Director, Community Partnership, SingHealth Office of Regional Health, SingHealth

Chief Community Development Officer, Changi General Hospital 

Dr Eugene Shum is Director, Community Partnership at the SingHealth Office of Regional Health. He has extensive experience in community engagement and facilitates the integration of health and social care services in the community. Through partnerships with community organisations, he has developed pioneering health-social initiatives such as the Neighbours for Active Living programme and CareLine, a 24/7 nationwide telecare service which received the Ministry of Health National Clinical Excellence Team Award in 2022. Dr Shum was previously Director, Medical Affairs and Innovation at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital. He has held various portfolios at the Ministry of Health, Singapore. 

Dr Shum is a preventive medicine physician. He obtained his MBSS from the National University of Singapore and his Master of Public Health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University. He is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Adj Assoc Prof Shum co-chairs the Building Healthy Communities Through Collaborations and Population Health Engagements Track: