With Ministry of Health Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) since 2019, Wai Chiong led, initiated and grew several projects to address both social and environmental determinants of health. Currently as Senior Consultant and Programme Lead, he continues to lead Financing Redesign, the mindline.sg digital mental wellbeing platform, and champions horizontal enabling initiatives across the system. He holds adjunct teaching and research appointments with NUS Cities, Singapore Institute of Technology, and SUSS. In the people sector, he serves as Board Vice President of Loving Heart Multi Service Centre and District Councillor with South West CDC. 

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.