A/Prof Angela Chow is the Clinical Director of the Office of Clinical Epidemiology, Analytics, and kNowledge (OCEAN) and Senior Consultant at the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. She also holds joint and adjunct appointments as Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health respectively.

A/Prof Chow graduated in Medicine from the National University of Singapore, was trained as a Public Health specialist, and obtained a PhD in Epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining Tan Tock Seng Hospital, A/Prof Chow had assumed various positions at the Ministry of Health Singapore where she developed national communicable disease surveillance systems and strategies, influenza pandemic preparedness plans, health services development programmes and non-communicable disease interventions.

A/Prof Chow oversees the socio-behavioural epidemiology and programme and outcomes evaluation services at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. She is also involved with the epidemiological surveillance and prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections and emerging infectious diseases. A/Prof Chow is a clinician-scientist who is passionate about translating evidence to improving patient care and population health. Her research interests include antimicrobial resistance and stewardship, infection prevention and control, infectious disease surveillance and epidemiology, implementation science, and population health. Over the years, her SteWARdS (Steering towards the Wise use of AntimicRobials through understanding & addressing the determinants in Singapore) research group has harnessed quantitative and qualitative mixed methods to elucidate socio-behavioural factors influencing antibiotic use and preventive health behaviours to inform practices and policies to improve clinical and health outcomes.