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2023.07 International Activities

  • 2023.07.30 Two students from the Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, Guan-Yu Chu and Shih-En, Chen have completed their 5-week internship at IPU in Japan and returned to Taiwan safely.（Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences）
  • 2023.07.27-07.28 Professor Etsuro Ito from Waseda University, Japan visited Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology of KMU for research collaborations. （Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.25-08.07 Professor Liang-Yin Ke from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology visited the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Professor Ke also gave a talk entitled as “Role of electronegative low-density lipoprotein and lysophosphatidylcholine in atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases”, after speech he also introduced the Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology of KMU. （Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.22 PT Department, liaised with Taiwan Physical Therapy Association’s Vietnam Project and the KMU USR Project, organized an online workshop for PTs in developing country to improve the professional knowledge/skills. First workshop was delivered by alumni Jeffrey Chao with the topic: Foundations of Assessment & Treatment of Musculoskeletal Dysfunction. The number of participants online was 140 according to the Vietnamese PT Association.（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2023.07.19-07.21 On July 19th to 21st, as the first vice chairman of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) and the chairman of the Taiwan region, teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu met with the National Health Service and the National Institutes of Health on Group Health Science The Institute, the National Taiwan University Institute of Health Behavior and Community Science, and the Collaborating Centers for Health Promotion (CCHP) affiliated to the international alliance jointly organized a 3-day "Asia-Pacific Health Promotion and Non-communicable Disease Prevention and Education Training" .
    On the first day of the event, 7 domestic teacher representatives from National Taiwan University, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Beijing Medical University, Chinese Medical University, National Cheng Kung University, Tzu Chi and Normal University were invited to introduce 7 core theoretical models of health promotion and introduce foreign case studies. As the main structure of the cross-university co-teaching syllabus, it is the first time in our country to build a consensus on the core curriculum of health promotion, and to conduct in-depth exchanges and discussions with scholars from the world's top National University of Singapore and the Tokyo University of Japan.
    The public speech on the 20th was very rare to invite 4 influence guests as speakers: Mr. Tay Choon Hong, Director of the Singapore Health Promotion Board, Dr. Yik Ying Teo, Dean of the School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Japan Dr. Masamine Jimba, an honorary professor at the University of Tokyo, and Xu Zhicheng, deputy director of the Institute of Population Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health in Taiwan, and other domestic and foreign officials and scholars participated, focusing on the six core competencies of health promotion, sharing countries' efforts in non-communicable diseases Disease control and prevention and related policy formulation and case studies. There were also participants from 15 countries including the United States, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, the Kingdom of Eswatini, Portugal, Belize, Saint Kitts and Nevis. Hundreds of experts and scholars in the field of health promotion and health officials participated in the event. After the speech, the foreign guests had an in-depth policy formulation and practical discussion with the central and local health officials sent by our country. All parties have collided with new ideas on how to promote and implement the non-communicable disease prevention and control plan, and have gained a lot.
    On July 20th, Professor Betty Ya-Wen Chiu hosted the & quot ; Asia Pacific Health Promotion and Non-communicable Disease Prevention & quot ; workshop at the College of Public Health, National Taiwan University. The event featured public lectures and invited four official representatives and expert scholars from the health sectors of Singapore Health Promotion Board(HPB), National University of Singapore(NUS), the University of Tokyo in Japan, and Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes(NHRI). Mr. Tay, the Chief Executive Officer of HPB, showed us how Singapore utilizes policy and regulatory measures, multi-sectoral partnerships, and data and technology to build up a healthy nation. Dr. Yik Ying Teo, Dean of NUS emphasized the importance of academic-government partnership in the formulation of health policies and illustrated how Singapore manages to establish a working model between government agencies and the universities to develop evidence-based public policies. Dr. Masamine Jimba from University of Tokyo highlighted the use of population health science not only in policy-making but also in developing case studies on NCD prevention. Dr. Chih-Cheng Hsu, Deputy Director from NHRI, discussed national-level precision healthcare and ICOPE operations in communities, as well as how Taiwan responds to chronic disease burden in the superaged era. Learning from their experiences has been invaluable.After the lectures, international guests engaged in in-depth policy formulation and practical discussions with Taiwan's central and local health officials. The event was attended by over 120 health promotion experts, scholars, and health officials from 15 different countries.The results of the activity were also published on the website of the National Health Administration, the link is as follows: https://www.hpa.gov.tw/Pages/Detail.aspx?nodeid=4705&pid=17352（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.07.17-08.19 Students of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology joined the internship program at the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. （Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.16-07.30 Chang-Chih Kuo with 3 students participated in 111-year Education Ministry USC Overseas Internship Program for the Development of Cross-Cultural Occupational Therapy Programs.（Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2023.07.15-07.31 Professor Sheng-Fan Wang from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, KMU（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.14 Teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu participated in the Young Investigator Travelers Award (YITA) review committee meeting of the 54th annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) in 2023.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.07.07-07.22 Professor Liang-Yin Ke and Students of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology joined the internship program at the Cambridge Innovation Center and the Lab Central at Boston, USA. Later Professor Ke and Students also went to the Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine and the Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Rutgers university New Brunswick to seek for future research collaborations and students’ exchange program. Assistant Professor Dr. Wei Dai hosted the whole event and mini educational tour at the Center for Advanced Proteomics.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.07-07.16 Professor Yeou-Lih Huang attended the 19th Asian Chemical Congress at Istanbul, Turkiye and gave a talk entitled as “Preconcentration and determination of trace selenium in environmental water samples using magnetic graphitic carbon nitride nanocomposites and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.05 Teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu was invited by the Japan Global Health Association to discuss future cooperation with Yonsei University of South Korea and the Ministry of Health of Vietnam to establish an Asian academic research network on "refugee health issues".（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.07.01-07.31 Students (Nahathai Ngamsopee and Yanida Fangkoch) from the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, joined the Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, KMU internship program.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.01-07.31 Associate Professor Dr. Panan Ratthawongjirakul from the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, visited Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, KMU, for the students’ exchange program. Besides, we launched a three-university joined research collaboration among National Ping-Tung University Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, and Kaohsiung Medical University.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology） 
  • 2023.06.30-07.28 Ying-Chun Chou organized the “Overseas Internship Program” (3 undergraduate students visiting flying Kids Occupational Therapy, Malaysia.（Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2023.06.29-07.31 Associate Professor Shu-Chi Wang from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, KMU Carried out the Ministry of Education's Learning from the Sea and Building Dreams Program with medical students, and went to the Pittsburgh Eye Medical Center in the United States for a research internship. Through this project, the basic research technology of eye inflammation-related diseases induced by the high-fat microenvironment will be improved in China, and substantive research cooperation and cultural exchanges will be carried out to promote students' international vision and career planning ambitions.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.06.23-07.30  Ying-Chun Chou serves as the team leader of the “Overseas Internship Program” (6 undergraduate students visiting Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, IPUHS, Japan, from 6/23-7/30) to Japan.（Department of Occupational Therapy）
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