Clive Tan MPH

Dr Clive Tan is a Public Health physician with close to two decades of clinical and leadership experience in the healthcare sector. As Assistant Chief of Group Integrated Care (Population Health) in the National Healthcare Group, he is responsible for strategic planning for integrated care and population health efforts for the 1.5 million residents in the Central-North region of Singapore. His work in care integration incorporates value-based care, behavioral change incentives, payment models, healthcare quality, and digitalization – with a strong emphasis on place-based care and relationship-based care.

His work experience includes senior managerial roles, business development roles, education and evaluation, and policy and planning roles in the World Health Organisation, the Singapore Ministry of Health, and the Singapore Armed Forces. He had a series of leadership roles within the Singapore Armed Forces and completed his military career as Group Head of the Force Health Group in the SAF, where he provided enterprise-level leadership in the areas of public health, biodefence & force health protection, health policy, and medical informatics. In recent years, he has also taken on technical consultancy roles for WHO in the areas of quality and patient safety, hospital management, and integrated health service delivery.

He read Medicine at the National University of Singapore on a SAF Medical Scholarship, and attained his Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, with dual certificates in Gerontology and Humanitarian Assistance. He has a special interest in health systems, integrated care, population health, digital health, health services development, and health promotion, and teaches for the school in areas of public health, healthcare quality, digital health, and healthcare management.

He is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore’s Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and the Duke-NUS Medical School’s Centre of Regulatory Excellence. Dr Clive Tan writes regularly for medical publications and has published widely in international journals. He is married with three children. He is also an Atlantic Fellow in the Equity Initiative Programme, which works in South-East Asia to reduce health inequities.