NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary)
NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Joint)
Research Areas
Epidemiology of chronic diseases, particularly 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 Medical Research Council Health Promotion, Preventive Health, Population Health and Health Services Research (HPHSR) Clinician Scientist Award (2025)
National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health Teaching Excellence Award (2024)
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
Lim N, Del Ponte A, Ang L, Seow WJ. Public responses about air quality in the world’s ten most populous countries. Nature Communications. 2026. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-75908-7
Juang YR, Chen W, Ng JH, Lim WT, Sim X, Lim DWT, Yuan JM, Seow A,Seow WJ. Development and validation of a lung cancer risk prediction model in the Singapore Chinese population. Clinical Lung Cancer. 2026. doi: 10.1016/j.cllc.2026.04.014.
Low A, Juang YR, Fransiskus IX, Lim DWT, Lee JWJ, Boucher Y, Seow WJ et al. Bacterial taxa associated with lung cancer cases in Southeast Asians: a pilot case-control study. Cellular Oncology. 2026. 49(2):69.
Juang YR, Hu M, Miao H, Seow A, Tan IBH, Chong DQ, Chee CE, Seow WJ. Rising early-onset lung cancer and narrowing gaps between men and women in Singapore: insights from joinpoint regression analysis. The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific. 2026. 66:101779.
Lim N, Del Ponte A, Ang L, Seow WJ. Global Populations Vulnerable to Air Pollution Know Less About Air Quality. Environmental Science & Technology. 2025. 59(50):27069-27077.
Yin X, Rishida R, Abe SK, Inoue M, Kang D, Seow WJ et al. Association between reproductive factors with lung cancer incidence and mortality: A pooled analysis of over 308,000 females in the Asia cohort consortium. International Journal of Cancer. 2024. 154 (12): 2090-2105.
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.
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.
