Events

Protecing children from second-hand tobacco smoke-successes, challenges, and future priorities

Many children are still exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) at home. In this talk, Dr Rachel O’Donnell will describe her research on measuring SHS in the home, providing personalised feedback on indoor air quality to promote smokefree homes, and the development of interventions in Scotland, Malaysia and Indonesia.

• Research Round

From local to global, establishing the Borneo disease surveillance hub through SIDC

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

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

Staff Research Rounds – Prof Henk JMM Mutsaerts & Dr Jan Petr

Our work aims to understand how changes in non-invasive brain perfusion MRI can predict cognitive decline in our aging society and its relationship with cardiovascular risk factors. While current imaging techniques can only identify irreversible late-stage structural damage, perfusion MRI is sensitive to early-stage cerebrovascular changes that put patients at risk for cognitive decline. This talk will address the potential of brain perfusion MRI as early biomarker from recent population studies.