Mr. Val Ulep is a Research Fellow at the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS). He is currently the project director of different research projects on health financing, health service delivery, and nutrition and human capital. He is the team lead in developing the Philippine Health Facility Development Plan (2020-2040) of the DOH supported by Asian Development Bank. Prior to joining the PIDS, he worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C and Delhi Offices. He was part of a team that provided analytical products for India, Maldives, Bhutan, Croatia, and Afghanistan on nutrition and universal health coverage. He was a doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Global Health Research, where he conducted economic evaluation of tobacco taxes in developing countries. He provided technical assistance to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, World Health Organization, Center for Global Development, and USAID. He received the Nikkei Asia Awards in Tokyo and Emerging Voices for Global Health in Vancouver. He holds a Ph.D. in Health Economics from McMaster University in Canada, and obtained his Master’s Degree in Epidemiology from University of the Philippines.

Atty. Ana Carmela Erika V. Reblora is a registered nurse, a data privacy advocate and a juris doctor. She has been with the National Privacy Commission since 2016. She is currently assigned in the Legal Division where she acts both as a mediation officer and a supervising lawyer for the Commission’s case
decongestion project.

In 2019, she received her Juris Doctor degree from the
Polytechnic University of the Philippines – College of Law. She took the Bar Examination in the same year and passed.

She was a consistent academic scholar. She has worked for the Commission on Human Rights and is a National Lecturer for Nursing Review as well as other aptitude exam review such as the National Medical Admission Test (NMAT) and Civil Service Examination.

Recently, she was also appointed as the Policy Advisor for the Health and Hospital Sector of the Commission.

Dr. Raymond Francis R. Sarmiento is a physician-scientist and currently the Director of the National Telehealth Center, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of the UP College of Medicine's Medical Informatics Unit and is the current president of the Philippine Medical Informatics Society and chair of the Health Informatics for Development Working Group of the International Medical Informatics Association. For his part in the Philippine COVID-19 response, he serves as co-chair of the IATF sub-Technical Working Group on ICT for Data Governance where he oversees the strategic direction of the government with regards to ICT adoption, use, and implementation in the country.

Dr. Sarmiento graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine in 2008 and finished his Public Health Informatics Fellowship from 2014 to 2016 in the Division of
Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prior to joining the U.S. CDC, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical informatics from 2012-2014 at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

In 2019, he was awarded by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) – Philippines as its Outstanding Young Scientist in the field of Public Health Informatics, and was
selected as one of the global fellows to the prestigious Young Physician Leaders program of the InterAcademy Partnership (the association of National Academies of Science and Technology in
the world). Recently, he was also honored by the JCI Philippines, TOYM Foundation, and Gerry Roxas Foundation as one of the 2020 The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) for Medicine.

Maria Christina Macasaet-Acaban is a partner, and the head of the Corporate & Commercial/M&A Practice Group, the Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry Group, and the Competition Focus Group, in Quisumbing Torres, a member firm of Baker & McKenzie International. She is a member of Baker & McKenzie International's Asia Pacific Healthcare & Life Sciences Steering Committee, the Asia Pacific Competition Steering Committee and the Asia Pacific M&A Steering Committee. She has 21 years of experience advising and representing multinational corporations on domestic and cross-border transactions. She is cited as a Leading Individual in Corporate and M&A by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2019-2021, Distinguished practitioner for Corporate and M&A by Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2020-2021, and Highly Regarded Lawyer in Corporate and M&A by the IFLR1000-Financial and Corporate guide 2019-2020. She was also a Finalist in the Woman Lawyer of the Year 2018 award by the Asia Legal Business Philippines.



Christina was recently recognized as a 2020 Who’s Who Legal: Competition Future Leader for Competition.



Christina's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments and structuring, antitrust and competition, and corporate reorganizations and restructuring for a range of industries including pharmaceuticals and healthcare, technology, media and telecommunications, real estate, consumer goods and retail, and manufacturing.