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PHILHEALTH and PHAP: Ensuring better health outcomes for all Filipinos

Keynote Message By Dr. Francisco Soria, Vice President of the Quality Assurance Group, Philippine Health Insurance Corporation(PhilHealth) PhilHealth President Emmanuel Ledesma would like to send his congratulations to PHAP for the launching of its publication, The Power of Innovation: A Report on the Contributions...

Jeepney Drivers file motion of reconsideration on dismissed petition to SC vs. PUV Modernization

Beleaguered jeepney drivers and operators filed today before the Supreme Court a motion for reconsideration following the dismissal of their petition against the PUV modernization program. The Bayyo Association, primarily composed of Igorot drivers and operators from Bayyo, Mountain province—plying their jeepneys in different...

A robust IP system for promoting innovation and collaboration

Keynote Message by Atty. Rowel Barba, Director General, Intellectual Property Office  The Philippines’ Research and Development (R&D) innovation outputs in the life sciences have been steadily increasing. This was the observation of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) during the Asian Regional Conference-Applied Life Sciences...

Creating a regulatory environment that fosters innovation, health, and safety

Keynote Message by Dr. Samuel Zacate, Director General of the Food and Drug Administration It is indeed an honor to address you on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration, an agency dedicated to ensuring the safety, efficacy and quality of health products mandated...

Bringing the power of innovation to fruition

Keynote Message by Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go, Chairman, Senate Committee on Health and Demography I’m honored to extend my warmest greetings to all of you on this momentous launch of “The Power of Innovation: A Report on the Contributions of the Philippine Pharmaceutical...

Committing to Innovation and Collaboration

Keynote Message We successfully overcame COVID-19 and it’s through the help of all the people who helped us get the vaccines; the pharmaceutical companies that supported us. We were the only country that actually did a portfolio approach in vaccination and that was because the...

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Losing Face(book)?

By Alma Anonas-Carpio First of three parts In an age where victim-blaming is no longer acceptable, it takes more than a casually-tossed “caveat emptor (buyer beware...

Philippine COVID-19 Vaccine Roadmap

From a paper delivered during the Dec. 10 webinar, “Health and Economic Outlook for 2021—Sparking Hope: Will a Vaccine see an end to the...

“For workers, the 4th SONA of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is a big letdown”—FFW

“Thumbs down,” said Arta Maines, president of a semiconductor union in Laguna. Maines attended the  Federation of Free Workers (FFW) State of the Nation (SONA)...

Postal Trinity: The PHLPost Legacy Program

Mastering the 4Rs— Reliability, Reach, Relevance and Resiliency As a member of the Universal Postal Union (UPU)—a specialized United Nations agency that facilitates a uniform...