Professor Tin Tin Su is a clinically qualified public health physician and researcher with more than 20 years of working experience. She is passionate about improving population health via community capacity building, social epidemiology, and implementation science research. She is a director of the South East Asia Community Observatory (SEACO) Health & Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) and principal investigator for a community cohort, which includes about 38,000 population. Professor Su has extensively leveraged HDSS data from other sites via the HDSS-Asia network, where she is part of the working committee.

She led the turning point of SEACO’s research excellence in “Climate change and health”. She established climate change and health impact monitoring through the eHealth at SEACO(CHIMES) project. She was also involved in a global initiative to incorporate the Climate Change and Health Evaluation and Response System (CHEERS) into routine HDSSs. Professor Su’s project on ‘Health effects of heat in Southeast Asia: Behavioural and structural climate change adaptation interventions in semi-rural Malaysia’ was funded by the Wellcome Trust. The grant amount is up to £1,967,644.

She became a Director of Monash University’s “Regional Hub for Asia Climate Change and Health (REACH).” The thematic priority areas of the hub include multi-level interventions targeting climate-vulnerable populations, net-zero health systems, and climate-literate health workforce in the region.

Professor Su is one of the founding members of the Asia Health Literacy Association (AHLA) and was elected vice president of 2014–2016. She obtained the Yufong International Health Literacy Award (2017) and Health Literacy Leadership Award (2018). Professor Su is an executive board member of the International Health Literacy Association (IHLA) and director of the Asian region until 2022. She integrated the concept of health literacy into population-based research and climate and health interventions in HDSS. Professor Su was selected as a Health Literacy Mentor in Global Health Literacy Summits (2021 and 2024) for global health literacy capacity building. She served as a technical advisor for Malaysia Health Literacy Survey (MHLS) 2023 under the Institute of Health Behaviour Research, Ministry of Health.

She is an honorary professor at the University of Malaya (Malaysia) and University College London (UK), and a visiting scholar at the Heidelberg University Institute for Global Health-HIGH (Germany).

Her research has been funded by various institutions including the World Health Organization (WHO); Newton-Ungku Omar Fund: Academy of  Science Malaysia (ASM) and Medical Research Council UK (MRC-UK); Newton Fund Impact Scheme (UKRI &  MIGHT, Malaysia); MRC-UK, Global Challenge Research Fund; John Templeton Foundation (USA); Ministry of  Education-Malaysia Research University Network (MRUN) and Long term Research Grant Scheme (LRGS); University  Malaya Flagship project, University Malaya Research Programme (UMRP) and various internal grants from Monash University Malaysia.

Professor Su is actively involved in research projects focused on digital health and is appointed as an advisory group member of the Monash University NEtwork for Equity through Digital Health (NEED).

• • Impact of climate change on non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
  • Establishment of climate change and health evaluation and response system
  • Community engagement and capacity building
  • Digital health application, general and digital health literacy
  • Cancer screening and early diagnosis
  • Designing and implementation of community cohorts
  • Public health programme evaluation and implementation science research
  • Ageing research in community