SPEAKER

Professor Kenneth Mak is Director-General of Health at the Ministry of Health Singapore. In this role, he is the principal medical adviser to the Singapore Government and provides professional input and guidance to other Ministries and public agencies on health and healthcare related issues. Professor Mak oversees the provision of all health services in Singapore. Within the Ministry of Health, he ensures that clinical services are delivered seamlessly across multiple settings by the public healthcare system. He leads in developing and implementing national healthcare policies in areas such as population health, healthcare regulation, communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases, healthcare professional standards as well as the development and enhancement of the performance of the nation’s healthcare system and services. Professor Mak works closely with Singapore’s Regional Health Systems and healthcare institutions on care integration as well as on Singapore’s long-term healthcare transformation strategy.

This presentation covers efforts of the Ministry of Health, Singapore (MOH) in embedding behavioural and implementation sciences in its work, as well as MOH’s views on where the sciences can be further leveraged to advance and apply the sciences for better health outcomes.

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.