E735 - Singapore: Health, Scale & Policy Blueprint

In 2016, Singapore declared a War on Diabetes. This BRAVE compilation looks at what the Singapore blueprint gets right on health and public policy, and what that stability may cost in entrepreneurial drive.

Dr. Sue-Anne Toh of NOVI Health explains TOFI (thin outside, fat inside), why Asians develop diabetes at lower BMI, and how insulin resistance works. Adriel Yong of Clouted lays out the efficiency paradox: when public services work this well, fewer people grow up as problem solvers, and state ownership leaves few business families to build on. Dr. Joshua Wang of VerImmune covers why cancer is detected too late, why new therapies are tested on late-stage patients first, and how diabetes went from a death sentence to a chronic disease.

Watch the full episodes:

Navigating the Longevity Market | Dr. Sue-Anne Toh - E718

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP0L_qhSRJA

Singapore Works Too Well To Be A Great Startup Hub? | Adriel Yong - E705

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOimzcac29w

Joshua Wang: Reprogramming Cancer, Biotech’s Funding Shift & Why AI Will Rewrite Biology – E628

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roXPyXASiRk

Watch, listen or read the full insight at https://www.bravesea.com/blog/singapore-health-policy

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00:00 Intro

01:02 Dr. Sue-Anne Toh: Singapore's War on Diabetes

01:47 TOFI: thin outside, fat inside

03:38 Insulin resistance and the pancreas "factory"

06:43 AI, manual labor and the WALL-E future

08:28 Adriel Yong: the Efficiency Paradox

10:04 Temasek, GLCs and the missing business families

11:39 Focus or numbing? HF0 and founder distraction

14:21 Why swing for a billion?

16:12 Dr. Joshua Wang: therapeutic, not preventative

18:36 Why cancer is detected too late

21:27 From death sentence to chronic disease

22:55 Outro