About MOHT
Professor Tan Chorh Chuan
Chairman
Singapore has a good healthcare system and achieves excellent health outcomes while maintaining access and affordability. Looking to the future, however, we will encounter unique and complex challenges as our population ages rapidly, the prevalence of chronic diseases continues to rise and social determinants of health become increasing salient. There are also exciting new opportunities created by remarkable advances in science and technology. The ability to collect, curate and analyse large amounts of data will enable innovative new ways to improve population health and prevent and manage disease. Advances in precision medicine and biomedical sciences are producing novel therapeutic options for diseases that were previously untreatable. The active participation of individuals and patients in managing their own health and medical conditions is absolutely critical, and new approaches are becoming available to more effectively promote and support this.
The MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) was set up to help drive the reshaping of our health system at this exciting time of challenge and opportunity. MOHT focuses on a number of longer-term areas with the potential to contribute to fundamental changes in the way we promote health and deliver care. We work closely with partners to design and pilot new initiatives, and concurrently collaborate with MOH, AIC, Synapxe and other stakeholders to develop critical enablers of scaling such as technology, data analytics, and finance and incentive redesign. MOHT endeavours to draw all these together as effective new end-to-end system-level solutions that have a transformative impact on care and health outcomes.
The journey is a complex and challenging one and MOHT greatly appreciates the strong partnership and support of our many stakeholders and collaborators in the joint pursuit of fundamental shifts that will have a large and positive impact on the health and lives of the public and our patients.
Vision
Mission
To take a multi-stakeholder and partnership approach to design and implement innovative solutions essential for the desired health system transformation.
Values
Partnerships
We partner strategically for impact at scale
Resilience
We address challenges and become stronger after setbacks
Innovation
We actively learn, and apply novel ideas that enable valued change
Making Things Happen
We lead and make impactful contributions to create positive change
Excellence
We are good in what we do, and deliver timely and quality outcomes
Our Management
Lim Cher Wee
Covering Head (Integrated General Hospital)
Cher Wee is the Executive Director at MOHT, and has been a key member of MOHT’s leadership team since MOHT began operations in 2018.
As Executive Director (effective Oct 2023), Cher Wee works closely with MOH and MOHT Board on strategy translation and execution across MOHT projects. In this role, Cher Wee ensures that MOHT’s collaborations align with national health and healthcare priorities. He also bridges conversations for these ventures, so that they continue to be as impactful, adaptive and resonant with the stakeholders that are implementing/improving them.
Cher Wee champions organisational excellence at MOHT. He partners teams and individuals to champion how aspirations can be heard, innovations recognised, and their fullest potential enabled. He also works with MOHT teams to manage strategic assets and foster a culture of collaboration and learning.
Cher Wee is also covering Head for MOHT’s hospital-related projects. In this role, Cher Wee leads MOHT’s collaborations in developing care approaches that strive towards redesigning hospital bed substitution and community integration approaches. This includes administering MOH’s national sandbox for Mobile Inpatient Care at Home (MIC@Home). It also includes orchestrating digital-enabled solutions for public healthcare institutions to better transition and share care with community service providers.
Before joining MOHT, Cher Wee served at Singapore’s public healthcare institutions in various roles. He led frontline staff in clinical operations support, analytics, infrastructure redesign, and process improvements. Cher Wee also led administrators in strategic planning and data analytics. One of his projects included Singapore healthcare’s first enterprise-level business intelligence system. Cher Wee has also served at the Ministries of Health, and Trade and Industry.
Professor Gerald Koh
Clinical Director
Gerald is Head and Clinical Director of the Future Primary Care programme. His area of focus in MOHT is the transformation of primary care using tele-health, novel diagnostic tools and new models of care as enablers.
He works with stakeholders from public polyclinics and private general practitioners to ensure that potential solutions that empower patients and providers to improve quality of care can be rapidly prototyped and tested. He is also currently a Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) and holds a concurrent appointment as Joint Associate Professor, Dean’s Office, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). A family physician by training, he obtained his Masters in Medicine (Family Medicine) (NUS) in 2000, Fellowship in Family Medicine (College of Family Physicians Singapore) in 2003 and PhD in Family Medicine from Western University (Canada) in 2012. Prior to joining MOHT, he was Leader of the Health Systems and Behavioural Sciences Domain in SSHSPH and received the NUS Outstanding Educator Award in 2016. He is currently Principal Investigator of the NUHS Diabetes, Tuberculosis and Neuroscience Research Centre’s Telehealth Research Core and NUHS Singapore Population Health Research Centre’s (SPHERiC) Implementation Science Core. His research interests include tele-health in primary care, post-stroke rehabilitation and community geriatrics, health services research and medical education through community service.
