Upcoming Events
April 2026
Chikungunya: epidemiology, viral evolution, preparedness and response
Chikungunya is re-emerging across the Asia-Pacific region, presenting renewed challenges for public health systems.
- Webinar
May 2026
Book Launch of “A Long Vigil” & Fireside Chat with Prof Leo Yee Sin
A book launch of “A Long Vigil”, written by Prof Leo Yee Sin, Senior Advisor at NCID and NHG, and Professor at NUS SSHSPH and NTU. The book illustrates Prof Leo’s learning journey and responses to major and minor infectious disease outbreaks, including SARS, H1N1 influenza, dengue fever, and COVID-19.
- Book Launch
Developing a Maximum Containment Laboratory
During this session, Adj A/Prof Gladys Tan, Director of the Biological Defence Programme, DSO National Laboratories, will explain how Singapore has been strengthening its laboratory capability to include a maximum containment laboratory, as well as the biosafety and biosecurity risks that need to be recognised and mitigated.
- Webinar
August 2026
Biosecurity Simulation Exercise (BSX 2026)
This tabletop simulation exercise aims to enhance inter-sectoral and inter-disciplinary preparedness for laboratory biosafety and biosecurity and deliberate biothreat events.
- Course
Past Events
October 2025
Governance of Dual-use Risks of Synthetic Biology: Recent Efforts in China
Scientific progress in cutting-edge biotechnology has enabled the development of new medical countermeasures and disease surveillance capabilities. With the increasing ease of use and accessibility, and lower cost, of biotechnology, unintentional misuse or deliberate abuse of dual-use cutting-edge biotechnology will result in serious economic and security consequences.
- Webinar
Improving Enrolment in Clinical Trials using Economic Methods: Development of the I-PARTICIPATE approach
I-PARTICIPATE is a patient-informed trial design methodology that improves trial enrolment by directly incorporating potential participant preferences.
- Research Round
Unmasking the Power Paradox of Patient-Centred Care in Chinese community health
Despite being designed to empower patients, 'patient-centred care' (PCC) often fails by reinforcing traditional power structures through paternalistic doctor behaviours, limiting policies, and patient compliance.
- Research Round
Hybrid Simulation Modelling of Networks of Heterogeneous Care Homes
Hybrid simulation modelling of care homes found that residents using bank/agency staff had significantly higher infection risk than those not using them.
- Global Health
Disability in Nepal: The lived experience of physical disability
Disability profoundly affects the lives of people in Nepal. Persons with disability in Nepal have poorer physical and mental health, lower access to education and employment, and lower well-being compared to persons without disability.
- Research Seminar
September 2025
From Raw Fish Consumption to Cancer – Uncovering the Natural History of Liver Fluke Infection
The foodborne liver fluke (Opisthorchis viverrini) is endemic across the Mekong region of Southeast Asia and is of considerable public health interest as a primary cause of biliary cancer (cholangiocarcinoma) in humans.
- Global Health
