HIV Community Engagement Forum 2024

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The HIV Community Engagement Forum is jointly organised by the National HIV Programme and the Infectious Disease Research and Training Office under the National Centre for Infectious Diseases. This forum aims to raise awareness on various topics surrounding HIV in Singapore, such as HIV stigma and discrimination, myths about HIV and to combat misconceptions.

Who should attend

Open to public. Highly recommended for:

Individuals who work with persons living with HIV
Healthcare workers* and students

*CPE points will be awarded

Event details

Date: 28 September, Saturday

Time: 10.00 - 11.30am

Mode: Via Zoom

Programme

Time	Topic	Speaker
10:00	Welcome and Opening remarks	Dr Wong Chen Seong Director, National HIV Programme, National Centre for Infectious Diseases Head, National HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STI Programme, interim Communicable Diseases Agency
10:05	Journey towards change	Dr Felicia Hong Senior Assistant Director, Communicable Disease Group, Ministry of Health
10:20	Closing gaps, opening dialogues	Moderator: A/Prof Sophia Archuleta, Senior Consultant, National HIV Programme Panelists: 1. Dr Teh Yii Ean Consultant, Singapore General Hospital 2. Ms Fadhiilah Ismail Senior Medical Social Worker, Changi General Hospital 3. Fikri Alkhatib Senior Manager, Anonymous Testing Service & Community Research, Action for AIDS Singapore 4. Calvin Tan
11:00	Towards a HealthierSG	Dr Wong Chen Seong
11:15	Q&A	Moderated by: Dr Wong Chen Seong
11:30	Closing remarks	Dr Wong Chen Seong

Registration

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Journey towards change
	Dr Felicia Hong Senior Assistant Director, Communicable Diseases Group, Ministry of Health Dr Felicia Hong is the Senior Assistant Director with the Communicable Diseases Group at the Ministry of Health, Singapore. She has been with the Health Ministry for 10 years helming various portfolios including patient safety and quality improvement, infection prevention and control, and is currently overseeing the policies related to HIV, TB and other contact transmissible diseases.
Closing gaps, opening dialogues
	Moderator A/Prof Sophia Archuleta Senior Consultant, National HIV Programme A/Prof Sophia Archuleta is the Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the National University Hospital, Singapore and Senior Consultant at the National HIV Programme (NHIVP). She is also a clinician educator and serves as core faculty of the National University Health System Infectious Diseases Senior Residency Programme. Her clinical expertise, and primary interest, is in the care of people living with HIV and its associated conditions. A/Prof Archuleta joined the Division of Infectious Diseases of the National University Hospital in Singapore in 2008 where she established and led the HIV Programme until 2017. She was appointed Director of the NHIVP, National Centre for Infectious Diseases from 2018-2023. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine of the National University of Singapore, and serves in various educational leadership roles and national committees on graduate medical education. She is active in teaching learners across health professions and the entire medical education continuum.
	Panellists Dr Teh Yii Ean Consultant, Singapore General Hospital Dr. Teh Yii Ean is a Consultant in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Singapore General Hospital. She graduated from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 2011 and obtained her specialist accreditation in Infectious Diseases in 2017. She has a keen interest in the management of infections in immunocompromised individuals and is particularly driven to improve the health-related quality of life for people living with HIV by providing patient-centred care. She was awarded the Health Manpower Development Plan Award to pursue further subspecialty training in the management of HIV patients with complex comorbidities and malignancy at the Chelsea and Westminister Hospital in London. She is currently the Director of the Singapore General Hospital HIV Clinical Programme and a member of the National HIV Programme.
	Fadhiilah Ismail Senior Medical Social Worker, Changi General Hospital Fadhiilah is a Senior Medical Social Worker in Changi General Hospital and is experienced in clinical work involving multi-stressed individuals and families both in healthcare setting and in the community. She is a member of CGH HIV multidisciplinary care team, addressing psychosocial and systemic barriers in accessing care and promoting quality of life for patients with HIV. In addition to her teaching roles across healthcare professions, Fadhiilah also holds an educational role among her peers and junior medical social workers especially in relation to supporting individuals from marginalised communities. She is recently awarded with The Prodigy Best Educator Award in 2023 for her work.
	Fikri Alkhatib Senior Manager, Anonymous Testing Service & Community Research, Action for AIDS Singapore Fikri Alkhatib is the Senior Manager of Anonymous Testing Service & Community Research at Action for AIDS (Singapore). She is concerned that public health crises tend to hit already vulnerable groups harder, hence worsening existing inequalities, and believes in the importance of community-based interventions to address this. She has over a decade's experience volunteering for LGBTQ+ and feminist organisations. Before joining AfA, she worked in the civil service as a policymaker. She obtained her BSc in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science and MA in Sociology from Columbia University.
	Calvin Tan Executive, Action for AIDS Singapore Calvin Tan is an HIV advocate ever since he was diagnosed with HIV during his late teens. Over the years he has opened to the public on the discrimination he has faced; both from others and from himself. As a result, he has become a voice for his community – the youth and the stigmatised. He assists in planning HIV/STI prevention and safer sex programmes for the MSM community and provides counselling to newly diagnosed person living with HIV and connects with existing ones.
Towards a HealthierSG
	Dr Wong Chen Seong Director, National HIV Programme, National Centre for Infectious Diseases Head, National HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STI Programme, interim Communicable Diseases Agency Dr Wong Chen Seong is a Senior Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital, the Director of the National HIV Programme, and Head of the National HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STI Programme of the interim Communicable Diseases Agency. He is actively involved in HIV clinical care and research, with interests in the socio-behavioural determinants of HIV/sexually transmitted infections (STI), HIV/STI prevention, HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, innovations in HIV service delivery such as telemedicine, as well as HIV and ageing and co-morbidity. Dr Wong is also actively involved in both undergraduate and post-graduate medical education and training. He is a Clinical Lecturer at the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Nanyang Technological University’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, as well as an Associate Programme Director of the National Healthcare Group’s Internal Medicine Residency Programme.

HIV Community Engagement Forum 2024

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