As Health Care Without Harm continues to expand and intensify its work in the region, it is pleased to welcome Ramon San Pascual — population, health, and environment policy advocate — as the new Director of the Asia office.
HCWH-Asia Director Ramon San Pascual
Mr. San Pascual brings with him years of experience working in civil society organizations (CSO) engaged in social development work, and has dedicated many years on policy development, advocacy and working with policy-makers and stakeholders on population, health, environment and sustainable development issues. Having worked with an extensive network of parliamentarians, health professionals, community and civil society leaders, he has helped form and strengthen coalitions of advocates upholding health and social justice in the Philippines and across the Asia Pacific region.
From 2012 to early 2015, Mr. San Pascual served as Executive Director of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development in Bangkok, where he facilitated campaigning and mobilizing Asian parliamentarians for the review of Millenium Development Goals, post 2015, and the formulation of new global agenda on sustainable development.
As Executive Director of the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development from 2005 to early 2012, he convened community and CSO leaders and parliamentarians for the conduct of issue-based policy campaigns that led to the legislation of vital health, environment, gender, child rights and other social development policies.
In 2015, Mr. San Pascual also served Head Executive Assistant and Division Head of the Legislative Liaison Division of the Philippine Department of Health (DOH). Until recently, he was also rendering advocacy assistance and consultancy for an anti-tobacco campaign led by Health Justice, adolescent health led by the Alliance for Integrated Health Outcome, and advocacy for gender and women’s health issues and the Sustainable Development Goals led by International Planned Parenthood Federation East and South East Asia and Oceania Region.
A Bachelor of Political Economics graduate from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Mr. San Pascual obtained his Masters in Public Health in 2007 from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. USA. Alongside MPH, he also completed Certificate Program on International Health. Earlier in 2003-2004, Mr. San Pascual also finished Population Leadership Program as a Gates-Packard International Fellow also at the University of Washington.
“Mr. San Pascual’s extensive experience in shepherding health reforms in the Philippines and working with legislators and policy makers in the Asian region, will greatly contribute in stepping up Health Care Without Harm's programs in Southeast Asia. Mr. San Pascual shares the organization's strong commitment in bringing the voice of the health care sector to bear down on the environmental issues of the day,” expressed HCWH-Asia’s Board of Trustees Chairperson Ronnel Lim.
“We are very optimistic that under Mr. San Pascual's leadership, Health Care Without Harm will build a stronger network in the health care sector in the region.”
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