VISION
Enduring Insights, Empowering Solutions
MISSION
To provide excellent research and analytics to support decision-making, policy formulation and translating research to practice
MILESTONES
2011
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Won the Best Oral Presenation and Merit Awards at 6th Public Health and Occupational Medicine Conference in Singapore
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Co-authored a presentation that won the Best Abstract Award (Oral Presentation in Acute Myocardial Infarction Category) at the Angioplasty Summit Transcatheter Therapeutics Asia Pacific 2011 meeting in Korea
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Participated in 12 educational events as speakers on health technology assessments, systematic review, health economics, operations research, biostatistics, etc.
2010
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Three out of three Health Service Development Programme (HSDP) applications
which the Centre was involved in the crafting of the grant applications and health
technology assessments succeeded in securing funding from the Ministry of
Health.
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Won a record total research and commissioning grants of S$814,907 as principalinvestigators or co-investigators.
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Won the Best Oral Paper Award (Evidence-Based Medicine-Medical) at
SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress.
2009
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Centre moved towards a more academic stance placing a greater emphasis on winning research grants and academic publications which resulted in publications of 5 papers in peer-reviewed journals and securing $596,214 worth of research and commissioned grants.
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Completed a large scale study of 2000 respondents involving both the general public and chronic kidney disease patients on knowledge and perceptions of chronic kidney disease and living organ donation with a research grant from the National Kidney Foundation.
2008
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Centre’s findings from a survey of 300 chronically-ill Medifund recipients shaped the employment sourcing practices for chronically-ill patients at the Community Development Council (CDC).
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Secured a grant of S$738,000 from Temasek Foundation to fund a 3-year Training-of-Trainers Initiative in North India.
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Completed health technology assessment of Endobronchial Guided Ultrasound which was subsequently an approved procedure at the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at the Singapore General Hospital.
2007
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Supported a task force chaired by then Minister of State (Health) Mr Heng Chee How on evaluating the affordability of healthcare in Singapore.
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Centre’s analytics on right siting of Endocrinology patients changed Ministry of Health’s policies on right siting incentives for hospitals.
2006
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