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DR. TONG WEN TING

Department of Primary Care Medicine

Faculty of Medicine

tongwentingum.edu.my

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Wen Ting Tong is a trained implementation scientist who obtained her PhD from the University of Malaya. Her doctoral research focused on developing an effective implementation strategy to integrate patient decision aids into primary care practice, with the aim of facilitating shared decision-making. Following her PhD, she joined the National University of Singapore as a research fellow in the Centre for Behavioural and Implementation Science Interventions (BISI). She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Primary Care Medicine, Universiti Malaya.

Wen Ting’s research is grounded in implementation science, with a focus on bridging the gap between evidence, policy, and real-world healthcare delivery. Her work aims to improve the adoption, integration, and sustainability of evidence-based interventions within health systems, particularly in primary care settings. She adopts a multidisciplinary approach that integrates behavioural science, health systems thinking, and patient-centred care to address complex challenges in translating research into practice.

Her research extends to key intersecting areas including digital health, mental health, behavioural science, health research ethics, and sexual and reproductive health. Increasingly, her work also engages with broader system-level challenges such as health workforce development, models of care delivery, and the design of scalable, context-sensitive interventions across diverse healthcare settings.

In addition to her research, Wen Ting has extensive experience in education and capacity building, particularly in the design and delivery of online learning programmes. She has developed and delivered courses on massive open online course (MOOC) platforms, including OpenLearning and FutureLearn. Her courses, Introduction to Research for Healthcare Professionals and Manuscript Writing Made Easy, have attracted significant enrolment and continue to support clinicians and researchers internationally.

Wen Ting’s work has been published in leading journals such as Implementation Science, and she has contributed to book chapters published by Routledge and Springer. She has received several research awards at international conferences in recognition of her work. She is also the recipient of the Riegelman GNAPH Fellow (2026) with the Global Network for Academic Public Health, where she contributes to the development of global strategies in public health education and workforce capacity, including the advancement of the Collaborative Online Public Health Education (COPE) programme and cross-regional collaboration initiatives.

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