Given the current worldwide concerns at present it is fitting that our OV of the week is Dr Hishamuddin Badaruddin (S 88-90) whose skills and experience will be very much in demand. While at King’s, Hisham was involved in badminton and sailing.

Following King’s, Hisham studied medicine at The University of Nottingham. After working in emergency medicine in a number of hospitals around the UK he returned to South-East Asia in 2002. In 2003 he was involved in managing the SARS outbreak and after that changed directions and became a public health specialist after completing a Masters in Public Health at Emory University in USA as a Fulbright scholar.

Since then Hisham has worked with Ministry of Health in Singapore in public health, consulted for WHO and UNICEF, and is now a Director with Deloitte Consulting looking after the healthcare space in South-East Asia. He is also a Fellow with the Academy of Medicine Singapore, adjunct Assistant Professor with Penn State University (USA) and also Duke-NUS medical school in Singapore.