Adj. Asst. Prof.Surinder Kaur M S Pada Jurong Health Campus, Ng Teng Fong General HospitalSingapore

Adj. Asst. Prof Surinder Pada is the Head of the Department of Infection Prevention and Hospital Epidemiology, Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases, as well as the Pandemic Chairperson of the Emergency Preparedness committee and is a Senior Consultant at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and Jurong Community Hospital in Singapore. (Jurong Health Campus) She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Sydney and undertook most of her training in Australia. She was conferred as a fellow of the Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) in 2009. She was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) to complete a fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in Infection Control and again in 2020, for studying waterless ICU systems and best practices in Infection Prevention in the Netherlands and Spain. Adj. Asst Prof Pada was awarded National Awards (COVID19) Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 2022 and, under the Ministry of Health Singapore, is also a member of the National Infection Prevention Committee and is an Infection Prevention Consultant for the Communicable Diseases Agency. Additionally, she serves as the current Vice-president of the Infection Control Association of Singapore, and is the Treasurer for the Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control.