PROGRAMME

This keynote examines what equity-centered implementation demands in practice: co-designing strategies with patients, communities, and frontline providers, and confronting the structural barriers — geography, workforce, language, financing — that drive unequal uptake across Asian health systems.

Speaker: Professor Rama Vaidyanathan BARU
Moderator: To be announced

The plenary panel brings together researchers and practitioners to address how social marginalisation, health access gaps, and economic precarity intersect in real-world implementation contexts; the structural barriers facing migrants, low-income communities, and populations excluded by technology-driven health solutions; and evidence-based and community-informed approaches to equitable implementation design and delivery.

Speakers: Professor Rama Vaidyanathan BARU, Professor Brian J. HALL, and more to be announced
Moderator: Assistant Professor Rayner TAN

The plenary panel explores real-world programme experience to show how participatory approaches, including co-creation and co-design, improve intervention relevance, uptake, and sustainability, and how behavioural science methods strengthen co-design across diverse and underserved populations. In addition, as AI tools reshape how interventions are developed and delivered — in health, education, and beyond. Attendees will leave with practical co-design tools, a sharper equity lens, and a clearer view of what responsible, community-centred implementation looks like in an AI-assisted world.

Speakers: Associate Professor Emi KIYOTA, Dr. Laura MARTINENGO, Ms. Ai Ling SIM-DEVADAS
Moderator: Dr Laurie GOLDSMITH

Across Singapore and Southeast Asia, the field is actively building the practitioner workforce that behavioural and implementation science (BIS) demands. This panel maps what the region is doing to build capacity in the Asia region and the ongoing challenges. Speakers present current initiatives spanning structured mentorship, practice-embedded training, and Continuing Education and Training workshops, examining how academia-practice feedback loops have operationalised BIS at the frontline and sustained it over time. The panel then turns to infrastructure: shared resource libraries, translated toolkits, fellowships, and visiting scholar exchanges that move BIS competency across institutions and geographies.

Speakers: Professor Lijing L. YAN, Dr. Jessica NG, and more to be announced
Moderator: Dr. Serene KOH

Ageing populations across Asia face a defining implementation challenge: the evidence base for healthy ageing interventions is strong, yet equitable, sustained uptake at population scale remains out of reach. This plenary panel argues that promoting longevity demands more than effective interventions — it demands the science of how those interventions get adopted, delivered, and sustained. Speakers draw on Singapore's Healthier SG initiative to show how BIS frameworks, co-designed strategies, and implementation outcome measurement close the gap between research evidence and real-world practice. BIS is not an adjunct to the translational pipeline. It is the vehicle that turns evidence into impact.

Speakers: Professor LEE Chien Earn, Associate Professor DING Yew Yong, Dr. Yanhong (Catherine) DONG
Moderator: To be announced

Implementation science in Asia is not a transplant of Western frameworks — it is a field taking shape on its own terms. This session introduces the Asian Society for Implementation Science, a growing network of academic expertise committed to advancing the discipline across the region. Speakers articulate what implementation science looks like in Asian health and social care contexts: the systems it operates within, the cultural and structural factors that shape adoption, and the research priorities that emerge from empirical work on the ground. The session closes by presenting a regional research agenda — evidence-driven, contextually grounded, and built to move the field forward where it matters most.

Speakers: Professor Nick SEVDALIS, Professor Roman XU, Associate Professor Archana STRESTHA, Associate Professor Mathuros TIPAYAMONGKHOLGUL, and more to be announced
Moderator: Professor Malabika SARKER

A panel discussion brings together the Asian Society for Implementation Science and the Singapore Society for Behavioural Health to address two questions directly: what does a regional BIS agenda look like in practice, and what can researchers do now to accelerate science-to-practice translation? Panellists represent both research and practitioner communities, keeping the discussion grounded in real-world application.

Speakers: Professor Qian YANG, Dr. Jumana HASHIM, Ms. SOH Lai Yee                                       
Moderator: To be announced

Keynote 2 | Longevity is Personal: How behavioural science and digital health impact healthspan   

This keynote will explore how we are reshaping healthspan and longevity with Behavioral and Implementation Science (BIS), AI and digital medicine. To future-proof health and enable durable behaviour change at scale, the boundaries of traditional BIS must be redrawn. We will show how behaviour can be engineered, not merely encouraged. 

Speaker: Professor Dean HO
Moderator: Dr. Jacqueline MAIR

How can behavioral insights and implementation science be used to improve the development and uptake of AI-enabled health technologies, focusing on consumer trust, product scaling, and responsible AI governance? This session explores how AI and digital tools are changing the design, delivery, and evaluation of behavioural and implementation interventions, and what cross-sector involvement can do to mobilise digital solutions from pilots to safe, equitable, scalable impact.

Speaker: Madame Rahayu MAHZAM, Professor Giuseppe VELTRI, and more to be announced
Moderator: Dr. Tina CHEN

Incentives work — but only when they fit the context. This keynote unpacks why so many behaviour change efforts fail, tracing the problem to poorly chosen incentives, wrong levels of reinforcement, and an underestimation of behavioural complexity. Through causal evidence from RCTs and real-world interventions, this keynote explores what actually moves behaviour and why intuition routinely misleads. The discussion points toward a broader rethinking of how population health programmes are planned and evaluated, and what a mature science of incentives can contribute to health systems.

Speaker: Professor Uri GNEEZY
Moderator: Professor Giuseppe VELTRI

How do behavioural and implementation science actually move from journal articles to nationwide impact? This plenary panel brings together experts to unpack what it takes to design, launch, and sustain change at scale, and where behavioural and implementation insights genuinely shape policy.

Panellists will speak candidly about the levers that mattered, the trade-offs made under real-world constraints, and the measurement challenges of evaluating impact across whole populations. The session will close on transferable lessons for chronic disease, healthy aging, and preventive care across Asia — and the conditions under which behavioural and implementation science meaningfully shape policy.

Speaker: Associate Professor LOW Lian Leng, Associate Professor LEONG Ching, and more to be announced
Moderator: To be announced

What happens to your funded research after publication? What infrastructure and resources are available to enhance the societal impact of funded academic research? This plenary panel invites speakers from major regional and international funding bodies and academic institutions to address how their organizations actively invest in translating, adapting, and embedding evidence into health systems and the implications that these funding structures and systems have on academic research systems.

Speaker: Professor TAN Say Beng, and more to be announced
Moderator: Associate Professor Robyn MILDON