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Leo Yee Sin: Shifting from front lines to the war room in fight against future disease outbreaks

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// Portrait of outgoing executive director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) Professor Leo Yee Sin.

//Professor Leo Yee Sin, the executive director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), will be leaving to take up a new role at MOH. She will be succeeded by Professor Vernon Lee.

(ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI)

NCID executive director Leo Yee Sin will be appointed senior consultant at MOH and senior adviser at NHG from July 1.

ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI

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SINGAPORE - She will soon no longer be on the front line of Singapore’s war against Covid-19, but Professor Leo Yee Sin from the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) will still be planning for the battle against the next disease threat – from the command post instead.

In her new role from July 1 as senior consultant at the Ministry of Health and senior adviser to the National Healthcare Group, she will be coordinating infectious disease and outbreak management.

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