Post-pandemic health challenges set to be more complex: Panel
The Straits Times|September 14, 2022
Future health challenges are set to become more complex, with technical solutions such as new drugs and therapeutics no longer sufficient to deal with them.
Post-pandemic health challenges set to be more complex: Panel

Instead, future leaders will need to contend as well with social problems, cultural and behavioural issues, economic pressures and political challenges, said a panel discussing issues around health after the pandemic at the Nobel Prize Dialogue 2022 on Tuesday.

Technology will play a large role in tackling these challenges, said Singapore's director of medical services Kenneth Mak, one of the panellists.

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