PHEIC News
On January 30, 2020, the WHO declared the epidemic of COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). We bring you coverage of the evolving epidemic from a range of public health perspectives. Your hosts are Clarence Tam and Jane Lim from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore.
Podcasting since 2020 • 6 episodes
PHEIC News
Latest Episodes
COVID-19 in the media
In this episode, we spoke with Sui-Lee Wee from the New York Times Beijing Bureau. She talked to us about how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected her personally, and what it’s been like to cover the COVID-19 situation as a journalist. In the epi...
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COVID-19 vs. Global Health
In this episode, Dr Aamir Khan from IRD Global talked to us about how the COVID-19 has affected global health programmes in low- and middle-income countries. He told us about some of the challenges faced by TB treatment programmes and how the C...
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Doctor's got you COVID
In this episode, Dr. Eve Anwar gave a primary care perspective on the COVID-19 epidemic. She talked to us about how primary care clinics in Singapore have been managing suspected COVID-19 patients and how the epidemic has affected practice in p...
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Hong Kong
Prof Ben Cowling from the School of Public Health at Hong Kong University talked to us about the COVID-19 situation in Hong Kong, what some of the key uncertainties are about the pandemic, and the role of face masks and school closures as contr...
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Where did COVID-19 come from and where is it going?
In this episode, Dr Hannah Clapham talks about what’s known of the origins of the epidemic, what we know about how the COVID-19 virus spreads, what we don’t know, and how this influences our predictions of how the epidemic will evolve. We also ...
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