Forging deeper regional collaboration: MOU signed with Universitas Sumatera Utara

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Forging deeper regional collaboration: MOU signed with Universitas Sumatera Utara

Representatives from SingHealth and Duke-NUS met with leaders of Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) on 20 July in aceremonial signing of the Memorandum

of Understanding (MOU) that cements the commitment to collaboration between Singapore and Medan on various Global Health fronts.

“Beyond the pandemic, there are many other challenges - the ageing population, the challenge of chronic diseases, rising healthcare costs, rising patient expectations, new emerging technologies. The more difficult the challenge, the more we put out collective expertise together to find new solutions that will improve health and healthcare services to the populationsthat we serve,” said Prof Ivy Ng, Group CEO of SingHealth.

“In the last 15 years, we’ve shown that we can have a good partnership. Today, we bring in not just SingHealth, but together with Duke-NUS, the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute, becuase increasingly we see the importance of building strong partnerships and collaborations so that together we can progress and advance health.”

From left to right: Prof. Dr Poppy Anjelisa Zaitun Hasibuan, Vice Rector III, Universitas Sumatera Utara; Prof. Dr. Aldy Safruddin Rambe, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sumatera Utara; Prof. Dr. Muryanto Amin, Rector, Universitas Sumatera Utara; Prof Thomas Coffman, Dean, Duke-NUS Medical School;Prof Ivy Ng, Group CEO, SingHealth; Prof. Dr. Eng Himsar Ambarita, Directorate Internationalization and Global Partnership, Universitas Sumatera Utara; Dr.Inke Nadia D. Lubis, Vice Dean III of Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sumatera Utara

The more difficult the challenge, the more we put out collective expertise together to find new solutions that will improve health and healthcare services to the populations that we serve.

Prof Ivy Ng

Group CEO, SingHealth

Medan, where USU is located, has been identified as one of three of SDGHI’s Regional Collaborating Centres (RCC). TheRCCs will serve to connect researchers, clinicians, and advocates to a larger Global Health network.

“Preceding the signing of this MOU, there have been a number of engagements with USU, exploring potential research collaborations in the areas of dementia, oncology, pharmacogenomics, cardiology, and infectious diseases,” said Prof Thomas Coffman, Dean of Duke- NUS Medical School.

“These are all areas of significant interest and expertise in Duke-NUS, so we are very keen to get involved. We also look forward to contributing to health system enhancement for pandemic preparedness, that will lead to robust programmes for assuring health security and strengtheningpreparedness for the next pandemic.”

“I’m delighted that it’s the start of a new chapter of our collaboration,” said Prof Ivy Ng. “I am excited about what we can do together. If we want to go fast and far, we must gotogether with trusted partners who are committed to the same goal of improving our patients’ lives and defining tomorrow’s medicine.”

We also look forward to health system enhancement for pandemic preparedness, that will lead to robust programmes for assuring health security and strengthening preparedness for the next pandemic.

Prof Thomas Coffman

Dean, Duke-NUS Medical School

About SDGHI RCC

SDGHI RCCs aim to optimise coordination of new and existing global health programmes taking place within the AcademicMedical Centre (AMC) and between Duke affiliated institutions. These programmes include research, capacity building,education and knowledge exchange activities. SDGHI is looking at establishing two other RCCs - in Jaffna, Sri Lanka andHanoi, Vietnam - in the next year.

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View the coverage of the event on USU TV below:

Forging deeper regional collaboration: MOU signed with Universitas Sumatera Utara

The more difficult the challenge, the more we put out collective expertise together to find new solutions that will improve health and healthcare services to the populations that we serve.

We also look forward to health system enhancement for pandemic preparedness, that will lead to robust programmes for assuring health security and strengthening preparedness for the next pandemic.

About SDGHI RCC

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