Dr Clive Tan is a Public Health physician with close to two decades of clinical and leadership experience in the healthcare sector. Holding the position of Senior Consultant (Population Health) with the National Healthcare Group’s flagship Tan Tock Seng Hospital, he supports its population health efforts for the 1.5 million residents in the Central-North region of Singapore. His work covers integrated care, behavioral health change, self-care, healthcare quality and digitalization – with a strong emphasis on place-based care, relationship-based care and health equity. He is also currently the Director for Home Team Medical Services Division at the Ministry of Home Affairs, providing medical policy and services for Home Team Departments such as the Singapore Police Force, Singapore Civil Defence Force, Singapore Prison Service, etc.
His work experience includes senior managerial roles, business development roles, education and evaluation, and policy and planning roles in the World Health Organisation, Singapore Ministry of Health, Singapore’s National Healthcare Group and the Singapore Armed Forces. He had a series of leadership roles within the Singapore Armed Forces and completed his military career as Group Head of the Force Health Group in the SAF, where he provided enterprise-level leadership in the areas of public health, biodefence & force health protection, health policy and medical informatics. He had advised and consulted for WHO in the areas of quality and patient safety, hospital management, digital health and integrated health service delivery.
He read Medicine in the National University of Singapore on a SAF Medical Scholarship, and attained his Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, with dual certificates in Gerontology and Humanitarian Assistance. He has a special interest in health systems, integrated care, population health, digital health, health services development and health promotion, and teaches at the post-graduate level for public health, healthcare quality, digital health and healthcare management.
He is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore’s Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, and the Duke-NUS Medical School’s Centre of Regulatory Excellence. Dr Clive Tan writes regularly for medical publications and has published widely in international journals. He is married with three children. He is also a Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Institute, representing the Equity Initiative Programme, which works in South-East Asia to reduce health inequities.