Centre for Outbreak Preparedness

Enhancing regional health security across South and Southeast Asia

Our Goals

Detect

We improve regional surveillance and laboratory capacity for early detection and genomic sequencing of disease threats.

Enable

We foster an enabling environment for health security through better policies, legal frameworks, financing and regulatory systems.

Innovate

We translate scientific evidence into new tools and technologies to diagnose, treat and prevent emerging pathogens.

Strengthen

We enhance regional health systems by building investment cases for national pathogen genomic surveillance.

 

Key priority areas

Our centre has teams dedicated to early detection, new tools, health system enhancement and an enabling environment to ensure our partners receive well-rounded support.

 

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Asia Pathogen Genomics Initiative

A flagship programme harnessing scientific and technical partnerships across Asia to advance genomic sequencing for infectious disease elimination.

 

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Latest events

27 Jan 2026
Singapore Global Health Film Festival 2026
01 Dec 2025
PathGen Preview: First public look
Webinar
29 Oct 2025
Asia PGI webinar: Designing a national wastewater surveillance strategy

Latest news

29 Jan 2026

Singapore Global Health Film Festival 2026

29 Jan 2026

PathGen: Highlights from the first public preview

17 Dec 2025

Regional collaboration for smarter surveillance: Advancing WES in Asia

Connect

Get in touch with us by emailing cop@duke-nus.edu.sg.

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