Tel (63) 917 5082010
Email ho.blc@achealth.com.ph

Bev brings with her nearly 14 years of experience in the health sector, oscillating between the public, private, academic and research space to advance universal health coverage in the Philippines through evidence-based policy and health promotion. She spent more than half in the Department of Health rising through the ranks as chief of policy research to become director for health promotion and diseases prevention and control, and eventually, Assistant Secretary of Public Health Services.

Bev built teams and worked with broad stakeholder groups to facilitate reforms, such as passing laws on universal health coverage, tobacco & sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, scaling clinical practice guideline development, mainstreaming social determinants of health and healthy settings, as well as leading award-winning behavior change communication campaigns. She was also Deputy Spokesperson during the pandemic.

Her commitment to build a competent and passionate public health cadre is evident in her teaching stint in local and international universities and two organizations she’s co-founded, namely Alliance for Improving Health Outcomes (AIHO) and the Philippine Society for Public Health Physicians (PSPHP).

Bev holds an MPH from HSPH as a Fulbright scholar, Doctor of Medicine and BS in Biology from University of the Philippines. A fellow of the World Fellows Program at Yale University, the Equity Initiative and the Atlantic Institute at Oxford University, the impact of her work has earned her the recognition of Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) and Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS) of the Philippines in 2022.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
• Chief Health Officer, Ayala Healthcare Holdings, Inc.
• Senior Fellow, Atlantic Institute-Oxford University Rhodes Trust
• Adjunct Faculty, University of the Philippines-Manila National Institutes of Health
• Board Member, Ten Outstanding Women in Nation Building Foundation
• Board Member, Community and Family Services International

• Public Health Practice in Financing, Health Promotion, Guideline Development

• Health Policy and Management
• Health Promotion and Communication

• Bachelor of Science in Biology (University of the Philippines, PHL), 20
• Doctor of Medicine (University of the Philippines, PHL), 2010
• Master of Public Health (Harvard University, USA), 2014

• Maurice Greenberg World Fellows Program (Yale University, USA), 2019
• Ten Outstanding Young Men (JCI Philippines), 2022
• Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS Foundation Philippines), 2022
• Leadership Award in Public Health Practice (Harvard University), 2024

• Assistant Secretary of Health
• Director, Disease Prevention and Control Bureau
• Director, Health Promotion Bureau

• Banzon EP and Ho BLC. Universal Health Coverage, Health Security and Resilient Health Systems. In: The Philippine Economy: No Longer the East Asian Exception? Edited by Ramon F. Clarete, Emmanuel F. Esguerra and Hal Hill. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing; 2018. p. 190-230
• Picazo OF, Ulep VGT, Pantig IM, and Ho BLC. (2016) Strategic Purchasing in China, Indonesia and the Philippines. Asia Pacific Observatory Comparative Country Case Studies Vol 2 No 1
• Koh A, Swanepoel DW, Ling A, Ho, BLH, Tan SY and Lim J. (2021) Digital health promotion: promise and peril. Health Promotion International, Volume 36, Issue Supplement_1, December 2021, Pages i70–i80, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daab134
• Haw NJ, Uy J, and Ho, BLC (2019) Association of social health insurance coverage and healthcare utilisation and expenditures December 2018 – present in the Philippines – pooled analysis of the 2008, 2013, and 2017 Demographic and Health Surveys. Journal of Public Health; 10.1093/pubmed/fdz142.
• Onagan FC, Ho, BLC and Chua KK. (2018) Sweetened Beverage Tax in the Philippines: benefits for both health and public finances. Bulletin of World Health Organization 2019:97:154-159
• Picazo OF, Ulep VGT, Pantig IM, and Ho BLC. (2015): A critical analysis of purchasing of health services in the Philippines: A case study of PhilHealth, PIDS Discussion Paper Series, No. 2015-54, Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Makati City
• Banzon, EP, Lucero, JA, Ho, BLC, Puyat ME, Quibod EJ and Factor PA. (2014) Public Private Partnership Options Towards Achieving Universal Health Coverage in the Philippine Setting. Philippine Journal of Development 2013 Vol. 40 Nos. 1-2f