Supporting Public Health Institutes Programme - SPHIP

The 7^th International conference on Public Health among Greater Mekong Sub-Regional Countries was held in Hue, Vietnam on 26^th and 27^th September 2015. The conference title was “International collaboration of public health training and research in evidence- based health policy making”, and it had following objectives:

• To share research results in the field of Public Health as well as in existing health problems among greater Mekong Sub-Regional countries;
• To search for feasible solutions to enhance international collaboration among Public Health Faculties in the Mekong Sub-Region, and a wider area of the Southeast Asian countries about training and research in Public Health to strengthen evidence based health policy in a globalization context.

Participants from three SPHIP projects in Asia (Bangladesh, Myanmar and Lao PDR) and the SPHIP-ST team leader participated in the conference.

The three projects and the SPHIP-ST organised a special session on support to public health institutes where over 50 persons from the conference participated. It was a good opportunity to share experiences and have discussions.

During the conference, areas of collaboration and exchange were identified such:

• Non-communicable diseases in both Bangladesh and Myanmar;
• Policy implementation assessment;
• Use of DHIS-2 software for monitoring;
• Capacity building of research staff.

If you want to know more, you can click on the following pages:

• Booklet Programme Hue conference;
• Abstract SPHIP – ST;
• Graphic SPHIP Hue conference.