Dr Eduardo P. Banzon President and Chief Executive Officer Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, Philippines

Dr Eduardo P. Banzon is the newly appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), the country’s national social health insurer. He worked at the World Bank as Senior Health Specialist. However, he is not new to PhilHealth as he was the Vice President of Health Finance Policy Sector, before leaving PhilHealth for the World Bank. Dr Banzon graduated from the University of the Philippines, College of Medicine, with a degree of Doctor of Medicine, and he obtained his Master of Science degree in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr Banzon was a faculty member of the Health Unit of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, where he taught in the MBA-Health and Leaders for Health Program. He was also a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines, College of Medicine where he taught health economics, health policy studies and community medicine, in both the Medicine and post-graduate degree programs. He was also a Research Associate Professor of the National Institute of Health, where he focused on health sector reform and health screening interventions. He has provided consultancy and research services for various national and international agencies. He has been published both locally and internationally. He has worked as a community health physician with the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction.

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