Jaime galvez tan biography of mahatma

Sign up for our free newsletter and get more of Development Asia delivered to your inbox. He has the rare combination of the following expertise: solid grassroots community work in far flung doctorless rural areas; national and international health planning and programming, a faculty of colleges of medicine and health sciences; clinical practice combining North American European medicine with Asian and Filipino traditional medicine; national health policy development, national health field operations management, private sector health business development, research management and local government health development.

He has worked with NGOs, international development agencies, the academe and government agencies. A product of Benedictine education, he finished his basic education with honors at San Beda College Manila He acquired his Bachelor of Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman in ; his Doctor of Medicine, as one of ten most outstanding clinical clerks, University of the Philippines College of Medicine in and internship at the Philippine General Hospital in as one of ten most outstanding interns.

Right after medical internship, Dr. Galvez Tan initiated the community based health programs in Leyte and Samar with the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines He was Assistant Professor of the U. School of Health Sciences in Leyte, pioneering the stepladder curriculum for health sciences education. He has also authored 40 published papers on diverse subjects in medicine, health and development.

Jaime Z. Galvez Tan. Governing Board Member for the Philippines (SEAMEO.

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