AMWA leaders hosted a webinar with Taiwan colleagues to learn about Taiwan’s successful containment efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The event: One World, One War Against COVID-19: Taiwan and the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) Come Together was held on March 30, 2020.
View the webinar, slide deck, and answers to all Q&A HERE.
During the webinar, leaders from Taiwan’s Chang Gung Memorial Hospital shared the country’s strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic. These strategies included:
- Rapid response to implement early border screening and contact tracing
- Coordinated use of data across multiple platforms, including travel history and health insurance
- Centralized response efforts and resource allocation
- Standardized, uniform protocols throughout the country addressing PPE use, triage, patient care, and more
- Daily press briefings from the national leadership to educate and inform
- Traffic control and medical staff grouping to avoid exposure and preserve PPE
- Increased production of PPE to ensure an adequate supply chain
- Regular hospital meetings to ensure staff preparedness and protocol training
- Strict requirements and protocols for both healthcare providers and the general public
- Free and readily available testing for all suspected cases with results reported within hours
- Dormitory for staff requiring quarantine
- Active monitoring and adjustment of recommendations based on change…
At the time of the webinar, Taiwan had only 235 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and no history of community outbreaks. Of the 235 cases, 6 were healthcare providers.
Please view the full agenda and speakers below.
Read the JAMA article by Dr. Jason Wang HERE.
AGENDA:
One World One War Against COVID-19-Taiwan and American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) Come Together
Tuesday, March, 30, 2020
Moderators: Prof. Chyong-Huey Lai and Prof. Padmini Murthy
Session Agenda
- Introduction from Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, visiting experts, and AMWA members, health professionals on the call (10 mins)
- Remarks from AMWA Executive Director Dr. Eliza Chin and distinguished attendees (5 mins)
- Hospital Preparedness to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) by Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkuo Branch (30 mins)
- How Taiwan and the US can collaborate. (5 mins)
- Q & A Discussion (35 mins)
- Closing (5 mins)
Moderators: 
Chyong-Huey Lai, MD – Professor and Vice-superintendent of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkuo Branch; Distinguished Professor, Chang Gung University
Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH – Professor, New York Medical College
AMWA Speakers:
Eliza Lo Chin, MD, MPH – Executive Director, AMWA
Nicole Sandhu, MD, PhD – President, AMWA
Taiwan Experts:
Tzou-yien Lin, MD – Professor and Chairman of Board of Trustees, National Health Research Institute, Taiwan
Chi-Chun Lai, MD – Professor and Vice-superintendent of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkuo Branch; Chair of Infection Control Committee, CGMH; Professor, Chang Gung University
Cheng-Hsun Chiu, MD, PhD – Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases; Vice-superintendent and Commander of COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital; Professor, Chang Gung University
Cheng-Ta Yang, MD, Professor and Executive Vice Superintendent of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Branch
Professor, Chang Gung University
Shin-Ru Shih, PhD – Distinguished Professor and Director, Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, Chang Gung University
Yhu-Chering Huang, MD – Director of Infectious Disease Control for Northern Taiwan; Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Disease, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkuo Branch
Ting-Shu Wu, MD, PhD – Associate Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine; Co-Chair, Infection Control Committee; Associate Professor, Chang Gung University
Po-Yen Huang, MD – Assistant Professor of Medicine; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine; Co-Chair, Infection Control Committee; Associate Professor, Chang Gung University
Chun-Wen Cheng, MD – Assistant Professor of Medicine; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine; Co-Chair, Infection Control Committee
