Beverly Lorraine Ho is the concurrent Director of the Health Promotion Bureau and Disease Prevention and Control Bureau at the Department of Health - Philippines. As HPB Director, she leads risk communication and community engagement, and demand generation for COVID-19 vaccines. As DPCB Director, she leads the primary care integration of various health programs.
Prior to this, she was Chief of the Research Division of the Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau where her efforts significantly contributed to the passage of key legislation on sugar-sweetened beverage tax, tobacco tax, and universal health care. Bev is a fellow of the Maurice Greenberg World Fellows Program at Yale University, the Equity Initiative, and the Atlantic Institute. She holds an MD from the University of the Philippines and an MPH in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a Fulbright Scholar.