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 2024
Do Patient-Reported Outcome Measures help Predict Unplanned Hospital Readmission or Mortality?
Unplanned hospital readmissions significantly impact patient outcomes and healthcare costs globally. While prediction models are widely used to identify patients at high risk of readmissions, their discriminative ability often falls short of achieving adequate accuracy.
- Research Round
Integrated Care and/or Population Health (Management)
Singapore healthcare moved from a focus on ‘Disease Management’ in the 2000s, to ‘Integrated Care’ in the 2010s, and to ‘Population Health’ today. Integrated Care and Population Health are often confused and used interchangeably but are conceptually distinct and the strategies for implementation must be different in emphasis and scope. Success in Population Health
- Research Round
August 2024
GHTLD – Small Countries, Global Impact: Shaping the Future of Global Health
In times like these, are small countries necessarily relegated to play a minor role in determining global health order, or is the voice of a country not determined by its geographical and population size, but instead by its ability to shape and lead global health developments? This inaugural Global Health Thought Leadership Dialogue convenes four international experts in global health to address this important issue during an era where the world struggles to arrive at genuine solutions to the world’s biggest problems.
- Public Health Thought Leadership Dialogue