New S’pore-based think-tank Asia Centre for Health Security to prepare region for biological threats

Adjunct Professor Derrick Heng, deputy director-general of health (public health) at the Ministry of Health, giving a speech at the launch of the Asia Centre for Health Security. - SPH MEDIA

SINGAPORE: A newly launched academic think-tank, the Asia Centre for Health Security (ACHS), aims to prepare Asia for current and emerging biological threats, as well as improve health security in the region.

“The focus includes all manner of catastrophic biological threats, rather than just zoonoses. So laboratory biosafety and deliberately released or man-made biological agents are also a part of our work,” said the centre’s director, Professor Hsu Li Yang.