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Director, Contact & Environmental Diseases, Border and Travel Health, Communicable Diseases Agency

Pream leads the Contact and Environmental Diseases, Border and Travel Health Division in the Communicable Diseases Agency, a statutory board under the Ministry of Health Singapore. He oversees surveillance and response operations for contact and environmental diseases, as well as policies and protocols for border and travel health.

Prior to his current role, Pream served as Senior Assistant Director in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and Response Division at the Ministry of Health Singapore, where he led surveillance and response for food-borne and vector-borne diseases and development of border health policies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was part of the team that set up and ran the Contact Tracing and Epidemiology Centre, overseeing contact tracing efforts.

Pream obtained his Master of Public Health from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore. He has also served as an Adjunct Lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic, teaching modules on global risk assessments and communicable diseases to public health professionals.