I managed to attend part of this very well attended symposium which was held on 13th July at University Town. It was organized by my Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health colleague Dr. Vincent Pang and his CIDER team, along with the Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA). There were prominent speakers from […]
Last Tuesday, the Ministry of Health announced a public consultation on their proposed amendments to the Infectious Disease Act, which received its last major update in 2008. The legal and lay documents detailing the amendments are available here. Several experts have provided quick opinions and soundbites, including a formal opinion piece in the Straits Times. […]
The last round of the QCD-Prof Lim Kok Ann Grandmasters Invitational ended tonight (the final game between IM(WGM) Irine Sukandar of Indonesia and IM Munkhgal Gombosuren of Mongolia being the final game to finish). It was a wonderfully organised event, and most of the credit for that goes to top coach Junior Tay and Dr […]
One more day to the start of the QCD-Prof Lim Kok Ann Grandmasters Invitationals. The tournament will be held at Metropolitan YMCA (Palm Room), 60 Stevens Road, with the first round starting at 3.30pm to 8.30pm on 7th June. The opening ceremony will be held at 2.30 PM on the first day, and I know that […]
The two essay competitions have officially started! Essays may be submitted to the following email addresses anytime before 31st August 2018, 2359H – mdchly@nus.edu.sg and idsg50feedback@gmail.com – more details are available at the SSHSPH website here.
The talented staff at SSHSPH have put up the webpage for the student essay contests here, including the rather psychedelic designs (reproduced below). We have an additional co-organizer/sponsor in SGH Microbiology this year, with a second whimsical topic on personal microbiomes included by the SGH Microbiology blogger. Other than age categories and the themes, the […]
My colleagues (from SSHSPH) and I had performed a review of leptospirosis a few months back, and coincidentally I was asked to provide some input for the mainstream media (behind a paywall). It is a very interesting infection from the academic/clinical perspective, and there are a number of excellent reviews, notably here and here (behind […]
Saw this article in the Straits Times this morning, and was reminded that I had wanted to follow up on the issue of drug resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. There has not been a case of “super gonorrhoea” in Singapore to my knowledge, but it is a matter of time before such cases appear locally. Neisseria gonorrhoeae is […]
Following on last year’s essay and video contest on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), we are organizing another essay contest supported by the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and Singapore General Hospital. The contest will open on 1st June 2018, with the final date of submission of essays being 31st August 2018. […]
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