Aging, Inclusion, and Healthcare Research Cluster

Sabrina LUK 
Assistant Professor

Office: SHHK-06-08
Telephone: 6904 7122 
Email: [email protected]

Sabrina’s research areas include healthy ageing, health financing reforms, e-government and smart cities, crisis leadership and management, and public policy analysis. Sabrina has published five monographs. Her recent publications include Ageing, Long-term Care Insurance and Healthcare Finance in Asia (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge) and Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew (Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge).

YU Junhong
Nanyang Assistant Professor

Office: SHHK-04-02
Telephone: 6316 8949
Email: [email protected]

Junhong’s research interests include population neuroscience (i.e. lifespan-related changes in the brain, socio-economic factors, big neuroimaging data), cognitive aging (i.e. mild cognitive impairment, dementia, superior-cognitive aging, neural correlates of cognitive functions, predictors of subsequent cognitive decline), brain-based behavioural predictions (i.e. multimodal neuroimaging features, connectome-based prediction models) and cognitive enhancements (i.e. low cost interventions targeted at the masses (e.g., nutrition based), non-invasive brain stimulation, neurofeedback).

Akshar SAXENA
Assistant Professor

Office: SHHK-04-81
Telephone: 6790 6736
Email: [email protected]

Akshar is a health economist who works on the interaction between individual’s health and labour decisions, and government’s policies on sin-taxes, healthcare financing, and social security.

SH Annabel CHEN 
Professor
President’s Chair in Psychology

Office: SHHK-04-19
Telephone: 6316 8836
Email: [email protected] 

Annabel is President's Chair Professor in Psychology and the Director for Centre for Research & Development in learning. She is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and conducts research examining ways to optimise neurocognition based on neuropsychology principles and employing neuroimaging techniques. Her current research interests include:

• Neurophysiological changes in the aging brain for learning in
  • Language, memory and executive control networks
  • Neuromodulation to optimise and/or enhance brain functions through
• Cognitive training (including motor control training)
• Non-invasive Brain Stimulation (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS), Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS))
• Contribution of the cerebellum to higher cognitive functions in learning
  • Working memory, emotion and motivation, and music in healthy and atypical groups (ASD, Dyslexia, ADHD)
  • Developing interventions using cognitive training and brain-computer interface (BCI)

KIM Soojin ​
Assistant Professor

Office: SHHK-05-02
Telephone: 6513 8179
Email: [email protected]

Soojin's research interests include policy effectiveness, citizen satisfaction/participation, public-private partnerships, and public budgeting and financial management. She has gained the research experience as a public administration (PA) scholar examining diverse (1) institutional, (2) managerial, and (3) contextual factors embedded in public policy and management. She has continued this line by pursuing evidence-seeking exploratory work within the broad area of strategic public management, using case studies, large scale empirical data analysis, survey experiments, and mixed methods such as self-administered surveys and interviews.

Minne CHEN
Assistant Professor

Office: SHHK-05-37
Email: [email protected]

Minne is a sociologist whose research primarily focuses on how gender and family dynamics influence wellbeing trajectories and contribute to social stratification. Additionally, she engages in evaluating the design, feasibility, effectiveness, and implementation of health interventions using quasi-experimental and experimental designs, including cluster randomised controlled trials.

Paul Victor PATINADAN
Assistant Professor 

Office: SHHK-04-14 
Telephone:  6592 1573
Email: [email protected]

Paul Victor specialises in health research. He holds appointments as a Health Professions Educator with the National Healthcare Group, a Clinical Teacher at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, and is also an Association for Death Education and Counselling (ADEC) certified Thanatologist. As an interdisciplinary mixed-methods researcher, Paul Victor specialises in psychosocial interventions, positive psychology and wellbeing, implementation science, holistic education in care-ecosystems, and how the medical humanities are employed for humanistic pedagogy. He has worked on projects with a focus on grief and bereavement, community and critical health psychology, psychosociospiritual wellbeing for patients and their families, and evaluative research for health organisations.

Shannon ANG Jia Wei
Assistant Professor 
Deputy Director, Centre for the Study of Social Inequality 

Office: SHHK-05-28
Telephone: 65138141
Email: [email protected]

Shannon primarily uses quantitative methods to pursue research interests in life course sociology, focusing on the health and social lives of older adults. This includes the social support and social participation (including online participation) of older adults, and their implications for mental and physical health outcomes. He also examines population trends in areas such as social cohesion, union formation (e.g., marriage, cohabitation), and how ’linked lives’ (e.g., spouses) may affect each other.

TAN Chin Hong
Assistant Professor

Office: SHHK-04-27
Telephone: 6592 1581
Email: [email protected]

Chin Hong is an interdisciplinary cognitive neuroscientist whose research interest lies broadly in using neuroimaging techniques, genetics, and psychosocial factors to understand the earliest risk markers of neurodegenerative diseases and cognitive decline.

WANG Wenjie
Assistant Professor

Office: SHHK-04-65
Telephone: 63168 958
Email: [email protected]

Wenjie's research interests include Econometric Theory, Machine Learning, Policy Evaluation, and Behavioural Economics. Recently, he is working on research topics such as high-dimensional instrumental variables (IV) models with possibly weak instruments, cluster-robust bootstrap inference for IV quantile regressions, and spatial/network-dependence robust inference methods for high-dimensional models. He is also working on the empirical application of machine learning and network analysis to healthcare and environment issues.

TOH Wei Xing (Noah)
Assistant Professor

Office: SHHK-04-24
Telephone: 6592 3533
Email: [email protected]

Wei Xing's research interests include understanding the determinants and consequences of self-regulatory processes, primarily executive functions and emotion regulation, as well as how these processes unfold over the life span.

CHUA Yeow Hwee
Assistant Professor

Office: SHHK-04-62
Telephone: 6790 4983
Email: [email protected]