Email ebanzon@adb.org

I am Dr. Eduardo P. Banzon or Dodo, the Director of Health of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and a champion of Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

I initially worked as a community organizer helping people in urban poor and remote rural communities access quality health care services. I became a faculty member in the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and the Ateneo de Manila University Graduate School of Business where I taught doctors and health workers, hospital owners and managers, and others knowledge and skills for enabling and facilitating health system reforms. I became a senior official and later President and CEO of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation developing and implementing policies and programs which ensure access to health care services. I had provided technical guidance on UHC to several countries in Asia and Pacific, Middle East, and North Africa as a World Bank and World Health Organization staff.

As part of ADB and NUS, I will continue to help Asia and the Pacific achieve UHC, and my wife Johanna (Jo) and I will continue to raise three wonderful children, Juan Eduardo (Dodi), Julian Francisco (Juancho), and Julianna Fidelis (Yanni) for a future with UHC.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Honorary Visiting)
• Director-Health, Human and Social Development, Sectors Department 3, Asian Development Bank (ADB) (Primary)

• Universal Health Coverage
• Health Financing
• Global and Regional Health Collaboration
• Comparative Health Systems and Policies

• Universal Health Coverage
• Health Financing
• Global and Regional Health
• Health Policy Development

• MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing, London School of Economics and Political Science/ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1997
• MD Medicine, University of the Philippines, 1992

• Director-Health, Human and Social Development, Sectors Department 3, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
• Principal Health Specialist, Southeast Asia Regional Department, ADB
• Principal Health Specialist, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, ADB
• Regional Adviser for Health Financing, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
• Health Economist, World Health Organization Bangladesh\
• President and CEO, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHIC)
• Senior Health Specialist, East Asia Pacific, World Bank
• Vice President, PHIC
• Faculty, University of the Philippines College of Medicine and Ateneo Graduate School of Business