Cing Sian Dal

I believe that success was guaranteed since you were humble, patient, and flexible in every situation for leading your research project.

That’s frustrating, infuriating, and very unethical. Every organization dealing with medical data must have a data sharing policy and data governance policy. Usually, at the enterprise level, data handling is automated by using enterprise software such as BlackBerry Workspace, and Microsoft Purview Information, Vera.

A company I worked for saw an employee gradually decreasing performance, affecting the team’s progress. He was then given a chance to improve it within two quarters. After two quarters, he could not meet with the goal. He was then terminated with both consensual agreements.

After two weeks, the company saw an increasing number of dummy data in…[Read more]

It’s truly difficult to assess risks and make a contingency plan for me as well. The only way is, as you mentioned, to have a team meeting and brainstorm together because it’s never been a solo plan by nature since the beginning of the project. It also takes a pearl of wisdom to filter out useful ideas while brainstorming. In that case, the Risk…[Read more]

Motivation through recognition and appreciation is compulsory. Otherwise, it can turn out that they were working for an autocratic leader – not for the purpose of the team and not for their vision. At the same time, it’s vital to motivate ourselves as a leader whom the team has their faith in.

A project plan, in the traditional way, is a paper essay written by imagination. Therefore, when reality kicks in, the plan is always constrained by time, cost, and quality. Fortunately, most projects I worked on were non-linear and progressed with the feedback loop (incremental development). In my experience, there was not even a project document…[Read more]

In my opinion, it is vital to be a team in harmony with unique personalities and characters before forming a team. For example, if a team of introverted leaders was formed for a social community, it would be detrimental to the community.

Before I was elected as the president of a civil society organization, the former leaders carefully picked up…[Read more]

We are programmed to respond since birth whenever we have conversations. Everybody can hear, but nobody can easily listen. Listening takes energy and attention. It’s more difficult when it involves non-verbal communication because it can express the opposite, for example, smiling while offering condolences. I agree that maintaining eye contact is…[Read more]

It would be quite challenging if a doctor is unwilling to cooperate with you if it takes much time, especially with such frequent follow-up questions. To improve recall, I think memory games like listening to weather forecasts without watching and jotting down what you remember could be more effective in practice.

Recalling details and understanding the big picture would be listening skills that I need to improve because whenever someone told me something important, I could not grasp the context and retain important facts. I simply end such conversations, with “Okay”.

In such situations, I would rephrase the way I understand whether I miss the details or…[Read more]

Normally, my strongest component is empathy without outward display. I could recognize emotions in others, avoid judgments, and convince others to understand others’ emotions sometimes but not respond appropriately most of the time.

To express my empathy requires my expression or interaction with them appropriately when needed, like saying “hi”…[Read more]

Obviously, you are indeed a well-regulated person not only by emotion but also by discipline. Your promptness in discussion proves us all. And, I admire your self-discipline.

When it comes to empathy, I understand it in a different way from recognizing emotions. For me, empathy involves the experience of putting yourself in another person’s…[Read more]

Generally, a government’s system and political dynamics affect the nature of its leaders’ speeches. In Singapore, with its localized politics and de facto one-party state, leaders can deliver speeches focused on a single, unified message. Conversely, in the US, with its complex, internationally engaged political system centered around diverse peo…[Read more]

It is indeed entirely different before and after the coup. Trust has become unrecoverable and broken with no turning back. It all leads to failure in other fields: technology, transparency, transformation, techquity and many more. Everything has fallen apart.

As for Myanmar, following the Feb 2021 coup, at the national level, it seems impossible to have a collaborative team, build transparency and trust among ethnic groups, utilize technology for an intended purpose, provide access to information technology, embrace digital inclusion, and empower digital health transformation.

In terms of team…[Read more]

It is interesting and thought-provoking whether HIV can be a future PHEIC. As far as I researched, although HIV seems to be met with four criteria, the virus is all based on individual behavior (i.e., multiple sex partners, shared needle injection), unlike air-borne disease. Therefore, based on the situation in Myanmar, it’s fair to say that…[Read more]

Initially, I believed that antimicrobial resistance was a personal health concern. Now, I learned its broader impact. As you explained, the resistant strains can post significant public health concerns, potentially leading to untreatable infections on a large scale.

The World Health Organization has declared several outbreaks as the Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). They are:

(1) H1N1 in 2009 in Mexico

(2) Poliomyelitis declared in 2014 and ongoing

(3) Ebola outbreak in West Africa declared in July 2016

(4) Zika virus epidemic declared in Feb 2016

(5) COVID-19 pandemic declared…[Read more]

Thank you for sharing great ideas. If we have a list of outliers (invalid data groups), we can automate it by flagging it as suspicious information or an error in the reporting system before submission. Otherwise, a person who checks reported data has to spend time more on it, delaying the report.

Thank you for sharing the insightful discussion. We may assume that everything is okay if a patient is not admitted to a clinic or hospital but this could be the opposite – diseased or self-medicating at a chronic stage. There could be several reasons. The follow-up should be implemented after a considerable amount of time.