Berkley Center

Dr. Marilen Dañguilan, a medical doctor, led the Technical Working Group of the Philippine Senate Committee on health that brought about the Generics Law, Magna Carta of Public Health Workers, and the Rooming-in and Breastfeeding Act. She also helped to draft the National Health Insurance Act of the Philippines. She worked with the WHO Western Pacific Region in FP/MCH; UNICEF, New York as Global Senior Adviser, Maternal Deaths; UNFPA New York as Senior Adviser, Maternal Deaths, and the UN World Food Programme in the Philippines as Policy Adviser. She is now the Country Director of Population Services Pilipinas, Inc. She completed her studies at the University of the Philippines; graduated from the De La Salle Medical School; did her postgraduate studies in public policy at the London School of Economics and Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and was a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her publications include Making Choices in Good Faith: a challenge to the Catholic Church’s Teachings on Sexuality and Contraception (National Book Award in 1993), Women in Brackets: A Chronicle of Vatican Power and Control (1997), and The RH Bill Story: Contentions and Compromises.