Current Projects
Navigating the Road to Societal Impact
(2022-2025)

Research for Everyone: new ways to reach a broader audience for healthcare survey research
(2024-2025)

Past Projects (selected)
Understanding Singapore’s Experiences of Access to Health Care
(2022-2024)
- Produced new insights to how Singaporeans use public, private, and telemedicine-based primary care providers
- Reported patients’ perspectives on assessing primary care quality
- Provided policy recommendations to foster open science in the Singapore context

Transitions to Practice
(2018-2022)
- Reported that junior doctors used social comparison when self-evaluating their own abilities, which helped them to better transition from medical students to doctors
- Introduced the first formal evaluation of medical student assistantships in Singapore
- Improved “preparedness for practice” from an infrastructural perspective

The social basis of COVID-19 vaccines: a qualitative study of the vaccination decision-making process in Singapore
(2021-2022)
- Contributed to high visibility anthropological research on using alienation as a social diagnostics for our time
- Reconceptualized the relationship between crisis and alienation to better understand future public health crises
- Contributed to on-going effort of conceptualizing vaccine hesitancy as social construction of safety and danger

General Practitoner Recruitment and Retention in China
(2020-2022)
- Published a first review on both Chinese and English literature on the most recent primary care reform in China
- Identified multiple policies, pathways and programmes focused on expanding GP recruitment
- Provided suggestions for improving the benefits and rewards for GPs and how to promote recruitment to the more rural or less attractive areas

Good Death and End-of-life Care Preferences: Perspectives from older Singaporeans
(2021-2022)
- This qualitative study examined older Singaporeans’ perspectives on good death and their plans and preferences for end-of-life
- Contributed to policy recommendations to encourage earlier end-of-life care planning

Nation-in-Action: Making Chinese in the Rural Borderland between China and North Korea
(2014-2019)
- Introduced the concepts of ethnicity-mediated migration infrastructure and mobility-sustained ethnicity
- Reconceptualized borderland ethnic minority citizenship with a state-in-society approach
