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
August 2025
Decision science for global health priority setting
Join us for this public talk to explore how we can address one of global public health’s top priorities: reducing health-related disparities when resources are limited
- Global Health
Modelling Infectious Diseases in a Changing Climate
The MIDSEA Council, in partnership with Temasek Foundation, is pleased to invite you to Season 3, Session 1 of our 2025/2026 webinar series.
- Global Health
July 2025
From Writing the Mental Health Law to Designing the Mental Health Care Provision in Indonesia
In 2014, Indonesia passed its first Mental Health Law (Law No.18/2014), led by then-Member of Parliament Dr. Nova Riyanti Yusuf. Drawing from frontline experiences as a psychiatrist, she proposed and championed the legislation during her first parliamentary term—making mental health a national priority for the first time.
- Global Health
Conducting Economic Evaluation of Immunisation Programmes
This workshop introduces the basics of how to interpret and/or conduct an economic evaluation of a immunisation programme.
- Workshop
Risk Assessment for Deliberate Biothreat Events
Deliberate biothreat events present unique inter-sectoral challenges that require coordinated responses across public health, medical, laboratory, and security sectors.
- Global Health
Reflection on Successes and Failures of the Early Response to the Pandemic in Israel
When COVID-19 reached Israel in early 2020, the speed and intensity of control measures set the country as one of the world’s leading examples, especially with regards to the procurement and implementation of a COVID-19 vaccine programme.
- Research Round
