Eduardo Bazon

Dr. Eduardo P. Banzon is the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Director of theHealth Practice Team under Sector Department 3’s Human and SocialDevelopment Sector Office. Doc Dodo, as he is fondly called, champion suniversal health coverage as he leads on ADB’s health sector and collaborates with other sectors and departments to develop and maintain health policies, strategies, and operational plans in alignment with ADB’s goal of working across the developing member countries in Asia and the Pacific for an improved health care provision for poverty reduction and improved human capital. Doc Dodo is also an honorary visiting Associate Professor, since November2021 to present, of Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health from the NationalUniversity of Singapore. He provides invaluable input on universal health coverage, health financing, global and regional health collaboration, comparative health systems and policies, and health policy development.Doc Dodo has over 32 years of experience, showcasing his extensive experience in a range of organizations focused on health and public health management, including as the President and Chief Executive Officer of thePhilippine Health Insurance Corporation, the country’s national health insurer.Before joining ADB in 2014, he was the former regional adviser for health economics and health financing of the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO). He has also worked with the Business Mirror newspaper as a weekly columnist; as a SeniorHealth Specialist in the World Bank; as a Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) and the Bureau of Food andDrugs (BFAD).Doc Dodo was also a faculty member, to teach; conduct research; and scholarly activities to improve standards of the top prestigious universities in the Philippines, which includes the University of the Philippines’ College of Medicine, Ateneo Graduate School of Business, and Asian Institute ofManagement (AIM).Doc Dodo completed his degree of Bachelor of Science in Biology from theUniversity of the Philippines, Diliman campus; his medical degree from theUniversity of the Philippines’ College of Medicine; and his graduate degree of MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School ofEconomics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.