Karen Wee
Lions Befrienders Service Association (Singapore)
Karen Wee
Karen Wee is a transformational change-maker, strategist, innovator and successful implementor with 36 years of volunteering experience (globally and locally) and 13 years of professional experience in non-profit sector.
With experience in full spectrum of non-profit sector in APAC, working at government (NCSS), civil organisation (NVPC), international NPO (YMCA and Lions Clubs’ Lions Befrienders) and local NPO (Children Cancer Foundation) and volunteering experience both locally and USA, she is often entrusted to develop new departments, innovative programmes and revamp declining or mature areas.
She is a Board Member of Non-profit organisations both locally and internationally in healthcare and public health and an advisory and council member of two of three Regional Health Systems in Singapore, and other national level council, panel and policy workgroup
As Executive Director of Lions Befrienders Service Association (Singapore), she has led Lions Befrienders to be leader in preventive eldercare especially in areas of digitalisation and fast turnaround of innovative programmes, to ensure holistic development of seniors to age in place.
Over the years, she continued to execute strategies, revamped operations and strengthen partnerships with public, private and people.
With an intentionally extensive and intensive career in the following areas, she has successes and deep strategic and operational experience in almost the full works of NPO from planning to development to execution: –
• Strategic Planning & Development • Innovation • Programme Development & Management • Fundraising & Sales Management • Event Management • Stakeholder Partnership & Management • Volunteer Management • Operations Management • Budget Planning, Development & Control
Certified Fund-Raising Executive (pursuant), Chartered Accountant, a Chartered Marketer (pursuant), a Fellow in Marketing and Certified Internal Auditor and member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.
Enjoys mentoring the younger colleagues and youths, including her children as she firmly believes they are the future of any country and community.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | International; Singapore; |
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| Topics | Access to care; Ageing in place; Artificial Intelligence; Attitudes and Expectations about Long-Term Care; Autonomy; Care and social protection in Southern Africa; Care economy; Care Homes; Care in rural and other non-urban settings; Care inequalities; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care outcomes; Care trajectories; Care work and migration; Climate Change and LTC; Co-production in LTC; Community-based LTC; COVID-19 and other infectious diseases and LTC; Data catalogues; Data science; Deinstitutionalisation; Dementia care and support; Economics of LTC; Employment education and family carers; End-of-life care and LTC; Epidemiology and ageing trajectories; Ethics and care; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Financing LTC; Gender and care; Governance and LTC systems organisation; Healthcare access in LTC; Home/domiciliary care; Housing and care; Implementation; Infection prevention; Information and data systems in LTC; Living arrangements; Local care ecosystems; Loneliness among older people; Long term care subsidies; LTC and people with learning disabilities; LTC and people with mental health conditions; LTC and younger people; LTC insurance; LTC Policy; LTC Reforms; LTC Systems; LTC systems in LMIC countries; LTC Workforce; New models of care; Outcome measurement in LTC; Outcomes for unpaid/informal carers; Pain assessment and management; Pain management in care homes; Parent carers; Pensions; Perinatal mental health; Person-centered care; Prevention and rehabilitation and LTC; Primary Health Care; Provider sector; Public procurement; Quality regulation and accreditation for LTC services; Relationship between LTC use and hospital use; Research gaps and priorities in LTC; Residential LTC services; Rights and people’s voices in LTC systems; Social connection; Social Innovation in LTC; Social Insurance; Social Protection; Stigma and discrimination; Survey measures; Technology and LTC; Unmet needs; Unpaid / informal care; Younger carers; |
| Methods | Actuarial methods; Analysis of administrative data; Assessment tool development; Case studies; Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Co-production methods; Comparative policy analysis; Cost analysis; Creative research methods; Critical Discourse Analysis; Data science and LTC research; Delphi surveys; Discourse analysis; Discrete choice analysis; Document analysis; Economic evaluation; Ethnography; Expert consultations; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Guidelines development; Implementation science; Knowledge-exchange; Literature reviews and synthesis; Longitudinal data analysis; Measure validation; Mixed methods; Narrative evaluation methods; Observational studies; Other; Panel data analysis; Policy analysis; Political decisions analysis; Practice-based approaches; Projections; Psychometric testing; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; Quasi-experimental methods; Questionnaire; Research ethics; Scoping reviews; Service mapping; Simulation models; Surveys; Systematic Review; Thematic analysis; Theory and frameworks; Theory of Change; Time series analysis; Training materials; Translation and cultural adaptation of instruments; Trials and other evaluations; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Care and social protection in Southern Africa; Care home markets and regulation; Climate Change and LTC; Community-based approaches to dementia care; Data Science; Economics of Long-Term Care; Employment Education and Family carers; Long-Term Care in Spain; Long-Term Care Policy; Migration Mobility and Care Workers; Pain in Care Homes; Quality improvement in Long-Term Care; Quasi-experimental methods; Strengthening Responses to Dementia; Technology and Long-Term Care; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP); Workforce Capacity and Capability; Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care; |
| Website | https://www.lionsbefrienders.org.sg/ |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-wee/ | |
| Research interests | Health Promotion and Preventive Health Health Services Research |
| Key publications | TBC |