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External Grants Awarded

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	The economic consequences of common mental health conditions and adverse childhood experiences in Indonesia	SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute	SGD 50,000	January 2024
2	Timely Interventions to Enable and Reach patients with Heart Failure, and their caregivers, with Palliative Care (TIER-HF-PC)	National Medical Research Council	SGD 840,000	February 2024
3	Implementation of palliative care screening criteria in cancer, heart failure and chronic kidney disease	National Medical Research Council	SGD 657,800	April 2024

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	Cultural adaptation of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide for seriously ill patients in Singapore	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 31,100	January 2023
2	An Exploration of the Lived Experiences of Home and Day Hospice Patients with End-Stage Chronic Lung disease	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 4,540	January 2023
3	Validation of the PaRental Experience with care for Children with SerIOUS Illnesses (PRECIOUS): An Experiential Measure of Quality- of-care	SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute	SGD 27,500	January 2023
4	Implementation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Routine Clinical Settings	Singapore Cancer Society	SGD 61,000	February 2023
5	Disparities in Trends in Diet Quality Among Singaporean Adults: 2006 to 2016	Social and Family Research Fund	SGD 83,274	April 2023
6	Singapore Microsimulation Model to Assess Interventions to Improve Diet	National Medical Research Council	SGD 266,797	June 2023
7	Real World Evidence Evaluation of Singapore’s New Front-of-Pack Beverage Label	National Medical Research Council	SGD 98,145	June 2023
8	Economic Burden of Depression and Anxiety in Sri Lanka	SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute	SGD 49,974	August 2023
9	ENABLE-SG (Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends for Singapore) as a proactive palliative care model: Evaluation and implementation preparation	HPHSR Clinician Scientist Award	SGD 1,280,000	September 2023

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	Cost-Effectiveness of Left Ventricular Assist Device as Destination Therapy for Advanced Heart Failure Patients in Singapore	National Heart Centre Singapore	SGD 51,500	January 2022
2	Measuring Quality of Care Among Patients with Cancer during Their End-of-life	Singapore Cancer Society	SGD 68,850	February 2022
3	Development and evaluation of ACP-HEART: A randomized controlled trial	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 811,900	March 2022
4	Connecting caregivers with community services: The Care buddy platform	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 2,337,396	June 2022
5	Implementation of the Research Supporting Evidence Generation for Health Policy Making in Saudi Arabia	World Bank Group	SGD 216,338.37	October 2022
6	Integrated Platform for Research in Advancing Metabolic Health Outcomes in Women and Children	KK Women's and Children's Hospital, National Medical Research Council	SGD 70,000	November 2022
7	Analysis of Discrete Choice Experiment Data to Assess Preferences for Physical Activity Programs in Saudi Arabia	World Bank Group	SGD 70,133.80	December 2022

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	The Perspectives and Well-being of Healthcare Workers and the General Population during COVID-19	Singapore General Hospital	SGD 234,936	January 2021
2	Preferences for oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation for preventing secondary ischemic stroke: A discrete choice experiment study	National Neuroscience Institute	SGD 37,350	January 2021
3	Singapore Caregiver Quality of Life Scale 15-item Version	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 60,000	January 2021
4	Cost-Effectiveness of a Lung Cancer Screening Program for Singapore	Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 150,000	June 2021
5	Panel study investigating Status of Cognitively Impraired Elderly in Singapore	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 200,000	June 2021
6	Evaluation of Outcomes in Healthcare Research Commissioned Study: Disability-Adjusted Life Year/ Quality-Adjusted Life Year	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 75,000	August 2021
7	Smart Decision Aid Tool for End-Stage Kidney Disease Palliation (STEP)	National Kidney Foundation	SGD 107,440	August 2021
8	Evaluating A Promising Food Policy Intervention Using NUSMart: A Sin-Tax Scheme	World Bank Group	SGD 87,340.18	September 2021
9	Impact of Cancer on Labour Market Outcomes and Workplace Productivity of Survivors and their Informal Caregivers	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 99,076.40	October 2021
10	Panel study investigating Status of Cognitively Impaired Elderly in Singapore	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 75,000	December 2021
11	A Randomized Trial to Slow the Progression of Diabetes (The TRIPOD Study)	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 100,000	December 2021
12	Cost-Effectiveness and budget impact analyses of RezumTM for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in Singapore	Boston Scientific	SGD 65,000	December 2021
13	Economic Benefits of Early Cancer Detection	Global Asia Institute (MiRXES PTE. LTD.)	SGD 90,600	December 2021
14	Economic Burden of Obesity in Singapore	Novo Nordisk Pharma (Singapore) Pte Ltd	SGD 60,000	December 2021

