Navigating the Road to Societal Impact

(2022-2025)

Research for Everyone: new ways to reach a broader audience for healthcare survey research

(2024-2025)

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