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| Subject | KU Signs Agreement for Joint Operation of Global Healthcare Platform | ||||
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| Selection | News | Date | 2022-06-07 | Read | 625 |
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KU Signs Agreement for Joint Operation of Global Healthcare Platform
Korea University (President, Jin-taek Chung) is set to operate a global
healthcare platform to prepare for any pandemics that may follow COVID-19. Korea University announced that it has signed
an agreement with the Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future (Chairman Ban
Ki-moon; hereinafter “Ban Ki-moon Foundation”) to operate the BKM Global Health
Platform (hereinafter “Platform”). The signing ceremony, held at the Ban
Ki-moon Foundation conference room in Jongno-gu, Seoul, was attended by key personnel
from both sides, including KU President Chung, Vice President Young-hoon Kim, Chairman
Ban, and Executive Director Sook Kim. This global online platform was developed in
August last year as part of a joint project between the Ban Ki-moon Foundation and
the Asian Development Bank and was created to provide the world with information
on the latest trends of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 based on
scientific evidence secured from reliable sources. The platform is based on databases from world-renowned
institutions, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), Our World in Data, and
the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), and is supervised by
the Eminent Group involving international experts in medicine, health,
sociology, and mathematics as well as Ban Ki-moon, the eighth Secretary-General
of the United Nations. Under the agreement, Korea University and the
Ban Ki-moon Foundation will cooperate to maintain and support the platform, and
the two parties will contribute to improving global public health by making reliable
predictions and preparations for new infectious diseases and pandemics. The platform will be operated by the Korea
University Institute for Occupational and
Environmental Health (Director: Jae-wook Choi, Professor of Preventive Medicine), and
infectious disease experts will provide support. It will share information on the
current status of COVID-19 as provided by international organizations and
educational institutions and present strategies and prospects for the international
community’s response to pandemics as well as tips on how to improve
international health regulations (IHR 2005) and recent information on ICT-based
response systems.
Chairman Ban said, "People are looking
forward to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic; however, history has shown that new
infectious diseases may hit us again. We look forward to working together with
Korea University so that we can effectively respond to the next pandemic with
the help from this knowledge and information sharing platform that will be
operated in cooperation with Korea University."
KU President Chung said, "No one knows what
the future holds, but I think it is a noble responsibility for scientists to
predict and prepare for this unknown future. I am happy to share this
opportunity to work with Chairman Ban, who has devoted himself to the
international community, and I will do my best to make the platform a strong foundation
based on global solidarity to counter new infectious diseases."
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