A mid-career public health professional with interests in health research management and analytics management and with almost 10 years’ experience in the areas of public health, project management, and research, Miko still considers himself as an excited learner. Miko is a graduate of University of Santo Tomas with BSc in Nutrition and Dietetics and a licensed Nutritionist-Dietitian. He also took MSc in Public Health in UERM and he was a scholar in Mahidol University for Master of Primary Health Care Management.

Miko has always been interested and has a deep passion in different issues such as strengthening research management in public health, open data and decision science, and evidence-based policy. He is currently working as an Executive Officer in a Nonprofit, a Data Manager for a government agency, and a Managing Director for a research firm while also juggling several data management and analysis consultancies.

When not working, he loves to watch K-Drama and Thai Lakorn (drama).

Dr. Peter Cayton is Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines School of Statistics. Peter has been at the data forefront of the Philippines’ fight against COVID-19 as part of the UP Pandemic Response Team. His modeling is behind some of the crucial statistics being used to monitor the extent of the pandemic which includes outbreak thresholds and case fatality rates. Dr. Cayton was one of the first to publicly calculate and share the important Time Varying Reproductive Number (Rt) statistic for the Philippines which measures the transmission rate of COVID-19 cases. Through Peter’s efforts, Rt is now being published daily at the regional, provincial and city level. He is also a member of the LEADS 4 HSR Consortium (L4H), which brings together public health specialists, data scientists, and epidemiologists to fight COVID-19 using data.

Michael Angelo B. Promentilla is Professor of Chemical Engineering and the head of the Waste and Resource Management Unit of the Center for Engineering and Sustainable Development Research (CESDR) at De La Salle University (DLSU). His research interests vary from a wide spectrum of application of decision modeling and risk analysis to environmental and energy systems, as well as, to the design and characterization of sustainable engineering materials. He also worked with Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD-DOST) to develop a research roadmap toward a climate-smart and disaster-resilient health system under the ASEAN Science and Technology fellowship program. He is also the program leader and project head of several projects such as that of “Green Mining” and “NexCities” research program being funded by the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST PCIEERD).

Dr. Promentilla received his BS in Chemical Engineering (cum laude) and MS in Chemical Engineering from University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) and UP Diliman (UPD), respectively. He received his doctorate degree in Socio-Environmental Engineering with a Monbukagakusho scholarship from Hokkaido University, Japan.

Dr. Jomar Rabajante is Professor of Applied Mathematics (Mathematical Biology) at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics, University of the Philippines Los Baños. He holds an appointment as Junior Associate at the Quantitative Life Sciences Group of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy.