Ms April Lee

Technical Officer, Healthy Ageing, Data, Strategy and Innovation,
World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific

April Siwon Lee is a Technical Officer with the World Health Organization's Regional Office for the Western Pacific, contributing to programme creation, innovation, and evidence generation in the Healthy Ageing Unit across 38 countries and areas.

At WHO, April pioneered the first social prescribing programme launched by WHO globally and currently leads research on the impact of arts on health and well-being, drawing on evidence from the Western Pacific Region. She provides technical support to WHO Member States on policy development, programme design, and evidence generation. Prior to joining WHO, she worked on tuberculosis, maternal and child health, and health promotion with various agencies in Canada, China, Kenya, Malawi, and the Philippines.

April holds a Master of Public Health and an Honors BSc in Global Health from the University of Toronto. She is concurrently pursuing a DPhil in Translational Health Sciences at the University of Oxford.