This is the second World Antibiotic Awareness Week library event that Dr Clarence Tam’s research group (you can read about them and their work on Clarence’s blog) has organised, supported by the NUS Antibiotics Awareness Fund. The aim is to increase awareness of antibiotics, bacteria, viruses, hygiene, and antibiotic resistance to young children (and their […]
The Post-Antibiotic World Essay Contest jointly organized by the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Ngee Ann Polytechnic took place between 1st June and 30th August 2017. This event was more hotly contested and there were more than 50 essays submitted from both Secondary and Junior College/Polytechnic students. We were very fortunate to have 3 […]
The Antibiotic Resistance: How It Affects Us Video Contest jointly organized by the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Ngee Ann Polytechnic took place between 1st June and 30th September 2017. Because there were just 11 video submissions and the quality from both Secondary School and Junior College/Polytechnic work was comparable, we collapsed both sections and […]
Putting in a plug for my colleague Dr Clarence Tam from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. This year, his team is organizing two World Antibiotic Awareness Week events at Jurong Regional Library (11th-12th November) and Marine Parade Library (25th-26th November). Do show up (especially with young children) and enjoy the events! No […]
It was a great privilege to be invited for the conference organised by the University of Hong Kong’s Centre for Medical Ethics and Law in collaboration with their School of Public Health. Titled “Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Meeting the Global Challenge of AMR”, the organizers had invited a formidable line-up of local and international speakers, one […]
Dr Lam Pin Min, Senior Minister of State for the Ministries of Health and Transport, announced the launch of our National Strategic Plan on AMR during his address at the Public Health Thought Leadership Dialogue (PHTLD) organized by the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health today. The document is available here, and broadly follows […]
I attended the INFECTIONS 2017 conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia on 24th and 25th October. This biannual conference is organized by the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences of Universiti Putra Malaysia. It was a small friendly event. I enjoyed the great hospitality of the hosts, and learned much from the talks, as well as many […]
Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) announced the National Adult Immunization Schedule (NAIS) yesterday. This is a welcome extension of the National Childhood Immunization Programme (into adulthood), and the amendment to allow the use of Medisave (Singapore’s compulsory national medical savings scheme) for these vaccines (up to SGD400 a year) will facilitate take up of the […]
I wished to write about 2 remarkable popular science books on microbes and infectious diseases that I recently read. The first is British science journalist Ed Yong’s “I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life”. An extraordinary book – marred only by the slight (but perhaps understandable) hyperbole – on microbes […]
We did get a number of entries (far more than I expected!) for the inaugural Antibiotic Resistance Video Contest jointly organised by the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Ngee Ann Polytechnic. The closing date was on 30th September (potentially late, late entries – do contact the organisers directly), and now we are […]
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