Prof Hsu Li Yang

Vice Dean (Global Health), Programme Leader (Infectious Diseases) and Professor, NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary)
Professor, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Joint)
Associate Director, NUS Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering
Visiting Consultant, St Luke’s Hospital
Visiting Consultant, Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital
Adjunct Clinician-Scientist, NanoBio Lab, A*STAR

Prof Hsu Li Yang is an infectious diseases physician who has spent the past decade researching and treating patients with antibiotic-resistant bacterial and invasive fungal infections. He is currently Vice Dean of Global Health and Programme Leader of Infectious Diseases at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. He was formerly Clinical Director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and Director of the Singapore Infectious Diseases Initiative, which was established to spur collaborative biomedical and clinical research in infectious diseases.

Prof Hsu has served in several committees in the Ministry of Health (MOH). In particular, he cochaired the RIE2020 infectious diseases workgroup, promoting antimicrobial stewardship, better control of antimicrobial resistance (leading to the launch of Singapore’s National Strategic Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance in November 2017), as well as tuberculosis. He continues to work with MOH on a part-time professional scheme. He has also served as a technical advisor on surveillance of antimicrobial resistance to the western pacific regional office of the World Health Organization.

Prof Hsu was the founding director of the School’s Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research (CIDER) established in 2012, and has briefly worked in the private sector as an infectious disease physician, providing specialist services between 2014 and 2016.