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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, Asian Development Bank (ADB), United States Agency
for International Development (USAID) and has been a Bill Gates Fellow since 2002. Dr. Galvez Tan is 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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