CAPE is the first patient engagement platform rooted in Asia and works across disease areas, engaging all relevant health stakeholders including patient organisations, healthcare providers, national regulatory agencies, health ministries and industry. 

An important global conversation is happening among health sector stakeholders on the value of engaging and involving patients and caregivers in medical research, health product development and regulation, healthcare provision, and policymaking.

To address these needs, CoRE has convened like-minded partners to jointly establish CAPE. CAPE based at CoRE, Duke-NUS Medical School provides an effective neutral platform for convening, collaborating and building capacity for patient engagement among all health system stakeholders.

 With the aim to advance systematic and meaningful patient involvement in health systems across the Asia Pacific, CAPE provides the following: