CHI Leadership Council

Eugene serves in various leadership roles in public healthcare. He contributes to the development of population health systems, integrated care, hospital management and healthcare innovation. With the National Healthcare Group, Eugene joins up care with partners to serve 1.5 million local residents in Central and North Singapore. At Tan Tock Seng Hospital, he leads the development of future tertiary care models, digitalisation and workforce transformation towards a Hospital Without Walls.

To change healthcare, Eugene inspired the set up of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation by bringing together innovation partners from across the health system, across industries and across borders to co-learn and co-create value.

A/Prof Cherdchai is a respiratory physician by training, and has more than 20 years of experience in Quality improvement, and was instrumental in the setup of R2R unit and methodology.

Siriraj Hospital is the first and largest university hospital in Thailand, with almost 2,000 beds and 15,000 employees. It is also the first 5G Smart hospital in the region, with a strong partnership with Huawei Technologies and the National Broadcasting & Telecommunications Commission.

Göran has more than 30 years of experience in management in the Swedish healthcare system. He was the Chief Executive of Qulturum, a centre for quality, leadership, and management development in Jönköping County for 27 years and recently assumed the position as Senior Strategic Advisor for Region Jönköping.

Göran has also been Jönköping's project director for the Pursuing Perfection initiative over the last four years.

Göran is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and is also part of the Strategic Committee ta the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare organized by the British Medical Journal and IHI.

Hahrie is a scholar and award-winning author who specializes in the study of organising, social movements, and democracy. She was named the 2022 Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year by the World Economic Forum's Schwab Foundation and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Through her research, she has partnered with a wide range of civic and political organizations and movements around the world, including those in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. She served on the Obama-Biden Transition Team in 2008-09 and has worked with multiple campaigns.

Jonathon is a passionate leader of large scale change, and brings over twenty years of experience as a clinician, academic, executive team member, and as a director of local, national and international improvement and innovation.

Notably in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, he led the design, build and operation of Cardiff’s surge hospital. Built in a sports stadium in 4 weeks, the Dragons Heart Hospital was the largest hospital in Wales, and the second largest in the United Kingdom. Jonathon now runs ‘CLIMB’ the national program designed to support young system leaders who ‘ran towards the fire’.

Jonty is a practicing GP, author and broadcaster whose ongoing work on the frontline of primary care allows him to retain perspective on both the challenges facing healthcare providers and the needs of patients.

Jonty has worked as a system leader in London for nearly fifteen years, with experience and passion for digital innovation and data driven population health improvement.

Junaid brings over two decades of experience across primary care, secondary care, and public health settings. He has also worked as a payer and policy maker in the UK, specializing in informatics, digital transformation, and leadership. He joins Flagship from Microsoft Research where he served as Chief Medical Scientist focusing on how trusted, reliable, and human-centered AI can transform the practice of medicine.

He has consulted for health care systems across the US, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Singapore, and Europe. Academically, he is a Clinical Associate Professor at UCL (University College London), an Associate Fellow at the Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI Center), and a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Abdullahi Sheriff is the incoming Managing Director for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in MSD. He also serves on the Leadership Council for the Centre for Healthcare

Innovation (CHI) in Singapore and as a volunteer advisor on the Macmillan Cancer Support Impact Investment Fund in the UK.

Sheriff was the Managing Director for MSD in Singapore, Malaysia & Brunei in MSD where focused on building a highly trusted organization that is well-positioned to save

and improve the lives of people in need and positively contribute to the development of the broader healthcare ecosystem in all three countries.

Prior to this, Sheriff spent many years in Consulting in the UK, working with multiple clients, particularly the UK NHS, and leading a range of strategic initiatives.

Sheriff cares deeply about helping others find ways to flourish and takes great pride in celebrating people for who they are and who they want to be.

Sarah is the Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, an independent charity working to improve people’s health. Since joining in late 2023, Sarah has overseen development of a new long-term strategy, brand and operating model, all focused on boldly reimaging a health and care system that is compassionate, equitable and fit for the future, with people at its heart. The King’s Fund delivers its vision through research, analysis and insight, leadership and organisational development with health and care leaders, convening and events, and through partnership with others.

Previously, Sarah was the Chief Executive of Asthma + Lung UK, the national respiratory charity, having overseen the merger of the two leading lung health charities. Before that, Sarah spent

more than 15 years at Cancer Research UK in a range of senior policy and executive board roles, and is a previous non-executive and trustee of Bliss, the special care baby charity, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC), the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) and the Telstra Health UK Advisory Board. Sarah is a current trustee of MQ: Transforming Mental Health.