NUS Women

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

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Vision

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

Missions

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Address critical clinical and public health problems
Address common and important clinical and public health problems concerning women, children, and their families.
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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)

MOU Partners

A Partnership for Women’s Health Research

Through the Institute for Women and Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Health (IWiSH) and the Global Centre for Asian Women’s Health (GloW) at NUS, this partnership strengthens collaboration in women’s health between Université Paris Cité and NUS.

Key areas of collaboration include:

  • Organizing joint seminars and conferences
  • Exchanging academic and research materials
  • Supporting fundraising and outreach efforts
  • Facilitating faculty and researcher exchange
  • Exploring commercialization of jointly developed technologies

The agreement addresses critical gaps such as underdiagnosed heart disease, female cancers, and the under-representation of Asian women in research. A major focus is pregnancy complications.

NUS-Harvard Chan Women’s Health Initiative

On 13 March 2025, NUS Medicine and Harvard Chan School of Public Health launched a strategic initiative to advance women’s health in Asia and around the world.

Led by Prof. Cuilin Zhang and Prof. Frank Hu, this partnership leverages large cohort data from the U.S. and Singapore to:

  • Build one of the largest Asian American women cohorts
  • Advance maternal, child, and intergenerational health
  • Investigate the impact of diet, lifestyle, and aging
  • Explore biomarkers using multi-omics approaches
  • Support emerging leaders through a dedicated scholarship

This initiative positions NUS and Harvard as global leaders in women’s health research, training, and advocacy.

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
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Université Paris Cité, Paris, France