Thought Leadership

Some of the world’s leaders, and leading thinkers from NUS and overseas, regularly gather and add to the rich diversity of thoughts and ideas on our campuses, in Singapore and across the globe.
Here’s what they had to share.

We have to live with Covid-19 like it’s the flu

We have to live with Covid-19 like it’s the flu

Speaker: Prof Ooi Eng Eong 23 Dec 2023

Like many human viruses that originated in animals, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, has adapted to life in humans. We will thus have to learn to live with it. Thankfully, with vaccination, COVID-19 has transformed from a highly fatal disease to a milder illness with a global case fatality rate below 0.1 per cent versus 2 per cent in 2020, says Prof Ooi Eng Eong, from the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme, and Associate Dean (Early Research Career Development), Office of Academic Medicine, at the Duke-NUS Medical School. Prof Ooi is also a Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at NUS.

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Preparing for rising sea levels before it’s too late: Singapore looking into strengthening and adding coastline protection structures

Preparing for rising sea levels before it’s too late: Singapore looking into strengthening and adding coastline protection structures

Speaker: Assistant Professor Chew Soon Hoe 19 Dec 2024

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