Message From Chair | SingHealth Academy

Message from Chair and Co-Chair

Mr Goh Leong Huat

Chair, College of Healthcare Administration and Leadership
Deputy Group Chief Human Resource Officer, Strategic Human Resource, SingHealth

We live in BANI times—Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear and Incomprehensible. Over the past 6 to 12 months, the world has witnessed seismic shifts that have profoundly shaken up traditional and comfortable geopolitical alignments, accelerated global climate change, and generated unprecedented opportunity and threat through the advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Today, more than ever, what is needed is clear-thinking and decisive leadership, grounded in an unswerving belief in doing what is morally correct and focussed on the collective good.

Amidst this milieu, CHeAL stands together with all our sister colleges across the SingHealth Education enterprise in empowering and facilitating all our staff in navigating complexity and turbulence. Within our multifaceted and highly intricate healthcare endeavour, leaders at all levels are constantly called upon to make decisions that have immediate and longer-term impact on patient and staff care and well-being. CHeAL is therefore a deliberate and extensive investment in our people in strengthening professional competence, but also in building up confidence, resilience, flexibility and a shared purpose of doing the best we can for our colleagues and our community.

I am regularly reminded that Today’s mighty oak is simply Yesterday’s little nut that stood its ground. Let us then as individual saplings hold fast to and deepen our values and capability roots as we work collectively at continually nurturing and growing the mighty oak of SingHealth, and realising our vision of putting patients and staff at the heart of all we do.

Dr Phua May Ling

Co-Chair, College of Healthcare Administration and Leadership
Chief Operating Officer, Education, SingHealth

At CHeAL, we believe that developing our people is at the heart of delivering better care. This belief sits at the core of everything we do—and in today's rapidly changing healthcare landscape, it matters more than ever.

CHeAL brings together the best of SingHealth's Strategic Human Resource (SHR) and SingHealth Academy, creating a home where our leaders, administrators and staff can learn, grow and thrive. By combining expertise in leadership development, domain-specific knowledge and learning technology, we design programmes that are practical, relevant, and built around the real needs of our people. A key part of this is our suite of SingHealth Core Milestone Leadership Programmes, which walks leaders through every stage of their journey—giving them a shared language, mindset, and framework to lead with confidence and purpose.

But perhaps what excites us most is the bigger picture. We want CHeAL to be more than a training college—we want it to be a community that people genuinely value and grow within. As we work toward becoming a Centre of Excellence for healthcare leadership, our greatest hope is to see our people flourish and carry the SingHealth mission forward with confidence across patient care, clinical education and Academic Medicine.