Welcome to the International Conference on Advancing the Life Sciences and Public Health Awareness to be held December 20-21, 2017 at the Hiroshima KKR Hotel in partnership with the 5th Asian Symposium on Healthcare Without Borders (HWB 2017) and the 5th Conference on Human Development in Asia (COHDA 2017).

ALPHA was also held this past summer in Hiroshima and preceded the 72nd Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony. Due to the inability of many participants to attend in August due to the memorial and peak season travel, we are holding ALPHA this December again in Hiroshima.

In addition to the symposium, participants will have an opportunity to enjoy a free, guided tour in English of Hiroshima Peace Park, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

ALPHA 2017 is an excellent opportunity to advance research in the life sciences, raise awareness of public health issues, improve health equity and to commend the important work of researchers and health professionals around the world. In fact, the American Nurses Association has declared 2017 to be the Year of the Healthy Nurse.

With the theme of Keeping Up with Changing Times, ALPHA 2017 aims to raise awareness of the correlation between the life sciences and public health issues. In addition, the conference will focus as other disciplines such as the IT field which is yielding groundbreaking discoveries from novel genes and bio-products to cutting-edge nanotechnology, resulting in a transformed science landscape with profound global applications in understanding life, eradicating diseases, securing a more equitable food and water supply/distribution as well as creating novel bio-industries and products.

We are offering a special early registration rate of only 23,500 JPY. We welcome submissions of 250 words in English by Friday, November 17, 2017.

Life Science and Public Health Streams
◾Agriculture and Food Science
◾Biotechnology and Biomedical Sciences
◾Biodiversity and Conservation
◾Environmental Science
◾Health Sciences
◾Maternal Child Health
◾Microbiology
◾Nursing Education and Practice
◾Nutrition and Dietetics
◾Public Health and Community Health
◾Public Health Promotion
◾Sexual Health
◾Sport Science
◾Other Areas (Please Specify)