Capacity-Building in a Post-SARS World
In this chapter, I will discuss capacity-building efforts within the realm of Singapore’s healthcare sector. I will focus specifically on the institutional and policy capacities that were established after the 2003 SARS crisis. By delineating and categori
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Capacity-building and Pandemics
Jun Jie Woo
Capacity-building and Pandemics Singapore’s Response to Covid-19
Jun Jie Woo National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore
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Preface
Singapore’s early success in managing the Covid-19 pandemic has received much attention from researchers and observers from across the world. A study by the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University had even described Singapore’s early efforts to detect and contain the Covid-19 coronavirus as the ‘gold standard of near-perfect detection’. Yet despite these accolades and its reputation as a leading medical hub, Singapore also experienced high rates of Covid-19 infections. These were fuelled by large infection clusters that had emerged in Singapore’s migrant worker dormitories. This book provides a policy-oriented understanding of the institutional drivers and processes that have underpinned Singapore’s response to Covid-19 pandemic. It focuses specifically on the policy capacities that have been built up after the SARS crisis and how these have been translated into policy responses during the Covid-19 pandemic. It will also discuss the capacity shortcomings or deficiencies that may have created the aforementioned policy blind-spots. In doing so, this book aims to provide a deeper understanding of h
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