The health and social services industry includes hospital care, as well as other off-site health services such as ambulance services. It also includes social care activities that ensure the emotional well-being of an individual.
Examples pertinent to Singapore:
The Discover+ Panel on Corporate Social Responsibility, held on 20 October 2020, was graced by Hosea Lai (Moderator), Head of Social Impact (APAC) at LinkedIn; Ng Boon Heong, Chief Executive Officer at Temasek Foundation Ltd; Eugene Ho, Head of Corporate Affairs at SAP Southeast Asia; Vandna Ramchadani, Regional Head of Corporate Philanthropy for Asia Pacific at Bloomberg…
Raymond Tay is a Human Resource (HR) Manager at the Ang Mo Kio-Thye Hua Kwan Hospital, a community hospital focused on providing affordable rehabilitative and intermediate care for patients…
Advisory visited National Junior College on 23 January 2020, hosting an informative session during which professionals involved in social impact shared about their career journeys in community work, as well as offered advice on pursuing opportunities in volunteering.
On the panel that day, we had Dr Alvona Loh Zi Hui, a medical doctor at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), and Ms Atikah Amalina, a Diversity Program Manager in Google…
Adrian Ang is the cofounder and CEO of AEvice Health. Driven by a passion to create something that can help others, Adrian founded AEvice in 2016 and worked on wearable devices alongside Professor Ser Wee from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Together, they came up with AireSone Junior, a non-intrusive wearable device that helps children better manage respiratory diseases. Tell me more about yourself & AEvice Health. AEvice Health started in 2016 to solve an unmet need in the market. Very often, children and elderly who developed an asthma attack in the middle of the night are able to get it under control with the use of reliever inhaler (also commonly known as Ventolin)…
By Jessica Ho Xueyin is a program coordinator in Climate Conversations. A young graduate with many interests, she had interned for 6 months and attempted several part-time stints before embarking on …
Sherie Tan is a doctor at Geylang Polyclinic. She obtained her medical training overseas, and shares with us on her transition into the local healthcare scene and her experiences thus far. As a medical officer, how would you describe what you do on a typical workday? I work in a polyclinic, so it’s a primary care setting. I work from 8am – 5pm on Mondays till Fridays, and I work half-days on Saturdays (8am – 12.30pm or 1pm). So we basically go in and run individual clinics, and see the patients that come…
Geraldine Tan is the Director and Principal Registered Psychologist of The Therapy Room, With almost 2 decades of experience working with individuals with a multitude of psychological problems as of …
By Tan Yu Han Dr Mala Satkunanantham works as a Hand Surgeon in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Dr Mala completed her undergraduate medical studies …
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