Kandyce Ong is an associate director at APCO and is based in Singapore, specializing in healthcare policy and scientific affairs.
Ms. Ong has more than 10 years’ experience across the healthcare ecosystem, including market and patient access programs for state-of-the-art high capital medical equipment (ranging from robotic surgery to radiotherapy and radiosurgery). She led a through-the-line campaign on utilizing reimbursement to access quality healthcare for a private hospital group, which in turn moved the industry to a patient-centric reimbursement approach. Prior to joining APCO, Ms. Ong was the Scientific Affairs Manager at a Fortune 500 multinational company, the role translates high impact scientific engagement across the whole-of-healthcare universe in the Southeast Asia region to meaningful policy dialogues and shifting the needle in advocacy objectives, subspecializing on public health issues and policies with regards to management of non-communicable diseases and preventative care.