00 PM Conference Registration
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Welcome Reception

Thursday, September 25
9:00 AM-9:30 AM Opening Session: Welcome
Welcome Address: Jonathan Samet (USC), Chang-Chuan Chan (NTU)
9:30 AM-10:30 AM Keynote Speaker: Alistair Woodward (University of Auckland)- Environment and
Health in the Pacific Rim
10:30 AM-10:45 AM BREAK & GROUP PHOTO
10:45 AM-11:15 AM Invited Speaker: Jonathan Samet (University of Southern California)– Air
Pollution in the Pacific Rim
11:15 AM-11:45 AM Invited Speaker: Hiroyasu Iso (University of Osaka)-CVD in Japan and the lessons
for other Pacific Rim countries
11:45 AM- 1:00 PM LUNCH (Poster Session)
1:00 PM -3:00 PM Working Groups
Working Group I: Developing Core Competencies in Global Health (Hsien-Ho
Lin/Mellissa Withers)
Working Group II: Air Pollution in the Pacific Rim (Chang-Fu Wu/Jon Samet/Jim
Zhang)
Working group III: NCDs- Diet survey in University (Kuo-Liong Chien /Shankuan
Zhu)
Working group IV: Health Systems- Universal coverage & Quality of care (Kuo-
Piao Chung/Henry Ko)
Student forum: MDG & Post 2015, Trade & Health, Health as a human right
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM BREAK
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Discussion from working groups
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4:15 PM -5:15 PM Special Presentations on NCDs

Moderators: Yu-Kang Tu & Richard Taylor
1. Naowarut Charoenca (Mahidol University) “Commercial interests threaten
public health through the Trans-Pacific Partnership.”
2. Henry Ko (University of Sydney) “Trends in clinical trial activity in Australia
from 2005 to 2013. Implications for health research trade and ethics.”
3. Md. Ershadul Karim (U of Malaya) “Nanotechnology in Health Care: Present
Status, Regulatory Challenges and Recent Developments.”
4. Duan-Rung Chen (NTU) “Doing exercise is an issue of who you are or where you
live? A comparison study of China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.”

6:00 PM -8:00 PM DINNER

Friday, September 26
9:00 AM -9:30 AM Invited Speaker: Mauricio Hernandez-Avila (Mexico School of Public Health;
Director-General of the National Institute of Public Health) – “Mexico’s Health
System: Building Policy and Evaluation for NCDs’ Control ”
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Invited Speaker: Tung-Liang Chiang (NTU) “Taiwan’s Universal Health
Insurance: Quest for Financial Sustainability”
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Special Presentations on Health Systems
Moderators: Yawen Cheng & Don Eliseo-Lucero Prisno
1. Lamia Karim (University of Oregon)-“‘Learning to Labor’: Community-Based
Healthcare and Female Garment Labor in Bangladesh”
2. Bohyun Kim (Seoul National University) “Global Health and Human Trafficking: A
Need to Enhance Victim Identification at the Healthcare Setting in South Korea.”
3. Lourdes Portus (U of Phil) “H1N1: Health Risk Communication System in the
Philippines.”
4. Steven Fox (NTU) “Quality, Effectiveness, Value, and the United States'
Ambivalence Toward Universal Coverage: One Yankee's Perspective”
5. Masamine Jimba (U of Tokyo) “Strengthening continuum of care for maternal,
newborn and child health: EMBRACE Initiative in Ghana”

11:00 AM- 11:15 AM BREAK

11:15 AM- 11:45 AM Discussion on Health Systems
11:45 AM -12:30 PM Special Presentations on Global Health Education
Moderators: Song-Lih Huang & Junko Yasuoka
1. Kristine Qureshi (U of Hawaii) “A Model for Global Service Learning to
Enhance Health Education.”
2. Hsien-Ho Lin (NTU) “Global health practicum in Malawi of National Taiwan
University.”
3. Edmond Esguerra (U of Sydney) “International Medical Education
Partnerships: Lessons from Australia-Vietnam Medical Foundation Fellowship
Programs”
12:30 PM -1:30 PM LUNCH (Student Poster Awards & Raffle)
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1:30 PM-2:30 PM Concurrent Panel I: Maternal and Child Health

