Health Economics

GOH Jit Khong, Jake

Assistant Professor (Adjunct) Email GOHJK@nus.edu.sg GOH Jit Khong, Jake My journey as a public health physician and medical doctor has been marked by over a decade of service as a military medical officer, holding management positions such as Head of Operations at the Military Medicine Institute, Head of Healthcare Cluster East, and Head of Naval Healthcare Branch. My roles have seen me spearhead inter-ministerial collaborations for medical operations in both crisis situations and peacetime, honing my capability in project planning, policy analysis, program evaluation, clinical leadership, and operations management. My passionRead more

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PHUNG, Khanh Lam

Senior Research Fellow Email lampk@nus.edu.sg PHUNG, Khanh Lam I am a general medical doctor by training but then obtained a Ph.D. with a quantitative focus on developing clinical prediction models in dengue and have spent most of my research career working as a biostatistician. With colleagues at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam, I conducted various collaborative works on dengue infection, ranging from observational studies to randomized clinical trials, to improve our understanding of the pathophysiology of dengue and the efficacy of different potential therapeutic options for dengue

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Cookson Richard

Visiting Professor Email cookson@nus.edu.sg COOKSON Richard Richard Cookson has helped pioneer “equity-informative” methods of economic evaluation and performance monitoring that provide information about the impacts of interventions and organisations on social inequalities in health and wellbeing, including distributional cost-effectiveness analysis, health equity indicators for healthcare quality assurance, methods for investigating public concern for reducing health inequality, and microsimulation methods for long-term childhood policy analysis. He has also worked in the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and served on various WHO working groups and UK NHS advisory committees including the NHS

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Alec Morton

Professor (Visiting) Email a.morton@nus.edu.sg Alec MORTON “The only purposeful way that one can influence the future is by making decisions.” (Ralph Keeney) Alec is a multidisciplinary scientist who has worked, to date, in schools of engineering, social science, business, and public health. His overriding professional interest is in how to support decision makers in health services, public health and social policy to make wise decisions which are based on facts, evidence and knowledge, and aligned to social values. He is an author of the WHO working paper What counts in

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SCHAFFER, Elisabeth

Senior Research Fellow Email elisabeth.schaffer@nus.edu.sg SCHAFFER ElisabethAffiliation NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health Research Areas Health preference assessment Behavioral economics Randomized trials Cost-effectiveness analysis Teaching Areas Economic evaluation Health preference assessment Academic/Professional Qualifications PhD in Health Policy & Management (2018), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States MA in International Development (2011), Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland BS in Biology (2008), Seattle Pacific University, United States Awards/Honours AcademyHealth Delivery System Science Fellow (2018-2019) Career History Senior Consultant, Research and Policy, World Health Organization

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LAXMINARAYAN, Ramanan

Professor (Honorary Visiting) Email ramanan@onehealthtrust.org LAXMINARAYAN, Ramanan Laxminarayan is founder and director of the One Health Trust (formerly known as the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy or CDDEP) in Washington, D.C. and New Delhi, a senior research scholar at Princeton University, and director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Antimicrobial Resistance in New Delhi. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Since 1995,

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Tan Bee Huat, Iain

Associate Professor (Joint) Tel (65) 6436 8574 Email iain.tan.b.h@singhealth.com.sg TAN Bee Huat, Iain I am a senior consultant medical oncologist and Director of research at the Division of Medical Oncology at National Cancer Centre Singapore. I am also the platform lead for databases and biobanks at the Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium (STCC) under CRIS,MOH. I take the lead on population health research & innovation at National Cancer Centre Singapore. We are creating the national cancer dataset based as the cancer data commons within Singapore Translational Cancer Consortium (STCC) in collaboration

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BANSBACK, Nick

Associate Professor (Honorary Visiting) Email nick.bansback@ubc.ca BANSBACK, Nick A fundamental objective of health systems is to determine the best use of the limited funds to promote health and provide equitable, transparent and sustainable health care. Dr Bansback’s research focuses on measuring and maximizing the value of health care to inform how funding should be spent. His work not only considers the value that patients derive from their own care and treatment options, but the value the whole population derives from the investment in health care. Affiliation NUS Saw Swee Hock

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WU David Bin-Chia

Assistant Professor (Adjunct) Email david.wu@nus.edu.sg WU David Bin-Chia Dr Wu is the Regional Director of Real World Evidence (RWE) & Health Economics (HE) in Market Access (Asia Pacific) at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine. In this role, he is responsible for guiding cross-functional RWE strategy and tactics and HE to support market access, e.g. health technology assessment (HTA) submission and commercialization across product life cycle and all therapeutic areas. Dr. Wu's collaborative efforts extend globally, with partnerships formed with prestigious institutions such as the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of

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TAN Hui Xuan Sharon

Research Fellow Email tan.sharon@nus.edu.sg TAN Hui Xuan Sharon Dr Sharon Tan is dually trained in public health and dentistry. She is actively engaged in health services research to address challenges in the healthcare system, translate research findings into practice, and champion better healthcare and health particularly for the underprivileged in society. Her current work revolves around leveraging data, digital health and telehealth to improve population health. Affiliation NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary) Nanyang Polytechnic School of Health and Social Sciences (Adjunct) Research Areas Healthcare Services and Management

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