Prof Gerald Koh Choon Huat

Head (Future Primary Care), Clinical Director, Ministry of Health (MOH) Office of Healthcare Transformation
Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore
Joint Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Honorary Senior Consultant, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital

Professor (Dr) Gerald Koh is currently seconded to Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) Office of Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) as Head and Clinical Director of its Future Primary Care programme where his area of focus is primary care transformation using tele-health, novel technologies and new models of care. He works with stakeholders including public polyclinics and private general practitioners to ensure that solutions which empower patients and providers to improve quality of care can be rapidly prototyped, evaluated, scaled and mainstreamed (e.g. Primary Technology Enhanced Care and Healthier SG). In 2023, he received the COVID-19 Resilience Medal and National Day Award, Commendation Medal (COVID-19) for helping to set up telehealth in community care facilities for migrant workers during the early COVID pandemic phase when the number of daily cases breached over 1,000. He also volunteers for ACTS (A Call To Share) medical missions in Cambodia under CHARIS (Caritas Humanitarian Aid & Relief Initiatives Singapore).