Appointment(s)
Professor, Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme
Assistant Dean, Faculty Development
Director, Clinician-Scientist Development Unit, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
Senior Principal Investigator, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Degree(s)
Fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore (College of Clinician-Scientists), since 2016
Ph.D (Immunology) The University of Sydney (2001)
M.B.,B.S (Honours), National University of Singapore (1992)
Biography
Dr Koh received her MBBS (Honours) from NUS, her PhD in immunology from the University of Sydney, Australia, and postdoctoral training in epidemiology from the University of Southern California in USA.
Prof Koh is the Principal Investigator of the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a 63,257-strong cohort of middle-aged and elderly Chinese Singaporeans established for the long-term study of dietary and environmental determinants of chronic diseases common among Singaporeans. She has co-authored over 420 scientific papers on diet, lifestyle and genes in relation to risk of diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, gout, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and tuberculosis disease. She has received over $20 million dollars in research funding from NIH (USA) and NMRC (Singapore), and is a recipient of the Ministry of Health NMRC Clinician Scientist Award (Senior Investigator), and the National Day Public Administration Medal (Bronze).
Association between Dietary Antioxidant Capacity in Midlife and Depressive Symptoms in Late Life: The Singapore Chinese Health Study. Antioxidants (Basel). 2024;13(5).
Li H, Sheng LT, Tai BC, Pan A, Koh WP.
Association between consumption of fruits and vegetables in midlife and depressive symptoms in late life: the Singapore Chinese Health Study. J Nutr Health Aging. 2024;28(6):100275.
Li H, Sheng LT, Jin A, Pan A, Koh WP.
Diet quality from mid to late life and its association with physical frailty in late life in a cohort of Chinese adults. Nutr J. 2024;23(1):57.
Lai JS, Chua KY, Li H, Koh WP.
APOE genotype modifies the association between midlife adherence to the planetary healthy diet and cognitive function in later life among Chinese adults in Singapore. J Nutr. 2023.
Zhang JJ, Ye YX, Dorajoo R, Khor CC, Chang XL, Yu HC, Xie JC, Pan A, Koh WP.
Association between gout at midlife and cognitive impairment at late life - The Singapore Chinese Health Study. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2023;111:104996.
Tan LF, Li H, Pan A, Teng GG, Koh WP.
Longitudinal Dietary Trajectories With Cognitive and Psychosocial Well-Being in Chinese Adults Aged 85 Years and Older in Singapore. Innov Aging. 2023;7(4):igad036.
Lai JS, Cheng GH, Chong YS, Chong MF, Koh WP.
Consumption of Coffee, Tea, and Caffeine at Midlife, and the Risk of Physical Frailty in Late Life. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2023;24(11):1655-62 e3.
Chua KY, Li H, Lim WS, Koh WP.
Association between changes in diet quality from mid-life to late-life and healthy ageing: the Singapore Chinese Health Study. Age Ageing. 2022;51(10).
Zhou YF, Lai JS, Chong MF, Tong EH, Neelakantan N, Pan A, Koh WP.
Dietary Total Antioxidant Capacity and Late-Life Cognitive Impairment: The Singapore Chinese Health Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022;77(3):561-9.
Sheng LT, Jiang YW, Feng L, Pan A, Koh WP.
Quantity and variety of fruit and vegetable intake in midlife and cognitive impairment in late life: a prospective cohort study. Br J Nutr. 2022:1-30.
Sheng LT, Jiang YW, Alperet DJ, Feng L, Pan A, Koh WP.
CXCL9 Predicts the Risk of Osteoporotic Hip Fracture in a Prospective Cohort of Chinese Men-A Matched Case-Control Study. J Bone Miner Res. 2022;37(10):1843-9.
Phan QT, Chua KY, Jin A, Winkler C, Koh WP.
Joint Associations of Multiple Lifestyle Factors With Risk of Active Tuberculosis in the Population: The Singapore Chinese Health Study. Clin Infect Dis. 2022;75(2):213-20.
Li H, Chee CBE, Geng T, Pan A, Koh WP.
Interaction between cigarette smoking and genetic polymorphisms on the associations with age of natural menopause and reproductive lifespan: the Singapore Chinese Health Study. Hum Reprod. 2022;37(6):1351-9.
Huang Z, Chang X, Wang L, Liu J, Heng CK, Khor CC, Yuan JM, Koh WP, Dorajoo R.
Gender and physical frailty modify the association between abdominal obesity and functional disability in older adults. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2022;34(9):2013-21.
Chua KY, Lin X, Lim WS, Koh WP.
Genetic associations with healthy ageing among Chinese adults. NPJ Aging. 2022;8(1):6.
Chang X, Zhou YF, Wang L, Liu J, Yuan JM, Khor CC, Heng CK, Pan A, Koh WP, Dorajoo R.
