The APEC Health Working Group (HWG) meeting was held in St. Petersburg, Russia from June 23 to June 24, 2012.  Dr. So Hyun Kim, ANSORP Project Manager, attended the HWG meeting to propose a new project entitled “Strengthening health security – APEC symposium on strategies to control and prevent antimicrobial resistance”to get APEC support and to present the future plan of a newly approved APEC project entitled “Enhancing health security in APEC –International campaign program to control antimicro-bialresistance in the Asia-Pacific”. 



Our international campaign project was ranked number 1 among proposed projects submitted to APEC HWG and it was approved for APEC support on June 29, 2012. So, the newly approved APEC project, international campaign project, will be performed from August 2012 to December 2013.

Notification of approval of our newly submitted project  will be posted in September 2012.