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 Dr. Jaime Galvez Z. Tan is a former Secretary of the Department of Health. He served
as Undersecretary and Chief of Staff of the Department of Health from 1992 to 1994.
Prior to that time, he held senior positions at the United
Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), both at the national and the regional levels. Earlier, Dr. Galvez
Tan served as a rural health
physician and trainer. He has been a consultant for UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),
The World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB),
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and has been a Bill Gates Fellow since 2002.
Dr. Galvez Tan
has widely published and has lectured in fifteen countries on different continents. The recipient of numerous awards, he is currently an International
Consultant on Health Policy Development, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of the Philippines Manila and Executive Director of the National Institute of Health. In 2003, he was unanimously elected
as the Chair of the Global alliance for the elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis (GAELF)
in a meeting held in Liverpool, United Kingdom.
In 2002, he was a Resource person of the Asian Institute
of Management (AIM) for its various courses on health management. He also heads the Health Futures Foundation,
Inc., a non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental organization, which assists communities, NGOs and local governments
in health care management.
Dr. Galvez Tan has the rare combination of the following expertise : solid grassroots community work in far flung doctor-less rural areas, national and international health planning
and programming, experience as faculty of colleges of medicine and health sciences, clinical practice combining North American-European
medicine and Asian and Filipino traditional medicine; national health policy development, national health field operations
management, management of national health promotion campaigns, essential national health research, reproductive health and
family planning and private sector health business operations. He has worked with non-government organizations,
the academe, international development agencies and with the Philippine government.
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