Public Health Thought Leadership Dialogue: Future Proofing Public Health Care
Date: Thursday, 02 June 2022
Time: 3.30 to 5.00pm (SGT)
Venue:
National University Singapore, Lecture Theatre 37 (MD1), Tahir Foundation Building, 12 Science Drive, S117549
Synopsis:
NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health presents the Public Health Thought Leadership Dialogue: Future Proofing Public Health Care.
This session will feature Mr Khairy Jamaluddin, Minister of Health for Malaysia.
About the speaker:
Mr Khairy Jamaluddin, Minister of Health for Malaysia
Mr Khairy Jamaluddin has previously served as Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation and Minister of Youth and Sports. He has been the Member of Parliament for Rembau since 2008.
Prior to entering politics, he worked as a policy aide, investment banker and entrepreneur. He was Chairman of Malaysia’s National Entrepreneur Development Corporation, Deputy President of the Football Association of Malaysia and Commander of the 508 Territorial Army Regiment of Malaysia. A proponent of centrist politics, he is the Co-Founder of The Centre, a think tank dedicated to the promotion of centrist thought.
Moderator:
Associate Professor Jeremy Lim
Associate Professor Jeremy Lim is the co-founder and CEO of AMiLi, the first dedicated gut microbiome full service company in Southeast Asia. He is also Director of the Leadership Institute for Global Health Transformation (LIGHT) at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health where he works to enhance cooperation, capacity building and knowledge sharing across the region.
Trained in surgery and public health, Jeremy attained various post graduate qualifications including membership in the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), masters of medicine (NUS) and masters of public health (Johns Hopkins, as a Fulbright scholarship awardee). He was an inaugural fellow of the Asia Society A21 young leaders programme in 2006.
Jeremy has a special interest in ways that technology can increase health equity and access to care. He advises a number of health technology companies and programmes in the region and globally. He also serves on the boards of/advises various charities and social enterprises, including HealthServe, Dover Park Hospice and SNTC. Jeremy has worked in executive roles in both public and private sectors, including time spent as a senior official in the Ministry of Health, Singapore and was prior to AMiLi, founding partner of global consultancy Oliver Wyman’s Asia health and life sciences practice (2013).
Panellists:
Dr Hsien-Hsien Lei
Dr Hsien-Hsien Lei is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Singapore — the largest and the most active international business association in Singapore and Southeast Asia, with over 6,000 members representing over 550 companies. Hsien is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, member of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Advisory Board and founding member of the Precision Public Health Asia Society.
Prior to AmCham, Hsien was Vice President, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Medtronic Asia Pacific, where she was responsible for the Medtronic Innovation Centers in Japan and Korea, training and education, and the company’s health systems transformation strategy in the region. Hsien has extensive experience in scientific affairs, corporate and healthcare communications, advertising, public relations and government affairs.
Hsien has lived and worked in the US, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, UK, and is now based in Singapore. She holds a BA (with honors) in Human Biology from Stanford University and a PhD in Epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health where she was the recipient of a US National Institutes of Health Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology Training Grant. Her doctoral thesis explored the genetic epidemiology of end-stage renal disease and type 2 diabetes. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at National Taiwan University Hospital in the Department of Internal Medicine.
Dr Ong Suan Ee
Dr Ong Suan Ee is a senior health systems researcher and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Research for Impact.
She works in health systems and policy research, with a focus on evidence synthesis, policy analysis, and qualitative methods. She studied political science and international relations in Australia and France and holds graduate degrees in public health from the National University of Singapore (NUS).
She is also Adjunct Research Fellow at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Senior Fellow at the Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy, Kuala Lumpur.