Dr. Michael Tan is the Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the University of the Arts Singapore, under NAFA-UAS. As a creative health researcher/ practitioner and leading advocate for arts & design for health development in Singapore, some of his notable contributions to the field include the seminal paper on the State of Arts and Health Development Singapore; establishing the online Arts and Health Singapore Repository and his numerous collaborations with stakeholders such as the Agency for Integrated Care, NAC, Duke-NUS Medical School to explore, interrogate, and imagine the culture of care through creative practice to promote human flourishing.

He is currently working with a team of eminent international colleagues in arts and health on a WHO Lancet Global Series commission where he is co-leading a systematic review exploring Arts participation as a health behaviour for Non-communicable Disease (NCD) prevention and health promotion. He is also a co-investigator in Creative Health Boards: A New Model for Embedding Creative Health and Community Assets in Health Systems across the UK awarded by the UKRI-AHRC Health Inequalities Programme under the Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities programme.

His passion for nurturing a new generation of leaders in the field has led him to develop courses such as the Arts, Ageing and wellbeing module for the MSc Applied Gerontology, NTU, the MA in Design for Health at Sheffield Hallam University, and academic supervision at the intersection of Creative practice, health, and wellbeing. His ongoing inquiries include mental health literacy, end of life and loss, disability, medical humanities and health justice. For further information, please visit https://michaeltankb.net/