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Chan Wei-Ming, Angelique

Associate Professor, Centre for Ageing Research & Education

Executive Director, Centre for Ageing Research & Education

Duke-NUS Medical School

Bio

Dr. Angelique Chan holds tenured joint appointments as Associate Professor in the Signature Program in Health Services & Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School and the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore (NUS). Dr Chan obtained her undergraduate degree, BA (Sociology) from Reed College, (USA) her PhD (Sociology) from the University of California at Los Angeles. As a pre-doctoral fellow, she was awarded the first pre-doctoral fellowship given out by the RAND Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Scholarship, to complete her graduate studies. After two years she won the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation PhD fellowship and completed her PhD in 1995. She was then awarded the prestigious US National Institute of Aging Post-Doctoral degree which she carried out at the Population Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Upon returning to Singapore in 1996, Dr. Chan taught the first course on population ageing at NUS.  In 2010 she began a joint appointment at the Duke-NUS Medical School. In 2015 she became the Inaugural Director of the Center for Ageing Research (CARE) at Duke-NUS medical school.  Since 2015, the Dr. Chan has garnered over 30 million dollars in external research funding. Broadly her work centres around understanding the unmet health and social service needs of older adults. Specifically her current research areas are loneliness, caregiving, falls, and frailty.  Her work uses a life course perspective to translate research on the social determinants of health into policy recommendations for the Singapore Ageing Planning Office.  She has also translated her research into community-based interventions evaluated using randomized control trials.  

Dr Chan leads Singapore's national longitudinal population ageing survey.  The baseline survey began in 2016/17 and  the third wave of data collection on 8,500 older persons (60 ) is currently underway.  The data collected will provide evidence for policy making centred around the 2023 Action Plan for Successful Ageing. Over time the sample has been refreshed and replenished to reflect current cohort characteristics of older persons in Singapore.  Dr. Chan uses a life course perspective to understand the aging process and the effects of social determinants on health at older ages.

Dr. Chan has published widely on aging issues in the top international journals on ageing including the Lancet, Journal of American Geriatrics Society, Journal of Aging and Health, and Journal of Gerontology Series B: Social Sciences. She has also written several book chapters. She is co-author of a book titled Ageing in Singapore: Service Needs & the State (Routledge 2006) and Co-editor of Ultra-low Fertility in Pacific Asia: Trends, Causes and Policy Issues (Routledge 2009). Her international work includes working with collaborators from Japan and USA on caregiving, work and retirement, and disability transitions. She has consulted for Singapore Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social and Family Development, Agency for Integrated Health, the United Nations, Temasek Foundation, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. She sits on various national committees related to ageing research and education.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Master of Arts

University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Bachelor of Arts

Reed College, United States

NUS Appointment(s)

Associate Professor

National University of Singapore, Currently Active

Executive Director Centre for Ageing Research & Education

Duke-NUS Medical School, Currently Active

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