2025 APAC Health and Life Sciences Summit

Summit Highlights

A Gathering of Health and Life Sciences Leaders in Asia Pacific

150+ leaders and senior executives from 10 over countries in Asia Pacific will gather for the 2-day programme.

Bringing together government officials and policy experts from Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries.

A Multi-Sectoral Approach to Health & Life Sciences Innovation

Wide-ranging topics that span the entire value chain from APAC regional market trends and opportunities, innovation & regulatory collaborations, to health financing and investing trends in the health and life sciences sector.

Special session on Climate Change and Health, a highly complex issue with widespread impact on the entire industry.

A Platform to Foster Partnership, Innovation and Market Access

A confluence of participants from governments, international organizations, industry associations, financial institutions,academic institutions, and medical institutions, patient groups who are key components for improving access.

Value for Participants

Insights Gathering

Listen to leading public and private sector experts’ experience and opinions in the development of health and life science industry in Asia.

Regional Network Enhancement

Connect with senior executives from the industry, development partners, policy makers in the health and life sciences industry across Asia.

Partnership Formation

Leverage informal networking opportunities to engage with organisations across the industry to find new potential partners.

Hiqhlights from 2023 APAC Health and Life Sciences Summit

Hiqhlights from 2025 APAC Health and Life Sciences Summit-Spotlight Indonesia

The two-day summit covered the landscape of Asia’s life sciences innovation and strategic market opportunities through five different topics that brought together health system leaders, multi-lateral organization representatives, policy experts, academic leaders, and ecosystem partners from nearly twenty countries and regions in APAC.

80+

Guest speakers

10+

Asian Countries

160+

Industry leaders
(invited only)

The Summit is organised by ASK Health Asia, an international think tank and consulting firm dedicated to health systems transformation in Asia. Over the last seven years, ASK Health Asia has published over 50 reports covering wide ranging topics from health financing, successful ageing, digital health, and climate change and human health and organised over 20 convening events and platforms annually in Asia. These reports and events reached many policy makers and industry leaders, catalysing changes in the health systems and giving people greater access to quality care.

To find out more, visit www.askhealthasia.com

Programme

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2025 APAC Health And Life Science Summit

Singapore, Day 1丨20 November 2025

TOPIC	CONTENT
Topic 1: Health as an Investment	Innovative financing models to improve healthcare affordability and reach Mobilizing public, private, and blended finance to drive impact Building partnerships that transform health systems
Topic 2: Regional Collaboration	Building integrated R&D and talent ecosystems through cross-border partnerships Strengthening institutional and regulatory capacity to support innovation adoption Regional coordination to fast-track clinical research, HTA, and technology deployment
Topic 3: Investment in Life Sciences in Asia	Growing the next generation champions in APAC, from local innovation to global success Investment trends in the life sciences sector

2025 APAC Health And Life Science Summit

Singapore, Day 2 - 21 November, 2025

TOPIC	CONTENT
Topic 4: AI and Digital Transformation	Scaling digital innovation from pilots to system-wide transformation Responsible AI adoption and digital health integration Governance, interoperability and cybersecurity for regional health data
Topic 5: Climate Sustainability and Resilience in Asian Healthcare Systems	Innovative technologies and solutions supporting climate-smart healthcare delivery Approaches to strengthen climate sustainability and resilience in Asian healthcare systems

Speakers

Weiyang CHEONG

Vice Provost for Strategic Research Partnerships at Singapore Management University and Senior Adviser for Health Economics at Ministry of Health (Singapore)

Hsien Hsien LEI

CEO, AmCham Singapore

Hala ZAID

Former Minister of Health and Population, Egypt; Global Healthcare Advisor and Business Leader

Greg HUNT

Honorary Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne; Chair, Monash University Turner Institute Advisory Council; Former Minister for Health & Aged Care, Australia (2017–2022)

Bonanza Perwira TAIHITU

Senior Advisor to the Indonesian Minister of Health

Andy POH

Honorary Professor, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham; Senior Advisor, World Scientific; Senior Fellow, Health and Global Policy Institute

Sarthak DAS

DrPH, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance/ Adjunct Lecturer Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Piya HANVORAVONGCHAI

Associate Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS; Former Secretary General of the National Health Foundation in Thailand

Ti Hwei HOW

Vice President, Oncology Business Unit, International Markets, AstraZeneca

Thach DO

Head of External Affairs, Pharma Group EuroCham Vietnam

Jeff WEISEL

Managing Director, Celadon Health Ventures

SiNing ZHAO

Regional Head of Business Solutions, Underwriting, Claims and Medical, APAC, Reinsurance Group of America (RGA)

Jian WANG

Deputy Dean, Dong Fureng Institute of Economic and Social Development, Wuhan University, China

