Winston Wong
Dr. Winston Wong is a Scholar-in-Residence at the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. Dr. Wong, a physician by training, received his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, and his baccalaureate and master’s degrees from UC Berkeley. His medical career of over thirty years has been dedicated to improving health equity and addressing socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health, having spanned various roles in clinical medicine, health administration, data and policy development and healthcare philanthropy. Most recently Dr. Wong served for 17 years as the Medical Director of Community Benefit at Kaiser Permanente where he was responsible for developing partnerships with communities to address health equity through enhancing population health and the dissemination of evidence-based medicine, with a particular emphasis on safety net providers. Dr. Wong has served on the UCLA KP Center for Health Equity’s Advisory Committee for over 8 years.