Tel (65) 6516 8557
Email ephsar@nus.edu.sg

The role of the food environment in shaping dietary behaviours is becoming increasingly recognised. My research is mainly focused on characterising food environments and understanding how people interact with their environments to make healthier food choices. I hope that my work contributes to the development of surveillance systems to monitor the health of our food environments, and to the design of interventions and policies that facilitate wiser dietary behaviours.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

• Food environments
• Eating behaviors
• Food policy
• Nutrition and chronic disease prevention

• Nutrition
• Epidemiology
• Nutritional Epidemiology
• Food environments and food policies

• Ph.D. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

• 2020/21 SSHSPH Teaching Excellence (Teams) Award
• 2018 NUHS Teaching Excellence Award
• 2011 World Cancer Research Fund International Fellow at the International Course in Nutritional Epidemiology, Imperial College, London (Training award)

• Senior Lecturer (2022 to current)
• Lecturer (2014 to 2021)
• Post-doctoral Research Associate (2009-2014)

• Whitton, C., Wong, Y.H.M., Lau, J., Chua, X.H., Müller, A.M., Tan, C.S., van Dam, R.M., Müller-Riemenschneider, F. and Rebello, S.A., 2024. Ecological momentary assessment of digital food and beverage marketing exposure and impact in young adults: A feasibility study. Appetite, 197, p.107338.

• Leu, J., Tay, Z., van Dam, R.M., Müller-Riemenschneider, F., Lean, M.E., Nikolaou, C.K. and Rebello, S.A., 2022. ‘You know what, I’m in the trend as well’: understanding the interplay between digital and real-life social influences on the food and activity choices of young adults. Public health nutrition, 25(8), pp.2137-2155. 

• Seah, S.S.Y., van Dam, R.M., Tai, B.C., Tay, Z., Wang, M.C. and Rebello, S.A., 2022. An evaluation of the healthier dining programme effects on university student and staff choices in Singapore: A cluster-randomized trial. Food Policy, 107, p.102211.

• Tay, Z., Whitton, C., van Dam, R.M., Chia, K.S., Swinburn, B., Vandevijvere, S. and Rebello, S.A., 2021. Identifying implementation gaps and priorities for the Singapore government to improve food environment policies: perspectives from a local expert panel. Public Health Nutrition, 24(4), pp.585-592.

• Naidoo N, van Dam RM, Ng S, Tan CS, Chen S, Lim JY, Chan MF, Chew L, Rebello SA. Determinants of eating at local and western fast-food venues in an urban Asian population: a mixed methods approach. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2017 May 25;14(1):69

• Rebello SA, Koh H, Chen C, Naidoo N, Odegaard AO, Koh WP, Butler LM, Yuan JM , van Dam RM “Amount, type and sources of carbohydrates in relation to coronary heart disease mortality in a Chinese population: a prospective cohort study” Am J Clin Nutr. 2014 Apr 30;100(1):53-64

• Rebello SA, van Dam RM. “Coffee consumption and cardiovascular health: getting to the heart of the matter.” Curr Cardiol Rep. 2013 Oct;15(10):403. doi: 10.1007/s11886-013-0403-1.

  For a full list of publications, please refer here. 

• Singapore lead for the INFORMAS network
• Academic contributor in the consensus building workshop for conflict of interest toolkit for researchers (FORK toolkit) 2018
• Member of American Society of Nutrition and World Public Health Nutrition Association

• APAC ‘junk food’ ad bans: Health experts encouraged by ‘feasible and politically acceptable’ UK move, Food Navigator Asia, 2 September 2020