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PTI report. Dr M Premikha will receive a SGD 50,000 allowance for up to two years from the scholarship since she is from the private sector and will later this month head to Johns Hopkins University in the United States to begin a one-year master's programme in public health, the Straits Times reported Thursday.

Interestingly, among Dr Premikha’s responsibilities was negotiating advanced purchase agreements with different vaccine manufacturers when she was at the Ministry of Health (MOH) from July 2021 to January this year.

Dr Premikha has said, "It was so hard to ascertain the demand because when I was negotiating, we did not even know if there was a need for a booster vaccination.

We were like, 'So what if we don't need the boosters? What do we do with the stocks? Or what if we need them? Then we won't have enough'." Additionally, she worked with Gavi, the international vaccine alliance, to bring in vaccines through its Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) programme, and coordinated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here to donate vaccines to neighbouring countries in need.

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