HSSR is established as a center of academic excellence for research and education on the organization, funding, and delivery of health services. Our focus is on public health and clinical service innovation in an increasingly complex and connected world.
 

HSSR employs a systems perspective to addressing critical health issues. Systems thinking cuts across all of our research priorities and recognizes the multiple leverage points and feedback loops involved. This includes health, social, economic, political, biological and other systems.
 

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AM•EI is committed to enhancing the capabilities of each and every educator, so as to build the teaching pipeline and better groom generations of healthcare professionals. This supports the spirit of Generativity, which is developing excellent healthcare educators who can contribute to building up other healthcare professionals in a vibrant learning environment that promotes care innovation and improves patient outcomes.
 

A joint institute by Duke-NUS and SingHealth, AM•EI brings together a community of inter-professional healthcare educators passionate about education. Our members range from senior educators to young Residents, who teach, as well as staff who would like the opportunity to teach, all sharing the common goal to enhance teaching and raise standards in healthcare education.
 

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The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is one of the largest Faculties in the National University of Singapore, FASS has a rich history, having celebrated its 80th Anniversary in 2009, as well as a strong international reputation for educational and research excellence. With 17 departments, 20 major subjects, a host of minor programmes and a Centre for Language Studies offering both Asian and European languages, the faculty  offers the most comprehensive education in the humanities, social sciences and Asian studies in this part of the world.   FASS’  research landscape is rich and diverse. Complementing discipline-based research conducted in the various departments, FASS currently has five interdisciplinary research clusters on Cities; Health; Migration; Religion; Science and Technology, which add cross-cutting synergy to the FASS research culture.
 

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The Next Age Institute (NAI) is a partnership between Washington University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) to study, design, and test social innovations.
 

NAI, part of Washington University’s McDonnell International Scholars Academy, will address global challenges facing many families and communities, among them aging populations, rising inequality, globalization of markets, and the shift to information age technologies. Through innovation, research, and policy development, NAI will focus on creating a comprehensive body of applied scholarship to address these profound issues.
 

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The Tsao Foundation is dedicated to transforming the experience of longevity for it to be an actualization of the full potential for growth, health and fulfillment in a society for all ages. Established in 1993 as a non-profit family foundation, efforts have first focused on promoting successful ageing, and active ageing as framed by the World Health Organization.

Tsao Foundation has pioneered approaches to ageing and eldercare across a range of disciplines to empower mature adults to master their own ageing journey over their life course in terms of self-care, growth and development.

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The Centre for Research on the Economics of Ageing (CREA) at the Singapore Management University was established in June 2014 to study economic issues of ageing populations. CREA’s primary goal is to conduct a long-term study of ageing in Singapore, with particular reference to retirement adequacy and its contributing factors. Researchers from Singapore and international collaborators are examining behaviour and policies relating to health, housing and pensions, and their impact on financial well-being in retirement. The research programme is based on monthly data being collected through the Singapore Life Panel (SLP), a high-frequency, large-scale, internet-based survey with more than 10,000 households forming a representative sample of the Singapore population aged between 50 and 70 years.
 

To find out more about the research and the SLP, please visit CREA.

 
Geriatric Education and Research Institute (GERI) is a national agency to spearhead research in geriatric services and age-related healthcare issues in Singapore. It also aims to strengthen training content and curriculum to adequately equip healthcare workers with skills to better care for elderly patients.
 

GERI will collaborate in cross-institutional, multi-disciplinary research related to clinical and biomedical aspects of ageing to better align ageing research efforts of academia and research agencies. It will also evaluate national programmes relating to ageing or geriatrics care and provide the evidence to guide policies and improve care models in ageing into sustainable solutions.

The Institute of Geriatrics and Active Ageing (IGA) is part of Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). It was established in September 2012 to be at the forefront of TTSH's expansion of research and training initiatives to serve our rapidly ageing population.

IGA aims to be the leader in Geriatrics Research and Education, so as to enable the delivery of holistic care, person-centric health, independence, safety and quality of life of older persons.

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The Gerontology Research Programme (GRP), NUS, aims to increase current understanding of population ageing and health transition and to provide the scientific information needed for formulating strategies of disease prevention and health promotion in the elderly. This programme was formed to coordinate and facilitate the conduct of multi-disciplinary research on a wide range of research topics in gerontology, spanning the basic, clinical and behavioural sciences.

Under the GRP, multi-disciplinary research groups from all sectors of the healthcare system establish cohorts of elderly subjects, both healthy and diseased for gerontological research, addressing all levels of intervention and care: primary preventive, primary care, hospital, community hospital, and nursing homes.

