Rate My Professor Sapphire Lin

Sapphire H. Lin is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and the N.1 Institute for Health at NUS. She previously served as a research fellow at SingHealth. Lin holds a PhD in communication from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University and a Master of Mass Communication from the same institution. Her research centers on health communication, examining how information and communication technologies influence health behaviors among vulnerable populations, including older adults, individuals with illnesses, and persons with disabilities. She employs both qualitative and quantitative methods in interdisciplinary studies exploring human-human and human-technology interactions to optimize health outcomes. Lin has led roles in large collaborative studies and grants involving academia, industry, government, and community partners, with the aim of informing policy and practice to improve well-being.