The 15th Asean Health Ministers Meeting has agreed on establishing the Asean Centre of Public Health Emergencies and Emerging Diseases , which will address three pillars of pandemic management: detection; surveillance; and response and risk management.
The minister explained that the body was similar to other public health bodies, such as the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We currently have different health protocols. Indonesia for example mandated indoor and outdoor masking while Singapore mandated indoor and public transportation masking but not outdoors. We want to synergise this,” Budi said.
While welcoming the public health center’s establishment, Griffith University epidemiologist Dicky Budiman said that Asean as a region was rather late with such a plan compared with other regions such as Europe or Africa. Dicky also warned that Asean was a hotspot for emerging as well as reemerging diseases given its tropical climate combined with large population and heavy movement of people.
Earlier in January, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo told the World Economic Forum of the need for a solution for global health emergencies by establishing a global health fund modeled after the International Monetary Fund .
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