Dean, Professor Teo Yik Ying was invited by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to give a seminar about Singapore’s approach to COVID-19. He shared the lessons that our country had learnt from the SARS outbreak in 2003, and presented the multi-prong measures put in place to deal with the current COVID-19 outbreak.
The seminar was held on Monday, 9 March 2020 and live-streamed on LSHTM’s website. The session was hosted by the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST), a partnership between LSHTM and Public Health England funded by UK Aid. UK-PHRST Director, Prof Daniel Bausch provided the welcome remarks.
Watch the seminar here.
Read about it on NUS News here.
A pleasure to host Prof YY Teo, Dean of Singapore School of Public Health, at the London School today. His wise words on communications on COVID-19:”If the people do not trust you, you will have problems. Fake news is important. Address it. Stop it.” #LSHTM #UKPHRST pic.twitter.com/RBCydIJGkK
— Daniel Bausch (@DanielBausch2) March 9, 2020
“When you see the points I bring up, ask yourself ‘is this something that my country could or should adopt?'” This is a must-watch talk by Yik-Ying Teo of @NUSingapore, on the phenomenal efforts Singapore has made to contain COVID-19 https://t.co/mDsn8Y3o0f
— Adam Kucharski (@AdamJKucharski) March 10, 2020