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Around the world, field epidemiology training constitutes an important line of public health defence against emerging infectious diseases. The National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) has partnered NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SPH) to develop the Singapore Field Epidemiology Training Programme (S-FETP) with the Ministry of Health. This programme offers stepwise training to medical and public health officers under the One Health Framework to meet growing field epidemiology needs. The programme is modelled after the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service andRead more

Timothy Liu is currently undertaking a Master’s in Public Health at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, in addition to his role as Chief Executive Officer of Dover Park Hospice. For the past two years, he has also been handling and managing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since 2016, I’ve helmed Dover Park Hospice and I come from an engineering and business background. I wanted to gain further insights into health and healthcare and learn public health concepts and tools that I could bring back to DoverRead more

Our heartiest congratulations to alumna, Professor Leo Yee Sin (Public Health ’13), Executive Director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), for receiving the Distinguished Alumni Service Award in recognition of her dedication to fighting at the frontline against infectious diseases and her leadership in effecting change for the community! The Distinguished Alumni Service Award recognises National University of Singapore (NUS) alumni who have made an impact in their respective fields as well as rendered excellent and sustained service to NUS, its predecessor institutions and the community. Over theRead more

Congratulations to Dr Hsu Li Yang for being appointed to the Board of Directors of the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA). The APLMA unites 22 governments in Asia-Pacific who have committed to eliminating malaria in the region by 2030. APLMA translates evidence to advocate for policy change at the highest levels of government and supports leadership collaboration across the region. “I am honoured to join APLMA at this critical juncture. Addressing both last mile challenges and issues of drug-resistance malaria are both essential to push the region towards malariaRead more

Assistant Professor Dr Jasper Tromp has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, and Singapore over the past seven years. These experiences have given him insights into the impact of different health systems and cultural differences on health and healthcare, particularly in the area of his research expertise in cardiovascular disease. He has been working in Singapore for the last five years, with a focus on identifying differences in quality of care or cardiovascular disease between countries and Digital Health interventions to improve care.

Can a mobile application support and boost maternal and child health care in rural communities? This is the aim of a three-year project led by Assistant Professor Siyan Yi from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health under a US$2million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. With support from the University of Health Sciences and the National Maternal and Child Health Centre, Phnom Penh, and other local partners in Cambodia, Siyan’s team will test, implement and evaluate the applicability and efficacy of a mobile and web-based healthRead more

Congratulations to Master of Public Health alumna, Ms Nurliyana Binte Daros (Master of Public Health ’18), who is one of the runners up for this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Healthy Women, Healthy Economies (HWHE) Research Prize. This prestigious international award aims to spotlight and spur the creation of gender-specific data and is supported by the multinational pharmaceutical company, Merck. The Healthy Women, Healthy Economies initiative aims to improve women’s health and economic empowerment through public-private partnerships. The winners were officially announced on 24 September after rigorous evaluation and judging.Read more

Wellcome Trust has provided a grant of S$2.5 million to the National University of Singapore (NUS) to establish the Asian Clinical Research Network (ACRN) to conduct antimicrobial clinical research to develop the most effective ways to treat and prevent life-threatening drug-resistant infections. This will be the first clinical trial network established in Asia focusing on drug-resistant infections. Other similar networks have been set up in Europe, the United States and Australia and collaborating with these networks is a key long-term goal. The NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health will be hostingRead more

The School warmly congratulates all graduates from the SSHSPH Class of 2020 and Class of 2021, who were conferred their degrees during NUS’ first online graduation ceremony on 26 June 2021. Madam Halimah Yacob, President of the Republic of Singapore and NUS Chancellor, presided over the ceremony. In her congratulatory message to the graduating class, she noted that COVID-19 is a reminder that sometimes even the best laid plans can be overturned by events that are not within our control, and she hoped that graduates will embrace all challenges withRead more

With support from the Rotary Club of Singapore (RCS), the School organised a virtual public forum on 5 June 2021 to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, titled ‘Why Hesitate? All You Want to Know about the COVID-19 Vaccination’. In view of circulating misinformation and recent community transmission, including among fully vaccinated individuals, the forum aimed to answer questions from the public around the COVID-19 vaccines. The event saw over 300 attendees and was graced by guest-of-honour Ms Low Yen Ling, Minister of State for Culture, Community and Youth & Trade andRead more

In their latest comic on COVID-19, award-winning cartoonist Sonny Liew and Associate Professor Hsu Li Yang explain why vaccinations are key even as new variants emerge, and the possibility of a future with the coronavirus. The comic was published in The Straits Times on 31 May 2021 (From Pandemic to Endemic?) and is also available to read below.

Shopping malls like JEM and Westgate were ordered by the Ministry of Health to close for two weeks to curb the spread of COVID-19 after several shoppers there had tested positive. In an interview with Channel 8, Asst Prof Vincent Pang, Director, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Research, looks at how we can avoid the spread of the coronavirus in shopping malls. As the virus can be transmitted through direct contact with respiratory droplets of an infected person or touching of contaminated surfaces, Dr Pang identified lifts, lobbies, toiletsRead more