Opening Remarks

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Opening Remarks
YoungSung Lee MD PhD Chungbuk National
University National Cancer Center
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Society phobia Mad Cow Ds 1 M people to strike
U.S Beef importation on the Korea-U.S. free-trade
agreement
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Innovative program in Public Healthcare education
and Policy development

• According to the learning needs of the growing
  internet generation, a global internet project is
  required.
• To respond to the increasing public concern on
  burden of disease such as HIV/AIDS epidemic in
  Asia, cancer, and other Medico social problem, an
  immediate pilot project is needed.
• As a role model program, WHO and the leading
  countries in the Western Pacific Region should
  implement, as soon as possible, an innovative
  distant education program for the next generation
  health leaders in developing countries.

2005-06-29
KRnet conference, KOEX, Korea
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Future Plan for Healthcare session

• Strategic Expansion of Medical Working Group
  activities
• Disease management for specific issues
• Cancer
• Avian Flu New emerging infectious ds
• AIDS
• HT/DM
• Convergence on MT, IT, BT, CTs
• Blending of netwoks Broadbandwidth vs.
  Lowbandwidth