Michael Koon Boon Tan

Dr Michael Koon Boon Tan

Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange
Research Division
University of the Arts Singapore, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts

Dr Michael Tan is the Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the University of the Arts Singapore, under NAFA-UAS. As a leading advocate for arts & design for health development in Singapore, he has mobilised his role as a creative health practitioner, researcher and educator to explore, interrogate, and imagine the culture of care through creative practice to promote human flourishing. His notable contributions include a seminal paper on the State of Arts and Health Development Singapore and his numerous collaborations with stakeholders such as the Agency for Integrated Care, NAC, Duke-NUS Medical School and SingHealth. His ongoing inquiries include mental health literacy, end of life and loss, disability, medical humanities and art in medicine. He is currently working with on a WHO Lancet Global Series; co-leading a systematic review exploring Arts participation as a health behaviour for Non-communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and health promotion. He is also a co-investigator in Creative Health Boards: A New Model for Embedding Creative Health and Community Assets in Health Systems across the UK awarded by the UKRI-AHRC Health Inequalities Programme. Other examples of his Art in medicine work in include Gesture of Care and Care and Kindness workshop.

Prof Ivy Ng

SingHealth GCEO