The Asia Pacific was successful in preserving public health and economic prosperity in 2020, piquing interest in how the region tracked, contained, and controlled the spread of COVID-19. However, the pandemic posed systemic challenges to these societies that have changed how public health, economic development, and environmental stewardship are conducted.

Registered in Taipei as a nonprofit foundation, the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI) serves as the Asia-Pacific Hub of the Reform for Resilience Commission and works with international partners to spearhead research and convening aimed at fostering innovative public policy and improving resilience around the world. The Miller Center was an early partner of CAPRI and assisted with its founding.

CAPRI is also the Asia-Pacific research hub of the Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR), an initiative under the World Economic Forum, which includes partners such as the London School of Economics, AstraZeneca, Philips, KPMG, and the World Health Organization Foundation. Through PHSSR, CAPRI conducts systematic reviews of health system sustainability and resilience in selected Asia-Pacific countries with academic partners throughout the region.

CAPRI has contributed to the public health working group of the Brookings Institution’s Democracy in Asia project to analyze how five Asia-Pacific democracies—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India, and Australia—address public health challenges through data acquisition and technological innovation while protecting individual liberty and personal privacy. 

CAPRI collaborates with the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) on its flagship publication Strategic Asia, contributing a chapter to the 2023 volume titled “Taiwan: Walking the Tightrope between the United States and China.” The chapter investigates the implications of US–China decoupling for Taiwan’s economy, especially in the semiconductor sector. 

CAPRI’s leadership consists of a board of experts committed to evidence-based public policy analysis and an International Advisory Council whose members are scholars, industry leaders, and international experts in CAPRI’s areas of focus. Professor Syaru Shirley Lin of the Miller Center serves as the chair. Ambassador Stephen D. Mull, vice provost for global affairs at the University of Virginia and senior fellow at the Miller Center, and Mimi Riley, professor of law and Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor at the Miller Center, are members of the International Advisory Council.