The 4th APEC High-Level Meeting (HLM) on Health and Economy was held in Beijing, China on August 15, 2014.  Dr. Jae-HoonSong was invited as a speaker and panelist for the session on antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections of HLM, which discussed capacity building efforts to design/ implement surveillance systems, conduct surveillance and reporting on healthcare-associated infections.



 Dr. So Hyun Kim, ANSORP Project Manager, attended the APEC Health Working Group (HWG) meeting which was held on Aug 12-14, 2014 in Beijing, China to present the progress report of the APEC project entitled “Enhancing health security in APEC – Implementation of international campaign program to control antimicrobial resistance in the Asia-Pacific”, which was approved by APEC as a self-funded project in 2014. The APEC project is to implement the international campaign, "Campaign 4", for raising AMR awareness and promoting appropriate antibiotic use in Asia. The international campaign will be introduced and implemented in the Asian countries from late 2014.