Professor Tikki PANG is an Indonesian citizen and is presently Visiting Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He was previously Visiting Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (2012-2020) and Director, Research Policy & Cooperation, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland (1999-2012). Prior to joining WHO, he was Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Postgraduate Studies & Research, and Lecturer/Associate Professor, Dept of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1977-1999). He was Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Dengue & Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1982-1995). He holds a PhD in Immunology-Microbiology from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (UK), Institute of Biology (UK), American Academy of Microbiology (USA), Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, and Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS). He has served as Member and Chair of the Board of Directors, Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA) and the Southeast Asia Community Observatory (SEACO). He has published >250 scientific articles and 12 books, and was lead author on several major WHO reports including the World Health Report 2013: Research for Universal Health Coverage (2013), Knowledge for Better Health (2004) and Genomics and World Health (2002).
Professor Pang has a recognisable profile as a public health expert both nationally and internationally. His research interests are in the epidemiology, pathogenesis, laboratory diagnosis and prevention of infectious diseases, biosecurity and dual-use research, genomics & health, and in health research policy, health research systems, global health governance, linkages between research and policy, vaccine confidence and harm reduction approaches to mitigate health problems.