About

Patient Academy for Innovation and Research is a social good organization that works with patient groups, caregivers, and healthcare professionals. It is set up to develop and maintain capacity amongst patients across the globe, to enable them to engage with their health systems in a more meaningful and strategic manner.By framing their experience with evidence-based expertise and sharing it with other patients suffering from the same or similar conditions and diseases, they are better equipped to care for themselves and others.

Our Mission

In the emerging digital world, patients with chronic conditions increasingly want to be empowered to become expert-patients in order to participate in and understand how to navigate their healthcare system as equal partners. However, many are not knowledgeable and skilled enough to do so right now. To add to that, the rise and speed of the use of innovative clinical and therapeutic approaches and medical technologies has made the healthcare industry a very complex entity.
Our mission is to empower patients so that they can impact the sustainability of healthcare systems and improve the safety, quality, accessibility, acceptability, affordability, and equity within their healthcare systems.

Our Principles

Conceptually, PAIR is based on six adult learning principles, that largely support the learning process and improve knowledge uptake:

• Participants’ autonomy and self-direction are valuable contributors to the quality of the learning experience
• Participants’ perspectives play an important role in the learning process
• Participants’ accumulated life experiences and knowledge are inseparable part of the learning journey
• Participants join the process as goal-oriented and practical
• Participants’ relevancy-oriented attitude adds value to the learning curve
• Participants’ diversity requires tailor-made approach to learning