Thankful for the chance to write about my home, Singapore, because while it did many things right, its failure to contain a mass COVID outbreak last year can teach us important lessons about NOT ignoring marginalized populations and civil society in public health crises. (1/4) https://twitter.com/scottlgreer/status/1386470071359479813">https://twitter.com/scottlgre...

Lessons from Singapore: 1) Strong public health capacity only works when resources are extended to EVERYONE including marginalized populations. SG did not provide migrant workers the same access to healthcare as citizens - this led to a blindspot in monitoring COVID spread. (2/4)

2) DON& #39;T ignore civil society - they play a vital role in bridging the gap between the government and people who don& #39;t have political access. Civil society orgs warned us that the workers& #39; poor living conditions could lead to COVID spread. We ignored them to our detriment. (3/4)

TLDR: to quote the last line of my chapter - "Viruses are apolitical; even if the government wants to ignore certain populations, virus outbreaks will not." Include marginalized populations into your policymaking. None of us are protected until we are all protected. (4/4)

Thank you to @hanisahsani, @angabridged and other Singaporean scholars who are much more experienced in academia than me and provided much needed feedback on this chapter! Will miss you at Michigan so much!!