The Health Cluster is committed to initiating and supporting faculty and graduate student research on health-related issues of relevance to Singapore and the region. Based in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, cluster research projects are multidisciplinary and build on existing cross-campus collaborations with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and the Faculties of Law, Business, and Engineering.  The cluster has close to 30 affiliated faculty members based in various departments in the FASS, such as Communications and New Media, Economics, Geography, Japanese Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and Social Work.  Faculty interests are wide-ranging; however, since 2006 a few areas have emerged as focal research areas: research on health policy, long term health care financing, addiction behavior, neuropsychology, disease pandemics, post-disaster health risks, and aging issues (such as active aging, the relationship between social isolation and health, caregiving, and end-of-life issues). 

The Cluster also strongly supports the development of graduate student work in the field of health research.  Currently, we have graduate students (based in individual departments) working in the areas of fertility, mortality, public health, HIV, and aging, using data from Singapore and other parts of Asia.  Graduate students are encouraged to present their on-going work at the Health Cluster Graduate Student Forum which runs a monthly seminar series.
Since its formation in 2006, the Health Cluster has established research projects with key stakeholders in the community such as the Asia Research Institute (NUS), the Council for Third Age, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Ministry of Community, Development, Youth & Sports, the Ministry of Health, the Health Promotion Board, and Tsao Foundation.  The Health Cluster is also developing research projects with the international research community principally through the International Alliance of Research Universities.  The Health Cluster is playing a key role in the development of research on healthy aging with IARU partners and the NUS Virtual Institute of Aging.