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Challenges to Current and Future Tobacco Control

In 2016, 5.5 trillion cigarettes were consumed worldwide — enough for each man, woman and child to smoke two cigarettes every day. The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than 7 million people a year. With this important health issue in mind, the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health organised a Public Health Thought Leadership Dialogue (PHTLD) on the topic of tobacco control on 6 March 2019. Titled ‘Challenges to Current and Future Tobacco Control’, the 8th instalment ofRead more

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Let’s Talk Public Health with A/Prof Wong Mee Lian

8 March marks #InternationalWomensDay, and we couldn’t think of anyone more fitting than Associate Professor Wong Mee Lian to feature in the very first conversation of our series “Let’s Talk Public Health”. She has spent much of her career researching marginalised and vulnerable women in our society, and has been teaching health education and promotion to postgraduate and undergraduate students for the past 25 years.

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