Greetings

Greetings,
I am pleased to have the honor of inviting you of “The 3rd APIS Forum”,
led by Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) in South Korea.
The meeting will be held at the Grand International Seoul Parnas Chrysanthemum, Seoul, South Korea at 8th of November 2024.

GloPID-R brings together funders investing in research related to new or re-emerging infectious diseases. The aim is to increase preparedness and speed up the research response to outbreaks with pandemic potential. As a member of GloPID-R, GloPID-R KOREA proposed "Asia-Pacific Regional Hub” in 2021.
KRIBB, the headquarter of GloPID-R Asia-Pacific Regional Hub, obtained a grant titled 'Asia-Pacific Infectious Disease Shield (APIS)’ from the Ministry of Science and ICT of South Korea for developing and facilitating regional hub initiative.
Major objective of APIS is to prevent and manage outbreaks of emerging and re-remerging infectious diseases in Asia-Pacific Low-middle income countries (LMICs) through establishing our own network in Asia and Pacific region.

To achieve this objective, we need to establish both scientist and government level networking.
To the best of my knowledge, APIS is the first Korea-initiated international collaboration program for sustainable Asia-Pacific infectious disease network for rapid response to combat infectious diseases in the emergency and peace time.

On the 3rd APIS Forum, there will be a presentation on the establishment of an infectious disease network with national research institute in the seven Aisa-Pacific countries in the Asia-Pacific region through APIS 2.0, which will be planned based on experiences to date, and a cooperative system to prepare for the management of infectious diseases due to climate change, etc.
Based on this, in-depth discussions will be conducted to identify gaps in infectious disease research in particularly low-middle income countries in Asia-Pacific region and fill them.
I look forward to having you in downtown Seoul and we will together develop stronger Asia-Pacific hub that aids low-middle income countries in their efforts to prevent and control the spread of infectious diseases. Respectfully Yours,

Choong-Min Ryu
Director of the GloPID-R Asia-Pacific Hub，KRIBB