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Bulgiba Awang Mahmud, in his opening for early career public health professionals
APACPH-KL EARLY CAREER GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH CONFERENCE remarks, reflected on his own experiences as and students to exchange ideas and network
2019 KUALA LUMPUR an early career public health researcher more with regional public health thought leaders
than 25 years ago. He stressed on the need for and researchers. The organisers succeeded
young public health researchers to strengthen in bringing people from industry, academia,
their networks and to have good mentors NGOs and international organisations to
to guide them in their careers. He called on make presentations and have interactive
these early career researchers to seek out discussions. Participants made oral
solutions to public health problems and use presentations on Health Systems and
implementation science to help them achieve Policy, Epidemiology, Occupational and
their aims of making populations healthier. Environmental Health as well as Behavioural
and Reproductive Health. They will also have
In her welcoming speech, Professor Dr. the opportunity to submit articles which will
Maznah Dahlui, the Chair of APACPH-KL Early be published in a special issue of a SCOPUS-
Career Global Public Health Conference 2019, indexed journal.
shared that every one of us should aspire to
live in healthy conditions and to have access This conference hopes to build up the
to quality healthcare. “Spending on health confidence of early career public health
should not be seen as a cost, but rather as a professionals and postgraduate students in
long-term investment. Health is a prerequisite presenting and publishing articles in well-
for economic development. A population in regarded peer-reviewed journals. It was also
good health represents a strong workforce the perfect opportunity for them to network
that can drive a country’s productivity and and interact with one another. APACPH-KL
growth”, she added. and the University of Malaya looks forward
to more of such activities being conducted in
NUR ASYIKIN YAKUB Organized by the Asia-Pacific Academic The conference offered an excellent platform the near future.
DEPT OF SOCIAL & PREVENTIVE MEDICINE Consortium for Public Health, Kuala Lumpur

(APACPH-KL), in collaboration with the
he University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Centre for Population Health (CePH), and the
TMalaysia hosted the APACPH-KL Early Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
Career Global Public Health Conference: (SPM), Faculty of Medicine, University of
Implementation of Science for Improving Malaya; the conference aimed to leverage
Population Health on the 11th and 12th of on the global public health education and
April. The two-day conference was officiated by research of Asia-Pacific universities to address
APACPH-KL President Yang Berbahagia Datuk global public health issues through interaction
Professor Awang Bulgiba Awang Mahmud. The with public policy and media. It also hoped to
conference gathered experts and researchers develop and enhance the network amongst
in public health for exchange and expansion of international fellow students and early career
knowledge and to share experiences so early public health researchers.
career researchers can tackle public health
issues, which are sometimes borderless. Yang Berbahagia Datuk Professor Awang

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