Andrea Chan is the Group Head of TOUCH Counselling and Psychological Services, where she provides strategic leadership in advancing accessible, evidence-based mental health and counselling services. With extensive experience in psychological care, she has spearheaded the development of innovative suicide intervention and prevention programmes that strengthen early identification, crisis response, and community resilience. Andrea is committed to building collaborative partnerships and equipping professionals, caregivers, and communities with practical skills to support individuals experiencing emotional distress. Her work reflects a strong dedication to improving mental wellbeing through service innovation, capacity building, and person-centred approaches that create lasting impact across diverse populations.

As the APAC Engagement Lead for Google’s Trust & Safety team, Bertha architects the regional ecosystems and partnerships necessary to advance digital trust. Her expertise lies at the intersection of AI responsibility, fraud prevention, and kids & family safety, where she catalyses cross-industry collaboration to address top-of-mind societal risks. Her focus is on driving strategic policy outcomes and helping Google teams implement necessary mitigations to evolving risk, navigate complex external expectations and prepare for evolving regulation. Prior to Google, Bertha drove high-impact digital transformation and international relations initiatives within the Singapore Government. She holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University College London.

Dr. Bhanu Gupta is a Senior Consultant and Chief of the Department of Emergency and Crisis Care at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), Singapore. With extensive experience in emergency psychiatry and crisis intervention, he leads IMH’s busy emergency psychiatric services, overseeing the assessment and management of patients — including youths — presenting in acute mental health crisis. He provides clinical leadership in risk assessment, safety planning, and crisis management, and has contributed to research on non-suicidal self-injurious behaviours among youths. He also holds academic appointments at Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore.

Caleb leads partnerships and engagement for mindline.sg, the digital first-stop for mental health in Singapore. He has over a decade of experience in designing, implementing and scaling digital health programs. Caleb has a Masters in Public Health from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health with a specialisation in Health Promotion and has a keen interest in behavioural economics and the use of technology to improve lives.  

Wai Yee is the Executive Director of The Compassionate Network. She holds a Master’s degree in Counselling and a Master’s degree in Palliative Care from King’s College London. A recipient of the Outstanding Social Worker Award (2016), she also lectures in institutions of higher learning, including the Master in Gerontology and Master in Counselling programs at SUSS. She is also a member of the International Workgroup for Death, Dying, and Bereavement (IWGDDB).

Yee Wei is a counsellor at Samaritans of Singapore (SOS), where she works with individuals experiencing suicidality as well as those impacted by suicide loss. Across both intervention and postvention, her work centres on holding the complexities of trauma, grief, and risk, recognising that exposure to suicide can shape vulnerability over time.

Through individual counselling and group facilitation, she supports adults navigating distress alongside work and daily responsibilities, where help-seeking often competes with the demands of functioning. She brings a grounded, clinical perspective to understanding how suicidality and suicide loss intersect within the lived realities of working adults.

Chun-Liang is the Director of Strategic Development in SOS and drives the middle-office functions overseeing strategy development, research, communications, fundraising and partnerships. Chun-Liang has prior experience working in the eldercare sector with the Agency for Integrated Care where he led national senior outreach operations with the Silver Generation Office and supported vulnerable seniors through the COVID-19 pandemic. He later spearheaded the development and implementation of the nationwide Active Ageing Centre programme as part of the Age Well SG initiative, working closely with ministries, social service agencies and community partners.

Chng Yi Kai is a theatre artist who creates socially-conscious theatre works that extends our capacities as humans and communities. Invested in socially-engaged arts practice, he has worked with participants across the lifespan—from children to seniors—through theatre and interdisciplinary creative processes. His most recent works include the queer verbatim play When the cloud catches colours commissioned by the Barbican (London) and Queer East Festival 2025, and Our Queer Utopia at Tokyo Festival of Arts Farm 2023. In Singapore, he has also created forum theatre piece Skies of Blue (Independent) and movement work Between Interstices (Islands Time-Based Art Festival 2023), and directed and facilitated the 400 youth performer epic school production on anti-colonial histories in Singapore, Echoes of The Lake.

During his stint as Resident Artist at Drama Box, he wrote and directed With Time (co-presented with Esplanade), and was Assistant Artistic Director for SCENES 2020. As an actor, he has performed in Essentially Macbeth (Cultural Extravaganza 2024), Exit (Drama Box), KNOTS (STRANGER), and Art Studio (Nine Years Theatre, SIFA) – which earned him Best Ensemble at the Life! Theatre Awards. He also adjunct-teaches in LASALLE College of the Arts and Singapore Polytechnic.

