Bio
Dr. Pang is an epidemiologist who is passionate about the epidemiology, surveillance and prevention of emerging infectious diseases, in particular, zoonotic diseases. Dr. Pang was previously Deputy Director and then Director for Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research in Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, leading a multi-disciplinary team to strengthen infectious disease surveillance, risk assessment, research and outbreak investigations in military services. Dr. Pang had served as a consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) MERS-CoV Epidemiology Workgroup in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Ministry of Health (MOH) COVID-19 Epidemiology Workgroup in Singapore. Dr. Pang's public health expertise also involves pandemic preparedness and outbreak management. He had also served as a consultant to the WHO Indonesia, South-East Asia and Western Pacific Offices, the Ministry of Manpower (Singapore) ACE Medical Unit and the Singapore Armed Forces Biodefence Unit on pandemic preparedness and outbreak management. Dr. Pang is a member and focal point of the WHO Global Outbreak and Alert Response Network (GOARN).
Dr. Pang was actively involved in One Health research, publication and teaching, collaborating with experts from the other disciplines, to further understand the epidemiology, transmission, and risk factors of hosts, vectors, pathogens, and environment resulting in zoonotic disease transmission. Dr. Pang has taught and guided medical, nursing, and non-medical undergraduates and postgraduates (Master in Public Health) in lectures, tutorial, and research projects in NUS. Dr. Pang is one of the trainers in the Singapore Field Epidemiology Training Programme, an initiative co-led by the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, to build up a pool of trained field epidemiologists in the government agencies to support outbreak investigations.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Master of Science
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences Hons Class 2A
National University of Singapore, Singapore