“Did you know there’s a conference on Taylor Swift?” asked Dr Chiong Yee Keow, a paediatrician and former colleague. We were seated next to each other at an appreciation dinner for the SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress 2023 in September last year.

We had each done presentations about the work we were doing – mine for Youth Connect, an intervention for mental health practitioners to use with adolescents in the community, hers for the Centre for Holistic Initiatives for Learning and Development (CHILD).