JOHN EU-LI WONG is the Isabel Chan Professor in Medical Sciences and Executive Director, Center for Population Health at the National University of Singapore (NUS); Senior Advisor, National University Health System, (NUHS) Singapore. A medical oncologist-hematologist, he currently co-chairs a multisectoral initiative in a real-world township, to co-develop programs which increase healthy longevity, enable purposeful longevity, promote intergenerational bonding and enable ageing-in-place. He has previously served as Senior Vice President (Health Innovation and Translation), NUS; Chief Executive, NUHS; Director of the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore; Dean, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, where he was involved in the development of biomedical sciences as a key pillar of Singapore’s economy and academic medicine in Singapore. He has also served as Chairman, Board of Directors, Health Sciences Authority, Singapore, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea in 2022 and an international member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine in 2019, where he co-chaired an international commission which published a consensus report on a Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity in 2022. He is currently a Commissioner, Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Health Threats. He was the recipient of the 2023 David Rall Medal, US National Academy of Medicine, received the degree of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2019, the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 2016, and Singapore’s President’s Science & Technology Medal in 2014, among other awards.