Dr. Eduardo P. Banzon is a Senior Health Specialist in the World Bank since December 2006. Prior to the World Bank, he was the Vice-President and Head of the Health Finance Policy Sector of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation. In 2005, he was concurrently tasked to help in the strengthening of the Bureau of Food and Drugs. He is a former Research Associate Professor in the University of the Philippines (UP) -National Institutes of Health. He was a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the UP College of Medicine and a faculty member of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business-Health Unit. He has worked and assisted national and international agencies and has been published locally and internationally.