Joseph Tay Wee Teck Clinical Services Director

About me

Joseph Tay Wee Teck is a 2023–24 UK Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice.

He has been a general practitioner working with marginalised groups and populations for more than 15 years. He specialises in addiction medicine and is the clinical services director for Forward Leeds, the second-largest integrated addiction care service in England. He is also an honorary research fellow at St Andrews University School of Medicine, where he co-founded the digitAS project, which explores the role of digital health interventions in addiction services. 

His key areas of research and policy interest include the reproduction of inequalities in digital health interventions, implementation science, telemedicine delivered addiction care, and the use of complex and critical systems approaches in addressing wicked problems. He is part of the policy and practice interest group of the International Society of Addiction Medicine and has been an advisor in the Scottish policy context on quality standards for the treatment of opioid use disorder and other substance use–related issues. 

He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of St Andrews, earned an M.Sc. in drug and alcohol studies from the University of Glasgow, and earned his medical degree at NUI Galway.