Email dryyng@nus.edu.sg

Community preparedness and prehospital care systems are vital pillars of an effective healthcare system. The resilience of the community is key to emergencies especially those that are time sensitive such as cardiac arrest, trauma, heart attacks, strokes and respiratory distress.

The best practices for building up a community that is resilient to disaster and prepared for emergency response continues to be poorly understood and complex. The adage “When you have seen one EMS system, you have seen one EMS system” continues to hold true today. The variation in survival rates of emergencies between high and resource setting for conditions such as cardiac arrest may differ over 1000%, which is unique compared to chronic illnesses compared across high and low resource settings.

Preparing communities are complex, resource intensive endeavors – health technologies and digital platforms present new opportunities to overcome these complexities, enable mass adoption and scaling up of community resilience.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
• Prehospital Emergency Research Centre, Duke-NUS (Adjunct)

• Emergency Medical Services
• Community Resilience, Disaster Preparedness
• Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence

• Emergency Medical Services
• Community Resilience, Disaster Preparedness
• Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence
• Public Health

• M.B.B.S. National University of Singapore 1999
• M.R.C.S. Accident and Emergency (Edinburgh) 2003
• MOH Emergency Medicine Register 2008
• Masters of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 2009
• Masters of Business Administration, Johns Hopkins University 2009
• Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore 2010
• MOH Public Health Register 2018
• Masters of Technology (Digital Leadership) NUS-ISS 2021

• Public Service Administration Medal (Silver) 2023
• COVID 19 Resilience Medal 2023
• Public Administration Medal (Silver) (COVID-19) 2022
• HIMSS Best Paper Submission Award “A hospital without Walls” 2022
• NHG Research Impact Award 2020
• Ng Teng Fong Healthcare Innovation Award 2020
• Friends of Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth award 2019
• MHA HomeTeam Innovation Award (Silver) 2018
• MHA 3i awards (Gold) 2017
• MHA National Day Award (Individual) 2017
• MHA National Day Award (Team) 2017
• National Infocomm Awards 1st runner up – 2016
• PS21 ExCEL awards (Merit) 2016
• PS21 ExCEL innovation spotlight award – Gold 2016
• Asian Association for Emergency Medical Services 4th Organisational Excellence in EMS award 2016
• Asian Association for Emergency Medical Services 4th Individual Excellence in EMS award 2016
• ASEAN ICT Bronze Award for public sector category 2015
• PS21 ExCEL Silver award – Most Innovative Project/Policy 2014
• MHA/HTD Policy Process Innovation of the year Platinum 2014
• PS21 ExCEL award – Most Innovative Project/Policy 2013
• MHA Home Team Policy/Process Innovation of the year 2013

• Professor, National University of Singapore 2025
• National Healthcare Group 2018-2025
• SAF Medical Officer 1993-2018

• Head, Preventive Medicine Branch, SAF Medical Corps 2003-2006
• Head, General Staff/Operations, SAF Medical Corps 2010-2011
• DyCommander, Primary Care Services SAF Medical Corps 2011-2012
• Chief Medical Officer, Singapore Civil Defence Force 2012-2018
• HomeTeam CMO, Ministry of Home Affairs 2015-2023
• Director, Digital and Smart Health Office, NHG 2020-2025
• Director, Health Empowered by AI Launchpad, NHG 2024-2025

• Visiting Consultant, MOH Singapore 2011-2020
• Associate Consultant Emergency Physician, SGH 2008-2016
• Senior Consultant Emergency Physician, TTSH 2016-2023
• Senior Consultant, Public Health, TTSH 2023-2025

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