Suthira TAYCHAKHOONAVUDH

CEO at Baiya Phytopharm & Assistant Professor at Chulalongkorn University

Lilian CHEN

APAC Market Access Lead, BMS

Eduardo P. BANZON

Director, Health Practice Team, Human and Social Development Office, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

John CW LIM

Professor & Executive Director, Centre of Regulatory Excellence, Duke-NUS Medical School. Senior Advisor, Ministry of Health, Singapore

Damian O’CONNELL

CEO at EDDC

Indri ROOSLAMIATI

Director of the Center for Biomedical and Genomic Health Research and Indonesia Clinical Research Center, Ministry of Health, Indonesia

Soon Tuck SIT

Director, PharmBio Cluster, Biomedical Research Council, A*STAR

Hoon Sang LEE

Chief Strategy Officer at the RIGHT Foundation

Andrew Shaoyu CHEN

Senior Counsel at Global Law Office, Former Assistant Chief Counsel at USFDA

Eugene HONG

Head, Healthcare & Pharmaceutical, Institutional Banking Group, DBS Bank

Tugas RATMONO

President Commissioner of PT Biofarma Indonesia

Endang Hoyaranda

President of IASMED, CEO of Prodia Utama, Non-Executive Director of Prodia the CRO

Nguyen Ngoc HUAN

Chairman, Vietnam Association of Medical & Biological for Research and Application (VAMBRA)

Mark Yan-Yee CHAN

MBBS, PhD, Deputy Executive Director and Senior Consultant, National University Heart Centre, National University Health System; Associate Professor in Medicine and Deputy Director, Cardiovascular Metabolic Disease Translational Research Program, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS

Nathan TIRTANA

President Director, PT. Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana)

Vince GAO

Director & CCO, Sino-Innovax Biotec Pte Ltd

Kate QI

Founder & CEO, SG Diagnostics

Jusong XIA

President of International Business at United Imaging Healthcare

Alvin LI

Head of business of Yidu Tech

Zhiping CHEN

CEO, Shengsheng International Logistics Pte Ltd

Wildman LIU

VP, Stellar Biotech Limited

Jewel JIANG

Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Board Secretary of Innogen

Cathy SU

General Manager, Singapore, Taiwan & Hong Kong/Macau at Gilead Sciences

Charlene HUANG

Partner, Global Law Office

Jolene OOI

Partner, Investments (Healthcare), EDBI

Giles NEWMARCH

Senior Investment Officer, Health and Education, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Vincent ZHANG

Managing Director/CFO, Fosun Health Capital

May LO

Investment Director, abc Impact, Temasek Trust Asset Management

Shawn NG

Managing Partner, NSQ Capital

Fei QI

Executive Director, Legend Capital

GWEE Chern Chern

Director, Head of Catalist Sponsors, Capital Markets, Global sales & Origination, SGX Group

Ryoji NORITAKE

Chair of Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI)

Ann AERTS

Head of the Novartis Foundation

Hong MA

Executive VP, Health Advocacy and Engagement, APAC, Edelman

Yingying GONG

Chairwoman and Founder of Yidu Tech

Jon RICHARDS

President, Halodoc

Dinh Nguyen NGUYEN

MD, Founder & CEO at Doccen.vn

Amol SARVA

Cofounder of LifeX Ventures

Abhishek AGRAWAL

Co-Founder & CEO at Kinexcs

Pauline TAY

Director at National Health Innovation Centre (NHIC) Singapore

Clive TAN

President of Precision Public Health Asia Society and Director for Home Team Medical Services Division at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore

Kelvin TAN

Head of Programme (Minor in Applied Ageing Studies), Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS)

Sameer KANWAR

Director, Digital Health, AI and MedTech, PATH

Deepali KHANNA

Senior Vice President and Head of Asia, Asia Regional Office, The Rockefeller Foundation

TEOH Su Chin

Deputy Regional Director, ADB

Vera SIESJÖ

Senior One Health Scientist, AIIB

David LIM

Director, Capital Mobilisation, AVPN

Renzo R. GUINTO

MD DrPH, Associate Professor and Lead, Planetary Health, SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Wan Cheng CHOW

Group Director of Sustainable Health, SingHealth HQ

Siddhi ARYAL

Regional Director for Vital Strategies Asia-Pacific

Megha KHANDELWAL

Global Strategic Partnerships Lead, External Affairs, Siemens Healthineers

Amita CHEBBI

Consultant, ASK Health Asia

Marie LAMY

Consultant, ASK Health Asia

Chang LIU

Founder and CEO, ASK Health Asia; Adjunct Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Honorary Fellow, the Asia Society

Tina JA

Sr. Director, Strategic Partnerships and Impact Programs, ASK Health Asia