Dr David McQueen  [Download Dr McQueen's presentation slides, 1.34MB]
BA, MA, ScD

David McQueen is a Senior Biomedical Research Scientist and Associate Director for Global Health Promotion at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Prior to joining the Office of the Director he was Director of the Division of Adult and Community Health at NCCDPHP and Director of the Office of Surveillance and Analysis at (NCCDPHP). Prior to joining CDC he was Professor and Director of the Research Unit in Health and Behavioral Change at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (1983-1992), and prior to that Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore. He has served as Director of WHO Collaborating Centers as well as a technical consultant with the World Bank.

Dr Lam Sian Lian  [Download Dr Lam's presentation slides,567KB]
MBBS, MSc (Public Health), Fellow of Academy of Medicine, Singapore

Dr Lam Sian Lian is the Chief Executive Officer of the Health Promotion Board, Singapore. She is responsible for national health education, health promotion and disease prevention programmes. These include the National Healthy Lifestyle Programme, National Smoking Control Programme and the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Programmes. Dr Lam has vast experience in public health and has held various positions in the Ministry of Health namely, Director of Maternal and Child Health Service, Director of Community Health Services and Deputy Director of Medical Services (Health Promotion). She is actively involved in the postgraduate training of doctors. She was Chairperson of the Committee for Family Medicine, Division of Graduate Medical Studies, National University of Singapore and is currently a member of the Specialist Training Committee for Public Health Medicine.

Dr Khwaja Ismail Sudderuddin  [Download Dr Sudderuddin's presentation slides, 2.75MB]
BSc (Hons), MSc, DIC, PhD

Dr Sudderuddin is Director, National Resilience Division (NRD), Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MITA). NRD's mission is to help build resilience in Singaporeans by strengthening their resolve and confidence through nation building programmes and by ensuring their preparedness in times of crisis by providing strategic support in information management. During the SARS crisis, the NRD was the strategic arm of the Public Communication and Confidence sub-group and comprised members from all relevant ministries and agencies. The sub-group's role was to strategize, advise, coordinate, support and implement as necessary programmes relating to information management and psychological resilience. Dr Sudderuddin has been involved in Media Relations and Research work, public campaigns and nation building programmes. He was trained in information management during his years in the civil service, and lectures on crisis infomanagment, and related topics. Prior to his appointment in MITA, he taught at the university for some 10 years.

A/P Wong Mee Lian  [Download A/P Wong's presentation slides, 1.74MB]
MBBS, MPH, Fellow of Academy of Medicine, Singapore

Dr Wong Mee Lian is an Associate Professor from the Department of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore. A public health physician by training, she teaches health education and health promotion to medical undergraduates and postgraduate doctors at the National University of Singapore. She received a SEAMEO-JASPER fellowship award in 1996 for her research on sustainable interventions to promote condom use and prevent sexually transmitted infections among sex workers in Singapore. Her current research interests include health promotion and behavioural change strategies for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS among sex workers, men and married women in Cambodia.

Ms Choo Lin [Download Ms Choo Lin's presentation slides, 944KB]
BA, LLB (Hons)

Ms Choo Lin is the Manager of the National Smoking Control Programme and AIDS Education Programme of the Health Promotion Board. She oversees the development, planning and implementation of the above programmes, which encompasses public education, provision of intervention services, as well as legislative and fiscal policies. She has served with the Ministry of Health, Singapore, and thereafter the Health Promotion Board for more than 7 years and held portfolios in the area of medical disciplinary proceedings and public affairs before taking on professional health promotion. Since 1999, she has been involved in workplace health promotion, AIDS prevention education and smoking control programmes. Over the last 2 years, she has overseen the implementation of various major initiatives under the National Smoking Control Programme, including the new graphic health warnings on cigarette packs and the mandatory counselling initiative for under-aged smoking offenders. She was also a member of the Singapore delegation to the Intergovernmental Negotiation Body Meetings of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and presented at the 12th World Conference on Tobacco Control or Health in Helsinki, Finland. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University, Australia and holds a LLB (Hons) from the University of Buckingham, United Kingdom.

Dr Shanta Christina Emmanuel  [Download Dr Emmanuel's presentation slides, 1.73MB]
MBBS, MSc (Public Health), Fellow of Academy of Medicine, Singapore

Dr Shanta Emmanuel obtained her MBBS in 1969 in Singapore and then went on to obtain her Master of Science in Public Health from the Postgraduate Medical School of the National University of Singapore in 1973. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine of Singapore in 1985 Currently, Dr Emmanuel is responsible for the leadership, direction and supervision of nine large one-stop family health centres (the NHG Polyclinics), which form the primary care arm of the large National Healthcare Group Health Cluster. Previously a senior officer with the Ministry of Health (MOH), Dr Emmanuel's career spanned several appointments including the Director of Research and Epidemiology. Prior to her current appointment ,she served as the Director of the Family Health Service at MOH ,overseeing the 16 Government Polyclinics in Singapore.