Brian Li Han Wong
Youth Officer, The Lancet & Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030: Growing up in a digital world
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Born in Malaysia and raised in Canada, Brian Li Han Wong is an entrepreneur, public health advocate & practitioner, and multidisciplinary researcher interested in ageing and life course, digital health, global health governance, immunisation/vaccination policy, and youth engagement. He currently sits on the Steering Committees for the EUPHA Digital Health Section and the new WHO Youth Council, is part of ASPHER’s COVID-19 Task Force, and chairs the Board of Trustees for UK Model WHO.
Brian works as Youth Officer for The Lancet & Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030: Growing up in a digital world and is also currently undertaking a social innovation fellowship with Year Here.
Brian has previously acted as surveillance epidemiologist for Public Health England’s Immunisation and Countermeasures Division as well as Programme Manager of the “Outbreak!” strand of UCL’s annual Global Citizenship Programme. His long-standing passion for meaningful youth engagement through innovation, capacity building, and experiential learning activities has led him to found LonWHO, the world’s largest Model WHO simulation, and UK Model WHO, the first unified structure for Model WHO simulations in the UK which provides global health policy, advocacy, and diplomacy training for students and young professionals. He has written and delivered policy statements at high-level meetings, such as the World Health Assembly and the WHO’s Executive Board Meeting, as part of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) delegation.
Brian is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health and the Royal Society of Arts. Since concluding his doctoral studies at University College London, he went on to pursue an Executive Diploma in the Art of Diplomacy from the European Academy of Diplomacy, the Global Clinical Scholars Research Training program with Harvard Medical School, and infodemic manager training from WHO. He holds a Master’s degree in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an Honours Bachelor's degree in biomedical science with a minor in music from the University of Ottawa.
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Regional youth perspectives on governing health futures: Making digital transformations in health wo
Health futures are being decided now. Digital technologies and data carry great potential to improve young people’s health and well-being. However, weak and non-inclusive governance of digital transformations is exacerbating health inequities, threatening human rights, and undermining individual agency.
In this pre-formed panel, the Governing Health Futures 2030 Commission will present the findings from its report and recommendations for public value-driven governance of digital transformations that allows young people to be fully involved in shaping their health futures.
You’ll hear about the synergies from the Commission’s report recommendations and the youth statement and call to action; research on young people’s use of digital technologies for health; the development of a typology of digital childhoods; and an initiative to imagine health futures through science fiction. You’ll also be encouraged to share your own views about digital health governance and help to shape the next phase of the Commission’s work.
Digital childhoods: Growing up in a digital world
Children and young people are growing up in a digital world but their lived experiences of that world, and its opportunities and risks, vary dramatically depending on where they live and their socio-economic status. Young people’s ability to use digital technologies to learn about and manage their health and well-being is determined by a range of intersecting economic, social, and political factors.
In this poster, the Governing Health Futures 2030 Commission presents a new typology of digital health childhood profiles ranging from ‘digitally excluded’ to ‘digitally immersed’. The purpose of these profiles is to highlight the need for policymakers and other digital health actors to take young people’s different realities into account when designing and applying digital health tools.
Do these profiles adequately reflect the diversity of young people’s experiences of digital transformations in health? Let us know!
Brian Li Han Wong
Youth Officer, The Lancet & Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030: Growing up in a digital world
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