Vanessa P Ho
Biographic Data
| ID | 7845457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa P Ho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa P |
| FAMILY NAME | Ho |
| SIGNATURE | HO V P |
| AFFILIATIONS | MetroHealth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6113-2555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“We are already naked”
Singapore’s pragmatic governance of sex work, combining criminalisation and toleration, is exemplified by the Medical Surveillance Scheme (MSS) introduced in 1976 to manage STIs/HIV among registered sex-workers. While the MSS provides conditional healthcare access, it excludes undocumented migrant sex-workers, leaving them vulnerable to health inequalities, precarity, and state violence. Drawing on an ethnography-informed conducted between March …
Culturally Centering the Voices of Transgender Sex Workers in Singapore
The transgender sex worker experience of health in Singapore is multidimensional, working at the intersections of culture, social class, and gendered marginalization. Drawing on in-depth interviews with transgender sex workers in the context of Singapore's extreme neoliberalism and located within a larger culture-centered intervention that emerged through an academic-activist-community partnership, this study foregrounds the everyday meanings of …
Criminalization in Trauma Care
Covid-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore
While past studies have sought to capture how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on the health and sexual lives of sex workers internationally, less attention has been paid to the reorganisation of sex markets as a result of COVID-19. We conducted a sequential exploratory mixed methods study using in-depth interviews, cyber ethnography and surveyor-administered structured surveys among sex workers. We report two key findings on how the pandemic h…
The Impact of the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) on the Health and Social Needs of Sex Workers in Singapore
We evaluated the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the sex work industry and assessed how it has impacted the health and social conditions of sex workers in Singapore. We conducted a sequential exploratory mixed methods study amidst the COVID-19 pandemic from April to October 2020, including in-depth interviews with 24 stakeholders from the sex work industry and surveyor-administered structured surveys with 171 sex workers. COVID-19…
The Impact of the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) on the Health and Social Needs of Sex Workers in Singapore
We evaluated the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the sex work industry and assessed how it has impacted the health and social conditions of sex workers in Singapore. We conducted a sequential exploratory mixed methods study amidst the COVID-19 pandemic from April to October 2020, including in-depth interviews with 24 stakeholders from the sex work industry and surveyor-administered structured surveys with 171 sex workers. COVID-19…
The Impact of the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) on the Health and Social Needs of Sex Workers in Singapore
We evaluated the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the sex work industry and assessed how it has impacted the health and social conditions of sex workers in Singapore. We conducted a sequential exploratory mixed methods study amidst the COVID-19 pandemic from April to October 2020, including in-depth interviews with 24 stakeholders from the sex work industry and surveyor-administered structured surveys with 171 sex workers. COVID-19…
Covid-19 and the shifting organisation of sex work markets in Singapore
While past studies have sought to capture how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on the health and sexual lives of sex workers internationally, less attention has been paid to the reorganisation of sex markets as a result of COVID-19. We conducted a sequential exploratory mixed methods study using in-depth interviews, cyber ethnography and surveyor-administered structured surveys among sex workers. We report two key findings on how the pandemic h…
Culturally Centering the Voices of Transgender Sex Workers in Singapore
The transgender sex worker experience of health in Singapore is multidimensional, working at the intersections of culture, social class, and gendered marginalization. Drawing on in-depth interviews with transgender sex workers in the context of Singapore's extreme neoliberalism and located within a larger culture-centered intervention that emerged through an academic-activist-community partnership, this study foregrounds the everyday meanings of …
Criminalization in Trauma Care
“We are already naked”
Singapore’s pragmatic governance of sex work, combining criminalisation and toleration, is exemplified by the Medical Surveillance Scheme (MSS) introduced in 1976 to manage STIs/HIV among registered sex-workers. While the MSS provides conditional healthcare access, it excludes undocumented migrant sex-workers, leaving them vulnerable to health inequalities, precarity, and state violence. Drawing on an ethnography-informed conducted between March …
Sex work and related issues (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Sex work (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Demography (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Pandemic (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works)