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Dr Phua Kai Hong is a tenured professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and formerly held a joint appointment as Associate Professor and Head, Health Services Research Unit in the Faculty of Medicine. He had worked previously as a medical care administrator in the Office of Health Systems Management, New York State Department of Health, and the Ministry of Health, Singapore. He has served on various boards of health care organizations and many national health policy and advisory committees in Singapore.
He is also frequently consulted by governments within the region and international organizations, including the Red Cross, UNESCAP, WHO and World Bank. He has lectured and published widely on policy issues of population aging, health care management and comparative health systems in the emerging economics of Asia. He is current Chair of the Asia-Pacific Health Economics Network (APHEN), founder member of the Asian Health Systems Reform Network (DRAGONET), Editorial Advisory Board member of Research in Healthcare Financial Management, Associate Editor of Singapore Economic Review, and was a past Associate Editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health and Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Red Cross.
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Books/Book Chapters
- Phua KL and Phua KH, Health Economics: An Introduction for Biomedical and Health Professionals, USM Press, 2009
- Phua KH, “Prescribing New Economic Medicine for Healthcare”, Chapter 22 in Welsh B, Chin J. Mahizhnan A and Tan TH (eds), Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong Years in Singapore, Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, University of Singapore Press, 2009
- Phua KH and Wong MLL, “From Colonial Economy to Social Equity: History of Public Health in Malaysia”, in Lewis MJ and MacPherson KL (eds), Public Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Comparative Approaches, Routledge, 2008
- Yeoh BSA, Phua KH and Fu K, “From Colony to Global City: Public Health Strategies and the Control of Diseases in Singapore”, in Lewis MJ and MacPherson KL (eds), Public Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Comparative Approaches, Routledge, 2008
- Judith Healy, John Maxwell, Phua Kai Hong, Vivian Lin and collaborators, Responding to Requests for Information on Health Systems from Policy Makers in Asian Countries, Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Dec 2007
- Phua KH, “Biotechnology in Singapore”, in S Chaturvedi and SR Rao (eds), Asian Biotechnology, Innovation and Development: Issues in Measurement and Collection of Statistics, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), 2007
- Population Dynamics and Infectious Disease in Asia, AC Sleigh, HL Chee, BSA Yeoh, KH Phua and R Safman (eds), World Scientific Publishing, 2006
- Phua, KH and Lee V, “Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions in Asia: Comparative Health Policies for Emerging Infectious Diseases”, in AC Sleigh, HL Chee, BSA Yeoh, KH Phua and R Safman (eds), Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia, World Scientific Publishing, 2006
- Sleigh AC, Chee HL, Yeoh BSA, Phua KH and Safman R, “Transdisciplinary Approaches to Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia”, In AC Sleigh, HL Chee, BSA Yeoh, KH Phua and R Safman (eds), Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia, World Scientific Publishing, 2006
- Sleigh AC, Safman R and Phua KH, “Avian Flu: One More Infection Challenge from Asia”, In AC Sleigh, HL Chee, BSA Yeoh, KH Phua and R Safman (eds), Population Dynamics and Infectious Diseases in Asia, World Scientific Publishing, 2006
Journal Articles
- Phua KH and Kua EH, “Health Impact of the Global Economic Crisis: Implications for Mental Health Services in Asia” (Invited Editorial), Asia-Pacific Psychiatry, 1(2) 2009: 1-2
- Lee VJ, Tok MY, Chow V, Phua KH, Ooi EE, Tambyah P and Chen MI, “Economic Analysis of Pandemic Influenza Vaccination Strategies in Singapore”, PLoS One, 2009 (accepted for publication)
- Lai AY, He JA, Tan TB and Phua KH, “A Proposed ASEAN Disaster Response, Training and Logistics Centre: Enhancing Regional Governance in Disaster Management”, Transition Studies Review, 16, 2009: 299-315 (published online: 31 Mar 2009)
- Ooi GL and Phua KH, “SARS in Singapore – Challenges of a Global Threat to Local institutions”, Natural Hazards, 48, 2009: 317-327 (published online: 9 Jan 2008)
- Ooi GL and Phua KH, “Urbanization and Slum Formation”, Journal of Urban Health, 84, 2007: 127-134
- Ng ES, Tan CH, Teo DC, Seah CY and Phua KH, Knowledge and Perceptions regarding Colorectal Cancer Screening amongst Chinese – A Community-based Survey in Singapore, Preventive Medicine, 45, 2007: 27-34
- Lee VJ, Phua KH, Chen MI, Chow A, Ma S, Goh KT and Leo YS, Economics of Anti-neuradimase Inhibitor Stockpiling for Pandemic Influenza, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006: 12(1), 95-102
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- China Medical Board-Rockefeller Foundation Lancet Series on Health in South East Asia
- Health Impact of the Global Economic Crisis – Policy Options and Lessons from Asia
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- “Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Health Innovations”, APEC Life Sciences Innovation Forum, Singapore, 3-4 Aug 2009
- “Economic Analysis of Vaccination Strategies for Influenza Pandemics”, International Health Economics Association 7th World Congress, Beijing, 12-15 Jul 2009
- “Health Impact of the Global Economic Crisis – What are the Vulnerabilities?”, Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) World Institute Workshop, “Forging Public Health Partnerships in Response to the Global Economic Crisis”, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 24-26 Jun 2009
- “Aging and Long Term Care – A Perspective from Singapore”, Aging Asia: Economic & Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change, Asia-Pacific Research Center and Center on Longevity, Stanford University, 26 Feb 2009
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- “Singapore’s Voluntary Responses to the Asian Tsunami in Aceh” (research in progress on the Task Force for Asian Tidal Wave Fund, in collaboration with the Singapore Red Cross)
- “Contingency Planning for Influenza Pandemic in Singapore”, in collaboration with Dr Vernon Lee
- “Financing Long Term Care in Singapore”
- “Singapore”, in Social Health Insurance: Selected Case Studies from Asia and the Pacific, WHO South East Asia Region, New Delhi and Western Pacific Region, Manila, 2005
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- Phua KH and Lee VJM, “Healthcare for the Future”, Singapore Perspectives 2008, Institute of Policy Studies, Singapore, 2008
- “Means testing a guide, not cure-all”, News Comment, TODAY, 8 Jan 2008, Singapore
- “Fine-tuning health care for ageing Singapore”, Friday Matters, Straits Times, Friday, 12 October 2007, Singapore
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