Project Completion Report
SECTION A: Project profile
Project number & title:
Time period covered
in report:
Committee / WG / Fora:
HWG 07/13A - Application of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in
Airborne Disease Containment International Seminar
July 2013 – November 2014
Date submitted: December 5th,
2014
Health Working Group
Project Overseer Name / Dr. Weihong Cong
Organization / Economy: People’s Republic of China
SECTION B: Project report and reflection
Briefly answer each of the questions below. Section B should be a maximum of 2-3
pages, inclusive of the questions and tables provided.
1. Project description:
This seminar is to address the application of traditional Chinese medicines in airborne
diseases containment from several aspects and with following objectives:
- To conduct extensive and in-depth literature research, and promote the use of traditional
Chinese medicines’ effects in improving personal immunity, and prevention and control of
infectious diseases. The utilization of traditional medicines for infectious diseases’
prevention and control is one way to build public health capacity and to improve
international health security.
- To provide a platform for APEC economies to share experience and discuss the use of
traditional medicines in airborne diseases containment. It also provides a chance for all
APEC economies to seek for cooperation in the future (such as the development of relevant
products).
- To discuss the most current studies and researches on airborne diseases control and
prevention with related experts, and exchange the most updated information and
technologies in this area.
2. Meeting your objectives:
The seminar was successful in achieving its all objectives. Throughout the project, we have
conducted extensive and in-depth research, including literature research, market research
and other information in relation to support the use of traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs)
against infectious diseases, especially airborne diseases. All information was presented
during the seminar to all participants so that they had a good opportunity to learn about
TCM, as well as presented them the opportunity to exchange information. The learning and
exchanging information process enable all participants to integrate TCM into their public
health capacity building plans in the future and therefore to improve public health security
among all APEC economies. Other than that, information presented by other participating
economies helped us enlighten new ideas in terms of building public health response
against infectious diseases.
3. Evaluation:
To evaluate the success of the seminar, we sent out an evaluation sheet to all participants
and speakers upon completion of the seminar (the evaluation form is attached).The
evaluation form is divided into two parts: 1) meeting management and activities; 2)
benefits from this seminar, as well as suggestions to organizers and PO.
We received 13 evaluation forms from main speakers and active participants. The average
score (to measure the success of the seminar) is 85.3 (out of 100). Most of the attendees
were satisfied with the management of the seminar. Most of them indicated that through
this seminar they knew more about the current situation and application of TCM in airborne
diseases containment, which was helpful in terms of providing new elements for them to
incorporate into public health capacity building in the future. The downside about the
seminar pointed out by our participants was the simultaneous translation during the seminar.
The quality of the translation could be improved better in the future.
Overall, we were pleased with the results as we successfully got all information across all
participants as planned, and we appreciate APEC Secretariat and their staff for their help
and guidance through the preparation stage.
4. Key findings:
All speakers and participants shared their research findings or experience in relation to
infectious diseases containment during the seminar, including but not limited to: 1) there
are strong literatures and researches to support the use of traditional Chinese medicine
against airborne diseases. These formed a strong evidence base to promote the use of TCM
among different APEC economies in the future; 2) there are gaps for promoting the use of
TCMs due to regional laws, regional regulations, and different interpretations of TCMs and
level of evidence that different economies appreciate; 3) there are market gaps for growing
TCM based products against airborne diseases, which implied potential research directions,
products trade, economic growth and job creation.
Participants also indicated that this seminar had provided a great platform for them to
exchange information not only in relation to TCMs, but also about airborne diseases,
policies, networking and potential cooperative opportunities.
5. Next steps: Describe any follow-up steps or projects that are planned following the
completion of the activity such as post-activity evaluations or tracer studies planned
to assess the impact of this activity. Have the results of the activity been disseminated
to participants and other stakeholders and how? What are (if any) any flow-on effects
from this activity? How will this activity inform any future APEC activities?
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Evaluation: After the seminar, evaluation was conducted to measure the success of the
seminar, as well as finding gaps for future improvements.
Sharing information: All information was summarized to be ready presented to other
APEC economies that did not attend the seminar through APEC Secretariat. To
promote the use of TCMs, the success of holding the seminar and its potential
influences have been published on some main media (news, website, newspapers that
matters to the TCM field).
Future research: The information and experience shared during the seminar could also
direct our research in incorporating TCMs into other infectious diseases containment,
such as Ebola.
6. Feedback for the Secretariat: Do you have any suggestions for more effective
management of projects in the future? Any assessment of consultants, experts or
participants that you would like to share? (The Secretariat collates and examines
feedback to identify trends for ongoing evaluation of our project management and/or
communications systems.)
