Webinar #147 Dr Tan Lai Yong - Training village healthcare workers

Recorded on 13 April 2023 for ICMDA Webinars. Dr Peter Saunders chairs a webinar with Dr Tan Lai Yong. Dr Tan has spent 15 years (1996 to 2010) running village health worker training programs in Yunnan, China. During this webinar he will share insights, mistakes made, and reflections on his experiences. Associate Professor Tan Lai Yong graduated as a medical doctor from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1985. In 1996, he and his family relocated to Yunnan, China, where he was involved in poverty alleviation, community development and training of village health workers. He joined the College of Alice and Peter Tan (CAPT) as a Resident Fellow in 2012 and was the Director for Outreach and Community Engagement from 2012 to 2020. He also taught short courses at the Division of Family Medicine of the YLLSOM (NUS). Dr Tan was given the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award in 2013. As a 3-time recipient of the Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Award, Dr Tan was given the NUS Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Award Honour Roll. He is married with 2 grown children. He enjoys the outdoors, has taken part in several Wilderness Medicine trainings courses and has led ten STEER trips to places like Botswana, China, India and Myanmar.