Ministry of Health, Singapore

Director (Disease Policy & Strategy Division)

Dr Chow is Director, Disease Policy & Strategy Division at the Ministry of Health, Singapore. She oversees the implementation of policies and disease specific strategies for non-communicable diseases in close collaboration with Health Promotion Board. This would include upstream preventive health efforts to encourage the population to adopt health lifestyle habits, such as mandatory nutrition labelling of prepacked sugar sweetened beverages and holistically addressing socio-behavioural determinants of health to improve child and maternal health as well as the disease strategies such as for diabetes.

In addition, Dr Chow oversaw the development of the heat stress advisory for Singapore and also provides health input to heat stress related research and emergency preparedness.