Brian Li Han Wong
WHO European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies, FIND Diagnostics, and CISDI
Brian Li Han Wong is a consultant, entrepreneur, global public health expert, and multidisciplinary researcher interested in ageing and life course, digital (public/mental) health, global health governance, public health workforce capacity building, meaningful youth engagement (MYE), and pandemic prevention, preparedness & response (PPR).
Brian's current work is with the WHO European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies, FIND Diagnostics, and CISDI, where he advises on and contributes to digital health, primary healthcare (PHC), human resources for health, and social participation activities. He sits on the Steering Committee for EUPHA's Digital Health Section, Chair the Board of Trustees for UK ModelWHO, and am part of the WHO Youth Council and ASPHER COVID-19 / Digital Public Health Task Forces.
His long-standing passion for meaningful youth engagement in global health governance and policy-making led him to found LonWHO, the UK’s first ModelWHO simulation, at LSHTM in 2017. He also founded UK Model WHO, the first unified structure for ModelWHO sims in the UK, which provides global health policy, advocacy, and diplomacy training for students and young professionals worldwide.
Brian's previous role was as Scientific Community Manager for The International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR), a scientific collaboration & diplomacy platform aiming to enable and improve access to inclusive, impactful, and responsible research into digital health and AI for health worldwide, with a focus on low-and middle-income countries. He also held the roles of Youth Officer and Regional Youth Champion with The Lancet & Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030; worked as a surveillance epidemiologist with Public Health England, supporting national COVID-19 surveillance and immunisation efforts; and was Programme Manager of the “Outbreak!” strand of UCL’s annual Global Citizenship Programme.
Since concluding his doctoral studies in cardiovascular science at UCL, Brian has gone to complete a social innovation fellowship with Year Here, diplomatic training from the European Academy of Diplomacy, and Harvard Medical School's Global Clinical Scholars Research Training program. He holds an MSc in epidemiology from LSHTM and B.Sc (Hons.) in biomedical science with a minor in music from Ottawa. In parallel with his work, he is pursuinga PhD in public health workforce development (part-time) at Maastricht University and an MBA from Quantic.