Policy

Policy

Supporting Best Practice for Policy Impact in Asia

About

We seek to position ourselves and Singapore as a regional hub for policy engagement and thought leadership. We strive to develop health policy excellence and generate awareness of important global health issues such as universal health coverage, health security, and health equity.

Lead: Prof John Lim

Executive Director, Centre of Regulatory Excellence, Duke-NUS Medical School

Policy Research Features

Patient Engagement in Regional Health Systems

SDGHI collaborates with the Centre of Regulatory Excellence (CoRE) in its Coalition to Accelerate Patient Engagement in Asia-Pacific (CAPE) initiative, a multi-stakeholder hub for advancing systematic inclusion of patient perspectives in access to healthcare and essential health products. Through CAPE, SDGHI aims to raise awareness on the importance of meaningful inclusion of the patient perspective and support implementation of best practices through training and educational seminars.

Access to Health

Hypertension in Urban Vietnam
SDGHI partners the Hanoi University of Public Health and the Health Strategy and Policy Institute, Vietnam in research to study the access to antihypertensive treatment in urban Vietnam in the context of wider health system issues, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Outbreak Vaccine Access
In collaboration with Duke-NUS’s Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Programme and CoRE, as well as external partners and experts, SDGHI aims to promote thought leadership and awareness of issues that impact the access of vaccines and therapeutics in the fight against pandemics and outbreaks.

SDGHI Perspectives: COVID-19 A Year Later

SDGHI Perspectives is an online platform for writers in the global health community. It is a collection of contributed essays from authors around the world, showcasing their distinctive viewpoints on pertinent global health topics of our time. Read our first collection of essays focusing on the theme – COVID-19 A Year Later.