NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health - Research

Some information on the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), stay informed during this period!

Fighting the fight together! People from all walks of life are banding together to fight the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Here’s an educational comic illustration providing more details of the virus, drawn by renowned comic artist Sonny Liew and developed in consultation with Assoc Prof Hsu Li Yang, an NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine alumnus and the Infectious Diseases Programme Leader from our NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.

We recently fielded a survey on knowledge of HIV in Singapore using Facebook ads.

For those who participated in the survey and would like to know the answers to the HIV knowledge questions, here is an infographic about the modes of transmission of HIV.

We encourage you all, whether you participated in our study or not to take a look at this infographic to educate yourselves on how HIV is transmitted.

Thanks a lot to everyone who participated in our survey! We have reached our target number of respondents so our survey is now closed.

For those interested in knowing the answers to the HIV knowledge questions, please keep an eye out as we will be putting up the answers on here.

A study on nearly 2,000 children found that 28 per cent of seven-year olds, 50 per cent of 10-year-olds, 62 per cent of 12-year-olds and 73 per cent of 15-year olds are myopic. The study is part of the Singapore Cohort Study of the Risk Factors for Myopia (SCORM) that is led by Professor Saw Seang Mei, who also heads the myopia unit at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI).

Myopia in young children and the available treatment options | NUS - Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health A study on nearly 2,000 children found that 28 per cent of seven-year olds, 50 per cent of 10-year-olds, 62 per cent of 12-year-olds and 73 per cent of 15-year olds are myopic. The study is part of the Singapore Cohort Study of the Risk Factors for Myopia (SCORM) that is led by Professor Saw Seang M...

Researchers Professor Rob van Dam, Vice Dean (Academic Affairs) and Epidemiology Domain Leader, and Professor Koh Woon Puay, Singapore Chinese Health Study (SCHS) Principal Investigator and director of the Centre for Clinician-Scientist Development at Duke-NUS Medical School show that cutting down on white rice alone is not enough to reduce one's risk of getting diabetes and that what matters more is what it is being substituted with.

Less Meat, More Greens and Grains | NUS - Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health Cutting down on white rice may not in itself lower one’s risk of getting diabetes. What matters more is what the rice is substituted with and the overall quality of a person’s diet.

SPHERiC (Singapore Population Health impRovement Centre) is one of the programme centres at NUHS. Research under this centre focuses primarily on improving the health of and healthcare for the Singapore population. There are 3 cores within SPHERiC: The Population Health Analytics Core, the Health Systems and Models of Care Core and the Implementation Science Core.

Here is an excerpt from the first issue of the SPHERiC newsletter on what the researchers within the Population Health Analytics Core have been up to: modelling the severity and burden of hand, foot and mouth disease in Asia.

The War on Diabetes in Southeast Asia | NUS - Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health Southeast Asians make up about 20 per cent of the 450 million people living with diabetes globally, with many of them living in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Experts have blamed this on a prevalence of processed and unhealthy food, a lack of early intervention for patients and misinfo...