Evelyn Loo

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Bio:

Dr. Evelyn Loo is a Senior Principal Investigator from Institute for Human Development and Potential, Agency for Science, Technology and Research. Her research interest is in examining the environmental epidemiology of health outcomes. Her work primarily focuses on the role of the exposome which includes a diverse array of environmental exposures ranging from individual-level factors such as diet and lifestyle to broader-scale influences such as the urban built environment, so as to derive interventions that translate into clinical practice and impact public healthcare policies. Beyond the external environment, her projects also examine the mechanistic interactions between the external and internal exposomes through multi-omics and machine learning approaches, such as the study of microbiome, epigenome, lipidome and transcriptome.

As a Principal Investigator in two large birth cohorts in Singapore – the Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) and Singapore Preconception Study of Long-Term Maternal and Child Outcomes (S-PRESTO), she has published many multi-disciplinary works with international and local collaborators, with publications in leading journals. She has also spearheaded multiple collaborations with government agencies such as National Environmental Agency (NEA), Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), National Parks Board (NParks) and Ministry of Health (MOH) TRUST. She received national funding from the Cities of Tomorrow R&D Programme by Ministry of National Development to lead a collaborative study across four Singapore cohorts to investigate the impact of the urban environment on mental well-being in families. Through this study, she developed a built environment framework which was presented at an inter-agency workshop in a national effort to build an environmental framework in Singapore. She has also received a number of grants as Principal Investigator and Co- Principal Investigator to develop preventive strategies to improve human health.

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