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Building a Global Network for Healthcare Leadership

A global network for healthcare leadership

The SingHealth International Administrators Fellowship Network brings together 10 leading academic medical centres across North America, Europe, and Asia. Through six- to eight-week immersion programmes, healthcare administrators from SingHealth and partner institutions exchange expertise and explore how different health systems address shared challenges, while overseas administrators gain insight into SingHealth's fully integrated public healthcare model.

What happens when a hospital’s incoming electrical supply is disrupted?

What happens when a hospital’s incoming electrical supply is disrupted?

During her attachment at NYC Health + Hospitals, Ong Li Wen, Deputy Director of Facilities Management at Changi General Hospital, observed a live incident requiring teams to monitor voltage fluctuations, assess contingency measures, and coordinate a response while keeping essential services running. She also observed that the co-generation system recovers and utilises waste energy to support building operations as part of the NYC Health + Hospitals’ sustainability initiatives.

Learning how data and financial management can support organisational decision-making

For Lee Hui Quan, Director of Business Office at KK Women's and Children's Hospital, his six-week attachment at Stanford Health Care offered him exposure to advanced financial management practices, business intelligence tools and data-driven processes within a large healthcare institution. The experience reinforced the potential of using data to make financial planning and decision-making more responsive, informed and strategic.

“This innovative initiative, led by SingHealth and supported by an international network of peers, will help broaden perspectives, exchange best practices, and develop administrators who are ready to grow with adaptability and insight.”

Dr Chung Kin Lai

CEO of CUHK Medical Centre

The importance of reciprocal learning and collaboration

The importance of reciprocal learning and collaboration
The issues facing healthcare are increasingly interconnected – and so too must be the leadership needed to address them.

As health systems everywhere grapple with ageing populations, rising demand, workforce pressures, digital transformation, and sustainability, no single institution has all the answers. The programme provides a structured platform where partner institutions can connect, exchange ideas, and learn from one another collectively – enabling insights, innovations, and experiences to be shared across the entire network rather than between two organisations alone.

By bringing global health systems into closer dialogue, it strengthens healthcare leadership and prepares institutions for the challenges of tomorrow. It reflects a recognition that the most pressing questions in healthcare today – how to do more with less, how to care for ageing populations, how to harness technology responsibly – are questions that no health system can answer in isolation. The answers, when they come, will emerge from exactly this kind of sustained, structured, cross-border collaboration.

This article was first published on 28 September 2026.