Thought Leadership

Some of the world’s leaders, and leading thinkers from NUS and overseas, regularly gather and add to the rich diversity of thoughts and ideas on our campuses, in Singapore and across the globe.
Here’s what they had to share.

We need to close the gap between Singapore's mental health goals and reality

Speaker: Asst Prof Rayner Tan 8 June 2026

The deeper national question may no longer simply be: How do we reduce mental health prevalence? It must increasingly be: How do we build a society more capable of well-being? Perhaps this is the next frontier of Singapore’s mental health journey: not only expanding services or reducing distress, but also becoming more deliberately developmental as a society so people and institutions do not merely cope – but flourish.

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We need to close the gap between Singapore's mental health goals and reality

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