The Gerontology Research Programme's paper on "Integrated Care Pathway for Hip Fractures in a Subacute Setting" won the prestigious Rajakumar Award for the best overall paper and the best oral presentation by Dr Tan Boon Yeow, representing the team, in the 2nd Asia Pacific Primary Care Research Conference 2010 held on 4th & 5th December 2010, Singapore. The conference was organised by The College of Family Physicians of Singapore.

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The Joint NTU-UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly (LILY) is a world-class research centre focused in the design of computing technologies that help the elderly enjoy an active and independent lifestyle. The LILY centre was set up in August 2012 with support from the Interactive Digital Media Programme Office (IDMPO), National Research Foundation (NRF), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and The University of British Columbia (UBC).

LILY aims to be one of the world’s first incubators of inter-disciplinary research ideas to promote an active and independent lifestyle for the elderly, and to establish Singapore as a hub in designing and building technology enabled age-friendly communities.

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Ageing Research Institute for Society & Education (ARISE) is a pan-university institute that supports multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research at NTU focusing on ageing-related research, programmes and activities. ARISE efforts will revolve around four thrusts, namely: (1) Ageing Medicine; (2) Social Integration and Education; (3) Ageing-in-Place; and (4) Care & Lifestyle Enhancement. ARISE’s role is to act as a coordinating body to engage and integrate the efforts of the research institutes, centres, colleges and schools across NTU.

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The Centre for Healthy Ageing, NUHS, will be a multi-disciplinary hub that integrates research and clinical care, providing a holistic strategy to promote healthy living throughout the ageing process, from effective disease prevention in the healthy to novel and compassionate end-of-life care.
 
A major focus of the Centre is to delay ageing, prolonging disease-free life as well as maintaining high functionality and resilience. The programme will improve the quality of life for people as they age and reduce healthcare costs in Singapore with its ageing population. Maximum impact can be achieved by combining novel strategies to delay the onset of age-related conditions with effective clinical management in the elder population that maximises life quality. The former strategy involves the development of interventions that exploit the pathways modulating human longevity and testing these interventions using newly identified biomarkers of human ageing, as well as prevention of chronic disease onset. Once approaches are validated, the Centre will develop strategies for implementation in the Singapore population.

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CARE promotes excellence in research and education related to ageing, healthcare and the environment. Their expertise covers a broad range of ageing research that investigates different scales of the built and natural physical environments. They aspire towards a global thought leadership that is centred in Asia, with a focus on highrise, high-density urban environments.

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As a network of leading universities linking the Americas, Asia and Australasia, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) is the Voice of Knowledge and Innovation for the Asia-Pacific region. We bring together thought leaders, researchers, and policy-makers to exchange ideas and collaborate on effective solutions to the challenges of the 21st century.

We leverage collective education and research capabilities of our members into the international public policy process. Our primary research areas include natural hazards & disaster risk reduction, women in leadership, population aging, global health, sustainable cities, artificial intelligence & the future of work, the Pacific Ocean, and labor mobility.

Our Centre Director, Associate Professor Angelique Chan is the Program Director of the APRU Population Aging Program.

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ACAP members come from around the Asia-Pacific region. Members are dedicated to advancing the Active Aging agenda of WHO by sharing research, policy ideas, and best practices for Active Ageing in Asia Pacific.

The world's population is ageing. All people, regardless of age, should be encouraged and supported to be as productive as possible.

Members believe that:

• Individuals and families must prepare for old age and adopt positive practices for long life.
• Social policy must help make healthy choices an easy choice, elderly care for the better quality of life, and build age friendly environments.
• Societal norms must be changed to encourage and reward participation of elders in work, education, volunteering, and family life.

Through shared responsibility, members can assure that older adults are READY, ABLE, and ALLOWED to continue contributing their resources to families, communities, and society.

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The International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), established in 2006, is a network of eleven international research-intensive universities from nine countries across the globe.

The eleven members share similar values, a global vision and a commitment to educating future world leaders. Central to these values is the importance of academic diversity and international collaboration as reflected in IARU's principles.

The IARU Members are the Australian National University, ETH Zurich, National University of Singapore, Peking University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of Cape Town, University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford, the University of Tokyo and Yale University.

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REVES is the unique european organisation based on partnership between local and regional authorities and territorial social economy organisations.

Under "social economy" Reves considers cooperatives, mutual societies, associations, foundations and, more in general, all those organisations asserting the "primacy of individual and of social objective over capital, the voluntary and open membership, the democratic control by membership, the combination of interests of members/users and the general interest, the defence and application of the principle of solidarity and responsibility, the autonomous management and the sustainable use of most of surpluses".

Reves members are those local authorities or social economy organisation that are presently developing or are willing to develop policies to promote social and solidarity based economy, for a most fair, inclusive, participative and responsible society; a network of social innovation in terms both of methods and procedures based on co-construction and shared capacities of the members and their territories.

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