Dr. Maria Rosario Vergeire is the current OIC-Undersecretary for the Public Health Services Team and the official spokesperson of the Department. She was previously the OIC-Usec for Health Regulation Team and Assistant Secretary in-charge of the Public Health Services Team. She also acted as OIC- Deputy Director-General Filed Regulatory Operation - Food and Drug Administration, Office Director of the Health Facilities and Services Regulatory Bureau and Chief of the Health Research Division of the Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau.Undersecretary Vergeire has committed decades to public service, having worked in Marikina City’s health office before joining the Department of Health in 2007. Aside from public service, she is also committed to nurturing our soon to be public health leaders serving as faculty at the Development Academy of the Philippines and part-time faculty in Ateneo School of Govt.She obtained her undergraduate degree in Zoology from the University of Santo Tomas, her MD from De La Salle University College of Medicine, and her MPH from the University of the Philippines, Manila.

Dr Nina Gloriani currently serves as the Chairperson of the DOST Expert Vaccine Panel on COVID19 Vaccine Clinical Trials, and is also a Member of the WHO Scientific Steering Committee for COVID19 Solidarity Vaccines Trial. She continues to chair the National Certification Committee for Poliomyelitis Eradication in the Philippines.



Dr Gloriani is a medical doctor with a public health background, and a PhD in microbial immunology and medical biotechnology. She had post-doctoral fellowships on HIV/AIDS Immunology and Virology Hepatitis C molecular analyses Sexually transmitted diseases and Clinical Microbiology – Molecular diagnostics. A former dean of the UP Manila College of Public Health from 2007-2013, she retired from serving the academe after 37 years.