Koh Mingshi
Director
Mingshi is Director, TRUST Office, MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT). The Office oversees the running and continued development of TRUST, and also supports the development of national Research Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) health data initiatives.
TRUST is a national health-related data governance framework and technical platform that supports anonymized analytics to improve health outcomes. More information on TRUST can be found here: www.trustplatform.sg.
Prior to joining MOHT, her previous roles include: Director (Chief Health Scientist Office), Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore to support Chief Health Scientist MOH, guiding MOH’s research and development agenda, and strengthening the translation of research to achieve better health outcomes; Director (Planning), Biomedical Research Council (BMRC), Agency for Science and Technology (A*STAR), responsible for strategic planning, catalyzing thematic new research areas/technology platforms, and supporting coordination of the Singapore Biomedical Sciences Initiative.
www.linkedin.com/in/mingshi-koh-826a5510
Lee Keng Leong
Director
Keng Leong is the Head of Operations at MOHT. His responsibilities entail overseeing the spectrum of corporate services in MOHT, including corporate planning, procurement, billings, IT, and general administration.
Prior to joining MOHT, Keng Leong was the Head of Outreach Operations for Silver Generation Office (SGO) in the Agency for integrated Care (AIC). He was responsible to coordinate about 400 staff for outreach operations to about 1 million seniors at large in Singapore, covering some of the COVID related exercises like delivering food products to “empty nester” seniors and seniors at risk.
Keng Leong has accumulated commercial experience in shipbuilding, finance, online retailing, and logistics for the marine sector. He also started and successfully sold his e-commerce logistics startup Bumbox Logistics to Ninja Van in 2015.
Keng Leong is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) since 2012. He was awarded 1st Class Honours bachelor degree in Business Administration from NUS Business School in 2004, and was also awarded the NOL Gold Medal for being the most outstanding graduate in Operations Management. He is an alumnus of Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College.
Liang Hwee Ting
Hwee Ting is the Head of Communications & Engagement (C&E) at MOHT, where she leads a team to develop integrated media campaigns in support of MOHT’s strategy and drives community-based approaches to designing solutions in healthcare.
One of her key achievements is the co-founding of Design4Impact – a national, multi-stakeholder platform that brings together social innovators to co-create and test sustainable solutions for Singaporeans affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
An experienced communicator, Hwee Ting spent a large part of her 25-year career in the healthcare industry, both in the public and private sector. Prior to MOHT, she helmed the Centre for Health Activation at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where she led her teams from Patient Experience Office and Quality Service Management to transform care journeys through engaging, empowering and creating meaningful experiences for patients and families.
Hwee Ting started her career in journalism, where as a correspondent with The Straits Times, she reported on various issues in healthcare. She has won The Straits Times Feature of the Month and the Special Award for Excellence.
Dr Loke Wai Chiong
Senior Consultant
Wai Chiong led, started and grew several projects within the InHealth programme to address both social and environmental determinants of health. Currently as Senior Consultant of MOHT, he continues to lead Financing Redesign, the mindline digital mental wellbeing platform, and various horizontal enabling initiatives across MOHT.
Prior to joining MOHT, Wai Chiong was Partner and Healthcare Sector leader for Deloitte Southeast Asia. As a management consultant in private sector, he advised governments, investors, life sciences companies, providers and payers globally. His projects included business strategy advisory to biomedical and health-tech start-ups, new product development, regulatory and market entry, commercial feasibility of healthcare investments, mergers & acquisitions, amongst others.
He started his career as a practising Family Physician, and went on to hospital management and health policy leadership roles across public and private sectors.
Wai Chiong completed his medical training at the National University of Singapore. He holds a Masters in Family Medicine (NUS), Fellowships with the Academy of Medicine Singapore and the College of Family Physicians, and Double MBA from the University of California (Los Angeles) and the National University of Singapore.
