Patient and Public Involvement Resources
OPEN Growth: Mei Fong’s Journey of Hope and Resilience
Empower Tomorrow’s Medicine. Support OPEN Growth, a pioneering programme to train medical and postgraduate students to involve patients in research. Your donation will fund training workshops and student-led patient inclusive research.
OPEN Voices: Patients as Partners
Online OPEN Conversation Seminar
Unheard No More : Transforming Research Through Inclusion
OPEN Conversation: From Subjects to Stakeholders, Rethinking Patient Power in Research
Learning Together to Care With Each Other: How Research Partnerships Can Transform Health Relationships
Patient Voices Symposium Keynote Address
Associate Professor Antoine Boivin
Practicing physician and co-director of the Canada Research Chair in Partnership with Patients and Communities University of Montreal
Patient Voices Symposium 2024 Expert Talks
President, DEBRA Singapore and International
Advancing Patient Involvement in Research and Education
Session 1 : Best Practices in PPI in Research
The what, why and how of patient and public involvement
Dr Gary Hickey, National Institute for Health and Care Research, United Kingdom
Current landscape and challenges of PPI in Japan
Professor Kazuto Kato, Osaka University
Landscape of PPI in Singapore
A/Prof Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis , Faculty Lead, OPEN, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU
Session 2 : Building meaningful and authentic relationships between patient partners, researchers and educators
Beyond the Token Seat: Building and Sustaining Authentic Patient Partnerships in Research and Education
Mr Ellil Mathiyan Lakshmanan, OPEN Voices Patient Partner, Co-chair for SingHealth Patient Advocacy Network (SPAN)
Session 3 : Elevating voices less heard for medical research and education through the arts, storytelling and co-design
Creative Agents: Exploring the values and opportunities of the Arts in Patient Advocacy
Dr Michael Thaddeus Tan, University of the Arts, Singapore
Celebrating different ways of knowing in the creation, production and implementation of teaching and research
Professor Sophie Park, Oxford University
The Stories We Hear
Ms Nicole K, Mental Health Advocate and Executive Director of The Tapestry Project Limited
Co-Design Diamond Palette: A Collaborative Design Framework For Healthcare Workplace Wellbeing
Dr Aprille Chua, La-Salle College of the Arts, University of the Arts, Singapore
Elevate your Voice performance
Led by Mr Hazwady Nazran, OPEN Voices Patient Partner