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	Quality of Death and Dying Index 2020	Lien Foundation	SGD 300,000	January 2020
2	Experience and perceptions of medical futility at the end of life in Cardiology: a qualitative study with healthcare professionals	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 27,000	January 2020
3	Evaluation of Outcomes in Healthcare Research Commissioned Study: Disability-Adjusted Life Year/ Quality-Adjusted Life Year	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 75,000	January 2020
4	Novel palliative care model for advanced cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial study	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 975,000	February 2020
5	African Patient Perspectives Regarding Oncology Awareness, Care, & Health (APPROACH-MTRH)	Duke Global Health Institute	SGD 34,700	March 2020
6	A report and accompanying power point presentation describing how the NUSMart store has been customized for hypothetical shopping in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), a plan to go from hypothetical to actual purchasing, and a list of studies that can be undertaken with the customized store in efforts to improve diet quality in KSA	World Bank Group	SGD 69,869.98	March 2020
7	Future Health Technologies (FHT): Module 4: Health Data Governance and Value Creation	ETH Singapore SEC Ltd	SGD 352,175	March 2020
8	Singapore Cohort of Patients with advanced heart failure (SCOPAH)	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 365,476	April 2020
9	Assessing the impact of enhanced primary care services for people with chronic conditions in Singapore	Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 48,152	May 2020
10	Lokelma (ZS) cost-effectiveness model for the management of hyperkalaemia in CKD and CKD+HF patients in Singapore	AstraZeneca (Singapore) Pte Ltd	SGD 70,000	May 2020
11	A Randomised Trial and Impact Evaluation of Singapore's New Food Labels Aimed to Address the War on Diabetes	Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 150,000	June 2020
12	Advance Care Planning (ACP 2.0) Qualitative Study	Agency for Integrated Care	SGD 162,306.67	July 2020
13	Cultural adaptation of the ENABLE (Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends) intervention for heart failure patients and caregivers in Singapore	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 44,675	August 2020
14	Survival Expectations and Hope among Advanced Cancer Patients in Singapore 2.0 (SHAPE 2.0)	Temasek Foundation	SGD 99,300	September 2020
15	End-Stage Kidney Disease Interactive Decision Aid for the Elderly (myKIDNEY)	Temasek Foundation	SGD 186,300	October 2020
16	TAAP Translational Asian Age - Related Macular Degeneration Program (Theme 5 - Quality of Life: Improving patient-centered outcomes in AMD and PCV) Quantifying the Economic Burden of Eye Diseases in Singapore	Singapore Eye Research Institute	SGD 30,000	October 2020
17	TTSH OT Day - Occupational Therapy and Palliative Care – Adding Life to Days	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 4,000	November 2020
18	Evaluating Food Policy Interventions Using NUSMart	World Bank Group	SGD 68,178	November 2020

