2019 YSEALI Regional Workshop: Partnership in Health – Community-based Prevention for Non-communicable Diseases and Mental Health

The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia and the East Asia and Pacific Bureau of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a workshop on public health titled “Partnership in Public Health – Community-based Prevention for Non-communicable Diseases and Mental Health” for members of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI). Priority Region: Southeast Asia; specifically, the 10 member countries of ASEAN (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Laos, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) and Timor Leste. Program Objectives: The goal of this program is to galvanize and build networks to empower young leaders from all 10 ASEAN countries (+ Timor Leste) who are already taking action on public health challenges related to non-communicable disease and mental health in their home communities, and introduce them to opportunities to partner with U.S. businesses, institutions, experts, and peers. Through their participation in the workshop, participants will be expected to collaborate in multi-country teams to design innovative, wider-ranging solutions and campaigns to carry out upon their return home.