Prof Woon Puay Koh
Prof Woon Puay Koh
Professor
National University of Singapore

Woon Puay is Professor in Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Being a population health scientist, Prof Koh’s research interest is in studying the epidemiology of chronic diseases of importance to Singapore. She is the Principal Investigator of the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a 63,000-strong cohort of middle-aged and elderly Chinese Singaporeans established for the long-term study of dietary and environmental factors of chronic diseases common among Singaporeans. She has co-authored more than 450 scientific papers on risk factors of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and adverse ageing outcomes.

Woon Puay will be part of the Healthy Ageing / Personalisation and Future Food Innovation session on Day 3.