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Let's Talk Public Health
The ‘Let’s Talk Public Health’ series highlights pertinent topics in public health through interviews with our faculty members, students, alumni and other public health practitioners.
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Perspective pieces present our faculty’s viewpoints on existing public health issues, challenges, fundamental concepts or prevalent notions on a specific topic; propose and support a new hypothesis; or discuss the implications of newly implemented innovation, policy or programmes. Perspective pieces may focus on current advances and future directions on a topic, and may include original data as well as personal opinion.
Beyond a Scorecard Index: Relooking Singapore’s Global Health Security
By Associate Professor Hsu Li Yang, Vice Dean of Global Health, and Associate Professor Jeremy Lim, Director of the Leadership Institute for Global Health Transformation (LIGHT)
The inaugural Global Health Security Index ranked Singapore ranked 24th out of 195 countries that were evaluated for their overall preparedness for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics. In comparison, neighbouring ASEAN countries such as Thailand (6th) and Malaysia (18th) scored better.
This happened in part because Singapore scored zero out of a possible hundred in four of 34 categories. This perspective piece argues that the methodological approach disadvantaged Singapore. Singaporeans should not be concerned about the adequacy of our country’s biodefences; while there are areas for improvement raised in the GHSI that Singapore should focus on, the national frameworks are overall robust.
Are high-performing health systems resilient against the COVID-19 epidemic?
Authored by Associate Professor Helena Legido–Quigley, Associate Professor Hsu Li Yang, Vice Dean (Global Health) and Programme Leader (Infectious Diseases), Associate Professor Alex Cook, Vice Dean (Research) and Domain Leader (Biostatistics and Modelling), Professor Teo Yik Ying, Dean, and other international experts and collaborators