Aging, Inclusion, and Healthcare Research Cluster

Office: SHHK-04-14

paul.patinadan@ntu.edu.sg

(65) 65921573

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.

Office: SHHK-04-02

junhong.yu@ntu.edu.sg

(65) 63168949

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).

Office: SHHK-05-28

shannon.ang@ntu.edu.sg

(65) 65138141

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.

Office: SHHK-04-93

christopher.chapman@ntu.edu.sg

Chris is an anthropologist with complementary training in sociology. He is broadly interested in health and medicine in the Asia-Pacific, particularly in how people care for each other and how these practices intersect with social service and biomedical systems. His research explores care, personhood, and inequality, focusing on the mediation of authoritative knowledge and the creative ways in which people manage their well-being. Chris also has interests in qualitative research design and ethnographic writing, prioritizing questions of power, responsibility, and equity. One of his aims is to improve equity in the position of marginalized voices in policy, practice, and research. He finds that creativity and adaptability with participatory methods—ranging from photography to walking tours—are powerful tools.

Office: SHHK-04-19

annabelchen@ntu.edu.sg

(65) 63168836

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)

Office: SHHK-05-37

minne.chen@ntu.edu.sg

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.

Office: SHHK-04-62

yeowhwee.chua@ntu.edu.sg

(65) 67904983

Yeow Hwee is the Deputy Director of the Economic Growth Centre at NTU and the Assistant Honorary Secretary of the Economics Society of Singapore. His research interests lie in the intersection of macroeconomics and finance, with a focus on topics in household finance, sustainable finance, behavioural macroeconomics, and monetary economics.

Office: SHHK-05-02

sjkim@ntu.edu.sg

(65) 65138179

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.

Office: SHHK-06-08

slukcy@ntu.edu.sg

(65) 69047122

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).

Office: SHHK-04-81

aksharsaxena@ntu.edu.sg

(65) 67906736

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.

Office: SHHK-04-27

chinhong.tan@ntu.edu.sg

(65) 65921581

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.

Office: SHHK-04-24

weixing.toh@ntu.edu.sg

(65) 65923533

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.

Office: SHHK-04-65

wang.wj@ntu.edu.sg

(65) 63168958

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.