NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary)
NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Joint)
Research Areas
Epidemiology of chronic diseases, particularly cardio-respiratory diseases and lung cancer
Environmental health
Molecular biomarkers
Teaching Areas
Advanced Epidemiology
Environmental Health
Academic/Professional Qualifications
ScD, Harvard School of Public Health
MSc, Harvard School of Public Health
BSc, National University of Singapore
Awards/Honours
National Institutes of Health Fellows Award for Research Excellence (2016)
American Association for Cancer Research Bristol-Myers Squibb Scholar-in-Training Award (2015)
American Association for Cancer Research Takeda Millennium Scholar-in-Training Award (2014)
Career History
Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2016 – present)
Research Fellow, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, USA (2015 – 2016)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, USA (2013 – 2015)
Selected Publications
Aik J, Ang, L, Gunther SH, Tang C, Lee JKW, Seow WJ. Climate change and population health in Singapore: a systematic review. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific. 2023. 40: 100947.
Ang L, Tan G, van Dam Eijk Y, Seow WJ. Second-hand smoke and fine particulate matter exposures among multi-unit housing residents in Singapore: a pilot study. Environmental Pollution. 2023. 331(Pt 2):121875.
Del Ponte A, Ang L, Li L, Lim N, Tam WS, Seow WJ. Measuring knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and practices of air quality during and after the 2020 Western United States wildfires. Science of the Total Environment. 2022. 836:155432.
Tan YQ, SK Abdur R, Pan WC, Chen YC, Yu L, Seow WJ. Association between microenvironment air quality and cardiovascular health outcomes. Science of the Total Environment. 2020. 716:137027.
Seow WJ et al. Metabolomics of lung cancer in never-smoking women in a prospective study of women in Shanghai, China. JAMA Network Open. 2019. 2(9): e1911970.
Seow WJ et al. Association between GWAS-identified lung adenocarcinoma susceptibility loci and EGFR mutations in never-smoking Asian women, and comparison with findings from Western populations. Human Molecular Genetics. 2017. 26 (2): 454-465.
Seow WJ et al. Telomere length in white blood cell DNA and lung cancer: a pooled analysis of three prospective cohorts. Cancer Research. 2014. 74; 4090-4098.
Seow WJ et al. Arsenic reduction in drinking water and improvement in skin lesions: a follow-up study in Bangladesh. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2012. 121:1733-1738.
