Our Mission for Sleep Medicine Awareness

The NUS Edmund Tay Mai Hiong Endowed Fund was started to not only raise public and medical community awareness of dentistry's role in sleep and airway issues but to empower and recruit dentists as front line professionals in the early detection of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB).  We strongly believe that the informed dentist, working together with a team of dedicated sleep experts, has the potential to be a major factor in the co-management of many sleep-related disorders, not only Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA).

World Sleep Day is March 15, 2024. World Sleep Day delegates and sleep health advocates across the world will take action in their local communities, clinics, and countries to raise awareness of sleep health. Join us!

A Call to Action – Celebrate Healthy Sleep!

  • Share #WorldSleepDay online

  • Organize or participate in an awareness activity in your community (and let us know about it!)

  • Interview a credible sleep expert for your World Sleep Day content

  • Write, create, or otherwise connect with your public audience about sleep health

The 2024 Theme: Sleep Equity for Global Health

The theme for this World Sleep Day is Sleep Equity for Global Health. Sleep is essential to health, but measurable differences in sleep health persist across populations across the world, creating additional burdens and reinforcing health inequities.

World Sleep Day is an opportunity to promote sleep health alongside thousands of other sleep health professionals and advocates. When we all promote sleep health and #WorldSleepDay together, our combined effort is greater than the sum of its parts. Spread the word about sleep health on World Sleep Day, and help elevate the conversation around sleep!

Highlights of the ETMH Distinguished Speaker Program featuring Professor Peter Cistulli & Professor Gilles Lavigne

Professor Edmund Tay Mai Hiong

My father was a passionate man. He came from humble beginnings. Born to a planter in Sapong, a small town about 100 miles from Jesselton, British North Borneo (now Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, East Malaysia), he was sent to Singapore at the tender age of thirteen to continue his education in English... Read More