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Dr. Michelle Ylade is a medical doctor and an epidemiologist. She has been conducting research since 2008 as a sub-investigator in clinical trials and doing epidemiologic research conducted by the Pediatric Infectious Disease Section of the Philippine General Hospital and De La Salle Health Sciences Institute. She worked on research mainly involving vaccine preventable diseases such as influenza, Neisseria meningitidis, hepatitis B, cholera, measles, pneumonia and dengue. She is also working on climate change and health studies.

Dr. Ylade received her bachelor’s degree from De La Salle University Manila (BS Human Biology) and her medical degree from De La Salle University Health Sciences Institute. She obtained her master’s degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. She has a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene from The School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan.

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jgaldaba@up.edu.ph

Dr. Josephine Aldaba earned her Bachelor’s degree in Physical Therapy and MD from the University of Santo Tomas. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at the Philippine General Hospital. She has been involved in the conduct of various clinical trials and advocacy programs on smoking cessation, tuberculosis control, and early pediatric literacy development.

She assisted in the development and implementation of several manuals on smoking cessations, field surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases (rotavirus and acute meningoencephalitis syndrome), health supervision guidelines on children for general pediatricians, and risk preparedness and disaster impact assessment tools on health systems. As part of the National Institutes of Health, she is involved in research on various public health topics like tuberculosis, child abuse, immunization practices, and vaccine-preventable diseases like Japanese encephalitis, rubella and dengue.

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sshernandez1@up.edu.ph

Dr. Sandra Hernandez is a pediatrician specializing in Ambulatory Pediatrics with a special interest in child protection. She is co-chair of the Child Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation (CANE) Study Group under the ICHHD and a Global Data Fellow of Childlight - Global Child Safety Institute at the University of Edinburgh. She is a consultant at the Philippine General Hospital Child Protection Unit.

She has researched the prevalence and drivers of violence against children, child maltreatment prevention, risk assessment in child abuse and neglect, and technology-facilitated child sexual abuse and exploitation. Her current research is on developing an instrument to measure the health literacy of junior and senior high school students in the Philippines.

She obtained her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Santo Tomas and has a master's in Public Health from the University of the Philippines Manila. She pursued Residency Training in Pediatrics at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital and Fellowship Training in Ambulatory Pediatrics at the Philippine General Hospital. She completed the Women and Children Protection Specialty Training of the Child Protection Network.

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kcagrupis@up.edu.ph

Dr. Kristal An C. Agrupis is a pediatrician whose research focuses on tropical and infectious diseases, child health, and public health. She has led and contributed to studies on vaccine effectiveness, dengue, measles, childhood diarrhea COVID-19 and impact of climate change on health.

Dr. Agrupis completed her bachelor’s degree from the University of the Philippines Manila College of Public Health and medical degree from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine. She completed her pediatrics residency training from the Philippine General Hospital and earned her master’s degree in Tropical Paediatrics from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 2020, supported by the Thomas Mark Scholarship. She is also a Diplomate of the Philippine Pediatric Society.

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