SESSION 3: Singapore’s Early Planning and Response to Covid-19

Join our resident hosts Associate Professor David Allen, a respected infectious diseases clinician and Professor Dale Fisher from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Group Director of Medicine at the National Health University System (NUHS) and Chair of the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network (GOARN) as well as special host Dr Louisa Sun, Associate Consultant with the Infectious Disease team at the National University Hospital and Alexandra Hospital, as they engage with a special guest speaker each month to bring you the latest developments and global perspectives on the public health, political, social, economic and psychological implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.

View the video of the second session that took place on Friday, 13 Nov 2020, 08:00-09:00 SGT

The secret to star investment banker Keith Magnus’ success cannot be found in the numbers, data or a fact sheet. Read about NIC member Keith’s cover page interview in the November issue of The Peak, where he talks about success, leadership and a simple trishaw ride.

NUS Medicine is now ranked 18th in The Times Higher Education (THE) listing of the world’s best medical schools. This is an improvement over our 19th placing in the 2020 rankings.

Most of us will remember what we were doing the day of a significant global event. The day two planes flew into the twin towers. The day the Berlin Wall came down. The day a tsunami hit the shores of Indonesia. As a doctor, I remember one day doing my ward rounds in 2000 when the UK prime minister Tony Blair and then US president Bill Clinton announced that the full human genome was finally sequenced.

“The implementation of new technology not only in digital health, remote health, and precision health, but also in process and supply chain management provides ways to better serve patients and an expected specialisation of services will complement public hospital-based systems.”
– Helmut Schuehsler, NIC member and CEO and chairman of TVM Capital Healthcare

Join NIC member Prof Brian Kennedy and Dr Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer, SENS Research Foundation, for a discussion on “Can damage repair give us indefinite youth?” on 19 November 2020 at 7pm SGT (GMT+8).

Our thanks to NIC members Iqbal Jumabhoy and Rohet Tolani, and all the other friends from within and outside NUHS for sponsoring the weekly boosters to recognise the efforts of NUHS staff for their fight in COVID-19. We appreciate your outpouring of love and support.

NUS researchers have developed an automated system that collates and displays users’ blood oxygen data on an easy-to-read dashboard. It is suitable for use in dormitories and community care facilities to provide frontline staff with regular updates on the health status of residents under their care.