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Guest-of-Honour
Minister Indranee Rajah
Minister in the Prime Minister's Office
Second Minister for National Development
Second Minister for Finance
Ms. Indranee Rajah, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Second Minister for Finance since 2018, as well as Second Minister for National Development since 2020. Ms Rajah is the Leader of the House for the 15th Parliament and Member of Parliament for Pasir Ris-Changi GRC. In the Prime Minister’s Office, Ms Rajah assists Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong in the National Population and Talent Division and oversees the Marriage & Parenthood portfolio.
Keynote Speaker
Deputy director, Vienna Institute of Demography
Editor-in-Chief, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
Tomas Sobotka
Tomas Sobotka leads the research group on Fertility and Population Change and serves as deputy director of the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research and co-director of the Human Fertility Database. Sobotka received PhD from demography at the University of Groningen (NL) and lectures at the Charles University in Prague (Czechia) and at the University of Vienna.
Special Panels
Confronting Asia’s Fertility Challenges: Policy Paths for the Future
Speakers
Professor of Sociology and Demography at the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University
EUN Ki-Soo
Henry Wendt III '55 Professor of East Asian Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Director for Princeton-University of Tokyo Strategic Partnership
James RAYMO
Amelia TANG
Deputy Secretary, Strategy Group, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore
Chair Professor (Population Health), Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong
Paul YIP
Moderator
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore
Vincent Chua
Strategies to Tackle the Low Fertility Rates - Biomedical Solutions and Beyond
Speakers
Pravin PERABA
Fertility Specialist, Metro IVF
Kyung-Ah Jean LEE
Professor, CHA University
Gynaecologist & fertility specialist, Royal Hospital for Women
Lecturer, UNSW School of Women's & Children's Health
Rebecca DEANS
Moderator
Consultant, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, NUH
Deputy Director, Adjunct Assistant Professor, NUS Bia-Echo Asia Centre for Reproductive Longevity and Equality (ACRLE)
HUANG Zhongwei
Updates & News
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PAS 2026: Low-Fertility and Human Development: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Solutions
Co-organised by National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and Population Association of Singapore, PAS’ Annual Conference 2026, will be held on May 21-22, 2026.
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PAS Best Graduate Student Paper Award 2026
Population Association of Singapore invites graduate students to participate in the PAS Best Graduate Student Paper Award 2026 by submitting their papers for the PAS 2026 Annual Conference and indicating their interest during abstract submission.
Winner receives a $250 cash prize, FREE conference attendance & more!
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PAS Best Undergraduate Paper Award 2026
Population Association of Singapore invites undergraduate students to submit papers for the PAS Best Undergraduate Student Paper Award 2026.
Nominate yourself or your student NOW to have a chance to win a $250 cash prize, FREE PAS 2026 conference attendance, presentation opportunity & more!
Deadline: February 9, 2026
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ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION 2025-2026
Events Highlights
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PAS 2025 - Conference Highlights
Supported by the Master of Science in Applied Gerontology and the Centre for the Study of Social Inequality at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), PAS hosted its 3rd Annual Meeting on 15-16 May 2025. The event was centered around the theme, "Demography and Inequality: Intersecting Paths".
The conference showcased prominent keynote speakers, including Associate Professor Teo You Yenn, Provost’s Chair in Sociology at NTU, and Professor Sarah Burgard, Professor of Sociology, Epidemiology and Public Policy, and who also serves as Director and Research Professor at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.
PAS’s partner, the Tsao Foundation, also organized a panel discussion—The Intersections between Gender, Ageing and Inequality—which brought together leaders from AWARE, Singapore Council of Women's Organisations, and PPIS. The panel explored how the intersection of gender and age across the life course contributes to the gendered inequalities experienced by women in later life. Key highlights from these presentations are summarized in the link above.
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PAS Early Career Award 2025
We are pleased to announce that the Early Career Award 2025 is presented to Dr Abhijit Visaria in recognition of his outstanding contributions to population studies in Singapore and Asia
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PAS Best Student Paper Award 2025
We are pleased to announce that the winner of PAS’s 2025 Best Student Paper Award is Ms Jinhan Liu for their outstanding paper titled “Whom to Marry Matters: Educational Assortative Mating and Mental Health Over the Life Course and Across Birth Cohorts in China”.
Jinhan’s paper applies a life course perspective to examine the impact of educational assortative mating on mental health trajectories, with a focus on birth cohort variations. Drawing on nationally representative longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Study (CFPS), the paper offers a strong theoretical foundation and effectively contextualizes the relationship between educational assortative mating and health outcomes within the Chinese context.
