SINGAPORE – A multidisciplinary regional hub based in Singapore aims to help communities across South-east Asia build resilience against rising temperatures.
It plans to grow a network that will involve a wide range of people such as academics and policymakers, as extreme heat in the region is a crisis that the healthcare sector cannot tackle alone.
Instead of relying solely on medical professionals to treat people after they come down with heat illnesses, more can be done upstream to prevent such illnesses in the first place, said Associate Professor Jason Lee, director of the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine’s Heat Resilience and Performance Centre, on Jan 7.