Professor Lee, now the senior director of the Communicable Diseases Division in the Ministry of Health (MOH), will take over the role of NCID executive director from Professor Leo Yee Sin. He will concurrently hold his MOH appointment.
Prof Leo helped set up NCID and has helmed it for the past six years.
From July 1, she will be appointed senior consultant at MOH and senior adviser at NHG, where she will "lend her wealth of expertise and experience in the area of infectious disease and outbreak man-public health policies, as well as diagnostic and treatment methods that benefit patients locally and worldwide," NHG said.
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