Usher Institute COVID-19 webinar series #1 Speaker Professor Yik Ying Teo, Dean, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore Chair Professor Aziz Sheikh, Director, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh Title Usher Institute COVID-19 webinar #1: A systems-level approach to COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore Abstract Singapore has been amongst the first few countries to see the importation and subsequent local transmission of COVID-19. The outbreak is ongoing since the first case arrived on 23 January. I will share the multi-prong measures Singapore has put in place that goes beyond simply a health-sector response, and also discuss some of the challenges ahead. Speaker Biography Professor Yik Ying Teo, or commonly known as YY, is the second Dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore. Trained as a mathematician at Imperial College and completed his MSc and DPhil at Oxford in statistical genetics, YY returned to Singapore in 2010 after working for four years as a Lecturer in Oxford and concurrently a researcher at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. Prior to his Deanship, he was the Founding Director for the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, and also the Director for the Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research. He is presently a member on the Council of Scientists for the International Human Frontier Science Program, as well as a member governing board member of the Regional Centre for Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network for Southeast Asia. Please note this webinar will be recorded. Mar 27 2020 09.00 - 10.00 Usher Institute COVID-19 webinar series #1 A systems-level approach to COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore. Please REGISTER to join via ZOOM webinar
Usher Institute COVID-19 webinar series #1 Speaker Professor Yik Ying Teo, Dean, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore Chair Professor Aziz Sheikh, Director, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh Title Usher Institute COVID-19 webinar #1: A systems-level approach to COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore Abstract Singapore has been amongst the first few countries to see the importation and subsequent local transmission of COVID-19. The outbreak is ongoing since the first case arrived on 23 January. I will share the multi-prong measures Singapore has put in place that goes beyond simply a health-sector response, and also discuss some of the challenges ahead. Speaker Biography Professor Yik Ying Teo, or commonly known as YY, is the second Dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore. Trained as a mathematician at Imperial College and completed his MSc and DPhil at Oxford in statistical genetics, YY returned to Singapore in 2010 after working for four years as a Lecturer in Oxford and concurrently a researcher at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. Prior to his Deanship, he was the Founding Director for the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, and also the Director for the Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research. He is presently a member on the Council of Scientists for the International Human Frontier Science Program, as well as a member governing board member of the Regional Centre for Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network for Southeast Asia. Please note this webinar will be recorded. Mar 27 2020 09.00 - 10.00 Usher Institute COVID-19 webinar series #1 A systems-level approach to COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore. Please REGISTER to join via ZOOM webinar
Mar 27 2020 09.00 - 10.00 Usher Institute COVID-19 webinar series #1 A systems-level approach to COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore.
