Mark Cheong Wing Loong

Dr Mark Cheong Wing Loong is currently the Deputy Head of School (Education) at the School of Pharmacy, Monash University Malaysia. His research focuses on improving access to health systems and healthcare services, and how palliative care approaches can improve healthcare for all. Dr Cheong also studies the lived experiences of people who interact with, use, or work in healthcare systems, as well as unmet needs of people living with complex life-limiting illnesses. Dr Cheong has been a collaborator and consultant with both Malaysian and international civil society organizations on health advocacy projects on palliative care, access to medicines and healthcare, and health inequalities.

Dr Cheong is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Maybank ASEAN Research Center at the Asia School of Business, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH, UK). He was previously a Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University – International Institute for Global Health. He is also a member of the National Palliative Care Services Development Committee, Ministry of Health Malaysia. Dr Cheong is a registered pharmacist with the Pharmacy Board of Malaysia.