Nicola Suyin Pocock

Nicola is a research associate at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. She is also the co-head of research at aidha, a non profit micro-business school for migrant women, especially domestic workers, in Singapore. She has degrees from Warwick University and Kings College London. Prior to joining the LKYSPP, she worked in the UK civil service at the Home Office and as a research volunteer at Amnesty International. Nicola has also carried out social work in Marseille, France as part of a European Union youth program.

Her research interests span health and social policy, health inequalities, social impact assessment, gender, migration and financial behaviors.

Duc Anh Ha

Duc Ha has recently finished a doctoral program at Boston University School of Public Health. He received his MD from Hanoi Medical School in Vietnam and his Master of Sciences in Population and International Health from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Ha spent several years working for the Vietnam Ministry of Health, handling great varieties of work, ranging from national policy and regulation formulation, administration and co-ordination matters, technical tasks to problems solving, both nationally and internationally. He has also consulted for several international organizations and institution such as the World Bank, UNICEF, FHI, and Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. His research interests and expertise include health system, non-communicable diseases, health program evaluation.

Budi Aji

Bachelor of Public Health (Diponegoro University-Indonesia), Master of Healthcare Administration (Asia University-Taiwan), Doctor of Public Health (Heidelberg University-Germany)

Lecturer and researcher in School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Jenderal Soedirman University, Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia

Rodel Nodora

Degree in public health, medical doctor by profession with certificate in human resource development and an executive masters in business administration

Dr. Nodora is formerly a rural health physician in the Philippines under the Doctors to the Barrios Program and a medical officer under the Department of Health Philippines working on human resources for health.

He currently works as a technical officer in World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office.

Rebecca Firestone

Rebecca Firestone is a social epidemiologist with extensive field experience in Southeast Asia. Rebecca is a researcher with Population Services International and have served as academic coordinator for the China Medical Board and Rockefeller-supported Lancet Series on Health in Southeast Asia. Prior her work with CMB, Dr. Firestone was a research fellow with the Institute for Population and Social Research at Mahidol University while she completed her doctoral dissertation research on the double burden of child malnutrition in Thailand. Her research focuses on interventions to address social inequalities in health, with particular concentration on nutrition, chronic diseases, and reproductive health. She has consulted with a range of international agencies including the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, UNESCO, PATH, and the Ford Foundation. Dr. Firestone was awarded an Sc.D from the Harvard School of Public Health and an MPH from the University of Washington.

Natalie Phaholyothin

Natalie is based in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Asia Regional Office, located in Bangkok, Thailand. Her main areas of work are with the “Transforming Health Systems” initiative where she provides grants and strategy management and critical support to the Asia-based work. She also manages the Mekong-based programs within the “Disease Surveillance Networks” initiative. In addition to the health-related portfolio, Natalie collaborates with the Research team on the Trend Monitoring work which attempts to identify meaningful trends for the future of development in Asia. Prior to joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Natalie was Program Officer at Education Development Center (EDC) where she oversaw CSR programs for Hewlett-Packard and Deutsche Bank. At EDC, she worked closely in the development of SME capacity and livelihoods through ICT training, as well as support to children living with HIV/AIDS in Northern Thailand. She has previously worked in Lao PDR and Honduras at the IMF and UNDP.

Natalie graduated from Brown University and has a double major in Economics and International Relations. She has a MA in International Economics from the State University of New York (SUNY-Albany) and also holds a MPhil from L’Institut d’etudes politiques de Paris (SciencesPo) in Political Economy. She is fluent in English, French and Thai.

Chean Men

Chean Men is a senior researcher at The Centre of Advanced Studies (CAS), an independent not-for profit social science research institute in Cambodia. He has undertaken several consultancies with the World Health Organization, working closely with the Ministry of Health in setting up injection safety and infection control program in the country and he is currently managing a 4 years-EU funded project known as POVILL, a collaborative research with European and Asian countries looking at relationship between illness and health. His professional interest is to link medical anthropology and public health. Chean Men received his master’s degree in anthropology from Northern Illinois University and he is currently a Ph.D. candidate at University of Hawaii in the field of Medical Anthropology, strong in qualitative research.

