Team

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.