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PROGRAMME

Breakout Track 1C

Social Prescribing in Southeast Asia: Progress, Pilots, and Pathways Forward

Date:

23 November 2026 (Mon)

Time:

14:20 – 15:50

Venue:

TBC

Track Chair
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A/Prof Lee Kheng Hock

Deputy CEO, Academic Medicine & Community Partnerships, SingHealth Community Hospitals
Senior Consultant
Family Medicine Continuing Care, Singapore General Hospital
Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Social Prescribing

Abstract

Across Southeast Asia, communities and health systems are drawing on deep traditions of mutual aid, collective care, and social connectedness to shape social prescribing models rooted in local strengths and cultural wisdom. This track showcases the region's growing momentum - from grassroots pilots to emerging referral pathways and cross-sector partnerships - highlighting how countries are innovating and leveraging strengths in their own contexts, as they draw best practices from elsewhere. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers will share what is working: the community assets being mobilised, the creative resource management and workforce solutions taking shape, and the locally-generated evidence that is building a distinctly Southeast Asian approach in co-curation of social prescriptions. By foregrounding regional ingenuity and lived expertise, this track celebrates the progress already underway and opens space for practitioners to learn from one another, strengthen collaboration, and co-create the next chapter of social prescribing across Southeast Asia.

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Dr Tan Chia Wei

Consultant Geriatrician and Physician
Head of Unit Geriatric Medicine
RIPAS Hospital, Brunei Darussalam

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Prof Tan Maw Pin

Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine - Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya
President, Dementia Alliance of Malaysia (DAMai)
President-Elect, International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics Asia Oceania Region

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