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Asia-Pacific Testbed for Research, Education, and Clinical Applications

This project aims to advance international relationships and develop networks of professionals, research universities, and physical networks in the Asia-Pacific region. It focuses on public health, including epidemic alert and response networks, and seeks to develop distance learning and surveillance tools.

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Asia-Pacific Testbed for Research, Education, and Clinical Applications

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  1. Asia-Pacific Testbed for Research, Education, and Clinical Applications Louis Fox University of Washington CANS2002 Shanghai August 23, 2002

  2. Project Goals • Advance existing international relationships and develop new ones among professionals in the Asia–Pacific region • Create Networks of Networks • Networks of People • Network of research universities • Network of physical networks

  3. Pacific Rim Public Health TestbedNetworks of People • Epidemic alert and response networks • PulseNet - USA • APEC EINet – APEC economies • MEBS - Mekong Basin • PACNET/PPHSN – Pacific Islands Basin • ASEANet - SouthEast Asian Nations • TEPHINET – Global • Etc…..

  4. Pacific Rim Public Health TestbedNetworks of People

  5. Pacific Rim Public Health TestbedNetworks of Research Universities • Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) • An association of chief executive officers of 34 premier universities around the Pacific Rim • Promote cooperation in teaching and research on issues of major importance to the Pacific Rim community • Similar to the goal of APEC to create a community of Pacific Rim nations

  6. AustraliaAustralian National UniversityUniversity of Sydney CanadaUniversity of British ColumbiaChileUniversity of ChileChinaFudan UniversityPeking UniversityTsinghua UniversityUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHong Kong University of Science & TechnologyChinese TaipeiNational Taiwan UniversityIndonesiaUniversity of IndonesiaaJapanKyoto UniversityOsaka UniversityUniversity of TokyoWaseda UniversityKoreaSeoul National UniversityMalaysiaUniversity of Malaya *This list does not include all APRUnet participants MexicoNational Autonomous University of MexicoNew ZealandUniversity of AucklandPhilippinesUniversity of the PhilippinesRussiaFar Eastern National UniversitySingaporeNational University of SingaporeThailandChulalongkorn UniversityUSACalifornia Institute of TechnologyStanford UniversityUniversity of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, DavisUniversity of California, IrvineUniversity of California, Los AngelesUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of OregonUniversity of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Washington APRU members*

  7. Pacific Rim Public Health TestbedNetwork of Physical Networks • AARNET - Australia • APAN – Asia Pacific • CERNET - China • GEMnet- Japan • SINET – Japan • WIDE - Japan • KOREN/KREONET2 - Korea • SingAREN - Singapore • UNINET - Thailand

  8. Background • Public Health Distance learning and monitoring technologies already exist in region • However, response to epidemiologic or bioterrorism-related events depends more upon informal communications channels than established monitoring systems • A researcher, physician, or public health official in one region telephones or sends an email to a counterpart in another • Starts a chain of communications that culminates in the activation of formal response mechanisms

  9. Initial Focus Areas • A testbed of communicable disease related networks, institutions, and individuals in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation member economies, building upon high-performance communications networks that are currently in place • A network-aware distance learning application to deliver courses designed to advance learning about emerging infections and bioterrorist-related outbreaks • Testing of secure, self-optimizing surveillance tools for the electronic notification of disease with guaranteed Quality of Service and a Geographic Information System component.

  10. Looking to the future • Public health is the initial target of the testbed • These efforts will provide a “proof of concept” • Eventually, the testbed could serve many disciplines, many approaches

  11. University of Washington (UW) - Overview • Extensive international experience in public health, technology, and distance learning • A leader in Internet development for decades • an original participant of Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) network in the 1960s and 1970s • a leading participant National Science Foundation-funded Internet initiative of the 1980s • instrumental in the development of the high-performance Internet in the 1990s • Founding Internet2 member, regional aggregation point, and international peering point • Pacific Northwest GigaPoP, Pacific Wave

  12. Pacific Northwest GigaPop (PNWGP) and Pacific Wave • In the late 1990s, the UW created the GigaPoP (PNWGP) to serve as a Pacific Northwest regional hub of the Internet2 national testbed gigabit network • Pacific Wave, collocated with portions of the PNWGP, is an international peering service that is designed to enhance efficiency of IP traffic

  13. UW OverviewSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine • One of only a handful ofBiopreparedness Centers in the United States sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control • Working regionally to network public health authorities in the six northwest states to enhance surveillance and disease reporting. • The School has been active in International Research and Training in Biomedical and Health Informatics since 1999

  14. UW OverviewSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine –continued • Faculty, students, and technical staff from the school are the development core in research projects including: • a CDC-Washington State-Public Health, Seattle and King County project to develop a regional syndromic surveillance system based on the secondary use of clinical data • National Library of Medicine Phase 2 Next Generation Internet contract award • a Denver Public Health-CDC contract to develop Web-based case-reporting software using public wireless networks. • Following September 11, the UW received emergency funding from the APEC Board of Control for enhancing monitoring in the region

  15. UW OverviewDistance Education • UW Distance Learning is the nation’s largest research institution provider of and leader in distance learning 19972001 • Courses 0 306 • Enrollment 0 10,551 • Degrees andCertificate Programs 0 32

  16. UW OverviewDistance Education -Types of Programs • Free Courses • 1,000 enrollments in 2 months • Learning Network, UW Homepage, others • Courses • Credit • Noncredit • Certificate Programs • 29 Programs • LAAP Program (learning anytime anywhere partnerships) • Degrees • CSS (Computer and Software Systems) • Construction Engineering • Library and Information Science • PHARM. D.

  17. Public Health Practice Certificate • Partners • Emory • Johns Hopkins • Tulane • Funding • Center for Disease Control (CDC) • Format • credit graduate-level certificate program (33 credits) • Completed in 15 months • Tracks • Administrative and Management • Community Development • Epidemiology and Information • Policy Development and Program Planning

  18. Public Health Practice Certificate - continued. • Content • Health Care and Public Health Services • Epidemiology and Biostatistics • Management • Informatics • Strategic Planning • Financial Management • Community Health and Needs Assessment

  19. Pacific Rim Networks – Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) • International consortium of high-performance research and education networks • Goal of promoting advanced research in networking technologies and the development of high-performance, broadband applications in the Asia-Pacific Region. • Primary members include: • Australia, China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. • Other members include: • Thailand, USA, CGIAR, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam.

  20. Pacific Rim Networks – Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) – continued.

  21. Pacific Rim Networks – TransPAC • Created by Indiana University • TransPAC is a high bandwidth international Internet connection from the vBNS to the Asia Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) through the Science, Technology, and Research Transit Access Point (STAR TAP) in Chicago.

  22. Pacific Rim Networks – TransPAC – continued.

  23. Information sharing strategies • PAHO/WHO Library for Disasters • Research Channel http://www.researchchannel.com/

  24. Participation – What you can do now • Inform others about the project – have them contact you or us • public health practitioners/ officials • medical schools • let them know we would like to have other venues in which to present ideas • Let us know about other networks we don't know about • Volunteer for a pilot

  25. Contact information Louis Fox Vice Provost, Educational Partnerships & Learning Technologies University of Washington lfox@u.washington.edu

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