Jennifer Frances dela Rosa

An RN by profession. Practiced as a pedia-cardio nurse for a few years at the Philippine Heart Center then shifted to a more engaging field -- public health --in 1998. Since then I have been involved in health policy and health services researches and consultancy and academic work in public health. I have worked at faculty of the Department of Health Policy and Administration at the College of Public Health, University of the Philippines Manila. My currently position is the National Project Coordinator for the project entitled Promoting Decent Work Across Borders at the International Labour Organization - Manila.

Jeremy Lim

After attaining post-graduate qualifications in surgery, Dr Lim moved into public health and healthcare management and is now Vice-President in Fortis Healthcare International, a private healthcare services group focused on Asia. He also holds the position of Executive Director of the Lien Centre for Palliative Care, a Duke-NUS think tank devoted to end-of-life care research and education. His previous roles in the Singapore public healthcare system include Senior Consultant in the Ministry of Health and Director Research and Education in SingHealth.

Dr Lim was founding Co-Director of the Singapore Management University-SingHealth Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Leadership and Management Program and still maintains faculty appointments in Duke-NUS and NUS. Dr Lim is an alumnus of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He completed the Masters in Public Health programme at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health under the aegis of the Fulbright programme and the Senior Management Programme, Civil Service College Singapore. He was an Asia Society Asia 21 delegate in 2006 (Seoul) and 2007 (Singapore).

Vanphanom Sychareun

Dr. Vanphanom Sychareun is the Dean of Postgraduate Studies at University of Health Sciences, Lao PDR. Dr. Vanphanom has extensive experience teaching research methodology, qualitative researh method, health behavior and sexual reproductive health at the UHS. She is also involved in a number of research projects on MCH, Sexual and Reproductive health as a gender expert.

Dr. Vanphanom was trained as a pediatrician from the Leningrad Pediatric Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia. She later received her Master of Public Health degree from The University of Queensland and Ph.D. from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Roman Xu

Since July 2008, Roman (Dong) Xu, based in Beijing, has served as the Beijing Office Director of the China Medical Board (CMB), which is an independent US grant-making foundation for the advancement of health in China. Roman’s major work responsibilities include CMB’s program strategy and development, and monitoring and evaluation primarily in health policy and systems sciences and medical education at approximately two dozen premier Chinese universities. Previously as the Asia Pacific Regional Director of Harvard Medical International (HMI), a healthcare consulting and service subsidiary of Harvard University from 2005-2008, Roman led HMI’s office in Beijing in strategizing and promoting hospital and medical school development partnership between China and Harvard. Before joining HMI, Roman was a Senior Health Policy Analyst at the Minneapolis headquarters of Medtronic, Inc. specializing in the payment policy analysis of Medicare and Medicaid. During 1996–2002, he was the Assistant Director for International Collaborations at the Chinese Medical Association (CMA), which is the largest physician organization in China. Roman obtained his Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard University with a concentration in health policy. Roman received his undergraduate education at West China University of Medical Sciences from 1991–1996 in Chengdu, China.

Hoang Van Minh

Dr. Hoang Van Minh is currently Vice-head, Department of Health Economics, Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University. He also coordinates the Center for Health System Research. Dr. Minh specializes in Health Economics, Biostatistics and Research Methodology. He has more than 30 scientific articles published in international peer- reviewed journals.

Piya Hanvoravongchai

Piya Hanvoravongchai is a physician with interests in international health policy and health economics. His work focuses on the areas of health system development, healthcare financing, health workforce management, and health policy. He currently serves as CMB’s Southeast Asian Regional Coordinator. He also is a lecturer at Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Medicine and previously at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He previously worked at World Health Organization and Harvard University and he was the coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Alliance on Human Resources for Health and a research fellow at International Policy Program of Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health. He received his M.D. from Mahidol, M.Sc. from LSE, and SD from Harvard.