In the COVID-19 pandemic, Singapore adopted a whole of government and society approach to plan, coordinate and respond to national crisis which is supported by legislation, policy, financing, and capacity building.
In this seminar, Professor Vernon Lee, Senior Director of Communicable Diseases Division, Singapore Ministry of Health, will share Singapore’s COVID-19 experience and lessons learnt, providing insights for health system and community resilience.
COVID-19: Singapore’s Experience and Lessons Learnt
Date: | 30 June 2023 (Friday) |
Time: | 11 am – 12 noon (HK Time, GMT+8) |
Venue: | Seminar Rooms 2-3, 1/F, School of Public Health Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T. |
Speaker: | Professor Vernon LEE, Senior Director, Communicable Diseases Division, Singapore Ministry of Health
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About the speaker:
Professor Vernon Lee is a preventive medicine physician with extensive global health experience in pandemic preparedness and response, infectious disease epidemiology and health policy and management. He played an instrumental role in developing and implementing Singapore’s COVID-19 pandemic response, and has also responded to the 2003 SARS outbreak, 2009 influenza pandemic, and the 2016 Zika outbreak in Singapore.
Professor Lee previously served as Advisor to the Assistant Director General for Health, Security and Environment at the WHO’s headquarters in Geneva; Medical Epidemiologist in the WHO’s Country Office in Indonesia; and Head of the Biodefence Centre in the Singapore Armed Forces. Through his work, Professor Lee has been involved in major global health security collaborations, and in developing pandemic preparedness plans, risk assessment and disease management programmes. He continues to serve on expert committees at the international level.
An avid supporter of evidence-based health policy, Professor Lee has published about 200 scientific papers, many in top journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and the Lancet journals. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Singapore’s Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.
Professor Lee graduated from medical school at the National University of Singapore. He also holds a PhD in epidemiology from the Australian National University, and the Master in Public Health and Master of Business Administration degrees from the Johns Hopkins University, USA.
For enquiry, please contact Ms. MIAO Ho Yee by telephone: 2252 8783 or email: hoyeemiao@cuhk.edu.hk