Principal Health Economist, Chief Health Economist Office, Ministry of Health, Singapore
Dr Kelvin Bryan Tan is Principal Health Economist and heads the Chief Health Economist Office, which oversees all health economics matters in the Ministry of Health, Singapore. He started his career in the Ministry of Health in 2000, where he was in charge of Medisave, MediShield and Medifund policy. Rejoining the Ministry in 2012, he started the Policy, Research and Economics Office, which later became the Policy Research and Evaluation Division in 2016. During COVID-19, he was the Chief Data for the Medical Operations Task Force and later the Crisis Strategic Operations Group, and oversaw data management for COVID-positive cases and the nationwide vaccination efforts. He also heads the Analytics and Behavioural Modelling Coop of the Programme for Research in Epidemic Preparedness and Response (PREPARE). Dr Tan graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and obtained his MSE and PhD in Management Science from Stanford University. His research interests are health economics, health insurance design and cost-effectiveness modelling.
