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The Fight Against COVID-19:
Lessons from Taiwan
Last April 24, 2020, the Academic Crisis Response Consortium, a collaboration among the Ateneo Professional Schools, the AIM Zuellig School of Development Management, and the DLSU Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance, held Part 1 of a series of Best International Practices, titled “The Fight Against COVID-19: Lessons from Taiwan.”
The webinar featured best practices from selected countries, along with insights and experiences shared by international experts and policymakers, leading the fight against COVID-19.
The Fight Against COVID-19:
Lessons from Israel
Last May 15, 2020, The Academic Crisis Response Consortium (ARC), a collaboration among the AIM Zuellig School of Development Management, the Ateneo Professional Schools and the DLSU Jesse M. Robredo Institute of Governance, held Part 2 of a series of Best International Practices, entitled “The Fight Against COVID-19: Lessons from Israel.”
The webinar featured best practices from selected countries, along with insights and experiences shared by international experts and policymakers, leading the fight against COVID-19.
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RONALD U. MENDOZA, PHD
Ateneo School of Government
From 2011 to 2015, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) and the Executive Director of the AIM Rizalino S. Navarro Policy Center for Competitiveness. Prior to that, he was a Senior Economist with the United Nations in New York. His research background includes work with UNICEF, UNDP, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), and several Manila-based non-governmental organizations.

Manuel M. Dayrit, MD, MSc
Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Dayrit served as Secretary of Health (Minister) of the Philippines from 2001 to 2005 when the Department of Health (DOH) was recognized for its effective implementation of disease control programs (including for SARS, dengue, tuberculosis, and vaccine-derived polio); the implementation of the health sector reform agenda which included widening the use of generic medicines; and the broadening of access to social insurance (PhilHealth) by indigents. Under his leadership, the DOH was cited among the top-performing government agencies.
From 2005 to 2012, he was Director of the Department of Human Resources for Health at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. The WHO Code on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel was developed during this time and adopted by Member States at the World Health Assembly in May 2010. Prior to this appointment, he was a member of the Commission on Social Determinants of the World Health Organization.

Kenneth Y. Hartigan-Go, MD
Asian Institute of Management
From 2015–2016, Prof. Hartigan-Go served as the Undersecretary of the Philippine Department of Health. He was also Director General for the Philippine Food and Drugs Administration (2012–2014), and Manager of the Philippine National Drug Policy Program (1999–2001).
In 2006, Prof. Hartigan-Go served as member of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety for six years and has held faculty positions at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine and the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health.

Ador Torneo, PhD
De La Salle University
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