NUS Women

Global Centre for Asian Women's Health
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Vision

Promote Asian women’s health and well-being across their life courses, generations, and the globe with a family-based approach.

Missions

1
Address critical clinical and public health problems
Address common and important clinical and public health problems concerning women, children, and their families.
2
Identify modifiable risk factors
Identify modifiable risk factors of common disorders related to women’s health by examining the complex interplay of dietary, lifestyle, psychosocial, behavioural, environmental, genetic, and epigenetic factors.
3
Translate scientific knowledge into clinical and public health practices
Translate scientific knowledge into clinical and public health practices that can lead to advancements in early prediction, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common disorders concerning women's health and well-being across their life courses and generations.
4
Train a new generation of medical and public health professionals
Train a new generation of medical and public health professionals to become leading transdisciplinary investigators and future leaders in women's health with a life-course approach in health education.

Missions

1
Address critical clinical and public health problems
Address common and important clinical and public health problems concerning women, children and their families.
2
Identify modifiable risk factors
Identify modifiable risk factors of common disorders related to women’s health by examining the complex interplay of dietary, lifestyle, psychosocial, behavioural, environmental, genetic, and epigenetic factors.
3
Translate scientific knowledge into clinical and public health practices
Translate scientific knowledge into clinical and public health practices that can lead to advancements in early prediction, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common disorders concerning women's health and well-being across their life course and generations.
4
Train
a new generation of medical and public health professionals
Train a new generation of medical and public health professionals to become leading transdisciplinary investigators and future leaders in women's health with a life-course approach in health education.

Missions

1
Address
critical clinical and public health problems
Address common and important clinical and public health problems concerning women, children, and their families.
2
Identify
modifiable risk factors
Identify modifiable risk factors of common disorders related to women’s health by examining the complex interplay of dietary, lifestyle, psychosocial, behavioural, environmental, genetic, and epigenetic factors.
3
Translate
scientific knowledge into clinical and public health practices
Translate scientific knowledge into clinical and public health practices that can lead to advancements in early prediction, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common disorders concerning women's health and well-being across their life course and generations.
4
Train
a new generation of medical and public health professionals
Train a new generation of medical and public health professionals to become leading transdisciplinary investigators and future leaders in women's health with a life-course approach in health education.

Research Partners

National Partners

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NUS Bia-Echo Asia Centre for Reproductive Longevity and Equality (ACRLE)
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NUS Centre for Holistic Initiatives for Learning & Development (CHILD)

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NUHS Centre for Healthy Longevity

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NUHS Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
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NUHS Department of Paediatrics

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NUHS Department of Endocrinology

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Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS)

Global Partners

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, US
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Center for Global Oncology, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, US

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Center on the Early Life Origins of Diseases, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, US
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Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, US

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Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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National Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Key Laboratory of Assisted Reproduction, Peking University, Beijing, China
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China Kadoorie Biobank team, China