Infectious diseases, epidemiology, and social networks at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS
Dr Mishal Khan is Assistant Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on gender inequalities in health, health systems strengthening and tuberculosis control. In this blog post, she tells us about some of the less familiar places to get antibiotics around…
Hsu Li Yang is Associate Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, where he leads the Antimicrobial Resistance Programme. In the first of a series of blog posts for World Antibiotic Awareness Week, he talks about the progress and challenges of controlling MRSA in Singaporean hospitals. I was…
The WHO’s Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance, has specific recommendations to educate the public about antimicrobial resistance and to introduce this issue into the educational curriculum. As part of the second World Antibiotic Awareness Week (November 14-18, 2016), we organized a two-day event at Jurong Regional Library over the weekend to teach children about…
In anticipation of World Antibiotic Awareness Week (November 14-18), we will be running a series of activities at Jurong Regional Library to teach children about bacteria, antibiotics and antibiotic resistance. Come join us at the library on Saturday Nov 12th and Sunday Nov 13th between 10am and 4pm!
This is a pre-submission version of our recent letter to the Lancet. The final published version can be accessed here. Following widespread criticism about inadequate action during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa(1), the global response is once again being tested by two re-emerging infectious disease threats in the form of Zika and yellow fever…
Taking a nice hot bowl of prawn noodle has become my ritual every time I return to Singapore. Who doesn’t savor the sweetness of the fresh prawn and the earthy broth brought on by the long simmering of prawn heads and pork bones? I’m sure many people love it, miss it and crave for it…
I recently attended a seminar at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. It featured Professor John Ioannidis from Stanford University who gave a fascinating talk on common pitfalls in the conduct and interpretation of meta-analyses, and some of the cutting-edge developments in the field. I thought I would share some highlights here. Systematic review,…
Last week saw the publication of an open letter to Dr Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO, calling for the postponement of the Olympic Games, due to take place in Rio de Janeiro in August. To date, the letter has been signed by 209 academics and public health professionals. The signatories base their position on…
Following the publication of CDC’s paper evaluating the evidence for a causal link between Zika virus and microcephaly this week, twitter was alight with pronouncements that this link has been definitively established, at least based on the CDC authors’ interpretation of Shepard’s criteria for teratogenicity and Bradford Hill’s causal considerations. That a causal link has…
I’ve always found it rather ironic that those of us trained to collect, analyze and interpret data are often the worst qualified to communicate it. This is evident from the results sections of millions of scientific papers out there, littered with visually unappealing, cluttered, incomprehensible and, at worst, highly deceiving graphs. The purpose of a…