(Moderators: Yung-Ling Leo Lee & Putu Sutisna)
1. Paolo Miguel Manalang Vicerra (Chulalongkorn) “Social, cultural, and health
factors affecting infant survival in the Philippines, 2003 and 2008”
2. Mu Li (University of Sydney) “Mhealth: A promising approach for promoting
appropriate feeding practices and improving child nutrition.”
3. Mat Lowe (NTU) “An Exploratory Study on the Social and Cultural Factors
Affecting Maternal Health in Rural Gambia.”
4. Yukiko Wagatsuma (University of Tsukuba) “Fetal growth and development:
a life course approach to health.”
5. Wayan Darwata (Warmadewa U) “Determinant factors of under-nutrition
among children under five years of age at Warmadewa Medical School field
training area.”

Concurrent Panel II: Global Health Education

(Moderators: Joseph Kwong-Leung Yu & Subhadra Rai)
1. Anthony Bernardo Abustan (University of the East Ramon Magsaysay
Memorial Medical Center) “Filipino Nurses’ Perception on the Projected
Impact of ASEAN MRA in Nursing Services to Education in the Philippines.”
2. Kuen Cheh Yang (NTU) “The empowerment model of short-term volunteer
service: the second year experience of health promotion for children in
Ladak.”
3. Juhwan Oh (Seoul National University) “Reciprocal support for health
professional development: philanthropic educational development action of
1950s in 2010s.”
4. Danielle Somers (U of Sydney) “Office for Global Health facilitated student
electives abroad”

Concurrent Panel III: Non-communicable Diseases

(Moderators: Duan-Rung Chen & Nipapun Kungskulniti)
1. Mami Wakabayashi (Osaka U) “Alcohol consumption patterns and burden of
non-communicable disease / injury in Thai Cohort.”
2. Simin Deng (U of Leeds) “A cross-sectional study measuring multi-morbidity
among people aged from 50 to 74 in Zhejiang Province, China.”
3. Roselle Joy L. Padaoan (St Louis University) “Trend of cancer-related
mortality in Baguio City, Philippines for the past ten years (2004 to 2013).”
4. Yu-Hsuan Lin (NTU) “Socioeconomic Status, Lifestyle and Cardiovascular
Disease Mortality”

Concurrent Panel IV: Health Systems

(Moderators: Ming- Chin Yang & Terry Schmidt)
1. Chunhuei Chi (Oregon State) “Governance in Health Systems: An alternative
framework or assessing performance and equity.”
2. Chung-Liang Shih (Taiwan) “Status quo and problems of quality of care and
patient safety in Taiwan.”
3. Catherine Hu (Chinese U of HK) “Analyzing Health Care Service Utilization
between Native Hong Kong People and Mainland Immigrants”
4. Ruel Caricativo, Erlinda Castro-Palaganas & Marian Sanchez (U of Phil) “When
the healthcare system bleeds: Migration of human resources for health from
the Philippines.”

Concurrent Panel V: Air Pollution

(Moderators: Shih-Wei Tsai & Jim Zhang)
1. Rajasekhar Balasubramanian (NUS) “Smoke Haze in Southeast Asia: Public
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2. Mazrura Sahani (UKM) “Haze air pollution, trend and health implications in
Malaysia”
3. Szu-Ying Chen & Chang-Chuan Chan (NTU) “A Review of 20 Years Research in
Health Effects of Ambient Air Pollution in Taiwan”
4. Mohd Talib Latif (UKM) “Air quality in selected industrial areas in peninsular
Malaysia”
5. Pornpun Watcharavitoon, Chang-Chuan Chan, Kuen-Yuh Wu, Chia-Pin Chio
(NTU) “Estimating cancer risk of residents among Industrial Estate areas
Roadside areas and Residential areas exposed to benzene in different region,
Thailand.”

