The 2017 Asia Pacific Health Promotion Capacity Building Forum and The 1st APACPH Taiwan Regional Conference was held on September 7-9th at Taipei Medical University. The theme of this forum was to strengthen health promotion and non-communicable disease (NCD) control, to empower the public health workers, and to encourage collaboration in the Asia-Pacific Region. This time we had invited prestigious scholars and government officials from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Australia to join the forum and exchanged experience with our local government representatives and public health scholars. The ultimate goal was to gather human resources from local industrial, governmental, and academic fields, to improve training for public health workers and make such training sustainable.
The forum was held from September 7-9th at Taipei Medical University. The first day of the forum was site visits at Centre of Disease Control Taiwan, Ministry of Health & Welfare of Taiwan, National Health Insurance Administration Ministry of Health & Welfare of Taiwan, and The New Taipei City Government. The second day was the Asia-Pacific Health Promotion Capacity Building Forum. The third day was site visit at Shuang-Lien Elderly Center in New Taipei City in the morning, and face-to –face fieldwork discussion among all foreign scholars/government officials and local scholars/government officials in the afternoon. This time we had 146 participants, including 14 foreign guests attended the forum.
One of the key highlights of this forum was the official signing of the "Taipei Statement" on September 8th, 2017. Please refer to the News on "2017 Taipei Statement on Capacity Building for Health Promotion" for details.
The ultimate goal of this forum was to create a healthy society with all the countries in the Asia-Pacific Region allocating more resources towards workforce training and capacity building. At the same time, to share resources from each country and establish partnership to encourage health prevention and non-communicable disease resource sharing in the Asia-Pacific Region. With this being done, Taiwanese' talents in health promotion and public health fields could be more actively involved in the international activities and become globally visible!