About 2nd ASEAN Academic Conference
Rationale & Background
The ASEAN is committed to strengthening disaster health management in the region through the articulation of a set of priorities in the ASEAN Leaders’ Declaration on Disaster Health Management (ALD-DHM) that was adopted at the 31st ASEAN Summit on 13 November 2017. One of the priorities includes establishing the collaboration mechanism for comprehensive capacity strengthening on disaster health management at national and regional levels. The priorities include education and academic activities which the Declaration aims to “Strengthen the cooperation and enhancement of active Academic Network among DHM Programme to conduct research and extract lessons learned from DHM in multiple events and countries, in support of the development of new solutions and innovation”.
The enhancing knowledge management on disaster health management is the Priority Area 5 on the Plan of Action (PoA -ALD) on DHM which will be implemented through two broad activities: “Support participation in regional academic conferences on DHM” (5.1.1), and “Strengthen the cooperation between active academic networks among DHM programmes” (5.1.2). In addition, the POA sets “A Regional Conference on Disaster Health Management is organized every two years” as one of the 21 Targets which are to be achieved by 2025, which also include a target on “A network of national academic institutions is established to organize training activities at the national level.
The Second ASEAN Academic Conference (AAC) on DHM will be organized in person on 17th-19th August 2023 and hosted by Indonesia, in collaboration with the ARCH Project with participants from ASEAN Member States (AMS) and Japan, ASEAN Secretariat, AHA Center, and WHO. The 2nd ASEAN Academic Conference is expected to be an unprecedented opportunity in the ASEAN to share knowledge on the DHM and to strengthen networking among policy/decision makers, medical practitioners, and researchers/academicians who are involved in the DHM in the region and beyond, and also to encourage AMS to apply the knowledge from the Conference to their policies and initiatives.
Theme
Knowledge Co-Creation for Resilient Disaster Health Management towards “One ASEAN One Response’’
Objective
General Objective
To share knowledge and provide innovative scientific insights on the DHM, as well as Strengthen networking among policy/decision makers, medical practitioners, and researchers/academics.
Spesific Objectives
| 1. To promote academic activities, especially to implement the activity of priority Area5 “Knowledge Management (KM)” in POA on ALD-DHM. |
| 2. To strengthen the active academic networks among ASEAN as well as with other regions. |
| 3. To encourage AMS to apply the knowledge from the Conference to their policies and practices. |
| 4. To socialize the integration of the Sendai Framework and Safe Hospital Concept to create safe and resilient health facilities. |
| 5. To discuss DHM topics such as Disaster and Public Health, Human development, and education for DHM, EMT development. |
| 6. To promote proactive scientific activities in ASEAN, such as ASEAN Journal and Joint Research. |
Date Event
Pre Conference, October 17th 2023
Pre-conference seminar on Safe and Resilient Health Facilities and Infrastructure
- Integration of WHO Safe Hospital Concepts in relation to the Sendai Framework.
Conference Session, October 18th - 19th 2023
| Opening session and Keynote lecture (e.g., “WHO Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (EDRM) framework” by WHO or/and keynote lecture by a representative of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM)). |
| Session 1: Disaster and Public Health. |
| Session 2: Human development and education for DHM. |
| Session 3: EMT development (sharing the experience from AMS EMT, Japan Disaster Relief (JDR) Medical Team/Disaster Medical Assistant Team (DMAT), and other countries. |
| Session 4: Case study reports on DHM practice and experience. |
| Session 5: Regional collaboration mechanism on DHM (sharing the situation of other regions). |
| Session 6: Further promotion for ASEAN Academic Network (AAN) activities, including publication of ASEAN Journal, and Joint Research on DHM. |