
Nai Rui Chng
Nai Rui Chng is a Political Scientist with an interest in the development and evaluation of complex interventions in health, social and environmental policy domains. He is a versatile qualitative researcher who works in high, middle and low-income countries. He is based at the University of Glasgow at the Institute of Health & Wellbeing (College of Social Sciences and MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit).
Nai is currently researching on the evaluability of policies and programmes through his work on Evaluability Assessment. He is also a Co-Investigator on SPEEDIER, a disease control intervention supporting the Philippine government’s vision of Rabies freedom by the year 2022.
Previously, Nai worked on process evaluation of the Glasgow ‘Deep End’ Links Worker Programme, a social prescribing initiative. He also worked on EuroFIT, a gender-sensitised health promotion programme in a football setting. Nai was also based in What Works Scotland where he worked on operationalising the Capability Approach as a basis for public service reform in Health and Social Care.
Nai Rui Chng also has a background in advocacy and development consultancy. He has worked for MPs in the Singapore Parliament and the British House of Commons. Previously active in Singapore’s civil society on migrant worker issues and human rights, he has also conducted research for international development agencies and local NGOs in Indonesia, the Philippines and the United Kingdom.
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