WHEREAS, the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health is a consortium of eleven schools of public health and departments of preventive medicine in the Asia-Pacific region with academic linkages established by cooperative and collaborative agreements;
WHEREAS, the mission of APACPH is to improve the quality of life and achieve the highest possible level of health of the citizens of the nations of the member institutions;
WHEREAS, the APACPH intends to achieve its mission by raising the quality and relevance of professional education in public health , health leadership, primary health care , and child survival, by undertaking joint research , training, and service projects relating to the pressing health problems of its member countries;
WHEREAS, the Consortium, in close alliance with ministries of health and international health agencies , seeks to share and direct the resources of its member institutions in achieving the following objectives :
- to raise the quality and relevance of professional education in public health and primary care with special emphasis on health leadership development;
- to expand knowledge, improve skills, and demonstrate effective intervention strategies for public health and primary health care enhancement through joint research, training, and service projects;
- to direct greater resources to pressing health problems of the member nations by networking academic public health institutions with governmental ministries and nongovernmental agencies; and
- to improve child survival as an important aspect of primary health care programs throughout the Asia-Pacific Region.
WHEREAS, current activities of the Consortium are developing in the following directions :
- the creation of opportunities for the publishing of research and service projects relevant to the Asia-Pacific region through the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health;
- the stimulation of the development of research skills through the funding of subproject proposals;
- the promotion of collaborative educational activities among members of the Consortium in projects such as the Regional Master of Public Health Program of Studies in Leadership Development for Primary Health Care and Child Survival;
- the enhancement of the quality of the professional education for public health in activities such as the work of the Standards and Accrediting Committee of the Consortium;
- the participation of member institutions in the Health for All movement, in cooperation with the regional offices of the World Health Organization, by the preparation of teaching modules;
- the establishment of linkages by the Consortium with non-governmental organization (NGO’s) such as UNICEF in APACPH programs.
THEREFORE , be it resolved that the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health , with its member institutions represented by those persons listed below , at its 10th formal meeting of the Board of Directors in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 18 to 22, 1988, reconfirms its commitment to the goals , missions and objectives of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED , that copies of this resolution be distributed to our colleagues in our member countries and international agencies as an expression of our determination to continue and expand the important and unique functions of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health.
Adopted by the Board of Directors , Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health, meeting in its 10th Formal Meeting at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 19, 1988.
- Dr Tian-Gen Wang, School of Public Health, Beijing Medical University, People’s Republic of China
- Dr Edito Garcia, College of Public Health, University of the Philippines, Republic of the Philippines
- Dr Tsuguyoshi Suzuki, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Dr Hin Peng Lee, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore
- Dr Fahmi Saifuddin, Faculty of Public Health, University of Indonesia, Republic of Indonesia
- Dr Thomas Earle J. De Fonseka, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
- Dr Kyung Kyoon Chung, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
- Dr Debhanim Muangman, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Kingdom of Thailand
- Dr John T Arokiasamy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia
- Dr Jerrold M. Hichael, School of Public Health, University of Hawaii, United States America
- Dr Hem Narsingh Shakya, Institute of Medicine, Kingdom of Nepal
Download the APACPH – The Kuala Lumpur Resolution 1988.
