Centre for Outbreak Preparedness

Enhancing regional health security across South and Southeast Asia

Centre for Outbreak Preparedness

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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Fact Sheet

Duke-NUS Centre for Outbreak Preparedness

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Latest events

Webinar
23 Jul 2025
Asia PGI webinar: Defining priorities for wastewater-based pathogen surveillance
15 May 2025
Regional training workshop on metagenomic sequencing of respiratory viruses
06 May 2025
Innovations and opportunities to prevent the next pandemic

Latest news

25 Jun 2025

Policy imperatives for Indonesia’s AI-ready health ecosystem

12 Jun 2025

Global collaboration for pathogen genomics: Insights from the WHO IPSN expert meeting

23 May 2025

Strengthening Timor-Leste's pandemic preparedness: COP supports Pandemic Fund's 3rd Call for Proposals

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

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