Taskforce to improve disease outbreak detection and response

Singapore

THE Ministry of Health (MOH) has set up a seven-member taskforce to beef up the detection and response to disease outbreaks, particularly those that are unusual and unfamiliar.

Led by Minister of State for Health Chee Hong Tat, the taskforce comprises specialists in infectious diseases, systems engineering and data science.

They are: Robert Chew, managing director of iGlobe Partners, a venture capital firm that invests primarily in technology firms; Angela Chow, associate professor at Tan Tock Seng Hospital; Lim Poh Lian, associate professor at Tan Tock Seng Hospital; Ng Chee Khern, second permanent secretary at MOH; Benjamin Ong, director of medi…