Dr Chris Tan is a Senior Consultant and Chief in General Adult Psychiatry at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), with clinical expertise spanning general and geriatric psychiatry. He serves as Program Director for the Aged Psychiatry Community Assessment and Treatment Service (APCATS), leading multidisciplinary teams across hospital and community settings to support older adults with complex mental health needs. He contributes to national workgroups on suicide prevention and dementia policy, as well as the Ministry of National Development’s New Environment Action Team (NEAT). His work focuses on building models of care that bridge clinical services with social support systems.

Christine started her career in early childhood education as a teacher and subsequently a principal for twenty-five years. She has worked very closely with children aged 18 months to 12 years old and their families. Christine’s strong personal interest in art since young and the process of counselling students with challenging behaviours alongside their parents and educators had led her to pursue a Masters in Art Therapy with LASALLE College of the Arts in 2008. Upon graduation, she has been teaching the short course in the campus to promote art therapy. In December 2010, Christine started her private practice to bring resolutions and freedom, to enrich and to advocate self-care. Christine has also been bringing successful interventions to children as young as two years old and adults in their golden years who face different adversities. She always puts the psychological safety of the clients first and she believes in building strong authentic therapeutic alliances with them.

Christine finds joy in witnessing different individuals experience breakthroughs and transformation! It is also extremely fulfilling for her to be able to bring strong ripple effects of art therapy to many different communities leading to lifelong therapeutic benefits!

Chuah Yeow Seng is the Director of Crisis Care Services at Samaritans of Singapore (SOS), where he oversees the organisation’s 24-hour Hotline and CareText messaging services, client care operations and Volunteer Management. He leads service innovation in crisis intervention and works closely with partners to strengthen suicide prevention and crisis response capabilities. Yeow Seng also oversees SOS’s AI-Enhanced Crisis Support initiative (AI Care), which leverages real-time risk triage, a virtual assistant, and an AI-powered digital mentor to enhance response timeliness, improve chat quality, and increase volunteer training efficiency.

Dr Daniel Fung is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and a senior consultant at the Department of Developmental Psychiatry at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH).  He is the Chief Wellness Officer at NHG Health and was former CEO of IMH from 2021-2026.  He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at all three Singapore medical schools, Immediate Past President of the College of Psychiatrists, Academy of Medicine Singapore (2021–2025), and Past President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (2018–2022). Dr Fung has authored 36 books and over 210 peer-reviewed papers. He is widely recognised for developing community mental health programmes and innovative treatments for neurodevelopmental conditions in children.

Elizabeth is the Lead Researcher at SHINE Children and Youth Services. She holds a Master’s in Social Science, and was originally trained in Psychology. In her role at SHINE, she supports efforts to integrate evidence-based practices into programmes, promoting the contribution of data and research to more effective, efficient services and SHINE’s strategic goals. Her recent curiosities and interests include the conditions under which evidence and data meaningfully influence organisational decision-making in human services and the factors that shape health and wellbeing trajectories among low-income families — questions that sit at the intersection of organisational behaviour, knowledge use, and preventive practice.

Francis Foo is currently the Director of The Collective NEST Limited (a subsidiary of Samaritans of Singapore) and is passionate about helping people grow, building strong relationships, and making a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals and families.

He has previously led teams as Head of Residential Services at Boys’ Town and Head of Home at The Salvation Army Gracehaven Children’s Home, where he supported youth at risk and piloted the Therapeutic Group Home model. He has extensive experience working with communities, by partnering with MSF through Family Service Centre initiatives and working alongside MND to tackle hoarding issues.

Gwen is an accredited social worker with a Bachelor of Social Work from the National University of Singapore and a Graduate Diploma in Counselling Practice. Since 2012, she has supported young offenders, at-risk youths, and youths facing social-emotional challenges. Gwen believes strong relationships are central to effective social work and prioritises building rapport to better understand and support youths and their families. She has worked closely with youths in community rehabilitation programmes and key stakeholders. Currently, Gwen leads a team of social workers at SHINE Children and Youth Services, overseeing Youth-At-Risk programmes in the southwest region and supporting staff development and practice.

Jeremy is a registered Psychologist and Clinical Supervisor (SPS) working with vulnerable children, youth, and families. He currently leads Children’s Therapy Services at Thriving Families and drives capability-building at the Singapore Children’s Society (SCS). His eight-year career spans community and residential settings, focusing on trauma-informed care, family reunification, and systemic interventions. Previously, he established psychological services and led the therapeutic milieu at Sunbeam Place, a children’s residential home. Jeremy centers his work on integrating evidence-based clinical practices within the community to help families navigate complex crises and thrive.

Dr Jared Ng is a psychiatrist in private practice who has spent years working where distress is most acute. He previously served at the Institute of Mental Health as consultant-in-charge of the children’s inpatient unit and founding Chief of the Department of Emergency and Crisis Care, where he sat with many children and young people in their darkest moments.

He holds an MBBS, an MMed in psychiatry, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, with a Master of Public Health from Harvard University.

