Jonathan Tan is a Health Outcomes Analyst and Biostatistician at HTanalysts and Health Services Assessment Collaboration (HSAC). Prior to joining HTanalysts, Jonathan was reading for a PhD at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health in the National University of Singapore, with a focus on biostatistics and the epidemiology of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. During that time he published his research in several peer-reviewed journals and presented at the inaugural Asian Association for the Study of Diabetes meeting in 2009.
Jonathan holds a first class honours degree in genetics and has completed courses in Advance Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. He has also attended the graduate course in Applied Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis at Ohio State University, US.
Jonathan’s research interest is in the economic impact of health initiatives; he is also interested in the pharmaceutical evaluation process.
Recent publications/Reports
Tan J.T., Nurbaya S., Gardner D., Ye S., Tai E.S., Ng D.P.K. Genetic variation in KCNQ1 associates with fasting glucose and β-cell function: A study of 3,734 subjects comprising three ethnicities living in Singapore. Diabetes 2009 58:6 (1445-1449)
Tan J.T., Dorajoo R., Seielstad M., et al. FTO variants are associated with obesity in the Chinese and Malay populations in Singapore. Diabetes 2008 57:10 (2851-2857)
Tan J.T., Tan L.S.M., Chia K.S., Chew S.K., Tai E.S. A family history of type 2 diabetes is associated with glucose intolerance and obesity-related traits with evidence of excess maternal transmission for obesity-related traits in a South East Asian population. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2008 82:2 (268-275)