The 2015 Global Health Program Conference for the Association of Pacific Rim Universities took place at Osaka University in Japan Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, 2015.
Agenda
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Presentations
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- APRU Global Health Program [PDF] — Jonathan Samet
- “The Global War on Tobacco” [PDF] — Heather Wipfli
- “Cohort study of health in Fukushima residents after the 2011 Great Earthquake” [PDF] — Seiji Yasumura
- “Traffickers’ strategies to keep women mentally enslaved” [PDF] — Paula Tavrow, Mellissa Withers
- “Global strategies for prevention and control of infectious diseases and NCD” [PDF] — Hiroki Nakatani
Abstracts
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Themes:
- GLOBAL HEALTH EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY: Global health practicums abroad, community-based participatory programs, using technology in global health, innovative ways to provide global health education, using technology in global health/mhealth
- NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES: General non-communicable diseases
cardiovascular disease, nutrition, tobacco use, e-cigarettes, urbanization - HEALTH SYSTEMS, TRADE & GOVERNANCE: Nationalized health systems
global health trade, public health ethics, global health diplomacy, human rights issues in global health - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH/OTHER: Air pollution, chemical and health
Industry and health, food safety - OTHER: Aging, maternal and child health, indigenous populations and health, social determinants of health, cross-cultural studies on health
Participants
215 participants from the following countries and universities attended (APRU members in bold):
- Australia —University of New South Wales, University of Sydney
- Bangladesh
- China — Fudan University, Peking University, Duke Kunshan University
- | Hong Kong, University of Macau
- England — University of Manchester
- Ghana — United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa
- Indonesia — University of Indonesia, Hassanuddin University, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Warmadewa University
- Japan —Keio University, Kyoto University, Osaka University, Tohoku University, University of Tokyo, Baika Women’s University, Chiba University, Fukushima Medical University, Mie Graduate School of Medicine, Morinomiya University of Medical Sciences, Mukogawa Women’s University, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nara Women’s University, Osaka Medical College, Saga University, Shiga University of Medical Science, University of Tsukuba
- Laos
- Malaysia — University of Malaya, National University of Malaysia
- Mexico — Monterrey Institute of Technology
- Mongolia
- New Zealand — University of Auckland
- Philippines — University of the Philippines, Cavite State University, City University of Marikina, University of the East Ramon
- Russia — Far Eastern Federal University
- Singapore — National University of Singapore
- South Korea — Korea University, Seoul National University, Sookmyung Women’s University
- Taiwan — National Taiwan University, Fooyin University, Kainan University
- Thailand — Chulalongkorn University, Mahidol University
- United States of America — University of California, Irvine; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Southern California; California State University Northridge, Duke University
- Vietnam — Hanoi School of Public Health