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The Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) Commencement ceremony was held on 14 July 2013 at the University Cultural Centre, marking a momentous occasion for the graduating students from SSHSPH as they celebrated an important milestone in their lives. Jointly hosted with Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, the ceremony saw a total of 37Read more

The 4th NUS Initiative to Improve Health in Asia (NIHA) Forum was held on 1st and 2nd July 2013 at Traders Hotel, Singapore. Jointly organised by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and NUS Global Asia Institute (GAI), the 2-day event saw approximately 90 healthcare leaders and decision-makers, healthcare policy academics and

The Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Teo Yik Ying received the NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (FTEA) AY 2011/2012 in recognition of his many contributions and commitment to teaching excellence at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in the last academic year. This year’s award winners,

The NUS Annual Safety & Health Performance Award (ASHPA) is awarded by the Office of Safety, Health and Environment (OSHE) and is in recognition of NUS Departments/Faculties, Research Institutes & Corporate Offices which have made or are making significant improvements to their safety and health management systems (SHMS). SSHSPH has again won the Commendation Award of the NUS ASHPA in 2013. Congratulations! This is the highest possible award in

A study conducted on the health of adults with intellectual disabilities has found that they are more prone to chronic conditions like hypertension than the general population. The study, conducted by the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and  involving 227 intellectually disabled adults from the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled Singapore (MINDS), found

Ms Safiyah Salim, a student of the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, sees herself as a public health professional, hopefully having the opportunity to serve vulnerable populations. Having been a disablity policy officer at the then-Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports, Safiyah gained an interest in issues like helping the disabled

The 1st Worlds of Healthy Flavors Asia was held on 28 – 30 November 2012 at Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore. Organised by the Culinary Institute of America, Harvard School of Public Health – Department of Nutrition, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) and Health Promotion Board, Singapore, this inaugural by-invitation only event brought

Young and educated men who have casual sex are less likely to use protection then older customers who visit brothels, a survey has found. The study, led by Assoc Prof Wong Mee Lian of the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. sampled 1,219 heterosexual Singaporean men on their sexual risk behaviour. Assoc Prof Wong said

The major public health issues confronting us today are highly complex and require multiple levels of interventions. Public health specialists of the future will need to have a broader set of skills and perspective in order to lead the fight against the epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and threat of pandemics. Dean of the NUS

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will be reviewing guidelines to improve the removing of asbestos from its buildings. Before asbestos was banned in 1989, it was commonly used in building construction, and the material is still present in many older buildings. Dr Lim John Wah, Occupational Health Physician at the National University of Singapore (NUS)