Beverly Ho

Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health for Universal Health Coverage

Department of Health

Philippines

Beverly “Bev” Lorraine Ho is the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health for Universal Health Coverage at the Department of Health - Philippines. Immediately prior to this full-time designation, she was Chief of Research Division of the Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau where she worked to provide the evidence needed to support health system reform by designing innovative research grants and building institutional capacity for policy research. These efforts have significantly contributed to the passage of key legislation on sugar-sweetened beverage tax, tobacco tax and universal health care, and the institutionalisation of the health technology assessment process. She has also worked in the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation and has provided technical assistance to the government of the Philippines and the Greater Mekong Subregion on health financing, maternal and child health, and health impact assessment. Bev is a fellow of the Maurice Greenberg World Fellows Program at Yale University, the Equity Initiative and the Atlantic Institute. She holds an MD from the University of the Philippines and an MPH in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a Fulbright Scholar.
Beverly “Bev” Lorraine Ho is the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health for Universal Health Coverage at the Department of Health - Philippines. Immediately prior to this full-time designation, she was Chief of Research Division of the Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau where she worked to provide the evidence needed to support health system reform by designing innovative research grants and building institutional capacity for policy research. These efforts have significantly contributed to the passage of key legislation on sugar-sweetened beverage tax, tobacco tax and universal health care, and the institutionalisation of the health technology assessment process. She has also worked in the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation and has provided technical assistance to the government of the Philippines and the Greater Mekong Subregion on health financing, maternal and child health, and health impact assessment. Bev is a fellow of the Maurice Greenberg World Fellows Program at Yale University, the Equity Initiative and the Atlantic Institute. She holds an MD from the University of the Philippines and an MPH in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a Fulbright Scholar.