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Regional Multi-Stakeholder Roundtable Report: Accelerating Patient Engagement for More Resilient Health Systems

The 2020 Duke-NUS regional patient engagement roundtable successfully launched the new Coalition to Accelerate Patient Engagement in Asia-Pacific (CAPE). CAPE is a multi-stakeholder partnership hosted at Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) in Singapore to accelerate systematic and meaningful patient engagement in health systems across Asia-Pacific.

The inaugural CoRE-Milken Institute patient engagement regional roundtable in 2019 created a multi-stakeholder platform to accelerate patient engagement in health and access to medicines in Asia-Pacific. Building on its success, the second regional roundtable was co-hosted virtually from November 23-24, 2020 by the Centre of Regulatory Excellence (CoRE) in partnership with SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute (SDGHI)¹, Rainbow Across Borders², Milken Institute³ and Patient Focused Medicines Development (PFMD)⁴. The theme of the roundtable was “Accelerating Patient Engagement for Resilient Health Systems”.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented disruptions to our societies. Despite these challenges, this crisis has also revealed how integral patient engagement and meaningful partnerships with community groups are to the resilience of the health system. CoRE’s patient engagement webinar in June 2020 highlighted how patients in South East Asia have been impacted by the pandemic and how as communities, they have come together to ensure support for those affected.

The COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity to accelerate the transformation we want to see in the health system with regard to patient engagement in healthcare and access to essential health products. It is more important than ever to continue the multi-stakeholder conversation we started at the inaugural roundtable on how to take patient engagement further in this region. The second roundtable discussed the findings from pre-roundtable informal focus groups with patient groups in five South-East Asian countries to identify the gaps and opportunities for patient engagement in each country. The focus groups also discussed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patient engagement and stakeholder priorities.

The 63 participants at the roundtable included patient organisations, health policy-makers, regulators, industry and other healthcare stakeholders from 16 countries. The key discussion points of the multi-stakeholder discussion during the roundtable are summarised in this report and will guide action plans for future research and further engagement with stakeholders.

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1. SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute website: https://www.singhealthdukenus.com.sg/sdghi
2. Rainbow Across Borders website: https://www.rabasia.org/
3. Milken Institute website with links to the participating centres of the Institute Milken Asia and FasterCures: https://milkeninstitute.org/
4. Patient Focused Medicines Development website: https://patientfocusedmedicine.org/