Research &
Inquiry
PhD Candidate · College of Integrative Studies · Singapore Management University
My research examines how healthcare financing, affordability, household constraints, and policy design shape access to care, equity, and lived wellbeing in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region.
Hidden Trade-Offs in Healthcare Affordability: How Financing Rules Shape Resource Allocation Among Sandwiched Households in Singapore
How do subsidy eligibility, means-testing, co-payments, compulsory savings, insurance coverage, and family-based payment assumptions shape treatment decisions and household resource allocation among sandwiched households in Singapore?
Collapse details ↑- — Conceptual framework development
- — Health policy analysis
- — Health economics reasoning
- — Interdisciplinary policy analysis
Develops a household-level framework showing healthcare affordability is not only a system-level financing outcome but also a household-level allocation process — surfacing trade-offs hidden by conventional system-level measures.
ISPOR Asia Pacific Summit 2026
Distinguishing Cost of Living from Quality of Life: A Conceptual Framework Using Singapore as an Illustrative Case
Why should cost of living and quality of life not be treated as interchangeable concepts in health policy and outcomes research?
View details ↓Social-Spatial Exclusion in Urban Welfare System: The Case of Singapore's Middle Income Population
How do urban form, welfare structures, and socioeconomic positioning create forms of social-spatial exclusion that may be overlooked by conventional welfare classifications?
View details ↓Auctioning Mobility: COE, Car Ownership and Urban Inequality in Singapore
Does Singapore's Certificate of Entitlement system create structural inequalities in mobility access, and how do auction dynamics interact with household income and urban form?
View details ↓Multidisciplinary Outlook on Health Policy Utilisation
What conceptual frameworks best capture the multidimensional determinants of health policy uptake across different population segments?
View details ↓Political Stability, Public Health Policy Quality, and Innovation Capacity
Is there a cross-national relationship between political stability, the quality of public health policy, and national innovation capacity?
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