Koh D. Occupational risks for COVID-19. Occupational Medicine70 (1), Jan 2020, 3–5,https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqaa036 Published 28 February 2020.Gan WH, JW Lim, D Koh. Preventing intra-hospital infection and transmission of COVID-19 in healthcareworkers. Safety and Health at Work2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2020.03.001Koh D, PH Goh. Occupational health responses to COVID-19: What lessons can we learn from SARS? JOccup Health 2020 First published:13 May 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/1348-9585.12128K Kok. COVID-19: Risks facing doctors who treat infected patients. Research and Reviews in InfectiousDiseases 2020;3(1):49-52 doi:10.36959/719/563Koh D. Migrant workers and COVID-19. Occupational and EnvironmentalMedicine2020; doi: 10.1136/oemed-2020-106626Kok K, Faye I, D Koh. COVID-19: a reminder for medical curriculum review. Advances in Medical Educationand Practice 2020(In press)Ming LC, Untong N, Aliudin NA, et al. Mobile Health Apps on COVID-19 Launched in the Early Days of thePandemic: Content Analysis and Review. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2020;8(9):e19796. Published 2020 Sep 16.doi:10.2196/19796Chaw L, Koh WC, Jamaludin SA, Naing L, Alikhan MF, Wong J. Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 transmission indifferent settings, Brunei. Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal. 2020;26(11) – In pressWong J, Sirajul Adli Jamaludin, Mohammad Fathi Alikhan, Chaw L. Asymptomatic transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 and implications for mass gatherings. Influenza and other respiratory viruses.2020 Sep; 14(5): 596–598.Koh D, S Wong, J Wong. Testing for COVID-19 cases in ASEAN. Western Pacific Surveillance and ResponseJournal2020; 11 (5), Suppl 1, COVID-19. (In press)Wong J, Chaw L, Koh WC, Mohammad Fathi Alikhan, Sirajul Adli Jamaludin, Poh PWW, Naing L.Epidemiological investigation of the first 135 COVID-19 cases in Brunei: Implications for surveillance,control, and travel restrictions. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene2020.Koh D, AC Cunningham. Counting COVID-19 cases: case definitions, screened populations and testingtechniques matter. Ann Acad Med S’pore2020; 49: 161-165.Wong, J., Abdul Aziz, A. B. Z., Chaw, L., Mahamud, A., Griffith, M. M., Lo, Y. R. & Naing, L., High proportionof asymptomatic and presymptomatic COVID-19 infections in air passengers to Brunei. Journal of TravelMedicine.2020; 27, 5Wong, J, Koh, WC, Momin, RN, Alikhan, MF, Fadillah, N, Naing, L.Probable causes and risk factors for positiveSARS-CoV-2 test in recovered patients: Evidence from Brunei Darussalam. Journal of MedicalVirology2020; (in press)The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc to society, resulting not only in tens of millions of infected personsand over a million deaths, but also disruption to the economy, work and personal life. Many researchers haveexperienced delays or even stoppages of their work because of lockdowns and travel restrictions, enforcedrules on working from home for non-essential frontline workers, and supply chain disruptions. For biomedicaland health research, the National Institute of Health Research in the United Kingdom and the NationalInstitutes of Health in the United States have ordered all non-COVID related research to be paused and tooperate in a maintenance phase respectively, to enable the research workforce to focus on deliveringnationally prioritised COVID-19 studies or enabling redeployment to frontline care where necessary (NationalInstitute of Health Research, 2020; National Institutes of Health, 2020).Within Brunei, the PAPRSB Institute of Health Sciences has identified and formed a new research priority areaon COVID-19. Research collaborations have been organized to include partners in the other faculties andcentres in UBD, as well as external stakeholders such as colleagues from the Ministry of Health. Administrativeresearch processes, such as expedited ethics approval processes have also had to be streamlined. Thesemeasures have allowed UBD to make a significant impact in COVID-19 research. For example, the first paperon COVID-19 from UBD, titled Occupational risks of COVID-19, was published even before the first case of thedisease was seen in Brunei. Several other important papers on occupational health, education, epidemiology,health policy, dentistry, therapeutic options, ethics and others (including a VuMedi video presentation) weresubsequently published by IHS researchers. Researchers in the other faculties have also been active, withpapers published by colleagues in engineering, the humanities, and ethnobotany. (see references for aselection of publications by UBD researchers – the list is not exhaustive and non-peer reviewed preprints areexcluded). UBD’s School of Business and Economics will be producing a special theme issue on COVID-19 in itsJournal of Business and Economic Analysis, which is expected to be published next year. While the pandemic can have negative impacts on research, IHS and UBD have successfully managed to adaptand respond to the challenges faced, and as a result, research output for this year is expected to be at leastthe same, if not more than in previous years.Selected COVID-19 Publications by UBD AcademicsOccupational HealthEducationEpidemiologyB E Y O N D | J U L . T O S E P T . 2 0 2 0 | I S S U E 2 1 2R E S E A R C H D U R I N G T H E C O V I D - 1 9 P A N D E M I CProf. David Koh, Professor of Occupational Health & Medicine
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