John Wong

JOHN EU-LI WONG is the Isabel Chan Professor in Medical Sciences and Executive Director, Center for Population Health at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Senior Advisor, National University Health System, (NUHS) Singapore. A medical oncologist-hematologist, he currently co-chairs a multisectoral initiative in a real-world township, to co-develop programs which increase healthy longevity, enable purposeful longevity, promote intergenerational bonding and enable ageing-in-place. He has previously served as Senior Vice President (Health Innovation and Translation), NUS; Chief Executive, NUHS; Director of the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore; Dean, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, where he was involved in the development of biomedical sciences as a key pillar of Singapore’s economy and in the development of academic medicine in Singapore. He has also served as Chairman, Board of Directors, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Personalized and Precision Medicine, the Nature Index Panel of Senior Medical Advisors, and the international editorial board of the American Journal of Medicine. He was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea in 2022 and an international member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine in 2019, where he co-chaired an international commission which published the consensus report on a Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity in 2022. He is currently a Commissioner, Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Health Threats. He was the recipient of the 2023 David Rall Medal, US National Academy of Medicine, received the degree of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2019, the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 2016, and Singapore’s President’s Science & Technology Medal in 2014, among other awards. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medicine Singapore, the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and London, and the American College of Physicians.