Email tshermin@nus.edu.sg

Trained in public health and palliative care, Shermin has wide-ranging experience in clinical care, policy-making and programme implementation. She has worked in various settings including the Ministry of Health (MOH) and restructured hospitals in Singapore, in infectious disease outbreak management, national emergency preparedness, health promotion, primary and community care, manpower standards and development, as well as palliative care strategy and service development.

Since 2020, Shermin has been a based in Nepal as a medical volunteer with the International Nepal Fellowship (INF), Nepal. INF is a non-governmental organization serving the poor and marginalized in Nepal through health services and community development work. Shermin was involved in the setting up of INF’s integrated palliative care centre, the first of its kind in Nepal. She currently heads the Research and Quality Improvement Department at INF, a department that she has set up to drive research development and quality improvement across all of INF’s health services and community development programmes.

Shermin is a certified life coach, and trained Motivational Interviewer. She is also an artist and musician, and enjoys new cross-cultural experiences.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Adjunct)
• Research, Innovation and Knowledge Management Advisor, International Nepal Fellowship

• Programme Evaluation
• Global Health
• Chronic Disease and Disability
• Infectious Diseases e.g. leprosy

• Programme Evaluation
• Global Health

• MBBS (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine), 2008
• Master of Public Health (Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health), 2015
• Graduate Diploma in Palliative Medicine (National University of Singapore) 2017
• Life Coach Certification 2022

• Permanent Secretary Health Award, 2014

• Medical Officer, Ministry of Health Holdings, 2009-2012
• Resident, Ministry of Health, 2013-2015
• Senior Resident, National University Health System and National Healthcare Group, 2016-2017
• Associate Consultant, Palliative Medicine and Community Transformation Office, Woodlands Health Campus 2018-2019
• Palliative Care Physician, International Nepal Fellowship, 2020-2022
• Research, Innovation and Knowledge Management Advisor, International Nepal Fellowship 2022-present

• Head, Research and Quality Improvement Department, International Nepal Fellowship, 2022-present

• Ang IYH, Tan CS, Nurjono M, Tan XQ, Koh GC-H, Vrijhoef HJM, Tan S et al. Retrospective evaluation of healthcare utilisation and mortality of two post-discharge care programmes in Singapore. BMJ Open.2019;9(5):e027220.
• Tan S, Wong LY, Toh MPH. Incipient albuminuria in persons with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus: A 5-year retrospective cohort study. Annals Academy of Medicine Singapore. 2018;47(12):502–8.
• Ang IYH, Seng Tan C, Nurjono M, Tan S, Vrijhoef HJM, Su-Yin Yoong J, et al. Reduction in specialist outpatient clinic visits with an integrated care programme for frequent admitters in Singapore. International Journal of Integrated Care 2018;18(s2):246.
• Nurjono M, Shrestha P, Lee A, Lim XY, Shiraz F, Tan S, et al. Realist evaluation of a complex integrated care programme: protocol for a mixed methods study. BMJ Open 2018;8(3):e017111.
• Tan S, Chin W, Tan QL, Wong C, Tay J, Toh S-A, et al. Understanding the psychosocial, behavioural and environmental factors behind frequent hospital admissions. International Journal of Integrated Care 2017;17(5):194.
• Toh S-A, Wee T, Chan J, Chong A, Tan S, Wong T, et al. Delivering person-centric, seamless care through the patient appointment consolidation (PAC) programme. International Journal of Integrated Care 2017;17(5):174.
• Tan S, Lin Y, Foo K, Koh HF, Tow C, Zhang Y, et al. Group B streptococcus serotype III sequence type 283 bacteremia associated with consumption of raw fish, Singapore. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2016;22(11):1970–3.