ACCESS Health Southeast: A Look Back On 2020 And Look Ahead To 2021
2020 was a year of adapting, learning, and refining for the Southeast Asia office. With our unique regional perspective, we spent the year showing how the tenet we’ve touted – resilient, digitally enabled, affordable healthcare – is indeed the key to outlasting …
2020 Aging Technologies: Perspectives of Japan, China, and Singapore
ACCESS Health, Modern Aging, and Vivid Creations launched a Modern Aging Japan Webinar Series focused on how the global eldercare sector is re-inventing and digitalizing products, services, businesses, and operational models to address the needs of the aging population, particularly across Japan, China, …
Build a plan for Covid-19 home testing on reason, not speculation or politics
John Maynard Keynes once famously observed that there’s nothing as disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world. But when it comes to public health, rational policies make sense even in an irrational or chaotic time like the midst of …
Discovering the world of “Fintech for health” or digital financial solutions webinar (Spanish)
On October the 8th, Sejal Mistry, Country Director ACCESS Health International Southeast Asia spoke on a webinar hosted by IFC and Portal Findev in Latin America on how fintech offers a new way forward in breaking barriers to healthcare access. During this …
Two New Books From Chair and President William A. Haseltine
ACCESS Health Chair and President William A. Haseltine today released two new books—an autobiography to inspire a life devoted to science and filled with purpose, and breaking commentary on COVID-19. In My Lifelong Fight Against Disease: From Polio and AIDS to COVID-19, …
My Lifelong Fight Against Disease: From Polio and AIDS to COVID-19
Anticipating a career in medicine, Dr. William A. Haseltine was in his first weeks of graduate studies at Harvard when a legendary physician-scientist offered this advice: “You can do more for human health through science than you ever could as a doctor.” That …
First JD Health Online Pharmaceutical Seminar Held
On August 3rd, the first JD Health Online Pharmaceutical Seminar was held. Targeting “Openness and Accessibility”, the three-day seminar was supported by ASK Health in inviting specialists from international and domestic health systems and industries and understanding the exploration of the pharmaceutical …
ASK Health Futures Fellowship Hosts Successful Online Kick-Off
On July 24th, 2020, the 2020 ASK Health Futures Fellowship virtual kick-off meeting was held successfully. In the meeting, Dr. Chang Liu, Regional Director for ASK Health, introduced the vision and goal for the ASK Health Futures Fellowship and stated the expectations …
Aging Care Industry: A Successful Second Online Session
On July 23rd, ASK Health and the Modern Aging Program, under Health Futures Innovation Platform and Phoefly Health Technology, jointly organized the second online session of PHBS-CJBS Global Pitch Competition, focusing on the topic of aging care. Six high-quality projects were selected …
Announcing the Official Launch of the Health Futures WeChat Account
After more than a year of work, on July 21st, 2020, ASK Health proudly launched the official Health Futures WeChat account. The purpose of Health Future is to work with our industry partners to “promote value-oriented health system innovation.” This new public …