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13 August 2026
Beyond the Lab - The AlumNUS
Feature in AlumNUS (the NUS Alumni publication). Ms Koh Mingshi (Science MSc ’04) traded laboratory experiments for strategy, policy and systems-building. Today, the executive director of TRUST believes she can make a greater impact by helping others pursue scientific discovery.
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24 July 2026
Project Spotlight – Study on Risk of Long COVID in type 2 Diabetes: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study
This collaboration brings together researchers from the CADENCE¹ and PREPARE² programmes to investigate the association between prior SGLT2 inhibitor and metformin use and the risk of long COVID in people with type 2 diabetes. It highlights how TRUST enables researchers across different national programmes and clinical domains to work together to address important healthcare questions.
Project Spotlight
30 March 2026
An Expanded Mandate to Support Singapore’s Broader Research Ecosystem
TRUST Office is undergoing a transformation as part of the Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2030 initiative, expanding its role beyond health research to serve the wider national research ecosystem.
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26 February 2026
Project Spotlight – Projecting the Future Cancer Burden in Singapore: National Incidence and Direct Medical Cost Estimates to 2050
The study integrates cancer incidence data from the National Registry of Diseases Office (NRDO) cancer registry with harmonised inpatient and outpatient and claims data on the TRUST platform to establish historical trends in cancer incidence from 2000 to 2021, one-year and five-year post-diagnosis costs from 2005 to 2016.
Project Spotlight
26 February 2026
Singapore-UK Health Data Bridge
Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) has published a feature article highlighting our collaboration that's bridging Singapore and UK health data research.
Highlights
21 November 2025
TRUST Partners with OPEN Voices to Shape Singapore's Health Data Research Ecosystem
TRUST has partnered with the OPEN Voices patient collective at Nanyang Technological University’s Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine for an initiative to put community voices at the centre of health data research decisions in Singapore.
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21 November 2025
Building Awareness Through User Outreach and International Showcases
This year we continued our efforts in targeted outreach across Singapore's public research institutions and international engagement.
Highlights
1 July 2025
FY24 TRUST DAC Annual Report
Access to datasets through TRUST is governed by the Data Access Committee (DAC), which ensures that the research projects are ethical and beneficial to the public. The DAC also ensures that access and use of data is in line with agreements between TRUST and data contributors. The DAC publishes an annual report detailing the work undertaken by the Committee and the TRUST Data Requests (TDRs) for that year.
Reports
1 July 2025
Use Case - Contact Tracing Study Sets Benchmark for Future Preparedness
A comprehensive study supported by TRUST has provided valuable insights into the effectiveness of different contact tracing methodologies.
Project Spotlight
1 July 2025
Use Case - Study Reveals Economic Burden of COPD in Singapore’s Healthcare System
A groundbreaking study led by a research team at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore, using health administrative data on TRUST, has uncovered significant economic implications of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and its associated conditions.
Project Spotlight