Infectious diseases, epidemiology, and social networks at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS
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…
We’ve been tracking WHO’s prominence on twitter as a source of information on Zika virus and microcephaly. After a couple of weeks of relatively lower prominence, WHO was back at the centre last week, this time being the major source of retweets to dispel rumours that have been making the rounds regarding the possibility of…
Our paper on rates of norovirus disease in the community and presenting to primary care in the UK has just been published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. This is part of a special supplement on norovirus, including a number of articles covering research expenditure on norovirus, norovirus epidemiology, control of hospital outbreaks and new…
We are currently halfway through the Decade of Vaccines, and what better time to reflect on this than during World Polio Day. This day is celebrated on October 24th each year, to mark the birthday of Jonas Salk, who developed the first polio vaccine in 1952. But this year, it carries a special significance; in…