Yik Ying Teo

Dean, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
National University of Singapore

Singapore
Professor Yik-Ying Teo is Dean of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, and concurrently Vice President (Global Health) at the National University of Singapore. He is also a Governing Board Member for the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education (SEAMEO) Regional Centre for Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network. Prior to his Deanship, he was the Director for the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, and Founding Director for the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research for the School of Public Health. Professor Teo is presently a member of the International Organising Committee for the Prince Mahidol Award Conference, as well as the M8 Alliance which forms the academic foundation for the World Health Summit. He is the Co-Director for the Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health’s Collaborating Centres for Health Promotion, and sits on the Global Coalition of Deans of Schools of Public Health. Professor Teo previously worked on the use of genetic technologies for the control and elimination of several infectious diseases, including malaria and tuberculosis. As a previous member of the global MalariaGEN network, he was actively involved in training and capacity development of research fellows from different African and Southeast Asian countries. He received his BSc in Mathematics from Imperial College in 2000, MSc in Applied Statistics and DPhil in Statistics from the University of Oxford in 2001 and 2006 respectively.

26
Jan

PS3.1
Economics and Overseas Development Aid (specific on Decolonization of Global Health)

15.00 - 17.00 (BKK)

27
Jan

Synthesis: Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations

09.00 - 12.00 (BKK)