Traditional & Alternative Medicine

Hwee-Ling Koh is an Associate Professor and obtained a BSc (Pharmacy) (Hons) and MSc (Pharmacy) from the National University of Singapore, as well as a PhD from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). She is a registered Pharmacist with the Singapore Pharmacy Council. Her research areas include TCM, quality control and safety of botanicals and drug discovery from medicinal plants. She is a technical/expert assessor with the Singapore Accreditation Council-Singapore Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (SAC-SINGLAS) and serves on various committees: Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) Advisory Committee on Evaluation of Health Claims; Complementary Health Products Advisory Committee (Health Sciences Authority, Singapore); United States Pharmacopoeia Expert Panels: Adulteration of Dietary Supplements with Drugs and Drug Analogs Expert Panel, and Herbal Medicine Compendium, East Asia Expert Panel. She has published 3 books, namely, “A guide to medicinal plants: an illustrated, scientifi c and medicinal approach”, “Ginseng and ginseng products 101- what are you buying?” and “Medicinal plants and malaria: applications, trends and prospects”.