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Email mdchly@nus.edu.sg

Li Yang is an infectious diseases physician who has spent the past decade researching and treating patients with antibiotic-resistant bacterial and invasive fungal infections. He is currently Vice Dean of Global Health and Programme Leader of Infectious Diseases at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.

He was formerly Clinical Director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and Director of the Singapore Infectious Diseases Initiative, which was established to spur collaborative biomedical and clinical research in infectious diseases.

Li Yang has served in several committees in the Ministry of Health (MOH). In particular, he co-chaired the RIE2020 infectious diseases workgroup, promoting antimicrobial stewardship, better control of antimicrobial resistance (leading to the launch of Singapore’s National Strategic Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance in November 2017), as well as tuberculosis. He continues to work with MOH on a part-time professional scheme. He has also served as a technical advisor on surveillance of antimicrobial resistance to the western pacific regional office of the World Health Organization.

Li Yang was the founding director of the School’s Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER) established in 2012, and has briefly worked in the private sector as an infectious disease physician, providing specialist services between 2014 and 2016.

• Vice Dean (Global Health), Programme Leader (Infectious Diseases) and Professor, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary)
• Professor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Joint)
• Associate Director, NUS Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE)
• Visiting Consultant, St Luke’s Hospital
• Visiting Consultant, Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital
• Adjunct Clinician-Scientist, NanoBIo Lab, A*STAR

• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Genomics and Epidemiology
• Bacterial antibiotic resistance: Epidemiology, Mechanisms, and Intervention

• Internal Medicine, Tropical Diseases
• Infectious Diseases, Public Health & Policy

• MBBS (Singapore): May 1998
• Member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK): Feb 2001
• Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Gorgas Memorial, Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine): April 2005
• Specialist Accreditation in Infectious Diseases (Singapore): Nov 2005
• Master of Public Health (Harvard): Jun 2007

• Hugo Lumbreras Silver Medal for overall best academic performance: Gorgas Diploma Course in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

• Hsu LY, et al (2006). Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 44(3):1090-3.
• Hsu LY, et al (2005). Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 43(6): 2923-5.
• Hsu LY, et al (2003). Emerging Infectious Diseases. 9(6): 713-7.

• David B Duong, Andrew J King, Karen A Grépin, Li Yang Hsu, Jeremy Fy Lim, Christine Phillips, Truc Thanh Thai, Indumathi Venkatachalam, Florian Vogt, Esabelle Lo Yan Yam, Stephanie Bazley, Lydia Dai-Jia Chang, Rachel Flaugh, Baily Nagle, Johanan Dravium Ponniah, Penny Sun, Nicolas K Trad, Donald M Berwick, Strengthening national capacities for pandemic preparedness: a cross-country analysis of COVID-19 cases and deaths, Health Policy and Planning, 2021;, czab122, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab122