🎇We are very proud to announce that Professor Dato’ Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman as the recipient of the 3rd Dr Wu Lien-Teh Award for Leadership in Public Health 2024 !🎆🥳
We cordially invite you to attend this year named Annual Public Lecture and the award ceremony to celebrate her success, in conjunction with Dr Wu Lien-Teh’s 146th birthday anniversary.
Date: 9th March 2024, Saturday
Time: 2:00 – 5:00pm
Venue: Penang Institute, 10 Brown Road, 10350 George Town
Organisers: The Dr. Wu Lien-Teh Society and Penang Institute
Registration Link:
(For Physical Attendance) https://bit.ly/pandemics-and-health
(For Virtual Attendance) LIVE on Facebook (@PenangInstitute) and (@wulientehpg)
and on our YouTube channel (@penanginstitute)
Note: Entrance to this event is FREE. Light refreshment will be provided.
Do come and join us for this inspirational lecture and celebrate Dr Wu’s birthday at Dr Wu Lien-Teh Garden at Penang Institute!
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Synopsis of 8th Annual Public Lecture
The COVID 19 pandemic laid bare the impact of societal issues such as income, type of employment and even political affiliation on the outcome of the disease. While the public health-driven COVID-19-related restrictions affected everyone, it quickly became clear that the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic were not equally shared, with numerous studies showing different case rates between lower income and higher income populations. At the global level, the inequities associated with the COVID 19 vaccine distribution may have cost more than one million lives.
The Spanish flu and the HIV pandemic earlier also highlighted the impact of the social determinants of health on disease risk and outcomes and increasingly, the threat of climate change which disproportionately affects poorer nations and populations will create further challenges on the health of individuals and societies.
The lessons learnt from these pandemics should therefore give us pause to examine the systemic and structural factors that lead to health outcomes which provides us with an opportunity to review policies to address them that can lead to genuine transformation of the health of our population.
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Professor Adeeba Kamarulzaman is the President & Pro Vice-Chancellor of Monash University Malaysia. Prior to this appointment, she was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya and continues as an Honorary Professor at UM and as Adjunct Associate Professor at Yale University, USA.
An infectious diseases physician by training, Professor Kamarulzaman is a passionate advocate for social justice especially as it pertains to HIV prevention, treatment and care and drug policies. She presently serves as the Chairman of the Malaysian AIDS Foundation and is the immediate Past President of the International AIDS Society. She is also the founding Chair of ROSE Foundation, an organisation that is committed to eliminating cervical cancer in Malaysia and regionally.
At the international level, Professor Kamarulzaman has been an advisor to numerous WHO, UNAIDS and UNODC committees on HIV/AIDS and substance use. She is presently Vice Chair of WHO’s Science Council and is a member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and the Global Council on Inequalities, HIV and Pandemics. Her achievements have been recognised through several national and international awards including as a two-time recipient of the prestigious Merdeka Award and recently as Tokoh Akademik Negara. In April 2015 she was honoured with a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from her alma mater, Monash University for her role as a health advocate and contributions to medicine.
Looking forwards to seeing you!
