Kim Chang-Yup, a professor at the SNU Graduate School of Public Health, was appointed as the 6th president of the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare, and the inauguration ceremony was held on Monday, November 1. The new president will represent the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare for the next three years and perform the duties of supervising the foundation''s tasks. [Full Text of Inaugural Speech] Dear employees of the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare, I am pleased to see you all. I am Kim Chang-yup, new president of KOFIH. First of all, I cannot help but ruminate on the meaning of the time when I start working. There are only two months left in 2021, but this year is the 15th anniversary of the foundation and almost two years since the outbreak of COVID-19. I believe that next few years starting from this year will be special to our foundation, because it will be a time when the international health organizations seek a new direction and order after the COVID-19 pandemic. In an important time when the post-COVID system of the international health will be formed globally, KOFIH will have to fulfill its historic responsibility to implement new and challenging tasks based on the achievements and capabilities KOFIH has built up over the past 15 years. I would like to congratulate and thank all the employees from KOFIH for having worked hard to lead the growth and development of the foundation over the past 15 years. KOFIH, established in 2006 to uphold the legacy of the late 6th WHO Director-General Lee Jong-wook, has conducted local-demand-based projects centered on the nine overseas country offices across Asia and Africa, and contributed to strengthening the healthcare system of partner countries by improving the key indicators of major projects such as maternal and child health care. In particular, our foundation has soundly maintained and operated overseas offices even in unfavorable working environments such as the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, political instability in some countries, and changes in domestic conditions. Also, I am well aware that it has gained the trust from partner countries through active project implementation in ways of supporting urgently needed medical supplies on time and establishing management training courses for infectious diseases. In addition, I was informed that our foundation has faithfully carried out the duties it assumed even in unprecedented international health crisis by shifting face-to-face training and lectures on projects for North Korea and migrant workers into online one, expanding them, and providing a remote medical service system for the elderly who were confirmed with COVID-19 in Arirang Nursing Home in Uzbekistan. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and post-COVID situations are definitely challenging and are expected to bring daunting challenges. Therefore, we will be asked to take on new responsibilities and roles that we have never experienced before. The most important environmental change is the growing need to re-establish the principles, governance, and methodologies of international health cooperation in a new way.   As I have experienced in the pandemic situation, I believe that in the future, the principles and methods of international health must shift from support or aid to cooperation. Against this backdrop, we need to deeply and sincerely reflect and consider how to participate in international discussions, which are held in various, even free, ways, and assume international responsibilities. There will be a growing demand for supporting infectious disease control and the relevant system-building from developing countries. Also, strategies to strengthen the health care system are expected to draw more attention in maintaining essential health care services including maternal health services as well as managing infectious diseases. Given this, long-term planning, large-scale financial support, and detailed professional activities must be accompanied that go beyond individual project-based approaches. In order for our foundation to develop and implement the highest level of policies and projects under such conditions, all members of KOFIH must work together to develop individual and organizational capacity and effectively perform appropriate roles. We will have to gradually prepare step by step and put it into practice, but I promise all of you that I will keeping communicating, considering and sharing thoughts along with you. I believe that we will be able to successfully overcome unprecedented, new challenges only when mutual learning is promoted based on communication and exchange and when our collective or organizational knowledge is solid. Among them, I was told that KOFIH takes tasks of strengthening professional capacity and improving management capabilities as a high priority and I am on the same page. In order for KOFIH to further grow as an organization specialized in health care, it is necessary to have a deep understanding of global health issues, projects, and scientific methods at both theoretical and practical levels. I hope that the foundation will develop its expertise in cooperation with Korean and foreign experts such as professionals from international organizations, academia, and NGOs, and through practices, the knowledge and capabilities of our foundation will spread to the outside, forming a desirable “epistemic community” in Korea and abroad. In order for ideology and philosophy, scientific knowledge and methodologies, and practical expertise to lead to the practice of health project development or implementation, we need to secure a groundwork for effective, efficient, and democratic operation. To create the highest quality of performance in a limited budget and human resources, we need to consolidate the principles of creative and responsible organizational operation tailored to the characteristics of our organization and develop appropriate structures and functions. Such tasks should not be relied on by just a few individual employees or leaders. I will do my best to work together with all members of KOFIH to achieve results through the roles and contributions that I can play and make. Through new opportunities brought by the so-called post-COVID, I would like to encourage you to work together so that KOFIH can remarkable develop and play major roles in realizing the common value of all mankind; that is, to solve international health inequality. Thank you. November 1, 2021 President Kim Chang-yup Korea Foundation for International Healthcare