The people behind
Data.Faces.Voices.
Clinical medicine, health systems, research and documentary practice, working across Asia Pacific.
Midlife women's health in Asia Pacific is a measurable evidence gap. The published record relies on Western, clinic-attending cohorts. The result is a half-billion women whose symptoms, ethnic variance, and disclosure patterns are not legible to the clinicians treating them. The pattern can be traced through the published literature: who has been studied, where, and who remains largely absent.
DFV exists to make the gap measurable, country by country, and to begin closing it through a single replicable framework — the Research Coverage Index — that clinical collaborators can apply, review, and publish with local context. The work is open-science by default. The data lives with the country. The framework is designed to travel without flattening local difference.
The people behind Data.Faces.Voices.
Founded by Dr. Chua Yang and Nancy Li, bringing together clinical medicine, health systems, research and documentary practice across Asia Pacific.
Clinical design, APAC clinical network, DFV photography direction. Practising OB-GYN; past President of the Asia Pacific Menopause Federation (2013–2017) and the Menopause Research Society of Singapore. A Leica photographer — an Oskar Barnack Award nominee (2025), author and photographer of the Women Inspiring Women book series, with solo exhibitions at Leica Galerie and the National Gallery Singapore — whose eye shapes the visual language of DFV.
Healthcare delivery, data, research design. Ran chronic disease management across twelve countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas — one clinical standard meeting different languages, families, and ideas of good care. Works on women's health, language and data with Université Lumière Lyon 2, hosts the Chinese-language podcast 万象更新, and has conducted 3,000+ in-depth interviews — findings presented to the International Menopause Society.
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Background in internal audit, financial audit, and finance, advising on grant compliance and financial governance as the research programme scales.
How the initiative is organised.
The initiative is led by its founders, supported by financial governance and a growing network of clinical and research collaborators across Asia Pacific. Collaborators are named publicly only with their consent.
An independent research programme.
Data.Faces.Voices. is an independent women's health research programme. Country fieldwork will be governed through local clinical collaboration, documented permissions, and written data-sharing terms before recruitment begins.
Three ways in.
Each role has a one-page description and a named point of contact. No applicant tracking system. Email reaches the founders directly.
Advisory board.
Six functional roles open. One-year initial commitment, two meetings per year, methodology review and country-brief sign-off in your domain.
Open a conversation →Country collaboration.
If you are an OB-GYN, menopause specialist, or country society contact in APAC, the clinical network path begins with country context review and can grow into fieldwork collaboration where appropriate.
Express interest in your country →Phase 1 hires.
Three operational roles scale with Phase 1 funding: Research Coordinator, Content & Communications, Data Manager. Register early interest and we'll be in touch as roles open.
Register interest →A single inbox. No form widget.
Reaches both founders. Press & media enquiries: please use the same address and prefix the subject line with [Press].