Sok Teng is a refugee health researcher, a PhD candidate, and a President Graduate Fellow at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore. Her interest in refugee health took shape in 2007 when she conducted a study on the nutritional status of Rohingya children in Kuala Lumpur.

That research sharpened her awareness of the significant knowledge gaps of health-related issues among Rohingya refugees and motivated her to address this gap.

She has published her refugee research in leading national and international public health journals, including BMJ and European Journal of Public Health.

Her current research focuses on three areas: examining the effects of social capital – an essential determinant of health – on the wellness of Rohingya refugees; understanding the health literacy of refugees; and building noncommunicable disease profiles of refugees.

She brings to her research 10 years of working and volunteering with refugees in the areas of health, livelihoods, and community empowerment, through which she hopes to mobilize existing capacities and facilitate meaningful engagement in conducting research on migration and refugee health in Southeast Asia.

She looks forward to building a network of like-minded people and linking her research to other disciplines to address the social injustice that Rohingya refugees face.