Dr Sylvia Mun

Registered Social Worker, Social Work Accreditation and Advisory Board (SWAAB)

2023 - Present
Chairperson, Review Committee 1, Children & Young Persons Home, Ministry of Social & Family Development (MSF)

2023 - Present
Vice-Chairperson, Review Board, Children & Young Persons Home, MSF

2012 - Present
Member, Transplant Ethics Committee, Ministry of Health (MOH)

2023 - Present
Board Member, Social Work Accreditation & Advisory Board (SWAAB)

2025 - Present
Board Member, Montfort Care

2026 - Present
Member, Triage Assessment Panel, MSF (1 May 26 to 30 April 29)

2026 - Present
National Allied Health Strategy Implementation Committee (NAHS IC) - Education & Professional Development Workstream, MOH (1 June 26 to 31 Jan 29)

2012 - 2023
Member, Review Committee, Children & Young Persons Home, MSF

2023 - 2025
Deputy Chairperson, Criminal Defence & Means Test Panel, Ministry of Law

• Grief and Bereavement
• Social Work in Healthcare
• Children and families
• Allied Health related
• Medical Humanities
• Ethics in Social Work and Healthcare

• The art of being a woman: Art and music therapy for her concluding chapter, 8^th Singapore Palliative Care Conference, 2023
• The impact of single session art and music therapy for women in palliative acute care, 8^th Singapore Palliative Care Conference, 2023
• Through the hands of the art therapist – art on behalf in acute palliative care in Singapore, 8^th Singapore Palliative Care Conference, 2023
• The use of clinical songwriting for gyane-oncology patients in palliative care, Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Conference, South Korea, 2023
• Religious and spiritual influences on mothers’ grief experiences, 9^th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, 2019
• Bereaved mothers-to-be: Who am I? Grief & Bereavement Conference, Singapore, 2018
• Chinese worldviews & spirituality on the adjustment of bereavement of a child among mothers in Singapore, 8^th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, 2016
• Child’s death: Culture, religion and rites, International Conference of Grief & Bereavement, Hong Kong, 2014

• SUSS 5-year Long Service Award (Associate Faculty)
• National Day Award – Public Administration Medal (Bronze) Covid-19, 2023
• KKH 30-year Long Service Award
• Friends of MSF Award, MSF, 2023
• National Day Award, Long Service, 2019
• Great Women of our Times Award, Education and Public Service category, 2011
• Outstanding Social Worker Award (OSWA), 2010
• National Day Award, Commendation Medal, 2008
• Jean Robertson Special Book Prize, Best Student, NUS, 1991
• PhD study, funded by KKH Formal Education Fund and National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Fellowship, 2012
• Advanced Leadership Course for Non-profit organizations jointly organised by Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Social Service Training Institute (SSTI), 2010
• SingHealth-SMU Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Management & Leadership funded by SingHealth Training Development Fund, 2008
• Master in Social Work funded by KKH Formal Education Fund