Expert Profile:
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Public health physician and infectious disease epidemiologist with a special interest in vaccines, infectious diseases and global health. After training in Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and public health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, I started my career as an epidemiologist and eventually headed the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at the Communicable Disease Centre in Singapore. I worked on TB and HIV surveillance, ran a clinic for HIV patients, and started a clinical epidemiology service. I then spent 15 years with the vaccine divisions of GSK Biologicals and Novartis Vaccines. As a member of medical and clinical R&D teams in the Asia Pacific and Australasian regions, I collaborated in the development and introduction of novel vaccines against rotavirus diarrhoea, pneumococcal disease, and other common childhood infections. My career recently came full circle when I re-joined the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, the organisation succeeding the Communicable Disease Centre, as a member of the National Public Health and Epidemiology Unit. I currently teach on the Singapore FETP. I have co-authored publications on TB, HIV, dengue, group B streptococcal infection and vaccines & vaccine-preventable diseases. |