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Organization

1. APACPH

About APACPH

APACPH is an international non-profit organisation comprising many of the largest and most influential schools of Public Health in the Asia-Pacific region and dedicated to improving professional education for public health.

The APACPH goals are to improve the quality of life and to achieve the highest level of health for citizens of the Asia-Pacific nations.

The goals are linked to those of WHO, UNICEF and other international and national health agencies, with APACPH seeking to make contributions towards the goal of “Health for All”.

Launched in 1984 with just five members, APACPH now has over 50 members throughout the Asia-Pacific region with Regional Offices in Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Hawaii and Tokyo.

Through its activities, the members aim to tackle the unique public health challenges of the Asia-Pacific region, for example specific health issues of workers within the growing economies of the region. Please read our By-Laws

Objectives

To raise the quality of professional education in public health and make it more relevant to current needs, with special emphasis on leadership

To enhance the knowledge, skills and effective methods available to health workers through joint research, training and service projects

To devote greater resources to solving health problems by establishing closer links with each other and with Ministries of Health

To improve the quality of educational opportunities for students of public health through curriculum development and academic sharing

To make child survival a major priority

The APACPH Regional Office

Professor Brian Oldenburg, Head of School at Queensland University of Technology, has been appointed as a Member of the Executive Committee of APACPH from 2002 to 2006. The Regional Office/Secretariat of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health will is located at Monash University. Two dedicated staff have been appointed to run the office, an Executive Officer, Colin McInnes, and an Administration Officer, Desmond Gul.

2. Graduate School of Public Health

The Graduate School of Public Health, accredited by the Ministry of Education, Republic of Korea January 24, 1977, has taken long strides as a Institute for public health education since its foundation.

The number of students was 20 at the time of foundation. Now it has 316 students out of whom 293 students are enrolled for the M.P.H. degree and 41 in the “Medicine and Law” Executive Program.

Their qualification is nationally in the highest level and its faculty is famous for their academic reputation. These are only some of the changed aspects of the 29-year-old graduate school. In addition, such development is due to the unlimited support and dedications that all the faculty, students and alumni have given together with the Christian spirit.

At the entrance of the 21st century, the world lies in the turbulent changes that can be summarized as globalization and information-oriented society. As for the health industry, its significance is emphasized more and more because of the increasing need for the healthy life, the changing disease patterns and the expansion of its related fields. As a result, the field of public health requires the unprecedented specialization and diversity in the 21st century.