Dr Teo Ken Wah

Dr Teo Ken Wah is an Associate Consultant in Public Health Medicine who holds an MBBS and MPH from the National University of Singapore. He is in charge of special projects, performance management, and research and evaluation of population health programmes in the Division of Population Health and Integrated Care at Singapore General Hospital. He also leads the Discharge And Support Hub, Urgent Community Response Teams and Wellbeing Coordinators programmes.

Dr Teo is also an Adjunct Faculty at Singapore University of Social Sciences, Sessional Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, and Guest Lecturer at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. His expertise is in systems, design and complexity methods for large scale health system change, implementation science, health systems and services research, population health and integrated care.

Dr Teo has previously held appointment at Yishun Health, where he co-developed the Health System Transformation Playbook; and MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation, where he oversaw the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a national Community Hospital Redesign sandbox.

• Master of Public Health, National University of Singapore, 2020
• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, National University of Singapore, 2016

• Senior Assistant Director, Strategic Planning & Evaluation, Division of Population Health and Integrated Care, Singapore General Hospital
• Head, Wellbeing Coordinators, Division of Population Health and Integrated Care, Singapore General Hospital
• Public Health Specialist, SingHealth Office for Regional Health, SingHealth

• ​Covid-19 Resilience Medal, 2023
• MOH Scholarship Award, 2018
• Motivated Trainee Award, 2016

• ​Health systems and services research
• Implementation science
• Systems thinking
• Population health
• Integrated care

• Evaluation of the Implementation-Effectiveness of Thematic Active Ageing Centres in Improving Seniors’ Health and Well-being
• Generating Resilience and Wellbeing of Older Adults Through Community Centred and Empowerment Approaches

• World Scientific Series in Global Health Economics and Public Policy. People-Centered Integrated Primary Healthcare System Development in Asia and Beyond, pp. 231-281 (2025). Chapter 8: Population- and Provider-Centered Primary Healthcare in Singapore. Foo C, Teo KW, Chia HX. https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/9789819807468_0008.
• Hu Y, Lee WY, Teo KW, Ng YF. Systemic Population Segmentation Based on the Unified Care Model: An Approach to Health System Transformation. Healthcare. 2025; 13(21):2724. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/13/21/2724
• Foo C, Woon TH, Chia HX, Yap JCH, Lee WS, Lee CE, Valderas JM, Tan C, Teo KW. Healthier SG: a gateway for evolving public-private-population partnerships in population health. Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2025 Jun 17;60:101606. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2025.101606. PMID: 40605968; PMCID: PMC12212248.
• Teo KW, Low LL, Gan WH, Low SGL, Lee CE. Expanding the role of community hospitals to promote population health in Singapore. Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2025 Feb 27;15:101477. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2025.101477
• Foo C, Krishaa L, Tang Si Ik B, Kosycarz E, Wang J, Teo KW. AI and digital technology paradigm for seniors: a Singapore lens to healthy longevity. Front Public Health. 2025 Jan 15;12:1487139. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1487139. PMID: 39882112; PMCID: PMC11775146.
• Foo C, Chia HX, Tan SYT, Lai YF, Khoo JEJ, Tee SY, Lim CW, Teo KW. Community hospitals of the future: the role of community hospitals to mitigate health system burden in Singapore. Front Health Serv. 2024 Jul 23;4:1407528. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2024.1407528. PMID: 39108944; PMCID: PMC11300341.
• Teo KW, Hu Y, Chew KT, Pek WY, Chua HC, Matchar DB, Ng YF. Health System Transformation Playbook and Unified Care Model: an integrated design, systems & complexity thinking approach to health system transformation. Front Health Serv. 2023 Aug 2;3:1157038. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2023.1157038. PMID: 37600927; PMCID: PMC10433688.
• Foo C, Chia HX, Teo KW, Farwin A, Hashim J, Choon-Huat Koh G, Matchar DB, Legido-Quigley H, Yap JCH. Healthier SG: Singapore's multi-year strategy to transform primary healthcare. Lancet Reg Health West Pac. 2023 Jul 27;37:100861. doi: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2023.100861. PMID: 37529631; PMCID: PMC10388720.
• van der Eijk Y, Teo KW, Tan GPP, Chua WM. Tobacco industry strategies for flavour capsule cigarettes: analysis of patents and internal industry documents. Tob Control. 2023 Apr;32(e1):e53-e61. doi: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056792. Epub 2021 Oct 5. PMID: 34611048.
• Teo KW, Yuan NK, Tan WB, Parameswaran R. Comparison of prognostic scoring systems in follicular thyroid cancer. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2017 Jul;99(6):479-484. doi: 10.1308/rcsann.2017.0072. PMID: 28660822; PMCID: PMC5696982.