We would like to thank the APEC Secretariat, in particular Mr. Steve Chen and Mary Tan
for their kind help and guidance throughout this project.
7. Participant information: Please provide details, where applicable. Insert rows as needed.
e-mail
Economy
Title
name
Designation
Organization
address
Participants
Thailand
Mr
Tawat
Buranatawons
om
Thailand
Mr
Wattana
Panmoung
Director
Malaysia
Ms
Goh Cheng
Soon
Director
Indonesia
Mr
Sumanto,SK
M, MPHL
Deputy
Director
Ms
Rini Yudhi
Pratiwi
Toeloes
Deputy
Director
Indonesia
Director
Viet Nam
Ms
Thi Ngoc Linh
official
Trinh
Viet Nam
Mr
Tran Tung
Dang
speakers
Director
Institute of
Thai-Chinese
Medicine ,Department
for Development of
Thai Traditional and
Alternative Medicine
Thai Traditional and
Integrated Medicine
Hospital,Department
for Development of
Thai Traditional and
Alternative
Medicine,Ministry of
Public Health
Traditional and
Complementary
Medicine
Ministry of Health
Malaysia
Filtration and
Partnership,
Directorate of
Traditional
Alternative and
Complementary
Health Services
Traditional Health
Management
incharge of
cooperation in APEC,
Department of Int’l
Cooperation, Ministry
of Health
Traditional Medicine
Administration.
Ministry of Health
tawat_us@ya
hoo.com
dr-watt@hot
mail.com
dr.goh_cs@
moh.gov.my
m_mantos@
yahoo.com
rienhk@yaho
o.com
Trinhlinh198
4@gmail.co
m
Dttung120@
gmail.com
Thailand
Mr
Sudhisak
Pawaradhisa
n
Practitioner,
Instructor
Australia
Mr
Alan
Bensoussan
Professor
Chinese
Taipei
Mr
Lee
Chun-Hsin
professor
Mr
Chung-Jen
Chen
Mr
Ziea Tat Chi
Mr
Liu
Qing-quan
Chinese
Taipei
Hong
Kong,Chin
a
People's
Republic
of China
Thailand
Mr
Sudhisak
Pawaradhisa
n
The profession
Chinese Medicine
Committee of
Thailand
Board of Thailand
Chinese Medicine
Association
Special instructor of
Faculty of Chinese
Medicine, Mah Fah
Luang University
National Institute of
Complementary
Medicine at the
University of Western
Sydney
Taiwan Association of
Intergrated Health
Promotion
mungkala@g
mail.com
A.Bensoussa
n@uws.edu.a
u
lee.herb@ms
a.hinet.net
professor
Kaohsiung Medical
University Hospital
1030458@m
s.kmuh.org.t
w
Chief
(Chinese
Medicine
Department)
Hospital Authority
ztc766@ha.o
rg.hk
professor
Beijing Hospital of
TCM
liuqingquan2
003@126.co
m
Practitioner,
Instructor
The profession
Chinese Medicine
Committee of
Thailand
Board of Thailand
Chinese Medicine
Association
Special instructor of
Faculty of Chinese
Medicine, Mah Fah
Luang University
mungkala@g
mail.com
8. Outputs: Please provide details, where applicable. Change headings or insert rows as
needed.
# planned
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# of workshops / events
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# of CDs distributed
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# of websites created
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Other:
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# of publications distributed
Details
Seminar on the Application of Traditional
Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Airborne Diseases
Containment
Oct 17-18,2014
Seminar guidebook
Information packet for the seminar
Scientific report(Ancient literature review,
Modern literature review,market survey,related
regulations survey)
The information was distributed by flask disk
which was given by organization on the seminar
SECTION C: Budget
Attach a detailed breakdown of the APEC- provided project budget, including:
 Planned costs (using most recently approved budget figures)
 Actual expenditures
 Variance notes: An explanation of any budget line under- or over-spent by 20% or
more.
SECTION D:
Appendices or additions
Please attach any of the following. This information will help us better understand your
project, support overseers of similar projects and plan for future projects.

List of experts or consultants utilized, with job titles and contact details, gender
disaggregated where possible.
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List of participants, with job titles and contact details
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Event agendas
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Links to any relevant websites or online material (e.g. reports, resources created)
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Results of participant feedback or other project evaluation (raw and/or analyzed)
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Any other relevant information or resources that would help us learn more about
your project
FOR APEC SECRETARIAT USE ONLY APEC comments: Were APEC project guidelines followed?
Could the project have been managed more effectively or easily by the PO?