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 MrRead more
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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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A recent study estimated that 210,000 men in Singapore have sex with other men, and they could face a concentrated epidemic of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Led by Vice Dean (Research), Associate Professor Alex Cook, the study is the first of its kind to estimate the number of people in specific groups in Singapore who are
The nature of work is changing due to advancements in technology and the modern world. As a result of an ageing workforce and increased levels of sedentariness at work, the prevalence of chronic diseases in the workforce is expected to grow. Ergonomic measures to protect workers both physically (e.g., visual, auditory and musculoskeletal health) and
World No Tobacco Day falls on 31 May every year. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that tobacco use is currently responsible for the death of about seven million adults across the world each year. On average in developed countries, smokers die 14 years before their time and lose 23 years of their life. There
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There is now irrefutable evidence of the devastating health impacts of smoking, as well as a long list of health consequences and diseases caused by smoking and second-hand smoke. Tobacco is now linked to 25 different diseases, and is the major cause of lung cancer, bronchitis and emphysema. The World Health Organization (WHO) World No
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