Yiyun Shou

Dr Yiyun Shou joined IPUR in 2022 as Lead Scientist in the domain of Health and Lifestyle. She also holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.  Before joining IPUR, Dr Shou was a Senior Research Fellow at the Australia National University and was a recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Her research concerns understanding human’s judgement and behaviors under risk and uncertainty; measurement of dispositions relating to risk-taking; understanding cross-cultural measurement issues; and development of statistical methods. Her current research focuses on attitudes toward risk and uncertainty in health and medical settings, and communication of health risks in the Asian context.