Born in Malaysia and raised in Canada, Brian Li Han Wong is 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).

Brian currently acts as Program Manager for the "International Politics, Leadership & Diplomacy for Health" project, co-hosted by the Stockholm School of Economics and Karolinska Institutet, as well as an advisor for health tech start-us (including AdagioVR & Tala Thrive). He has previously worked with FIND Diagnostics and the WHO European Observatory on Health Systems & Policies, where he advised on and contributed to digital health, PHC, human resources for health, and social participation activities. He sits on the Steering Committee for EUPHA's Digital Health Section, Chair the Board of Trustees for UK ModelWHO, and is part of the WHO Youth Council, Youth4Health Network, and ASPHER COVID-19 / Digital Public Health Task Forces.

His long-standing passion for meaningful youth engagement in global health led him to found LonWHO, the UK’s first ModelWHO simulation, at LSHTM in 2017. He 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. He regularly attends high-level meetings, where he has written/delivered policy statements and advocated for MYE in global health governance & policy-making.

Brian's 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 he supported national COVID-19 surveillance and immunisation efforts; and Programme Manager of the “Outbreak!” strand of UCL’s annual Global Citizenship Programme.

Since concluding his doctoral studies in cardiovascular science at UCL, Brian has 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. He also holds an MSc in epidemiology from LSHTM and B.Sc (Hons.) in biomedical science with a minor in music from uOttawa. In parallel with his work, I am pursuing a PhD in public health workforce development (part-time) at Maastricht University & an MBA from Quantic.