Honoring #PopeLeoXIV - the new Peruvian Pope (he’s not just American) - with this other global Peruvian immigrant, #PaddingtonBear (yes, PB is a Peruvian bear who migrated to the UK) 🙏🐻
“Through Filipinos, may the name of Jesus… reach the ends of the Earth.” - Cardinal Tagle to Pope Francis, 500th year of Christianity in Philippines
Teary eyed listening. Here’s a man who loves Jesus, Pope Francis, Filipino people, the universal church
Black smoke. Now I can sleep with my Labubus. To be continued tomorrow. #Conclave2025 🙏
We leave it to the Holy Spirit to anoint, through our cardinals, the next Pope, and we will embrace with prayer and love the new bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church. Amen 🙏
Is it really a “global” search or a recruitment program for those who need (or want) to exit the US? 🤔
“We need to build resilient planetary systems for health”
So many things happening - skipped this year’s World Health Summit Asia in #NewDelhi #India 🇮🇳 #WHSAsia2025
Instead, sharing our plenary on #PlanetaryHealth 🌏 in last year’s #WHSMelbourne2024 🇦🇺
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We will use the 20,000 USD prize to ensure the long-term sustainability of Planetary Health Philippines 🇵🇭 - one of the world’s first national #PlanetaryHealth 🌏 networks - as a non-profit organization
Humbled to learn the news that we were chosen as one of the six recipients of the 2025 McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund!
Deepest gratitude to the McNulty Foundation and The Aspen Institute for this incredible honor and vital investment for the future!
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Must also acknowledge the other reality - much harder now for scientists from #GlobalSouth to find jobs in EU, UK, Canada & even Singapore
Now more than ever, we from developing countries need to more than double our effort to achieve even half the result www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#Weekend walk around the Lion City!🦁🇸🇬
We worked hard this week - let’s party harder this weekend! (Party = rest and relax🤪)
Recharge our bodies, minds & hearts 💪🧠❤️- so next week, our tanks are refueled, ready to accomplish the mission! 🌏
#PlanetaryHealth #PersonalHealth
Our public servants - elected and appointed officials, civil servants - must be courteous in their interactions with us - colleagues, citizens, taxpayers - at all times, even in face of stress. We can learn a lot from hospitality - but it’s simply about embodying good character.
Last month in #Hanoi 🇻🇳: inaugural meeting of #SriLanka 🇱🇰 heat stress & kidney project - #PlanetaryHealth team of SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute 🇸🇬, Duke Global Health Institute 🇺🇸, Univ of Jaffna, Univ of Ruhuna
Our dream: make the entire country a living #ClimateHealth observatory 🌏
Portrait of the #Filipino doctor 🇵🇭 as a #PlanetaryHealth diplomat 🌏
📍 Philippine Embassy #Tokyo #Japan 🇯🇵
#LatePost #Diplomacy
Now happening at 9pm Manila/Singapore in commemoration of Global #PublicHealth Week 2025 #GPHW2025 - you can still register and join! #DecolonizeGlobalHealth
Happy World Health Day!
To commemorate this special day, Rocel Ann Junio-Balbutin and I co-write in Devex about the need to create a climate-smart health workforce to protect communities in the era of #PlanetaryHealth 🌏
www.devex.com/news/opinion...
I’m glad I’m here too! 🥰 God pushed me to come to church today to give me a timely and important reminder: silence, simplify, and slow down - to pursue the presence of God! 🙏
#Sunday #Weekend #Jesus #Spirit #Prayer #Worship
#LatePost National University of 🇸🇬 delegation at global convening on role of universities in climate, health & equity - me representing Duke-NUS #PlanetaryHealth 🌏
📍At Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in #Italy 🇮🇹 w/ NUS Chief Sustainability Prof Koh Lian Pin & Assoc Prof Kimberly Fornace
If I live in a cartoon world, I would be back in school 🤪🎓📚
#UniversitesdeParis #Sorbonne #Paris #France 🇫🇷 #LatePost #ChatGPT #StudioGhibli
In commemoration of #EarthMonth2025, join me and Professor Suerie Moon in a conversation on the future of #GlobalGovernance for #PlanetaryHealth 🌏
Brought to you by the Planetary Health Initiative of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute
Register here: www.duke-nus.edu.sg/sdghi/news-e...
AVPN w/ partners including SDGHI #PlanetaryHealth launches Lighthouse Fund - USD 5 million fund for innovations addressing the nexus of climate & health🌏
We are looking for solutions for infectious diseases & heat. Deadline is May 9 - apply now!
avpn.asia/capital-for-...
Profoundly joyful that Pope Francis has now been discharged from the hospital. God indeed hears our prayers! Let’s keep on praying for his continuous healing 🙏 #NotreDameDeParis #Paris #France #LatePost 🇫🇷
SDGHI #PlanetaryHealth team is working w/ Visiting Professor Suerie Moon from Geneva Graduate Institute on how to improve global governance & diplomacy to tackle #ClimateHealth
Join us on April 8 -first episode of this year’s “Conversations in #PlanetaryHealth”🌏
www.duke-nus.edu.sg/sdghi/news-e...
Presenting the new webpage of SDGHI #PlanetaryHealth Initiative 🌏 #Singapore 🇸🇬
Find out about our rapidly expanding positive footprint - advancing health of people & planet in Asia & beyond!
Work with us, study with us, refashion the world with us!
www.duke-nus.edu.sg/sdghi/our-wo...
Thank you The Lancet for putting a spotlight on new developments in tackling #HIVAIDS in #Philippines🇵🇭
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Glad to see friends & colleagues working on HIV quoted in this report - & for a #PlanetaryHealth perspective included too 🌏
#LatePost Welcome #Labubu for my #Harvard teacher, collaborator & friend Suerie Moon, who leads the #GlobalHealth Programme of Geneva Graduate Institute🇨🇭
Till June, she’s our Visiting Professor here at SDGHI #Singapore 🇸🇬- one of our collabs is the area of #PlanetaryHealth governance & diplomacy 🌏
One night to go! Register now!
Join the Western Pacific Climate and Health Responder Course brought to you by my #PlanetaryHealth team at SDGHI 🇸🇬 w/ the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education based at Columbia & other partners! 🌏
www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/pro...
Deeply grateful to Duke-NUS Medical School & Duke University for selecting our project w/ Nishad Jayasundara on heat & kidney disease in #SriLanka🇱🇰 - 1 of 5 recipients!
May this be the start of more investments in #PlanetaryHealth🌏 by the two Duke’s! 🇺🇸🇸🇬
www.duke-nus.edu.sg/newshub/medi...
Day 3 of #GMHAsia2025: lots of dancing too! 💃🏽🕺🏽
Therapeutic for #MentalHealth🧠- way to reconnect w/ nature too! Asians from past dance for rain - also for thanksgiving!
Tnx Prof Grace Devora for allowing us rediscover ancient wisdom for modern challenges! #PlanetaryHealth🌏
“Perhaps to confront the climate crisis effectively, we should be 'hackathon-ing' every day- on a global scale.” #PlanetaryHealth 🌏
Featured by GovInsider w/ SingHealth’s Chen-Ee Lee, re: our Asia-Pacific #GlobalHealth Innovation Hackathon focused on #ClimateHealth
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The SDGHI #PlanetaryHealth team sends its love to everyone who works for the advancement of the #ClimateChange 🌏 and #MentalHealth 🧠 agenda!
Thank you for joining Day 3 of #GMHAsia2025 in #Singapore 🇸🇬
