Keith Hariman

Keith is currently a medical doctor in Hong Kong. He started his medical degree at Imperial College, London. He took an Intercalated BSc degree in Medical Sciences with Management at the Imperial College Business School, researching on the critical success factors of Lean management in healthcare. He then transferred back to Hong Kong into the medical program of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

His main interest in medicine is psychiatry and public health, specifically administrative medicine and policy formation. He is particularly interested the influence of local culture on the presentation of each patient’s mental illness. To further his experience in public health, he went on an elective attachment at the Strategy and Planning Division, Hospital Authority Head Office, Hong Kong during medical school. Having attached to multiple clinical teams in China, Hong Kong, Australia and England, He hopes to help formulate health policies and programs that would facilitate and improve the management of chronic diseases such as depression and diabetes, as well as the overall patient journey in the healthcare system.

Outside of medicine, Keith maintains his interest in politics through regular participation at a well-known local policy think-tank, Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre. He was a finalist at the IBM Universities Business Challenge in England. He is also multi-lingual, having learned eight languages (Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Latin) and fluent in three (Cantonese, English and Mandarin). In his spare time, Keith enjoys the gym, cooking and photography.