KOFIH held the opening ceremony for the year 2022 and made resolutions for the New Year. Below is the New Year''s message: New Year’s Message from the President Kim Chang-yup I would like to wish a happy new year to all of you for love and care you have shown to KOFIH, as well as our partners and employees. May you all stay healthy and happy in 2022. Although it has not been so long since I joined KOFIH last November, I would like to thank you for your interest, advice, hard work and achievements. In 2021, KOFIH celebrated the 15th anniversary since its establishment and conducted major projects based on local demands through nine overseas country offices in Asia and Africa despite the difficulties posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. I can say with confidence that our major projects, including maternal, neonatal and child health projects, achieved great results and helped our partner countries strengthen their health systems. Our effort to flexibly respond to an ‘unusual’ situation, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, is another great milestone we achieved. KOFIH took a major step forward in the area of international health cooperation, providing necessary medical supplies on time and creating a new training course on infectious disease control. In addition, we diligently fulfilled our fundamental responsibilities in the face of an international health crisis by expanding and switching education courses on projects for North Korea and migrant workers to online courses and building a remote medical examination and treatment system for residents in Arirang Nursing Home in Uzbekistan. KOFIH partners and employees, It is expected that many countries continue to suffer from the spread of COVID-19 in the upcoming 2022 and need and request for international cooperation will further grow in part of the effort to end the pandemic. In addition to this, there will be more dynamic movements that seek a new order in the ‘post-COVID-19’ ear. In this process, I believe we will also face challenging tasks that require our role and responsibilities in redefining the principles, governance, and methodology of international healthcare cooperation. In particular, most countries will now demand a higher standard of building infectious disease control and response system. We also need to expand and supplement the scope of our key mission and strategy of ‘strengthening healthcare system’ to include the ability to sustain essential medical services in emergency situations. In this context, I would like to share the three directions that KOFIH will focus on this year. First, KOFIH will complement and further develop directions, principles, and methods of our work and projects to correspond to ‘COVID-19’ and the ‘post-COVID-19’ era. As our partner countries are expected to bring up new tasks, such as infectious disease control, and demand us to supplement the existing projects in this light, we are going to work closely with our partner countries and do our best to achieve the original goals and values of cooperative works no matter what changes we face. Second, KOFIH will strengthen its role of communicating, interacting, and discussing with various ‘actors’ engaged in international healthcare. As the World Health Organization (WHO) started a discussion on the ‘pandemic treaty,’ the year 2022 will become a ‘historic’ year when various international organizations, governments, private entities and civil societies come together to search for a new international healthcare governance system. KOFIH will also work together with the Korean government, private entities and civil societies to facilitate and stimulate active discussions in the Korean society. We will also reinforce our exchange and cooperation with various international organizations and institutions. Third, KOFIH will spare no effort to improve its capabilities and expertise. Internally, we are going to promote mutual learning while encouraging systematic use of various knowledge resources externally. We are going to develop creative and accountable work processes that best reflect the unique characteristics of KOFIH, structuralize and institutionalize them. We will also continue to reinvent ourselves to perform our projects effectively and efficiently, following democratic principles and procedures. KOFIH relocated the office to the newly built Health and Welfare Administration Town located in Junggok-dong in mid-December last year. With the foundation''s 15 years of experience, I hope to see KOFIH take a leap forward in 2022 with a new state of mind in a new office. I wish our partners and employees to make a great leap forward like a tiger in the new year. May you all have a year full of health, happiness, and a sense of fulfillment. Thank you. President of KOFIH Kim Chang-yup, MD, PhD MPH