Ms. Wing-Sie Cheng is Regional Adviser overseeing UNICEF’s response to HIV and AIDS in East Asia and the Pacific region.
She has held various positions for UNICEF in Asia for over 25 years and provided technical support to Bhutan, China, India, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam and other countries on maternal child health, childhood immunization, polio, HIV/AIDS and public health communication.
Ms. Cheng conceived the Asia-Pacific UN Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Trask Force in the late 1990s jointly with UNAIDS and WHO, and took part in a number of joint PMTCT technical assessments with WHO to advise governments on programme scale-up.
She also set up the largest repository of HIV data in Asia-Pacific: www.aidsdatahub.org jointly with UNAIDS and the Asian Development Bank, and the PMTCT web repository for the Asia-Pacific Task Force: epctcasiapacific.org. She has written extensively on the strategic use of data-driven communication design to change public attitudes, tackle public resistance and achieve public health goals.
Ms Cheng is an Edward S. Mason Fellow of Harvard University, USA where she graduates with a Master’s degree in Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Social Science from the National University of Singapore.
She is a national of Singapore who lives and work in Bangkok.