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Risk Communication in Public Health of Today
Insights and Commentaries
04 October 2019
Risk communication is an essential part in public health. However, it has been considered the weakest area in many countries by the World Health Organization. Communicating risks in a responsible...
AI on a chip
Insights and Commentaries
19 August 2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is destined to transform our society, affecting every aspect of our lives. However, a key bottleneck towards the proliferation of the technology is the lack of efficient...
Co-designing technology and policy for high-risk technologies
Insights and Commentaries
29 July 2019
Since the Alpha-Go shock of March 2016, global public discourse on information technologies has taken a distinct turn. Although the last two decades have seen numerous political, economic or social...
Community resilience from California to Singapore
Insights and Commentaries
22 July 2019
For me, natural disaster had always lived in the television and the newspaper. I grew up in the suburban utopia of Santa Rosa, California, and I had no past experience...
200 years of risk perceptions: Data science visualised in batik art
Insights and Commentaries
05 July 2019
Narratives provide an insight into people’s perception or views regarding an issue. A data team led by IPUR’s Lead Scientist for Data & Technology Asst Prof Reuben Ng curated and...
Dynamic visualisation of individualised and population efficacy-toxicity risks
Insights and Commentaries
05 June 2019
The therapeutic efficacy of any drug varies between individuals. A large part of this variability depends on the ‘pharmacokinetics’ of the drug. Pharmacokinetics refers to how the drug is processed...