SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute (SDGHI)
Through its International Collaboration Office, SDGHI provides regional support to health system capacity development for outbreak preparedness and response in over a dozen countries during the pandemic. This includes facilitating cross-country learning in the areas of health care leadership and governance, staff and facility management, and the maintenance of essential services.
Tan Hiang Khoon
Director, SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute
Clinical Associate Professor Tan Hiang Khoon is the Director of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute (SDGHI), and the Group Director of the International Collaboration Office (ICO), SingHealth.
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Vijaya Rao
Deputy Director, Clinical Health Systems Programme, SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute
Ms Vijaya Rao is the Director of International Collaboration Office (ICO), SingHealth, and Deputy Director (Clinical Health Systems Programme), SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute. She has a Master’s degree in Social Work and Health Administration with over 25 years of experience in areas such as healthcare policy and planning, community healthcare management, applied social service and more.
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Jonas Karlström
Innovation Science Core Lead, SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute
Dr Jonas Karlström is a Swedish MD trained in pediatrics and a global health professional with more than 12 years of experience in health innovation, health, international development, policy and global health. Before joining SDGHI, Dr Karlström worked in various positions of UNICEF Health and Innovation programming.
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Duke-NUS Emerging Infectious Disease Programme (EID)
EID seeks to pioneer the development and discovery of new and more effective methods for the detection, treatment, prevention and control of new and emerging pathogens. EID played key roles in supporting the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic which included early isolation and swift characterization of SARS-CoV-2, the development of the world’s first surrogate viral neutralization test, surveillance, diagnostics, vaccines and cutting-edge efforts to investigate potential treatments.
Wang Linfa
Professor, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School
Prof Wang is a Professor in the Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School and the inaugural Executive Director of the Programme for Research in Epidemic Preparedness and Response (PREPARE), Singapore. He is one of the world’s leading experts in zoonotic diseases, bat immunology and pathogen discovery.
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Gavin James Smith
Programme Director, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School
Dr Gavin Smith is the Programme Director and Professor in the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore. Prof Smith’s research integrates ideas from a number of scientific fields, including evolutionary genetics, virology, ecology, and infectious disease epidemiology.
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Feng Zhu
Senior Research Fellow, Duke-NUS Medical School
Feng Zhu is a bioinformatician specializing in bat innate immunity, metagenomic discovery (including SARS-CoV-2 related bat coronavirus), serological investigation and pan-sarbecovirus vaccine development. He is helping to build the bioinformatics pipeline for the Asia PGI Training Academy.
Dolyce Low Hong Wen (PhD)
Research Fellow, Duke-NUS Medical School
Dolyce is a Research fellow at the Laboratory of Virus Evolution (LOVE) at Duke-NUS Medical School. She was awarded her PhD from the National University of Singapore in Jan 2022. Dolyce research focuses on wildlife disease surveillance, with a specialization on bat and small mammal viruses.
Duke-NUS Centre of Regulatory Excellence (CORE)
CoRE was established in 2014 as a specialised think-tank and professional capacity development centre with the mission of establishing regional platforms and networks to grow competencies, enhance collaboration and promote thought leadership in innovative regulatory science and health policy in Asia and beyond.
John CW Lim
Executive Director, Centre of Regulatory Excellence, Duke-NUS Medical School
Professor John Lim is founding Executive Director of the Centre of Regulatory Excellence (CoRE) at the Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School (Duke-NUS), inaugural Chairman of the Consortium for Clinical Research & Innovation Singapore (CRIS), Senior Advisor at Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH), and Policy Core Lead at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute (SDGHI).
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Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
BII is one of A*STAR’s research entities and is dedicated to computational biology/bioinformatics driven life science research aimed at the discovery of biomolecular mechanisms guiding biological phenomena. BII plays a significant role in global SARS-CoV-2 data sharing and analysis via a long-term collaboration with the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID) data science platform, which has enabled sharing and analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes at an unprecedented scale.
Sebastian Maurer-Stroh
Executive Director, A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute
Dr Sebastian Maurer-Stroh is the Executive Director of the A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute (BII) since 2021, and has been leading a group of experts in protein sequence analysis as a senior principal investigator in BII since 2007. His protein function analysis skills are supporting A*STAR's efforts at the public-private interface and through computational analysis and modelling his team is critically contributing to national and global viral pathogen surveillance, notably with the GISAID initiative.
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Mak Tze Minn, Sandy
Senior Post-doctoral Research Fellow, A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute
As a Senior Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Sandy is involved in tracking SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny and curating reports for the ASEAN region. She has prior experience in laboratory public health, where her work included developing Next-Generation Sequencing workflows for Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and outbreak investigations.
Joses Ho
Senior Scientist, A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute
Joses is a leader in data visualisation and analytics in biomedical science and public health. He leads a team using disparate datasets to forecast infectious disease burden. In addition, he curates weekly reports and real-time dashboards to track emergent COVID-19 strains. He has also developed robust and elegant estimation statistics for data analysis.
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH), National University of Singapore
SSHSPH is the first and only full-fledged public health tertiary education institution in Singapore. It has a strong track record in education and people development, as well as capacity building in the region in countries such as Cambodia, East Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. Moving beyond traditional domains of chronic disease etimology and risk factors, SSHSPH emphasizes new technologies and methods for surveillance, measurement and monitoring of exposures and diseases, as well as new approaches to analysing public health programmes, health systems and policies.
Teo Yik Ying
Dean, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
Professor Yik-Ying Teo is the Dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore. He is presently a member on the Council of Scientists for the International Human Frontier Science Program, as well as a governing board member of the Regional Centre for Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network for Southeast Asia.
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Li Yang Hsu
Vice Dean of Global Health, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
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.
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Swapnil Mishra
Assistant Professor, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
Swapnil Mishra works at the intersection of global health, machine learning and Bayesian modelling. His research focuses on developing statistical machine learning techniques for the broader and messier world of science and public policy. Swapnil's current focus lies in developing unified, scalable, and robust framework for modelling infectious diseases, integrating genomic, serological, and epidemiological information.
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Global Health Law and Governance program of the Centre for International Law (CIL), National University of Singapore
The Global Health Law and Governance program at the NUS Centre for International Law focuses on research, teaching and capacity building in this field. Global health is governed by diverse international organizations and actors, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), national regulatory agencies, philanthropic foundations and the pharmaceutical industry. Global health is regulated by binding and non-binding international rules such the International Health Regulations (IHR) or the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases, respectively.
Ayelet Berman
Visiting Associate Professor, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
Ayelet is Associate Professor (Honorary Visiting) at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Lead of the Law & Governance Program at the Asia Centre for Health Security, and Lead of the Global Health Law & Governance Program at the NUS Centre for International Law (CIL). She is an international lawyer and her work focuses on the law and governance aspects of global health and biosecurity. Her expertise also includes global governance, international trade law, and international investment law.
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