Clarence C Tam

Biographic Data

ID6159369
NAMEClarence C Tam
GIVEN NAMESClarence C
FAMILY NAMETam
SIGNATURETAM C C
AFFILIATIONSNational University of Singapore
ORCID0000-0003-1697-286X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • Understanding networks in rural Cambodian farming communities and how they influence antibiotic use

    Open AccessJane Mingjie Lim, Sokchea Huy et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Biosecurity and preventive animal health services in Cambodian smallholder backyard farming systems are often limited, leading to an over-reliance on antibiotics. However, data on factors influencing antibiotic use in these settings are lacking. We conducted a study in two rural Cambodian farming communities to investigate how social and contextual influences affect both human and animal antibiotic use behaviours. Data were collected in three pha…

  • Interventions to mitigate early spread of Sars-CoV-2 in Singapore

    Open AccessJoel Ruihan Koo, Alex R Cook et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Infectious Diseases2020

  • One drug to treat them all

    Open AccessClarence C Tam, Vittoria Offeddu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    10.7189/jogh.09.010305

  • Coverage and determinants of influenza vaccine among pregnant women

    Open AccessVittoria Offeddu, Clarence C Tam et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Influenza vaccination uptake among pregnant women in Singapore is low. There is considerable scope for improving vaccination coverage in this high-risk population through vaccination recommendations from healthcare professionals, and public communication targeting common misconceptions about influenza and influenza vaccines

  • Estimated dengue force of infection and burden of primary infections among Indian children

    Open AccessAmit Bhavsar, Clarence C Tam et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Registered retrospectively with clinicaltrials.gov ( NCT01477671 ; 18/11/2011) and clinical trials registry of India (ctri.nic.in; CTRI/2011/12/002243 ; 15/12/2011). Date of enrollment of 1st subject: 22/9/2011

  • The second study of infectious intestinal disease (IID2)

    Open AccessClarence C Tam, Laura Viviani et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    Elderly populations have a high propensity for recurrent IID. More detailed studies are needed to identify vulnerable subgroups and susceptibility factors, and inform adequate control policies among the elderly

  • Newspeak for epidemiologists

    Clarence C TamARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2007References: 5

    Our limited vocabulary should not constitute a prescriptive curriculum, but instead point to our insufficiencies and our need to expand the field of epidemiology In summation, I have only one question: is Latin dead? Max Fischer1f It is said that the Canadian Inuit have more than 50 words for “snow”, but none for “pollution”. In fact, the romantic idea that the Inuit can differentiate between 50 types of snow is not strictly true; the multitude o…

  • Determinism versus stochasticism

    Clarence C Tam, B A LopmanARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2003Cited by: 1References: 15

    Is there a recipe for the causal pie? In his recent article describing what characterises a useful concept of causation in epidemiology,1 Olsen provides a useful overview of the now popular component-cause model and its relevance for epidemiological research, and renews the call for discussion on how best to conceptualise causation. As he rightly points out, this is not merely of academic interest—how we view causation influences (whether conscio…