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	Pilot study of the 'Supportive and Palliative Care Review Kit in Locations Everywhere' (SPARKLE) model for lung cancer	National Cancer Centre Singapore	SGD 50,000	2019
2	Development and validation of a quality of life scale in English and Chinese for caregivers of people living with dementia in Singapore	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 45,500	January 2019
3	Randomized Trials of Low-Cost Behavioural Economic Strategies to Address Rising Rates of Chronic Disease	NUS Initiative To Improve Health In Asia	SGD 249,980	January 2019
4	Digital Health as an Enabler of Healthy Ageing in Asia	NUS Initiative To Improve Health In Asia	SGD 50,000	February 2019
5	Health Economics Agenda and Economic Studies for Ophthalmology Research	Singapore Eye Research Institute	SGD 200,000	March 2019
6	Stroke survivors and their Family Caregivers' preferences with respect to post-stroke management programs: A Discrete Choice Experiment	SingHealth	SGD 53,750	April 2019
7	Recurrence and associated direct medical costs in HER2-positive early breast cancer patients in Singapore	Roche Singapore Pte Ltd	SGD 40,000	April 2019
8	Economic Burden of Asthma in Singapore	AstraZeneca (Singapore) Pte Ltd	SGD 44,166.67	June 2019
9	Occupations at end of life - The lived experiences of terminally ill Chinese elderly & their caregivers in Singapore	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 36,280	June 2019
10	Pilot study on the effectiveness, feasibility and acceptibility of a communictions training module for cardiologists and cardiac surgeons to improve communication skills and comfort with goals of care discussions	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 12,000	June 2019
11	Perinatal Palliative Care Study of Women Treated at KKH	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 10,025	June 2019
12	Understanding the Influences of Good Death on Bereavement Coping among Bereaved Family Caregivers in Singapore	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 5,600	July 2019
13	Using the Multiphase Optimization Strategy to Improve Diet Quality	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 549,730	August 2019
14	Neuropalliative service (Neuropall) - a feasibility study	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 20,000	August 2019
15	A comparison of healthcare utilization, costs and the provision of low-value care in patients with and without evidence of cognitive impairment in the last year of life.	Temasek Foundation	SGD 146,335	November 2019

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	Development of a palliative care intervention to support advanced cancer patients and their caregivers	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 30,000	January 2018
2	Renewing Intimacy and Sexuality (RISE): A pilot Program to Support Marital Intimacy and Sexual Health of Female Cancer Patients in Singapore	Singapore Cancer Society	SGD 82,250	February 2018
3	Validity and reliability of the integrated palliative care outcome scale	Singapore Cancer Society	SGD 82,100	February 2018
4	Challenges and Unmet Supportive Care Needs of LVAD Patients, LVAD Eligible Patients and their Caregivers	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 9,800	February 2018
5	Migraine Project: Economic Burden of Migraine in Singapore	Novartis Singapore Pte Ltd	SGD 49,920	March 2018
6	Healthcare utilization of metastatic cancer patients	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 50,000	April 2018
7	Cost containment in pharamacogenomics testing, identifying obstacles to implementation of pharmacogenomics and impact on anticonvulsant prescription patterns	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 185,440	April 2018
8	Patient treatment preferences for diabetes	AstraZeneca (Singapore) Pte Ltd	SGD 48,483	June 2018
9	Cost-effectiveness analysis of Sysmex Point-of-Care diagnostic tool in Indonesia/ UTI study	Sysmex Pte Ltd	SGD 37,500	June 2018
10	Humanism Aspirations as a Propeller of Professional Development in Palliative medicine Education	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 6,500	July 2018
11	Participation, Weight Loss, and Financial Implications to City of New York's Weight Management Initiative	Weight Watchers International, Inc	SGD 40,142.08	July 2018
12	Cost-effective analysis of combination therapy (Ranibizumab + visudyne (verteporfin) photo dynamic therapy (vPDT)) vs Ranibizumab monotherapy for PCV patients in Singapore	Novartis Singapore Pte Ltd	SGD 40,000	July 2018
13	Survival Expectation and Hope Among Cancer Patients at End-of-Life (SHAPE) study	Temasek Foundation Innovates-SMF Research Grant and LCPC, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 150,928	September 2018
14	Translational Program in Ocular Surface and Dry Eye	Singapore National Eye Centre	SGD 46,643.23	September 2018
15	Adaptation and pilot testing of the ENABLE (Educate, Nurture, Advise, Before Life Ends) Intervention	Temasek Foundation Innovates	SGD 208,800	November 2018
16	Understanding Patient Preferences For Anti-VEGF Treatment in Singapore (Novartis AMD)	Novartis Singapore Pte Ltd	SGD 64,491.67	December 2018

