On 15-18 July 2019, a delegation of nine SSHSPH faculty members travelled to Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, to learn more about the public health issues facing the country, as well as how the Lao people are working towards overcoming them. They were joined by two members of Thailand’s Health Intervention and Technology Assessment ProgramRead more
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Held on 24-28 June, the NUS Initiative to Improve Health in Asia Leadership Development Programme (NIHA LDP) 2019 was organised by the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, and co-hosted by National Health Foundation Thailand, the Access and Delivery Partnership (ADP) and the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI). More than 70 senior regulators, health policymakers and
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Faculty, alumni, current students and graduands gathered on 11 July for an evening of reunion and celebration at SSHSPH AlumNite 2019 held at Park Avenue Rochester Hotel. Vice Dean (Education), Associate Professor Jeannette Lee addressed the graduands, congratulating them on their achievements and for completing their studies. She also shared her hopes that they would
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The NUS-NUHS-MIT Healthcare AI Datathon and Expo 2019 will be held this week from 17 to 21 July 2019. Assistant Professor ‘Mornin’ Feng Mengling is leading the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Datathon segment for the third year now. He talks to us about some of the successes of the past two years and more broadly about
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It was a memorable day for the Class of 2019 as our graduating students marked a significant milestone at the SSHSPH Commencement Ceremony on 12 July. Held at the University Cultural Centre, 38 Master of Public Health (MPH), Master of Science (MSc) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) graduates received their degrees from Presiding Officer Mr
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As we celebrate our graduating students at today’s Commencement Ceremony, we spoke to Associate Professor Jeannette Lee, Vice Dean (Education), about the School’s education programmes and the future direction of education here. Pictured above is A/Prof Jeannette Lee with Prof Tan Eng Chye, NUS President (2nd from left) and Prof Ho Teck Hua, NUS Senior
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Singapore has the largest menthol tobacco market in the world. Half of the cigarettes sold here are flavoured with menthol. In her research of leaked internal tobacco industry documents, Dr Yvette van der Eijk, Senior Research Fellow, found that, in Singapore, tobacco companies used menthol cigarettes to target teenagers. She believes that a ban on
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Award-winning Singaporean cartoonist Sonny Liew and Associate Professor Hsu Li Yang, Programme Leader (Infectious Diseases) have collaborated to produce a comic book titled ‘The Antibiotic Tales’. The comic covers the topic of antimicrobial resistance — the ability of microbes to evolve and resist the drugs used to kill them. “While antimicrobial resistance is a major global public
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More than 5,400 people in Singapore have been infected by dengue so far this year, which is more than four times the figure in the same period last year. For every infected person who shows symptoms, there are up to 10 others who are infected but suffer a mild form of the illness, and do
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On 3–5 June 2019, the School conducted a training workshop on ‘Leadership in Occupational Health’ with 29 senior-management-level participants from various hospitals, preventive centres and national institutes in Vietnam. This workshop aims to provide participants with competencies and skills in the planning, implementation and evaluation of health programmes, and acts as the second part of
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