Susan Mercado

Dr Susan Pineda Mercado is a medical doctor with 30 years of experience in local, national and international public health. She served at the World Health Organization for 15 years in various positions including Director NCDs and Health through the Life Course at the Western Pacific Office.

Dr Mercado is currently Director, Food Systems and Resiliency, Hawai’I Public Health Institute and Co-chair National Panel of Technical Experts, Climate Change Commission, Philippines. She is Adjunct Faculty, National TeleHealth Center, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines.

Past positions include: Undersecretary, Department of Health, Philippine, Special Envoy of the President for Global Health, Initiatives and Board of Directors of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation.

Dr Mercado has extensive experience in disaster/emergency management as Deputy Secretary General for Health in Humanitarian Action for the Philippine Red Cross and Strategic Adviser for COVID19, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Asia Pacific Region.

She is internationally known for her work in strategic health communication, health promotion, tobacco control, healthy cities, healthy islands, NCD prevention and control, food security and pandemic preparedness and response.

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I have no conflicting interests to declare.