Writing
Conversations with people in public health, reflections, and a comic. Selected from Public Health Matters.
- How to Do Good: Greatest Happiness for the Greatest Number
Utilitarianism holds that the morally right action is the action that produces the most good. The right thing to do is whatever will produce the best state of affairs all things considered.
- The Inevitable Interplay between Global Health, Politics and Profit Margins with Dr Jeremy Lim
I speak with the CEO of Southeast Asia's precision gut microbiome company on the need for a systems level approach in solving healthcare's biggest problems.
- Forget Doctors Without Borders: On Health Systems and Capacity Building with Dr. Natarajan Rajaraman
I speak with the executive director of NGO Maluk Timor on why we need engineers, accountants, and administrators without borders instead.
- Re-establishing the Sense of Self: Outsourcing Memory to Cognitive Wideware by Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease
Forgetting our most important memories is akin to losing our sense of self. What if we could outsource our memory functions the moment neurodegenerative diseases strike?
- Order in a Time of Chaos: The Women Bringing Sense to Pandemic Nonsense
Get up close and personal with the phenomenal women behind The Unbiased Science Podcast: Your trusted source for no nonsense— just science.
- On neurosurgery, education and patient trust with Dr Goh Chun Peng
Reflections with a neurosurgeon on his best practices, attaining mastery, establishing trust with patients, grappling with death and more.
- On labour exploitation, academic advocacy and embracing complexity with Nicola Pocock
Find out more about academic research in migration, labour exploitation and health with Nicola Pocock.
- On community nursing, resilience and lifelong learning with Ms Eileen Lau
Find out more about what makes nursing so fulfilling, what’s a day in the life a community nurse like, and how you might thrive as in an intense and stressful healthcare working environment.
- On Corporate Communications, Business and Purpose in Healthcare with Ho Whei Chern
What does corp comms look like in healthcare? How might we balance private profit and public good to ensure long-term sustainability? What role can the private sector play to advance UHC?
- Journeying into Global Health with Nikki K
This article is part of the Public Health People series where I meet with different public health professionals from all around the globe. Join me in exploring the greatest insights from their fields, their passion projects and their principles for both work and life! Today we meet Nikki Kitikiti, better
- Is antibiotic resistance a mere part of evolution?
This summer, I took on a personal challenge to draw a comic to raise awareness about how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria emerges and transmits from one bacterium to another. I was frustrated that I knew so much about AMR (from the research project I was doing) but wasn’t
Is antibiotic resistance a mere part of evolution?
This summer, I took on a personal challenge to draw a comic to raise awareness about how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria emerges and transmits from one bacterium to another. I was frustrated that I knew so much about AMR (from the research project I was doing) but wasn’t doing my part to raise more awareness about it. And I also wanted to give drawing a try. I always found sketches and comics a great way to convey information, so here’s my take on it!
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Originally published in Public Health Matters on 19 August 2020.
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