A/Prof. Barnaby Young is an infectious disease senior consultant at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) and Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and jointly appointed Associate Professor (Clinical Practice) at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. He is Head of the Singapore Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network (SCRN) at NCID and co-ordinates prospective observational studies and randomised controlled trials in collaboration with public hospitals and polyclinics in Singapore. He is also the database core lead in Programme for Research in Epidemic Preparedness and Response (PREPARE), Ministry of Health. His research interests are in respiratory viral infections including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza. In 2023 he received a Clinician Scientist Award (CSA) from the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) with the aim of conducting a SARS-CoV-2 Controlled Human Infection study in Singapore.