Professor Robert Morris
Robert is Chief Technology Strategist at MOHT, and holds a concurrent appointment as Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. At MOHT, Robert anchors the Data and Technology Enablers.
His current focus is on the application of computer and information sciences, including AI, to transform healthcare.
Until 2017, Robert led all of IBM Research’s Global Laboratories. Prior to that, Robert was also head of the IBM Almaden Research Center (Silicon Valley), where relational database technology and the disk drive were invented. During this time he led the creation of Services Science, research for IBM’s ThinkPad, and Storage Systems. Earlier he also led advanced systems research at TJ Watson Center (New York), including the Deep Blue chess machine, which defeated world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dalen Tan
Director
Dalen is Director (Healthier SG Implementation Office) at MOHT, where he leads the coordination and integration of Healthier SG with the support of MOH. His team oversees the interface between policy, operations, information technology and communications, and works with various agencies and stakeholders in the primary care community to ensure programme outcome delivery to residents.
Prior to joining MOHT, Dalen held leadership positions at the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, where he oversaw policy and planning for aviation safety during the pandemic, including developing a national plan for safe aviation operations and engaging stakeholders and industry leaders to launch the first-ever Safety Charter for the Singapore aviation industry. Before that, Dalen led teams in various areas including regulation, futures, strategic planning, corporate information technology and cybersecurity.
Dr Tan Weng Mooi
Director
Weng Mooi leads the Integrated Health Promotion (InHealth) programme. Her role is to co-lead the development of healthy precinct frameworks and leverage on technology to build up mental wellness and resiliency in the community and workplaces.
Development of the healthy precinct framework involves co-creating a set of tools and integrated, coordinated initiatives and movements for health with various stakeholders in the community including businesses, social, healthcare, community partners and government agencies. The goal is to empower and enable individuals and their families including the community to lead healthy, happy and active lifestyles with meaningful engagements.
Prior to joining MOHT, Weng Mooi was the Chief of Caregiving and Community Mental Health Division in a government agency. She led a team in the development and implementation of the national plan on caregiving and community mental health in the community sector. With the vision of “Integrated Community Living, Ageing in Place”, the plan aimed to develop the capacity and capability of the service providers, building integrated networks to enhance care coordination across the health and social care sectors to empower clients, caregivers and the community. For over 20 years, she served in the public and private health care system in a variety of leadership roles from Director of Allied Health services at a women’s and children’s hospital to Chief Operating Officer in Singapore’s leading mental health institution and group Chief Operating Officer in a private community care organisation.
Weng Mooi holds a Bachelor of Science (Pharmacy) with Distinction from Dalhousie University, Canada, a Doctor of Pharmacy from the Medical University of South Carolina and an Executive MBA from University at Buffalo, USA. She also completed her advanced management programme with INSEAD.
Dr Eunice Wong Sook Ping
Eunice is the Head of the National Improvement Unit at MOHT. It is a national unit set up by MOH to drive value creation for patients through continuous and scalable quality improvement (QI). In this role, Eunice leads the development of collaborative learning networks with healthcare clusters, public healthcare institutions, primary care networks and ILTC stakeholders to identify changes and metrics of success followed by small-scale tests of change to understand and describe the local implementation context before scaling.
Prior to joining MOHT, Eunice held various roles in healthcare systems in Singapore, Australia, Sweden and United Kingdom. Her more recent work involves the design of new care models and large-scale implementation of community mental health care programmes in Singapore and application of behavioural science research to the development and implementation of patient-centred care initiatives in Victoria, Australia.
She started her career as a practising clinical psychologist and went on to public health service implementation work and leadership roles across public health sectors. She completed her PhD in Behavioural Science (Public Health) at Monash University, Australia. She holds a Masters in Public Health (Safety Promotion) from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and a Masters in Psychology (Clinical) from Bond University, Australia.
Organisation Chart
Board Members
Professor Tan Chorh Chuan
Chairman, MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation
Ms Lai Wei Lin
Permanent Secretary (Policy and Development), Ministry of Health
Professor Kenneth Mak
Director-General of Health, Ministry of Health
Mr Anthony Tan
CEO, MOH Holdings