Alston is a qualitative researcher with a background in anthropological research and behavioural insights at the Centre for Sustainable Medicine. He hopes that results from the Centre’s work will inspire other clinicians and healthcare professionals to critically interrogate methods of healthcare delivery and explore alternative low-carbon approaches to care provision.

Before joining CoSM, Alston was a Health Policy Analyst at the Ministry of Health. He collaborated with community partners and public healthcare institutions to better understand the local community and evaluated behaviourally informed health interventions. He believes that as important as changing health behaviours is to promote good health, upstream interventions like healthcare decarbonisation are just as critical, if not more so.

Alston graduated from Yale-NUS College with honours in Anthropology and received the Bernard Bate Prize for Best Capstone in Anthropology for his year.