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Harvy Joy Liwanag is a Filipino medical doctor and a public health specialist who is currently a postdoctoral fellow of the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His research has focused on decentralization of health systems and evidence-informed policymaking for health.

Education

Liwanag was awarded with a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship grant in 2015 and pursued his PhD in Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) in Basel, Switzerland. He appeared in page 60 of the Swiss TPH Annual Report 2018.

Career and notable achievements

Liwanag was one of the 50 Global Shapers selected from all over the world to participate in the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland in January 2015. He was featured by the Asian Development Bank in 2015 for its "Changing Asia" series for his work on the control of Neglected Tropical Diseases. The Swiss Embassy in Manila also featured him to promote the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships in 2017. In 2020, he was cited by a number of media outlets in the Philippines for his contribution to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. In the same year, he also led a national virtual workshop for researchers in the Philippines on evidence-informed policymaking for health. He has also appeared in a TV commercial for Conzace, a popular multivitamin in the Philippines.

Selected publications ''Liwanag HJ, Wyss K. Who should decide for local health services? A mixed methods study of preferences for decision-making in the decentralized Philippine health system. BMC Health Serv Res. 2020 Apr 15;20(305). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-05174-w''

''Liwanag HJ, Wyss K. Optimising decentralisation for the health sector by exploring the synergy of decision space, capacity and accountability: Insights from the Philippines. Health Res Policy Syst. 2019 Jan 10;17(1):4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-018-0402-1''

''Liwanag HJ, Wyss K. What conditions enable decentralization to improve the health system? Qualitative analysis of perspectives on decision space after 25 years of devolution in the Philippines. PLoS One. 2018 Nov 5;13(11):e0206809. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206809''

''Becker SL*, Liwanag HJ*, Snyder JS* [*joint 1st authors], Akogun O, Belizario V, Freeman M, et al. Toward the 2020 goal of soil-transmitted helminthiasis control and elimination. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2018 Aug 14;12(8):e0006606. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006606''

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