SDGHI is providing ground-level technical support for health system enhancement to Academic Medical Centres across Asia. Partnerships leverage healthcare management expertise within the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre and focus on cross-cutting system-level priorities including quality assurance, appropriate models of care, surveillance, and data-for-decision making.

Engagement are ‘needs-based’ and defined by partner institutions in low-and-middle income contexts. The aims of these partnerships are to foster system-changes and build resilient health systems throughout the region.

Our Asian healthcare system needs are unique. In the past decades, health system transformation in Asia has been guided by solutions often developed outside of Asia. While some frameworks have been effective, the differences in our patient population and their needs often need solutions that need to be adapted to achieve the true value of care improvement.

The Asian Centre of Excellence for Healthcare Management & Leadership aims to:

• Be a knowledge hub for healthcare management, providing high quality curriculum delivered by senior faculty members and prominent healthcare leaders in Asia
• Leverage the knowledge and experience of the AMC to support systems in the region to optimise productivity, minimise costs, and deliver excellent health outcomes
• Build a strong faculty of Asian healthcare leaders to drive collective advancement of health management expertise in Asia
• Develop collective solutions to health system challenges through partnerships with academic and clinical institutions in Asia
• Align academic and practice interests to advance health systems research capabilities in Asia

Evaluation is vital for ensuring programmes achieve intended outcomes, while remaining cost-effective, sustainable, and scalable. The Global Health Programme Evaluation Unit will tap on the expertise across the Academic Medical Centre to function regionally as a resource for emerging research and policy partnerships.

The Global Health Programme Evaluation Unit aims to:

• Be a central resource to provide robust and practical implementation science for all SDGHI programmes
• Provide data and documentation for future improvement and decision-making
• Leverage advanced scientific thinking, tools and methodologies, implementation science and digital health approaches
• Develop capacity for systems evaluation and adaptive learning among partners in Asia