{"id":10916,"date":"2025-11-12T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10916"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:00:44","slug":"singapore-officially-launches-new-communicable-diseases-agency-for-pandemic-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10916","title":{"rendered":"Singapore officially launches new Communicable Diseases Agency for pandemic preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CDA chief executive officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/communicable-diseases-agency-professor-vernon-lee-ceo-moh-infectious-diseases-4935226\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Vernon Lee<\/a> said the agency cannot work alone as infectious diseases affect many other sectors.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a new health master plan called One Health, CDA will partner with the National Environment Agency, National Parks Board, Singapore Food Agency and PUB, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur collaborative approach also has to include all-of-society stakeholders as they are crucial in developing solutions, and implementing them in our community,\u201d he said, adding that these include private organisations, academic institutions and civil society.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Singapore, CDA has also signed memorandums of understanding with counterparts in China, Germany, Hong Kong, South Korea and the United Kingdom to collaborate in areas such as surveillance, preparedness and capacity building, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pream Raj, acting director of the Contact and Environment Diseases, Border and Travel Health Division at CDA, said Singapore&#8217;s status as a global travel hub means there is a risk of disease importation and spread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we always need to be nimble enough to respond accordingly, depending on the risk assessments that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/communicable-diseases-agency-official-launch-new-statutory-board-5461371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDA chief executive officer Professor Vernon Lee said the agency cannot work alone as infectious diseases affect many other sectors. As part of a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}