40th Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) Annual Conference have been successfully completed. The conference was was held in Kuala Luampur, Malaysia. The official opening day started from 7th Nov and Ended on 9th Nov, 2008, nearly 300 participants from more than 25 countries attended the 40th APACPH Annual Conference. It was sponsored by Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium of Public Health from 64 Universities in 20 countries and Mr. Sujan Jirel, Program Coordinator of AIDS Alliance Nepal (AAN) also has successful presented the oral presentation abstract. The host  University of Malaya, the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine and the Medical Education and Research Development Unit, Medical Faculty and Dental Faculty made significant contribution in making this conference possible and creating the condition and climate for a very successful meeting.

The participants have together made a DECLERATION that health is a basic human right that universities and communities must work together to achieve.

1. That Universities and especially Schools of Medicine, Schools of Public Health, Departments of Public Health, Ministry of Health and related disciplines including engineering, work collaboratively to achieve the goals to improve the health of vulnerable communities;
   
   
2. That each of us dedicate in one unique special and collective way to meet the challenges in public health education such as oral health, child and family health, disaster and public health response, prevention of diseases, and others including of the future of health;
   
   
3. That one of the key areas of achieving health is through Peace and Harmony in the Asia-Pacific Region; and
   
   
4. That social engineering, community participation and structural changes enunciated in the principles of primary health care are critical in times of economic crisis, climate and environmental challenges.

We wish to affirm that individually, collectively and institutionally we work together to achieve these objectives.