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Anama O'Reilly

Anama O'Reilly

Public Affairs & Communications Head, ASEA at Opella, based in Singapore; co-leads APSMI's public affairs and communications committee.

Sep 15, 2026

16:29
Why is health literacy important in the Asia Pacific region, would you say?
16:37
I, again, huge, huge believer in self-care literacy.
16:41
And that's why the session, which is, again, first time we're tackling this issue in self-care, is very exciting.
16:49
As I mentioned, we got to meet consumers and patients where they are.
16:54
in their need for both simple type of communication and ease of comprehension as with access.
17:00
Because without the literacy, self-care isn't safe or effective, particularly in this time where there's a lot of information coming at them from all directions.
17:14
Many of the countries that we are in, the ratio of doctors to patient is around 1.5 doctors for 1,000 citizens.

9 MINS LATER

26:05
But I think it's important, isn't it? Can you make the case for why people should be interested in e-labeling? Anima, maybe do you want to?

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