Public panel
A demographically representative public panel of over 4,000 members, maintained at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, and a standing resource for gathering public input at scale.
HOPS is suited to questions that do not require experience of a particular condition, such as study design, participant-facing materials, consent and recruitment approaches, and public attitudes to health research, technologies, and policy. Panel members are recruited to be representative of the Singapore population by age, sex, ethnicity, and other demographic characteristics, and are paid for their time.
For questions that do require experience of a particular condition, HOPS is not the right route. The PACT Lab brokers access to condition-specific patient groups instead, through clinical teams, patient support organisations, and existing patient panels across NUS Medicine and NUHS.
Panel members take part in a limited number of studies each year, so HOPS capacity is allocated rather than granted on request. Relevant factors include the nature of the request, how far the survey instrument has already been developed, the number of participants required, and the capacity remaining in the year.
The Lab can offer limited refinement of survey instruments that are already well developed. It does not undertake survey design on behalf of research teams.
Access criteria, capacity, and charges are being finalised and will be published here.