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	Multiphase Evaluation of Healthier Choice Symbol (HCS) Logo	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 685,495.03	February 2017
2	Health Communication and Treatment Choice Among Elderly End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patients	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 47,500	March 2017
3	The Feasibility and Acceptability of a Psychosocial Intervention for Advanced Colorectal Cancer Patients	Ministry of Health, Health Services Research New Investigator Grant	SGD 225,700	August 2017
4	Pre-Diabetes Interventions and Continued Tracking to Ease out Diabetes	Ministry of Health	SGD 140,509	August 2017
5	Panel Study Investigating Status of Cognitively Impaired Elderly in Singapore (PISCES) Study	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 999,400	October 2017
6	Tailoring Health Communication Materials to Improve Decision Making of Elderly ESRD Patients (RETREAT) study	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 209,492	October 2017
7	A Randomized Trial to Slow the Progression of Diabetes (The TRIPOD Study)	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 1,631,294.20	October 2017
8	Effectiveness of The Supportive and Palliative Cre review Kit (SPARK) for Cancer Patients in The Acute Hospital	National Cancer Centre Singapore	SGD 250,000	December 2017

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	Costs and Medical Care of Patients with Advanced Serious Illness in Singapore	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 579,000	January 2016
2	Pilot Trial of The Enhancing Quality of Life in Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer	National Cancer Centre Singapore	SGD 150,000	May 2016
3	HIBISCUS: Feasibility and Acceptability of A Behavioural Symptom Management Programme for Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer in Singapore and the US	Duke/Duke-NUS	SGD 100,000	May 2016
4	Pilot Study of the SPARK (Supportive and Palliative Care Review Kit) model of care for advanced cancer patients who have an unplanned admission to Singapore General Hospital	National Cancer Centre Singapore	SGD 29,000	September 2016
5	Singapore Cohort of Patients with Advanced Heart Failure (SCOPAH) study	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 999,972	October 2016

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	Randomized control trial to improve hypertension outcomes using wireless home blood pressure monitoring with automatic outcome-based feedback and financials incentives	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 217,963.72	June 2015
2	The Role of Risk Factors in Influencing End of Life Utilisation and Costs: Evidence from linked Singapore Chinese Cohort Studies	National Medical Research Council (NMRC), Singapore	SGD 352,745	July 2015
3	Supportive and Palliative Care Review Kit (SPARK)	Singapore Millennium Foundation	SGD 250,000	November 2015
4	Costs and Medical Care of Patients with Advanced Serious Illness in Singapore (COMPASS) Study	Singapore Millennium Foundation and LCPC, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 1,148,922	December 2015
5	Asian Patient Perspectives Regarding Oncology Awareness, Care and Health (APPROACH)	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School and Asia-Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network	SGD 120,506	December 2015

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	Knowledge and Preference for Treatment of End Stage Renal Disease Among Elderly Patients and Their Caregivers	Singapore Millennium Foundation	SGD 260,480	February 2014
2	Encouraging Healthy Nutrition Purchases in an Online Grocery Setting using Experimental Economics	NUS Initiative To Improve Health In Asia	SGD 320,000	November 2014
3	Impact of ACP on End of Life Care for Patients with Advanced Cancer and Heart Failure	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 150,000	December 2014
4	Communications Quality between Physicians and Cancer Patients in Singapore	Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School	SGD 125,000	December 2014

S.No	Study Title	Funding Agency	Amount Funded	Year of Award
1	Survey on Preferences for Care at End of Life among Cancer Patients in Singapore	Singapore Millennium Foundation	SGD 164,783	February 2013