Email edimansyah.abdin@nhghealth.com.sg

Dr Abdin is a Principal Biostatistician and researcher at the Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore. He has led the sampling design and data analysis for major national psychiatric epidemiological surveys, including the Well-being of the Singapore Elderly study and the Singapore Mental Health Study. In close collaboration with the Principal Investigators, he led the data analyses for the development and validation of key mental health instruments, including the Positive Mental Health Instrument, the Case Management Quality of Care Scale, and the iWorkHealth. He is also actively involved in developing mapping algorithms of health utility values for Cost-Utility Analysis.

He recently completed two National Medical Research Council funded research grants including the Health Services Research Grant and Health Services Research-New Investigator Grant to validate disability measures, health preference-based outcome measures and mapping algorithms in schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and diabetes samples. His current research interests include psychiatric epidemiology and biostatistics, psychometrics, and health-related quality of life. To date, he has authored over 300 articles in the international and local journals.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Adjunct)
• Research Division, Institute of Mental Health (Primary)

• Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics
• Psychometrics
• Health-related quality of life and patient reported outcomes
• Health services research

• Biostatistics

• Advanced Diploma, Singapore Management University (SMU), 2025
• Doctor of Philosophy, University Science of Malaysia (USM), 2009
• Bachelor, National University of Malaysia (UKM), 2002

• Best Poster Merit Award (2021)
• Singapore Young Investigator Silver Award in Health Services Research (2017)
• Singapore Young Investigator Gold Award in Health Services Research (2016)
• Health Services Research – New Investigator Grant (HSR-NIG) (2016)
• NHG Research Support Scheme (NHG RSS) (2015)

• Principal Biostatistician, Institute of Mental Health (2018-present)
• Senior Biostatistician, Institute of Mental Health (2014-2017)
• Associate Lecturer, SIM University (2013-2014)
• Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Mental Health (2008-2014)

• Abdin E, Tan B, Chang S, Samari E, Tan B, Tang C, Vaingankar JA, Verma SK, Subramaniam M. Validity, reliability, measurement invariance, and equipercentile linking of the depression anxiety stress scale-21 in the youth population in Singapore. Frontiers in Psychology. 2025;16:15631902.
• Abdin E, Seet V, Jeyagurunathan A, Tan SC, Mohmad Khalid MIS, Mok YM, Verma SK, Subramaniam M. Responsiveness and minimal important differences of common disability measures in people with depression and anxiety disorders. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences. 2025;6:1556390.
• Subramaniam M, Abdin E, Asharani PV, Roystonn K, Devi F, Peizhi W, Shafie S, Sagayadevan V, Jeyagurunathan A, Chua BY, Tan B, Vaingankar JA, Yao F, Magadi H, Ma S, Chow WL, McCrone P, Heng D, Mahendran R, Prince M, Ng LL, Chong SA. Prevalence of dementia in Singapore: Changes across a decade. Alzheimer’s & Dementia. 2025;21(2):e14485.
• Subramaniam M, Vaingankar JA, Tan B, Abdin E, Chang S, Tan Y, Samari E, Archana S, Chua YC, Lee JK, Tang C, Lee YP, Chong SA, Verma SK. Examining psychological distress among youth in Singapore: Insights from the National Youth Mental Health Study. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 2025;105:104405.
• Abdin E, Seet V, Jeyagurunathan A, Tan SC, Mohmad Khalid MIS, Mok YM, Verma S, Subramaniam M. Mapping the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 to the EQ-5D-5L in patients with mental disorders. Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research. 2024;24(8):1009-1015.
• Abdin E, Seet V, Jeyagurunathan A, Tan SC, Mohmad Khalid MIS, Mok YM, Verma S, Subramaniam M. Equipercentile linking of the Sheehan Disability Scale and the World Health Organization Assessment Schedule 2.0 scales in people with mental disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2024;350:539-543.
• Tomkinson GR, Lang JJ, Rubín L, McGrath R, Gower B, Boyle T, Klug MG, Mayhew AJ, Blake HT, Ortega FB, Cadenas-Sanchez C, Magnussen CG, Fraser BJ, Kidokoro T, Liu Y, Christensen K, Leong DP; iGRIPS (international handGRIP Strength) Group: Aadahl M, Abdin E, et al. International norms for adult handgrip strength: A systematic review of data on 2.4 million adults aged 20 to 100+ years from 69 countries and regions. J Sport Health Sci. 2024 Dec 6;14:101014.
• Abdin E, Chong SA, Ragu V, Vaingankar JA, Shafie S, Verma S, Ganesan G, Tan KB, Heng D, Subramaniam M. The economic burden of mental disorders among adults in Singapore: evidence from the 2016 Singapore Mental Health Study. Journal of Mental Health. 2023;32(1):190-197.
• Lun P, Ning K, Wang Y, Ma TSW, Flores FP, Xiao X, Subramaniam M, Abdin E, Tian L, Tsang TK, Leung K, Wu JT, Cowling BJ, Leung GM, Ni MY. COVID-19 Vaccination Willingness and Reasons for Vaccine Refusal. JAMA Network Open. 2023;6(10):e2337909.
• Hendriks S, Peetoom K, Bakker C, van der Flier WM, Papma JM, Koopmans R, Verhey FRJ, de Vugt M, Köhler S, Young-Onset Dementia Epidemiology Study Group, Withall A, Parlevliet JL, Uysal-Bozkir Ö, Gibson RC, Neita SM, Nielsen TR, Salem LC, Nyberg J, Lopes MA, Dominguez JC, De Guzman MF, Egeberg A, Radford K, Broe T, Subramaniam M, Abdin E, Bruni AC, Di Lorenzo R, Smith K, Flicker L, Mol MO, Basta M, Yu D, Masika G, Petersen MS, Ruano L. Global Prevalence of Young-Onset Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Neurology. 2021;78(9):1080-1090.
• Abdin E, Subramaniam M, Chan A, Chen JA, Chong CL, Wang C, Lee M, Gan SL. iWorkHealth: An instrument to identify workplace psychosocial risk factors for a multi-ethnic Asian working population. PLoS One. 2019;14(8):e0220566.
• Abdin E, Chong SA, Seow E, Peh CX, Tan JH, Liu J, Hui SFS, Chua BY, Sim K, Verma S, Vaingankar JA, Subramaniam M. A comparison of the reliability and validity of SF-6D, EQ-5D and HUI3 utility measures in patients with schizophrenia and patients with depression in Singapore. Psychiatry Research. 2019;274:400-408.
• Subramaniam M, Abdin E, Vaingankar JA, Shafie S, Chua BY, Sambasivam R, Zhang YJ, Shahwan S, Chang S, Chua HC, Verma S, James L, Kwok KW, Heng D, Chong SA. Tracking the mental health of a nation: prevalence and correlates of mental disorders in the second Singapore mental health study. Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 2019 Apr 5;29:e29.
• Abdin E, Chong SA, Vaingankar JA, Peh CX, Poon LY, Rao S, Verma S, Subramaniam M. Trajectories of positive, negative and general psychopathology symptoms in first episode psychosis and their relationship with functioning over a 2-year follow-up period. PLoS One. 2017;12(11):e0187141.
• Abdin E, Subramaniam M, Achilla E, Chong SA, Vaingankar JA, Picco L, Sambasivam R, Pang S, Chua BY, Ng LL, Chua HC, Heng D, Prince M, McCrone P. The Societal Cost of Dementia in Singapore: Results from the WiSE Study. J Alzheimers Dis. 2016;51(2):439-49.