2:30 PM -2:45 PM BREAK

2:45 PM -3:45 PM Concurrent Panel I: Infectious Diseases

(Moderators: Chi-Tai Fang & Catherine Hu)
1. Junko Yasuoka (U of Tokyo) ““Global health research and education
through community-based malaria project in Cambodia”
2. Putu Sutisna (Warmadewa) “The recent situation of Taenia solium
cysticercosis in Bali, Indonesia.”
3. Budi Haryanto (U of Indonesia) “Public Health Vulnerability on Dengue
Hemorrhagic Fever to Climate Change in Indonesia: Assessment,
Projection and Mapping.”
4. Josefina Santos & Jane O. Vinculado (U of Philippines) “Combating TB
using multi-technologies.”

Concurrent Panel II: Epidemics/ Disasters

(Moderators: Tony Hsiu-Hsi Chen & Lamia Karim)
1. Nenita Panaligan (Cavite State U) “Disaster management
preparedness of the members of local disaster risk reduction and
management (ldrrm) team in coastal areas of Cavite.”
2. Maksim Khotimchenko (FEFU) “Influence of the environmental
contamination on child health in Primorsky Region (Russia) and
perspective methods for treatment of the heavy metal induced disorders.”
3. Saovalux Dullyaperadis (Chulalongkorn) “Older People and Community’s
needs in Time of Flood Disaster, Saraburi Province, Thailand.”
4. Feng-Jen Tsai (Taipei Medical College) “New instrument for virus and
benefit sharing— The development and potential impact of Pandemic
Influenza Preparedness Framework”

Concurrent Panel III: Non-communicable Diseases

(Moderators: Wei J. Chen & Jonathan Samet)
1. Chung-Yi Tai (NTU) “To End or To Hold: The Decision terminally ill
patients have to make and how.”
2. Juhwan Oh (Seoul National University) “Values and Subjective Well-being
among Adolescents in Three Asian Countries”
3. Chaowei Fu (Fudan) “Excessive body weight increased the incident risk of
diabetes in transforming Rural China.”
4. Sophia Lin (UNSW) “Trends in saturated fat intake in Pacific Island
countries and territories, 1961-2009.”
5. Peiyu Wang (Peking) “Non-communicable diseases and Health
Management in China”
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Concurrent Panel IV: Global Health Education

(Moderators: Wu-Shou Peter Chang & Naowarut Charoenca)
1. Wilfredo I. Jose (U of Philippines) “Empowering Engineers as Advocates
and Promoters of Health and Wellness.”
2. Terry Schmidt (UC Irvine) “Connecting the Dots: Global Health Policy,
Law, and Diplomacy.”
3. Carrie Zhao (UC Irvine) “Innovative Ways of Providing Global Health
Education”
4. HE Khoo, ACH Fong, HCK Lim and SC Hooi NUS) “Introducing a new
Global Health and Leadership Track in an undergraduate medical
curriculum”
5. Patou Masika Musumari (Kyoto U) “Need for documented examples to
outline the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of global health”

Concurrent Panel V: Health Systems

(Moderators: Jiun-Hau Huang & Shankuan Zhu)
1. Li Yang (Fudan University) “Post-abortion Care Service Needs among
Fertile Women Seeking Induced Abortion in Shanghai, China”
2. Subahdra Rai (NSU) “Returning Home: The Impact of Repatriation on the
Health of Refugees along the Thai-Burma Border”
3. Sofia Charvel (Mexico) “Legal strategies and the right to health in
emerging markets: the case of Mexico”
4. Mellissa Withers (USC) “Increasing male involvement in family planning”
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Strategic Planning Discussions

4:45 PM – 5:15 PM Next steps for APRU GHP/Wrap-up

Speakers: Jonathan Samet, Chang-Chuan Chan, APRU Secretariat
Saturday, September 27
OPTIONAL FIELD TRIP (9:30 AM- 4:00PM)