About Us

Our Organization

We are a non-government, non-profit organization with members coming from different sectors and disciplines. We are starting out as a small group of health professionals interested in health history but we hope to be a multi-centered and multi-disciplined organization with members from other sectors and chapters in the different major cities in the Philippines.

Our Vision

A society that is recognized as a key player in the promotion of health history and that the study of health history is institutionalized in the Philippine health sector and other related disciplines.

Our Objectives

Health history provides us with better understanding of health, disease and medicine and their place in the society in which we live in.

We are committed to the developing the culture for health history in the health sector, especially in the Department of Health and its partners:

  • Promote health history research
  • Strengthen health history research
  • Collect, preserve, archive and organize Philippine health history information
  • Conduct regular for a to discuss health history and other related issues

Members and Officer of Board of Trustees

The Society of Philippine Health History is governed by a Board of Trustees. This volunteer body, is comprised of historians, physicians, business and civic leaders.

As of June 2003, Trustees are:

  1. Chairperson: Dr. Willie Ong
  2. Vice-chairperson Dr. Troy Gepte
  3. Secretary: Ms. Charity Tan
  4. Treasurer: Ms. Mayleen Lazo
  5. PRO: Dir. Remedios Paulino
  6. Auditor: Ms. Fe Remotigue
  7. Executive Secretary: Ms. Aida Aracap
  8. CEO: Dr. Anna Liza Ong
  9. Board Members: 

Dir. Crispinita Valdez
Mr. Tecson Alonzo
Dr. Rafael Castillo

Oathtaking-June 24, 2003

From left: Dir. Remedios Paulino, Ms. Aida Aracap, Ms. Charity Tan, Dr. Willie Ong, Ms. Mayleen Lazo, Dr. Troy Gepte, Dir. Crispinita Valdez, Dr. Ana Liza Ong and Sec. Manuel Dayrit


 

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