Tel (65) 9800 4670
Email prajendram@gmail.com

Priyanka Rajendram is a public health physician from Singapore with expertise spanning more than ten years in public health promotion, policy development, content creation and programme design and implementation. Her work includes health promotion, social and behavior change communication (SBCC), entertainment-education(E-E) and community activation initiatives.

Working in local and global settings, Priyanka has addressed issues faced by general populations and vulnerable communities including women and children’s health, sexual and reproductive health, mental health, pandemic response, non-communicable diseases, gender-based violence, child marriage and education. She was the co-founder of Girlsplained, a non-profit community organization based in the UK that used SBCC and E-E to support black and brown girls’ sexual health and rights through social media. She is also the current board chairperson for Beautiful People, a non-profit mentoring organisation for disadvantaged girls and youth. With interests across medicine, public health, coaching, mentoring, sports, storytelling, filmmaking and writing, Priyanka believes in achieving results through creative thinking and experimentation and building solid relationships through collaborative and participatory approaches.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Joint Adjunct – Secondary)
• Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS (Adjunct – Primary)
• Singapore Cancer Society (Primary Appointment) – Head of Community Health

• Social and behaviour change
• Entertainment-education
• Community mobilization and activation
• Health Promotion

• Social and behaviour change
• Entertainment-education
• Community mobilization and activation
• Health Promotion

• 2021, Academy of Medicine – Singapore Fellow and Public Health Specialist with the College of Public Health and Occupational Physicians
• 2018, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom – MSc Public Health
• 2018, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom – MA Filmmaking
• 2016, National University of Singapore, Singapore – Graduate Diploma in Mental Health
• 2012, National University of Singapore, Singapore – Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS/MD)

• COVID-19 Commendation and Resilience Medals

• Public Health Specialist, Singapore (2012 – Current)

• Board Chairperson, Beautiful People SG Ltd. (2023)

• Rainbarrel Communications, Social and Behaviour Change Associate (Freelance Consultancy) (2022)
• Girlsplained, Co-founder (2018)
• Population Media Center, Health and Research Consultant (2016 – 2021)

• Development of a needs-based digital portal to support maternal and child health in Singapore (Chandraseharan U. et. Al), Singapore Medical Journal, pp.10-4103 – Second author
• Mental Wellness Self-Care in Singapore With mindline. sg: A Tutorial on the Development of a Digital Mental Health Platform for Behavior Change (Weng J.H. et. Al), Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, p.e44443 – Contributing author
• “The impact and applications of social media platforms for public health responses before and during COVID-19” (Gunasekaran et. Al, 2022), Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(4), e33680 – Contributing author
• “Barriers to breast cancer screening in Singapore: A literature review” (Rajendram et. Al, 2022), Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 51(8), 493-501 – First author
• “Qualitative findings from Girlsplained: a social media application of the Sabido methodology for sexual health and HIV prevention in the United Kingdom.” (Cope et. Al, 2022), Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine, pp.1-9 – Second author
• “Towards a Framework for the Sabido Methodology for Social Media (TSM4SM): Lessons learned from Girlsplained, an entertainment-education programme in the United Kingdom” (P Rajendram et. Al, 2021), Articles, The Journal of Development Communication, 32(1), pp.33-41 – First author
• “Connecting clusters of COVID-19: an epidemiological and serological investigation” (Yong et. Al, 2020), Articles, Lancet Infectious Diseases 2020; 20: 809–15 – Contributing author
• “Group B Streptococcus Sequence Type 283 Disease Linked to Consumption of Raw Fish, Singapore” (P.Rajendram et. Al, 2016), Dispatches, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 22, Number 11- November 2016 – First author