Ritu Jain

Dr Ritu Jain is Assistant Chair (Internships and Attachments) and senior lecturer both at the Language and Communication Centre and concurrently (courtesy appointment) at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. She is research active in her dual interests: Language Policy & Intergenerational Language Transmission as well as Health Equity and barriers to health access such as that impeding populations living with HIV and other stigmatized conditions. Dr Jain is editor of Multilingual Singapore: Language Policies and Linguistic Realities (2021) and has published in journals such as Language Policy, Current Issues in Language Planning, and Orphanet, the Journal of Rare Diseases. She contributes to health related initiatives in Singapore and globally. Dr Jain co-chairs the Agency for Care Effectiveness (MoH) consumer panel and heads various rare disease organisations such as DEBRA International.