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The NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on 29 January 2020. UNAIDS Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Mr Eamonn Murphy, and Dean, Professor Teo Yik Ying, signed the memorandum of understanding at a ceremony on the sidelines of the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2020 in Bangkok. The MoU will strengthen both parties’ collaboration and see them combine efforts to end the AIDS epidemic in Asia, the Pacific and in Singapore. The agreement

The School is pleased to share that PhD student Mr Rayner Tan is now on the editorial board of the prestigious journal, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI). He joins as part of the editorial team for its new series, Perspectives. Our warmest congratulations, Mr Tan! Perspectives is a new section of STI targeted toward clinicians and translational researchers. Each Perspectives issue identifies interesting articles and proposes the implications of each article for current or near-future clinical practice. Aimed to be a quick and informative read, Perspectives will be published for open

We are pleased to share that PhD student Ms Tan Sok Teng was awarded the Equity Initiative Fellowship. Congratulations, Ms Tan! Launched in 2016, the Equity Initiative (EI) Fellowship programme nurtures and empowers young leaders to pursue and advocate social justice for health in the ASEAN region. The programme is designed to bring together a diverse group of professionals who have demonstrated commitment, dedication and enthusiasm for leading change for health equity. Like other world regions, Southeast Asian societies are confronting many health equity challenges: ensuring universal access to primary

In 2019, Singapore saw its worst dengue outbreak in over three years, with 16,000 cases and 20 deaths. Assistant Professor Vincent Pang, Director, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER), said there is likely to be a similar outbreak in the middle of the year. This is especially so if many residents choose to visit countries with their own dengue epidemics during the warm and rainy season. Mr Chew Ming Fai, Director-General of Public Health, National Environment Agency (NEA), attributed the spike in dengue cases last year to three

A healthy diet remains the primary means to prevent chronic diseases among those with prediabetes. Dr Raymond Lim, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor Wong Mee Lian conducted a study with 433 pre-diabetic patients to assess factors associated with fulfilling the Health Promotion Board’s My Healthy Plate recommendation, and to explore reasons for their behaviour. It was found that only 57.3 per cent of the patients followed the recommendations, of which nearly 90 per cent of the respondents were married. Married individuals were more likely to report meeting the recommendations compared