Ezekiel Yeo

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Ezekiel Yeo

Yeo Zhi Zheng · publishes as ZZ Yeo

Head of Data, Innovation & Research, HCA Hospice

Profile

Health services researcher and department head with nine years in home hospice care. I built HCA Hospice's research function from the ground up and now lead its Data, Innovation & Research department: a five-person team covering research, quality improvement and analytics. Trained in public health (MPH, Highest Distinction) and health economic evaluation (Duke-NUS, Distinction). A key architect of Singapore's national framework for compassionate discharge.

Experience

Head, Data, Innovation & Research · HCA Hospice

  • Direct the department and a five-person team, including manpower and budget planning.
  • Oversee research and quality improvement output for HCA's medical and allied health teams.
  • Guide clinical staff through organisation-wide quality improvement, such as a call-management redesign to protect home visits for 30 nurses receiving up to 135 calls a day.
  • Built longitudinal analyses of healthcare utilisation to inform resource allocation and step-down care.
  • A key architect of Singapore's national framework for compassionate discharge.
  • Mentor junior researchers and run the journal club, research workshops and education programmes.

Senior Research and Bereavement Executive · HCA Hospice

  • Advised clinical teams on study methodology and analysis across HCA's research portfolio.
  • Supported more than 15 published projects and more than 15 conference posters and presentations.
  • Developed HCA's bereavement risk assessment and ongoing bereavement support programmes.

Research and Bereavement Executive · HCA Hospice

  • Joined to build HCA's research capability from the ground up (part-time from January 2017, full-time from August 2017).
  • Set up the research pipeline, ethics submissions and participant referral processes.

Research Assistant · Department of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University

  • Data collection, cognitive testing and data management across multiple sites in Singapore.
  • URECA President Scholar Researcher; Silver Award, URECA Poster Presentation Competition (2014).

Education

Graduate Certificate in Health Economic Evaluation · Duke-NUS Medical School

Distinction (GPA 4.75/5.00). Health economic modelling (A+), advanced health technology assessment methods, health econometrics.

Master of Public Health · Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore

Highest Distinction (GPA 4.50/5.00). Specialisation in health policy and services. Practicum thesis (A) — a realist evaluation of integrating step-down care into community paediatric palliative care.

BA (Hons) Psychology, second major in Philosophy · Nanyang Technological University

Second Upper Class Honours. Specialised in research and statistics.

Selected publications 22 peer-reviewed papers in total · full list at ezekielyeo.com/research

  • Terminal discharge of the imminently dying from hospital to home: a realist evaluation. Palliative Medicine, 2026.
  • Work patterns and time allocation in multidisciplinary home hospice: a time-motion study. BMC Palliative Care, 2026. (First author)
  • Quality improvement initiative to improve uptake of an alternative call management strategy for home-based hospice care. Palliative Medicine Reports, 2025.
  • Longitudinal patterns and predictors of healthcare utilization among cancer patients on home-based palliative care in Singapore: a group-based multi-trajectory analysis. BMC Medicine, 2022.
  • Paediatric palliative care improves patient outcomes and reduces healthcare costs: evaluation of a home-based program. BMC Palliative Care, 2018.

Certifications

  • CITI Good Clinical Practice
  • Responsible Conduct of Research (Basic)
  • Beyond D&I — DIELP Certification (Open 2026)

Tools

  • Analysis: Stata, SPSS, Quirkos, Excel modelling
  • Software: Swift, SwiftUI, SwiftData, AppKit, Git

Languages

  • English (full professional)
  • Mandarin Chinese (native)
  • Malay (limited working)