About The Event
A leadership dialogue series on redesigning health systems for the next decade
Asia faces a triple challenge: a rapidly ageing population, rising chronic disease burden, and escalating healthcare costs. The urgency for system reform is undeniable. The real question is: how quickly can we reimagine healthcare to meet tomorrow’s demands?
Join an invitation-only dialogue series convening healthcare leaders and emerging leaders to examine real-world system trade-offs, incentives, and practical pathways for sustainable transformation.
About The Series
This series convenes forward-thinking healthcare leaders and emerging leaders to explore system-level change across:
- Leadership & Strategy: making decisions under constraints, trade-offs, and uncertainty
- Policy & Practice: translating policy intent into operational and clinical reality
- Value & Outcomes: measuring what matters using real-world data and practical frameworks
- Transformation & Innovation: reshaping care models through integration, governance, and innovation
This is not about observing healthcare systems. It is about understanding the architecture that shapes behaviour and outcomes, and building the capability to influence change.
Who Should Attend
The series is curated for:
- Healthcare executives and operational leaders
- Senior clinicians and clinical leaders
- Provider and payer leaders
- Policy, planning, and system stakeholders
- Health economics, finance, and strategy professionals
- Professionals preparing to shape future healthcare needs
Pillar 1: Financing & Payment Architecture
Who Really Pays for Healthcare?
Sustainability, Incentives and System Tensions.
Healthcare is ultimately a financial and insurance architecture with clinical consequences. This session examines sustainability through three system actors:
Patient: expectations, demand behaviour, and insurance as entitlement
Provider: operational sustainability, payment incentives, and workforce pressures
Payer: claims governance, moral hazard, premium inflation, and benefit erosion
Agenda
| 6:30pm | Registration and Light Bites |
| 7:00pm | Opening Remarks |
| 7:10pm | Moderated dialogue: Who Really Pays for Healthcare? Sustainability, Incentives and System Tensions. Panelists: Moderator Prof Francesco Paolucci, Professor of Health Economics & Policy, Associate Dean (International), University of Newcastle, Australia Patient perspective Ms Nidhi Swarup, Chair, Alliance of Patient Organisations Singapore (APOS) Provider perspective Dr Tan Yia Swam, Director, Breast Friend Surgery & Wellness Former Singapore Medical Association President, Former Nominated Member of Parliament Payer perspective Mr Alex Lee, Former CFO and Chief Actuary |
| 7:50pm | Audience Q&A |
| 8:00pm | Synthesis & Capability Pathway |
| 8:15pm onwards | Close & Networking |
Light bites and drinks will be provided.
About The Host
Hosted by Newcastle Australia Institute of Higher Education (NAIHE), Singapore, a wholly owned entity of the University of Newcastle, Australia.
