Dr. Ritu Jain Commended with Distinguished Nanyang Award for Humanitarian Work 2024

Our heartiest congratulations to Dr Ritu Jain (Language and Communication Centre) for being decorated with the Nanyang Award for Humanitarian Work 2024!

Dr Ritu Jain is Assistant Chair (Careers and Attachments) and senior lecturer both at the Language and Communication Centre and concurrently (courtesy appointment) at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine.
She is research active in her dual interests: Language Policy & Intergenerational Language Transmission as well as Health Equity and barriers to health access such as that impeding populations living with HIV and other stigmatized conditions.

Dr Jain is editor of Multilingual Singapore: Language Policies and Linguistic Realities (2021) and has published in journals such as Language Policy, Current Issues in Language Planning, and Orphanet, the Journal of Rare Diseases.

She contributes to health related initiatives in Singapore and globally. Dr Jain co-chairs the Agency for Care Effectiveness (MoH) consumer panel and heads various rare disease organisations such as DEBRA International.

Established in 2005, the Nanyang Awards honor and celebrate the exceptional accomplishments and contributions of faculty, staff, and students in various fields, including Humanitarian Work, and Education.