It is an honor and pleasure for Zamboanga Consortium for Health Research and Development (ZCHRD), together with the Department of Science and Technology Region 9, to co-host and welcome all the attendees of this 14^th PNHRS Conference.

Following its yearly tradition, this year 2021- 14^th PNHRS Conference Week is the first virtual conference with the theme “Health R and D in the New Normal: Moving Towards Universal Health Care''. This experience of a virtual conference offers a broad range of sessions on the COVID-19 Pandemic and its challenges will pull together researches and sharing of experiences among experts on the latest knowledge in their presentations. The comprehensive presentations have been assembled from well-selected experts devoted to cover a wide spectrum on COVID-19 topics from various regional experiences nationwide.

The conference will include scientific and technical sessions on universal healthcare as a unique rostrum to bring together clinicians, physicians, educators, and researchers from all over the country serving as a platform to report, share and discuss issues and scientific achievements relative to the COVID 19 Pandemic and other pressing challenges in the aim to achieve universal health care.

We invite you all to join this 14^th PNHRS virtual conference as we enjoin students and other stakeholders all over the country on the various research-based presentations for the whole PNHRS week celebration starting with satellite sessions from August 3-6,2012 followed by three days of pre-conference sessions on August 9-11, 2021, and main conference sessions on August 12-13, 2021.

The four days satellite conference will be full of inspiration to openly present and discuss their work offering opportunities through the clustering of region presentation from a broad range of experiences. This will be an excellent opportunity to update attendees on research and presentations relative to health care challenges that will drive a future direction for basic, clinical, and translational investigations.  Experience generates use and wisdom compels attention.  

We enjoin you all to attend all the conference sessions.  Evidence deserves to be reviewed on needs relevant to vaccines, healthcare, pandemic management to promote wellness,  the key to address equal opportunities to achieve healthy communities.

We look forward to your attendance and share the excitement with us!