Johnson & Johnson Asia Pacific Pte Ltd announced the official opening of its new Asia Pacific headquarters, in Singapore. The new 15,800 sq. meter facility will bring together more than 1,000 employees from Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceuticals, medical devices and consumer businesses into one single location to spearhead new ideas and frameworks for healthcare of the future.

This step comes as the company’s reaffirmation of its commitment to advancing healthcare innovation in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region. The regional headquarters will lead collaborations and partnerships to co-create new global healthcare models to be at the forefront of innovation.

Singapore has also been selected as the location for Johnson & Johnson’s first global development center known as the Leadership Lab which will conduct over 200 leadership development classes and train 4,000 Asian leaders annually. They aim to create links with universities, research groups, governments, healthcare organizations and other partners to co-create new healthcare models and solutions to prototype capabilities for healthcare innovation in Asia.

The regional headquarters will also include Asia Pacific’s first Human Performance Institute (HPI), which will offer its leadership development initiatives to participants outside of Johnson & Johnson, with the goal to train 150,000 people in Singapore by 2020.