• November 15：HPA held an educational press conference titled “Be Smoke Free, Super on Campus” to protect children and adolescents from the hazards associated with tobacco products, e-cigarettes, and heat-not-burn products. The Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Education, and Legislators Wu Kuen-yuh and Chen Yi-ming issued a joint appeal “Taiwan’s New Generation–Say No to Addiction” to encourage 4.06 million faculty members and students to join hands in efforts to enlist children as “Anti-Smoking Ambassadors” and exhibit the “10 Superpowers” in the context of the “Be Smoke Free, Super on Campus” campaign endorsed by the local celebrity Harlem Yu.

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• October 30- November 3：HPA held the “ First Asia Pacific Health Promotion Capacity Building Workshop” at Taipei Medical University based on the core concepts of the “Declaration of Taipei. ” The workshop focused on the following three core competencies: program planning, implementation, and assessment, building of partnerships, and multiculturalism and tolerance in the Asia-Pacific region. The event aimed to promote resource sharing and establishment of a talent networks in the field of non-communicable diseases through sharing of practical experiences.

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• October 28-29：Ministry of Health and Welfare and Ministry of Foreign Affairs held the “2018 Global Health Forum in Taiwan” focused on the theme “Resilience: New Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health. ” The goal was to explore how to maximize resilience in the face of various challenges including the rising prevalence of unpredictable natural disasters, man-made disasters, and diseases associated with modern civilizations and make preparations for the future against the backdrop of constantly changing healthcare systems. Parallel events focused on the theme of resilience in attempts to explore current conditions and future planning needs in various countries. Relevant issues included natural disaster emergency response measures, challenges and opportunities associated with psychological resilience, promotion of national HPV vaccination and health literacy programs, global disease burdens, and non-communicable disease health promotion. During the event, relevant information was shared in a real-time manner on Facebook and Twitter. The forum had 68 speakers from 34 countries (leaders of majot healthcare organizations worldwide and ministers, deputy ministers, and representatives of health ministries) and about 1,200 local expert participants.

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• October 27：Professor Mohsen Naghavi, Meghan Mooney, Assistant Director of Engagement, and Dr. Fatimo Marinho, external reviewer of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) were invited to participate in the “2018 Global Health Forum” in Taiwan. They engaged in discussions and exchanges with local scholars and representatives of the Department of Statistics, Ministry of Health and Welfare, and HPA regarding the accuracy of data on Taiwan utilized by IHME for global disease burden indicators as well as data sources and relevant techniques and methods. The goal of this event was to increase the participation and contributions of the public sector and academic circles in Taiwan in the field of global health assessments and cross-national comparisons.

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• October 26：Chung Shan Medical University, Asian Health Literacy Association, and Taichung City Government jointly organized the “6th AHLA International Health Literacy Conference” in 2018. HPA co-organized sessions on Health Literacy for Aging, Health Literacy, SDM and HPH as well as cervical cancer prevention and HPV testing & vaccination health literacy–worldwide perspectives. Local and international experts and scholars were invited to participate in these sessions.

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• October 24：Dr. Nilay Shah, Chair of the Division of Health Care Policy & Research, Department of Health Sciences Research at Mayo Clinic was invited to attend the “2018 Global Health Forum” in Taiwan, which was organized by HPA. He engaged in consultations and discussions on health data linkage and integrated application as well as healthcare provider data linkage and possible directions of future cooperation with local scholars, experts from medical institutions, and representatives of the Department of Statistics, Ministry of Health and Welfare, and HPA.

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• October 17-19：The 8th Alliance for Healthy Cities Global Conference (AFHC 2018) was held under the theme of “Our Cities, Our SDGs, Our Journey. ” Over 700 participants from Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, and China attended this conference, while mayors and other representatives of cities in 10 nations participated in the mayors’ forum. A total of 93 Taiwanese representatives took part in these events. Taiwan also garnered 7 (35%) of the 20 Innovation Awards in four major categories presented in this conference.

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• October 12：The US Environmental Protection Agency also paid a formal visit to Mr. Ho Chi-kung, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Health and Welfare. The meeting was attended by HPA Director-General Wang Ying-Wei, the US delegation comprising of Ms. Jane Nishida, EPA Acting Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA), EPA Senior Program Manager in Northeast Asia, Mr. Phillip Loosli, Economic Officer of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), and Ms. Guo Meijun, environmental technology specialist, and representatives of the ROC Environmental Protection Administration. The participants conducted exchanges on child health issues.

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• October 11：The US Environmental Protection Agency paid a formal visit to EPA Minister Lee Ying-yuan. HPA Director-General Wang Ying-Wei attended this meeting as a representative of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The US delegation was comprised of Ms. Jane Nishida, EPA Acting Assistant Administrator for EPA’s Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA), EPA Senior Program Manager in Northeast Asia, Mr. Phillip Loosli, Economic Officer of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), and Ms. Guo Meijun, environmental technology specialist. The US delegation and representatives of ROC government ministries and councils engaged in discussions on the current progress and future directions of the children’s environmental health initiative.

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• October 5：Promulgation of amendments to “Regulations for Verification on Kinship between the Sperm/Oocyte Donor and the Recipient”

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