Wenjia Chen, PhD

Dr. Chen Wenjia has been an Assistant Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, since 2021. She earned her PhD in Health Economics and Outcomes Research from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2016. Driven by a commitment to addressing the complexity of chronic disease care while ensuring the sustainability of healthcare systems, Dr. Chen's research leverages big data analytics to generate cutting-edge real-world evidence for personalized, systems-based care.

Her current projects focus on the long-term economic burden of chronic conditions, comparative and cost-effectiveness analyses of advanced therapies, the development of AI-driven clinical decision support tools, and the economic evaluation of precision medicine and AI-powered digital health technologies, with a particular emphasis on chronic respiratory diseases.

Dr. Chen has recently published influential research in high-impact clinical and policy journals, including the excess economic burden of multimorbidity in asthma and COPD patients in European Respiratory Journal, a 20-year individualized COPD risk predictor in Chest and the comparative effectiveness of biologic initiation in steroid-dependent severe asthma patients in JACI In Practice.