APEC Health Task Force Meeting

APEC Health Task Force

MeetingSeoul, South KoreaFebruary 24, 2005

Louis FoxVice Provost & Research Professor, University of WashingtonDirector, Research & Education Partnerships, Pacific Northwest Gigapop

Overview of EINet Projects

• News Brief

• Certificate Program

• Access Grid Collaborations for Biopreparedness

News Brief – to subscribe: depts.washington.edu/einet

• Trusted • Informative• Convenient• Free

Certificate Program COURSES: - Epidemiology (including surveillance and disease investigation) - Informatics (including information resource access and database creation) - Biostatistics and Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases

CollaborationCooperation

Access Grid Technologies

Note: Projected Bandwidths by end of 2005

An Invitation…

• AG Node roundtable on bio-preparedness• May – June? (date to be decided)

Contact EINetAnn Marie Kimball, MD,MPH,FACPMDirector, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Emerging Infections NetworkProfessor, Epidemiology, Health ServicesAdjunct Professor, Biomedical and Health Informatics and MedicineSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washingtonakimball@u.washington.edu

Louis FoxVice Provost, University of WashingtonResearch Professor, Information SchoolDirector, Research & Education Partnerships, Pacific Northwest GigapopExecutive Director, National Internet2 K20 Initiativelfox@u.washington.edu