He was involved in the South East Asian Nutrition Survey (SEANUTS) together with Prof. Poh on this panel. His research interest include cognitive behavioural factors in weight management, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, behaviour fluency and cross-cultural psychopathology. Ng will be discussing the challenges of complicated psychological variables in tackling childhood obesity from a systemic approach, acknowledging the individual child, to parents and subsequently to the community and media where marketing takes place.