Chuen Seng Tan

My current research takes a cross-disciplinary approach to tackle problems, and focuses on the process of extracting useful and actionable information from data to aid various stakeholders in public health to make informed decisions. My main contribution to public health research is to contextualise the research problems under an analytical framework that facilitates empirical research. Thus allowing us to apply quantitative methods to data from different sources (e.g., registry data, cohort data, electronic health records, wearable device) and transform data into knowledge to improve human lives. As such, the spectrum of my applied research activities is broad (e.g., chronic disease epidemiology; health promotion in physical activity and cognition among the elderly). Such diverse research activities have a positive influence on my methods research in biostatistics, data analytics and health informatics. My main contributions in this area include the development of seamless and robust statistical workflows for observational studies with continuous or ordinal outcomes, the development of techniques that avoid dichotomisation or transformation of continuous outcomes in the data analysis step, the development of software programs, and the novel application of quantitative and visualisation approaches.

Affiliation

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary)
• NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Joint)

Research Areas

• Biostatistics
• Data Analytics
• Epidemiology
• Health Informatics
• Health Services Research

Teaching Areas

• Biostatistics
• Epidemiology

Academic/Professional Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Medical Science under the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, 2008
• M.Sc. by Research under the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2002
• B.Sc. with Honors in Mathematics, Science Faculty, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2001
• B.Sc. with Merit in Economics and Mathematics, Science Faculty, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2000

Career History

• Research Fellow, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
• Postdoctoral Research Associate and Co-Instructor, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
• Research Assistant at the Center for Molecular Epidemiology, National University of Singapore-Genome Institute of Singapore