Page 37 - The COVID-19 Chronicles of Malaysia: The Tsunami

The Manager, National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of

Health (NIH) aims to enhance
the health and wellbeing of
the nation through governing

and managing research in the
country to address national
health priorities, especially in
the times of COVID-19

pandemic.

NIH, in the quest of evidence

and effective treatments, joins
clinical trials to investigate the
vaccine/treatment efficacy and
effectiveness.

Working behind the scenes,
laboratories in NIH proved

their worth in monitoring
strain mutations, trends of
disease spread, development of While this pandemic is
new tests for SARS-CoV-2 and unprecedented, and the

so much more, in efforts to get
a grasp on the virus so that we volume of data shared
could turn the data into useful unparalleled, we believe that

insights.
we are able to accurately
handle the crisis by pooling

our resources.

- Dr. S Asmaliza Ismail

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