SPEAKER

Joanne Yoong, PhD, is an applied micro-economist and interdisciplinary researcher whose work addresses decision-making for health, financial and social well-being, and the design and evaluation of interventions, technologies and systems that support vulnerable populations. 

Dr Yoong holds multiple faculty appointments and is the author of over one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading economics, medical and public health journals. She has worked on projects around the world including Singapore, Malaysia, the United States, India, China, Ghana, Kenya, Cambodia, Indonesia and Iraqi Kurdistan. 

Dr Yoong received her PhD in Economics at Stanford University as an FSI Starr Foundation Fellow after an early career in financial services, and her AB summa cum laude in Economics and Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University.

This is a dialogue between speakers on the panel to discuss grand challenges facing health and healthcare now and in the years to come, what we can learn from the past, and how we can future-proof healthcare.