About Dr. Wan Naszeerah

Dr. Wan Naszeerah is a Bruneian public health practitioner-scholar working on prevention, health systems and health security. In Brunei and across Southeast Asia, she works with communities and institutions to design health services, programmes and tools with the people they are meant to serve. She holds a DrPH from UC Berkeley and an MPH from Yale. She is the author of Debunk with Empathy and co-founder of Projek Infodemik. Her work is guided by one question: how can we build public health systems that understand people as well as they understand disease? Read more.

About Dr. Wan Naszeerah's Book


In clinics, communities and families, health conversations often falter at the same point: the evidence is sound, but trust is not yet there. Debunk with Empathy draws on a decade of public health work with communities across Southeast Asia's Nusantara region to show why understanding must come before correction. Dr. Wan Naszeerah offers a practical approach to talking about health when emotions, uncertainty and misinformation are involved. Read more.

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