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Dr. Jason Alacapa

Member • PSPHP Board of Trustees

  • Leadership
  • Governance
  • Strategy

Professional Summary

Dr. Jason Alacapa is a medical and public health professional and innovator with over ten years of experience in health system strengthening, research, and program management. His areas of expertise include the following: tuberculosis, HIV & private sector engagement; implementation science, management & innovation; health economics & financing; digital health & informatics; and real-world evidence.

He has helped secure at least USD 4 million in international funding for various health projects in the Philippines. In addition to doing independent consultancies for local and international agencies, Jason founded four organizations, the foremost of which are the non-profit consulting-social enterprise Innovations for Community Health, focused on systems and market innovations, and the Philippines’ first health technology assessment (HTA)- focused consulting firm, metaHealth.

He is a multi-award-winning youth leader in the Philippines, named one of the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines (2014) and the Australia Alumni Excellence-Young Achiever Awardee (2019). On the global stage, he is one of the first Obama Asia-Pacific Leaders (2020). He has also received a BMJ Global Health grant (2020), has been named one of Tatler Magazine's Gen.T 400 under 40 Leaders of Tomorrow in Asia (2020), and has been named one of the Boston Congress of Public Health's 40 under 40 (2022).

Affiliations:

  • CEO & Senior Principal (4): Innovations for Community Health (ICH); Data and Implementation Sciences for Health (DISH); metaHealth (HTA); Xcelsior Health (Patient Access Startup)
  • Part-Time Faculty (3): St. Luke’s Medical Center-College of Medicine; Palawan State University-School of Medicine; De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute

Education
  • DrPH in Implementation Science (Johns Hopkins University), Candidate 
  • MSc Data Science for Health and Social Care (University of Edinburgh), Ongoing
  • PGDip in Public Health Informatics (JHU) 
  • Dual MHM and MPH in Economic Evaluation (UNSW Sydney) 
  • MBA (AIM)
  • MD (UP Manila)

Strategic Plan of Action

  1. STRENGTHENED VALUE PROPOSITION (BENEFITS) FOR MEMBERS
    • Clearly communicate how PSPHP membership directly benefits public health physicians (members and prospective members) in their careers and professional development.
  2. PROFESSIONALIZATION OF THE ADMINISTRATION
    • Enhance the efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness of the PSPHP's operations.
  3. ESTABLISHED FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
    • Secure long-term financial stability for the PSPHP to support its programs and initiatives.
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