About
Shui Ling Wong is a pharmacist with extensive experience in pharmaceutical pricing policies, health outcomes, and pharmacy practice. Her research interests include pharmaceutical policy and its implications for access to medicines, health technology assessment, value-based healthcare, and universal health coverage (UHC), particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Prior to joining LSE, Shui Ling spent over a decade at the Ministry of Health Malaysia, where she worked on national pharmaceutical pricing policies, Cabinet papers, medicine price negotiations, and multistakeholder policy engagement. She has published research on medicine prices, access, and affordability, as well as pharmaceutical policy, and pharmacy practice across high- and middle-income country settings.
Her doctoral research focuses on bridging academic research and practical pharmaceutical policy reforms to improve access to and affordability of medicines.
Shui Ling holds an MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences (Health Outcomes and Pharmacy Practice) from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) from the University of Malaya.
Dissertation title:
Evaluating Access and Pricing of High-Cost Medicines in Southeast Asian Upper-Middle-Income Countries
Dissertation supervisors:
Professor Huseyin Naci and Professor Elias Mossialos.
Publications:
- Wong, S. L., Ibrahim, S., Kadir, N. A., & Salleh, S. M. (2019). Access and affordability of medicines in Malaysia: need for a national pricing policy. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 17(5), 641–654. DOI: 10.1007/s40258-019-00480-9
- Haji Khalil, F., Wan Ibrahim, W. N. A., Shahrier, N. A., Wong, S. L., & Muniandy, G. (2022). Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Medicines Price Mechanism. Technical Report No. MOH/S/FAR/58.22(RR)-e. Pharmaceutical Services Programme, Ministry of Health Malaysia.
- Alshehri, A. M., Barner, J. C., Wong, S. L., Ibrahim, K. R., & Qureshi, S. (2021). Perceptions among Muslims regarding fasting, medication use and provider engagement during Ramadan in the United States. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 36(3), 945–957.
- Wong, S. L., Marshall, L. Z., & Lawson, K. A. (2018). Direct oral anticoagulant prescription trends, switching patterns, and adherence in Texas Medicaid. The American Journal of Managed Care, 24(8 Spec No.), SP309–SP314.
- Wong, S. L., Barner, J. C., Sucic, K., Nguyen, M., & Rascati, K. L. (2017). Integration of pharmacists into patient-centered medical homes in federally qualified health centers in Texas. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 57(3), 375–381. DOI: 10.1016/j.japh.2017.03.012