Dr. Geminn Louis Apostol is a community doctor, educator and researcher specializing in Environmental Public Health, Climate-Resilient Health Systems and Socio-ecological determinants of health. Over a decade-long career in public health, he has been engaged in various initiatives that range from research on sustainable supply chains, capacity-building for primary care, innovations in disaster resilience of local health systems, and developmental efforts towards mainstreaming environmental health research, practice, and advocacy in the Philippines. As lead environmental health specialist for the ASMPH Center for Research and Innovation, Dr. Apostol and his team generate and synthesize local evidence towards understanding (and effectively responding towards) the impacts of climate change, environmental pollution and related disasters to human health. Thus far, the environmental health team has conducted research on the areas of pollution and health (outdoor and indoor air, hazardous and healthcare waste, plastic pollution), health impact assessments on critical government projects (Manila Bay white sand project, Waste-to-Energy technologies), and health risk monitoring from environmental events such as the 2019 Southeast Asian Haze, 2020 Taal Volcano eruption and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, Dr. Apostol and his team were tapped to develop the Philippine Environmental Health Service Delivery Operational framework to guide the Department of Health and local health authorities in implementing environmental health services under the Universal Health Care Law. To ensure that research is effectively utilized and translated to better policies and programs, Dr. Apostol also serves as a scientific expert the Philippine Inter-agency Committee on Environmental Health (IACEH) where he helps convene various government and non-government agencies, civil society and other sectoral representatives.
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