Wong, Brian Li Han
Affiliated Researcher
Center for Resilient Health
Center for Resilient Health
I am a consultant, entrepreneur, global public health expert, and interdisciplinary researcher interested in ageing and life course, digital (public/mental) health, global health diplomacy/governance, primary health care (PHC), public health workforce capacity building, meaningful youth engagement (MYE), and pandemic prevention, preparedness & response (PPR).
I currently act as Program Manager for the "International Politics, Leadership & Diplomacy for Health" project, a collaboration between the Stockholm School of Economics and Karolinska Institutet. I have previously worked with FIND Diagnostics and the WHO European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies, where I advised on and contributed to work on digital health, PHC, human resources for health, and social participation. I sit 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, Youth4Health Network, and ASPHER COVID-19 / Digital Public Health Task Forces.
My long-standing passion for meaningful youth engagement in global health led me to found LonWHO, the UK’s first ModelWHO simulation, at LSHTM in 2017. I 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. I regularly attend high-level meetings, where I have written/delivered policy statements and advocated for MYE in global health governance & policy-making.
My previous roles include: Scientific Community Manager for I-DAIR (now HealthAI); Youth Officer and Regional Youth Champion with The Lancet & Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030 (now DTH-Lab); surveillance epidemiologist with Public Health England, where I supported national COVID-19 surveillance and immunisation efforts; and Programme Manager of the “Outbreak!” strand of UCL’s annual Global Citizenship Programme.
Since concluding my doctoral studies in cardiovascular science at UCL, I have completed 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. I also hold an MSc in epidemiology from LSHTM and B.Sc (Hons.) in biomedical science with a minor in music from uOttawa. In parallel with my work, I am pursuing a PhD in public health workforce development (part-time) at Maastricht University & an MBA from Quantic.
I currently act as Program Manager for the "International Politics, Leadership & Diplomacy for Health" project, a collaboration between the Stockholm School of Economics and Karolinska Institutet. I have previously worked with FIND Diagnostics and the WHO European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies, where I advised on and contributed to work on digital health, PHC, human resources for health, and social participation. I sit 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, Youth4Health Network, and ASPHER COVID-19 / Digital Public Health Task Forces.
My long-standing passion for meaningful youth engagement in global health led me to found LonWHO, the UK’s first ModelWHO simulation, at LSHTM in 2017. I 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. I regularly attend high-level meetings, where I have written/delivered policy statements and advocated for MYE in global health governance & policy-making.
My previous roles include: Scientific Community Manager for I-DAIR (now HealthAI); Youth Officer and Regional Youth Champion with The Lancet & Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030 (now DTH-Lab); surveillance epidemiologist with Public Health England, where I supported national COVID-19 surveillance and immunisation efforts; and Programme Manager of the “Outbreak!” strand of UCL’s annual Global Citizenship Programme.
Since concluding my doctoral studies in cardiovascular science at UCL, I have completed 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. I also hold an MSc in epidemiology from LSHTM and B.Sc (Hons.) in biomedical science with a minor in music from uOttawa. In parallel with my work, I am pursuing a PhD in public health workforce development (part-time) at Maastricht University & an MBA from Quantic.