SSHSPH re-designated as WHO Collaborating Centre for Occupational Health

The Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health is pleased to announce that the School has been re-designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Occupational Health for another 4 years, as from 22 June 2014 till 22 June 2018, by the World Health Organization (WHO). This Collaborating Centre will continue to be headed by Associate Professor Chia Sin Eng and Professor David Koh.

Associate Professor Chia Sin Eng (right) with Dr Shin-ichi Sawada (left) from the Japan National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, WHO Collaboration Centre in Occupational Health at a 3-yearly meeting for all WHO Collaborating Centres for Occupational Health at the World Health Organisation Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Associate Professor Chia Sin Eng (right) with Dr Shin-ichi Sawada (left) from the Japan National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, WHO Collaboration Centre in Occupational Health at a 3-yearly meeting for all WHO Collaborating Centres for Occupational Health at the World Health Organisation Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

The School is one of 65 institutions and organisations in the six WHO regions who will support WHO in implementing the objectives of the Global Plan of Action on Workers’ Health through the Occupational Health Programme. As a collaborating centre, the School will, with this re-designation, continue to play an important role in supporting WHO in the strengthening of countries resources, in terms of information, services, research and training, in support of national health development, in Singapore and beyond.

SSHSPH is one of over 700 WHO collaborating centres in over 80 Member States worldwide working together with WHO in areas such as occupational health, communicable diseases, nutrition, mental health, health technologies, and more.