We are excited to announce our newest UCL GBSH staff members!

Today we’re very excited to announce that three new staff members joining the UCL GBSH team!

Former Australian Health Minister Professor the Hon Greg Hunt will be joining the UCL GBSH team as an Honorary Professor. 

Professor Hunt is a highly experienced former Australian Cabinet Minister, having served across three major portfolios over nearly a decade. As Minister for Health for over five years, Professor Hunt oversaw Australia’s response to the pandemic, established telehealth as a permanent and universal centrepiece of Medicare, and developed long-term plans for mental health, aged care, medical research, and primary care. 

Currently, Professor Hunt advises a wide range of businesses and NGOs on health, leadership, innovation, and strategic planning – including being an Honorary Enterprise Professor at the University of Melbourne and Chair of the Advisory Council for the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University. 

In his new role at the GBSH, Professor Hunt will focus on policy and practice to support medical innovation, comparative global health systems, strategic planning, and leadership development. 

We are very pleased to be able to confirm the appointment of Shing-Wai Wong as Executive Education Director and Professor Shehla Zaidi as Global Health Management Programme Lead.

Wong is a seasoned expert in driving commercial growth for academic institutions. Most recently she served as the Associate Director of Executive Education for the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, responsible for leading business development and corporate partnerships internationally, scaling and launching flagship programmes, and enhancing reputation through prestigious global rankings. 

Wong is also passionate about diversity and inclusion. She has led over a decade's work in advancing women through executive development and serves as a member of the Women's Higher Education Network’s Advisory Board. 

Zaidi has 25 years of academic leadership, teaching, and research experience at the Aga Khan University. She has worked on tackling contemporary health challenges of private sector integration for universal health coverage, multi-sector governance for better health, and policy drivers of health initiatives in Pakistan, MENA and South Asia. She also brings policy advisory and leadership training experience through her assignments with the World Health Organisation, the World Bank, and other multilateral agencies.

With over 40 years of collective healthcare and business experience between them, Wong will lead the GBSH’s Executive Education team, offering a diverse range of practical and outcome-oriented programmes and client partnerships, delivered in-person, hybrid and online, whilst Zaidi will be the Programme Lead for Masters in Global Healthcare Management. 

We are pleased to announce that this news has been featured in FE News and healthcare publication National Health Executive, which is a key trade publication read by NHS management and leadership.

Please join us in welcoming Professor the Hon Greg Hunt, Shing-Wai Wong and Professor Shehla Zaidi to UCL GBSH!