Asst Prof Theresia MINA

Senior Research Fellow

Asst Prof Theresia Mina is an Assistant Professor in Health Informatics and Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Nanyang Technological University Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (NTU LKCMedicine) effective from October 2025. Born and educated in Indonesia, she received full SembCorp undergraduate scholarship to study biological sciences in NTU (2007-2011, first-class honours) and summer scholarship from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland in 2009. She continued her postgraduate studies in the University of Edinburgh College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, graduating with a MSc in Reproductive Sciences in 2012 and PhD in Cardiovascular Sciences in 2016. She returned to Singapore to serve her work bond, and under the guidance of Prof. John Chambers, helped set up what is the now the largest population health study in Singapore, the SG100K Study.

In the SG100K Study, Theresia and colleagues demonstrated that unexplained non-genetic risk factors contribute more to ethnic disparity in metabolic disease burden, amidst the understudied dietary and eating behavioural risk factors leading in multiethnic Asia. Her works have been published in prestigious journals such as Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, Nature Communications and Nature Metabolism. Theresia’s current and upcoming research work bridges chronic disease epidemiology and health informatics through i) the systematic characterisation of eating behaviour funded by Singapore’s NMRC Population Health Research Grant for New Investigator (https://eatinghabitsg.weebly.com/), ii) the investigations linking dietary risk factors for excess visceral adiposity, and iii) the characterisation of electronic health records from the SG100K Study to establish causality and inform precision health.

Theresia leads the Data Harmonisation and Quality Control for the SG100K Study HELIOS Study since 2019 and the Health Informatics group for the PRECISE-SG100K Study EHR linkage effort (>50,000 data) since 2023. Working closely with Singapore’s Ministry of Health-TRUST, her team generates community resources and support the broader Singapore research ecosystem. She currently also serves as Lead for Data Harmonisation for the Singapore Strategic Cohort Consortium. As a Co-I, Theresia’s work through the PRECISE-SG100K Study Health Informatics team will enable the linkage of environmental data to research phenotype in the SG100K study and subsequent electronic health records, pivotal for the success of HD4. She would also contribute to HD4 by investigating the relationship linking built-environment on dietary habit and cardiometabolic health outcomes.

Singapore - NTU

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