Asst Prof Dickens Borame Sue Lee

Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore

Borame L Dickens is a geospatial modeler with an interest in examining the efficacy of interventions for through the use of individual based models (IBMs). Her work has been published in top public health journals including Lancet Infectious Diseases, Lancet, Lancet Western Pacific, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Journal of infectious Diseases, Journal of Travel Medicine, BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, Nutrients and Environment International. Along the infectious disease branch, she examines border control, disease spread and the impact of interventions through IBMs. Within chronic diseases, she has been actively working on estimating the burden of hypertension, obesity and hyperlipidemia in Singapore, as well as the impacts of screening on cancers. Her work often involves Bayesian statistical methods, mathematical modelling and the exploration of the influence of the environment on disease prevalence.