He chairs the Committee on Fostering at the Ministry of Social and Family Development and the board of a youth crisis facility, sits on the boards of the Samaritans of Singapore and the IJ Schools’ Board of Management, and volunteers with several organisations across mental health and child welfare, including the Singapore International Foundation’s training work in Cambodia.

He is married to Natalie, and they have three teenagers at home.

Professor Jo Robinson AM leads the Youth Suicide Prevention Research Unit at Orygen, the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. She is also Scientific Director of the Orygen Policy Centre. Prof Robinson’s work focuses on the development, and testing, of novel interventions that specifically target at risk youth across settings, on evidence synthesis, and on the translation of research evidence into practice and policy.

She was Co-Chair of the Federal Government’s Anti-Bullying Rapid Review, and is a member of the Expert Advisory Group for the Development and Implementation of the Suicide Prevention Strategy for Victoria and former member of the Expert Advisory Group for the Development of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy. She is President and former Vice-President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention and co-chair of an International Taskforce into Suicide Prevention in Women and Girls. She was a member of the Self-injury Advisory Group for Meta and for the Oprah Winfrey production The Me You Can’t See.

Joyce brings over 20 years of HR and OD leadership across public and non-profit sectors, known for building high-performing teams and driving transformation through people. She has led large-scale change initiatives including digital HR transformations, talent programmes, and culture-shaping work that delivers measurable outcomes.

Currently Director of People & Culture at Singapore Cancer Society, Joyce’s career highlights include spearheading Singapore’s inaugural World Cities Summit (2008), the 40-Under-40 Young Leaders Programme, and Board Leadership initiatives strengthening the social service sector. Her team won the SHRI Talent Management Award in 2021. She is a certified Senior Professional with IHRP since 2023.

With more than 20 years of experience in the social service sector, Felicia’s work spans across child protection, family violence intervention, mental health, and caregiver support. She is passionate about supporting individuals and families through crises, building resilience, and connecting them with meaningful support. Her work is grounded in early systemic intervention, collaborative practice, and stigma reduction to create lasting positive outcomes for those she serves.

Onno leads AI initiatives for mindline.sg, the digital first-stop for mental health in Singapore. His current efforts are focused on deploying LLMs for suicide prevention. He has over a decade of experience at the intersection of AI, natural language processing, and psychology. Onno completed his PhD in AI for brain sciences and mental health at the University of Cambridge.

Phua Chun Yat is Deputy CEO of Allkin Singapore and a trained social worker with extensive experience in strategy, organisational transformation and community development. He has held senior leadership roles across the social service sector, including at Samaritans of Singapore, and contributes actively to sector development through teaching at NUS. Educated at NUS, LSE and Oxford, Yat is passionate about systems thinking, collaborative ecosystems, and asset-based community development, he champions integrated, community-driven approaches that strengthen social support networks, practice excellence and sustainable social impact in Singapore.

Dr Rayner Kay Jin Tan is Assistant Professor and leads The Courage Lab at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore. He is an implementation researcher and applied social scientist with expertise in community engagement in health and health equity as applied in the fields of infectious diseases, mental health, and LGBTQ+ health. He is Head of Research at The Greenhouse, a charity offering substance use recovery services, and a board member of Project X Society serving the needs of sex workers. He is also a co-lead at SG Mental Health Matters to spur public engagement in mental health policymaking.

Rebecca, a trained mental health nurse, brings over 30 years of experience in mental health sector, with extensive leadership in service planning and system development. Rebecca leads the development of service delivery and referral pathways across community, primary care, and hospital settings, while driving sector capability building and transitional care support initiatives.

Rebecca played a key role in the development of practice guide for Singapore’s Tiered Care Model for Mental Health and co-led  the continuation of funding for the Community Mental Health Masterplan from FY18 to FY27. She currently co-leads the Crisis Care Coordination Working Team under the Implementation Committee with representatives across education, social and health sectors.

Wynn is a HCPC-UK registered music therapist who supports children, youth, adults, and seniors with a wide range of needs. Her work centres on fostering a safe and responsive space where individuals can explore emotions, develop self-awareness, and build meaningful connections through music. She values authenticity, a strong sense of safety, and the subtle ways people begin to find and express their voice. Her approach is integrative, grounded in holistic, person-centred, and

psychodynamic frameworks, and incorporates improvisation, familiar songs, and shared musical experiences to meet each individual where they are.

Weng Hong is the Executive Director of MindForward Alliance Singapore, acting as a catalyst for businesses to transform workplace mental health into a strategic priority. With over 20 years of Asia-Pacific leadership experience, Weng Hong advocates for “Human Solvency”—ensuring employees maintain the mental bandwidth to navigate both professional challenges and life’s uncertainties. A seasoned speaker and moderator, he also serves as Treasurer and Board Member for Project Green Ribbon, a non-profit providing upstream support and a voice for youths and young adults navigating complex mental health journeys.