SYLVIA ESTRADA-CLAUDIO

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE SYLVIA ESTRADA-CLAUDIO Date of Birth: 09 February 1957 Place of Birth: UP Philippine General Hospital, Taft Ave., Manila Address: UP Center for Women s Studies Magsaysay Ave. cor. Ylanan St. University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City seclaudio@gmail.com Civil Status: Married (with 3 children) PRESENT POSITIONS I. Academic Professor, Department of Women and Development Studies, College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. Director, University of the Philippines Center for Women s Studies. Secretary of the Board, University Center for Women's Studies Foundation, Inc. Co-Project Leader, Gender and Justice Action Research Program. A Joint Undertaking of the Institute of Human Rights, University of the Philippines College of Law and the University of the Philippines Center for Women's Studies. Started October Lead Researcher, A Discourse Analysis of CBCP Pastoral Letters from 1960s to 1970s. Under the Gender and Justice Action and Research Program. Member, Editorial Board, Law and Society Journal, University of the Philippines College of Law Chair, President's Committee to study and recommend the guidelines to implement the Magna Carta of Women in the University of the Philippines. Appointed November 4, Principal Researcher, Philippine Component of the Asia-wide Research Project on Gender, Citizenship and the Information Society. Bringing the Local and Intimate to the National and Institutional: Using IT for Legislative Advocacy for Reproductive Health. Gender, Citizenship and IT Research Project in the Philippines IT for Change and IDRC. Started October 2010 II.Civil Society/ Non-Governmental Organizations Co-founder and currently Chair of the Board of Directors, Likhaan Women's Center Inc. Likhaan is a non-governmental organization providing health education and training, community organizing and reproductive health services to urban poor women. Member, National Executive Committee, Akbayan. General Member, ISIS -Manila. Fellow, Action For Economic Reform (AER). Chair, Board of Directors, Women s Global Network for Reproductive Rights with offices in Amsterdam and Manila. III.Business Sector President, Murcia Agro-Industrial Corporation, Inc.

2 EDUCATION B.S. in Psychology, cum laude, University of the Philippines, Doctor of Medicine, University of the Philippines, Medical intern, Philippine General Hospital, Research fellow, at the Institute of Developmental Research Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Ph.D. in Psychology, University of the Philippines, AWARDS, HONOR AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES Member, the International Honor Society of the Phi Kappa Phi. Lifetime member, Women s Studies Association of the Philippines. Lifetime member, Pambansang Samahan ng Sikoliyang Pilipino (National Association of Philippine Psychology). University of the Philippines Faculty Grant awarded July and extended for another year to translate and update Ph.D. dissertation entitled, Sekswalidad, Pagkatao at Pagkababae: Isang Panimulang Pagsisiyasat sa Pagkababae sa Kulturang Pilipino. Professorial Chair Holder, UPFI, Award of Recognition for being a champion for reproductive health. Awarded at the ICPD + 10 celebrations Department of Health, Population Commission, UNFPA and RHAN. University of the Philippines, Professorial Chair holder, Pagkilala bilang Natatanging Guro (Recognition for Teaching Excellence) for the years Awarded by the College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines, Diliman. February 22, Pagkilala sa Natatanging Kontribusyon sa Gawaing Ekstensyon (Recognition for Outstanding Contribution to Extension Work). Awarded by the College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines, Diliman. February 22, Outstanding Alumni Award. Given by the UP High, Preparatory, Elementary and Integrated School Foundation and the Batch of December, University of the Philippines Centennial Faculty Grant Award. July 2008 to 20 June Bayi Citation for the lifetime promotion and defense women s and people s rights, and vigilance for genuine democracy. 30 April PUBLICATIONS A Pilot Study on Children in Crisis. Published in the Proceedings of the International Seminar Workshop on Children in Crisis. Quezon City Philippines, Keynote Address: In Search of Balanced Perspectives and Global Solidarity for Women s Health and Reproductive Rights. in Proceedings of the Sixth International Women and Health Meeting, Quezon City, Unequal Exchanges International Tourism and Overseas Employment. in Community Development Journal, An International Forum. Volume 27, No. 4., October, Keynote address: Strengthening Women s Voices in East, Southeast and North Asia. In Proceedings of the First Organizational Meeting of East and Southeast Asian Women and Health Network Page 2

3 Hardon, A. and Estrada-Claudio, S. User s Perspectives in Fertility Control. Published in Gender, Reproductive Health and Population Policies: Reports from the Manila Workshop, 7-10 April, HAIN and InDRA, Quezon City, Philippines, Indigenous Research Methods: Philippine Examples. Ibid. Ang Sikolohiya ng Kababaihan, in Mga Idea at Estilo, Quindoza L. (pat.) Quezon City: UP Press, Smith, D.G. and Estrada-Claudio, S. Women Organize For Appropriate Health Care: Gabriela, A Case Study from the Philippines. in International Perspectives in Midwifery, Volumes 1 and 2. Murray S. (ed.). Times Mirror International Publishers: Pineda-Ofreneo, R. Narciso-Apuan, V. and Estrada-Claudio, S. Feminist Theories and Movements. (Textbook For Distance Education Course WD 210, University of the Philippines Open University.) Quezon City: UP Open University, How I Blundered into the Women and Development Program, College of Social Work and Community Development Journal. Vol. 3, No. 2, July-December Some Thoughts on Accountability, Women s Global Network For Reproductive Rights, Newsletter 64, 1998 (No.4). Gender, Power and Ideology: What I did for My Second Semester, in the Philippine Social Science Review, Vol. 55, No.1-4. January to December, The Psychology of the Filipino Woman in Women and Gender Relations in the Philippines. Selected Readings on Women s Studies, Vol. 1. Illo, J.F. (ed.). Women s Studies Association of the Philippines, A Hospital Registry on Violence Against Women. Published by the NCRFW-WCC-UNFPA, Policy Development and Advocacy For Women s Health Project, Situating Policy Advocacy in a gender-power Critique: Focus on the Philippine Health System.. in Gender Equity and Economic Reforms. Francisco, J.S. and Vitan, S.C. (eds.) Oxfam Great Britain, Monitoring the Implementation of the Commitments of the Philippine Government to the Beijing Platform in Health. Presented to the UP-CIDS, WISAP, Philippine Beijing Scoreboard, Series of Roundtables For the Beijing Plus 5 Process, August to October, Published by the UP-CIDS, Addressing Rape in the Legal System: A Multidisciplinary Training Manual. Quezon City: Women s Legal Bureau, One of several principal writers. Epilogue, in Who Owns Women s Bodies? Tanedo, R. (ed.) Quezon City: Creative Collective Center, Editorial: Love, Desire and Sexuality, in Women s Journal on Law and Culture, Vol. 1. No. 1, July- December Chapter Contributor: Discourse Analysis, in Gender Sensitive and Feminist Methodologies: A Handbook For Health and Social Researchers, Guerrero, S.H. (ed.), UCWS, (Best book awardee for 2001 of the National Academy of Science and Technology. Reprinted: University of the Philippines Press, 2002) Rape, Love and Sexuality: The Construction of Woman in Discourse. Quezon City: University of the Philippines, Press: 2002 Love, Desire and Sexuality, in Body Politics: Essays on Cultural Representations of Women s Bodies. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Center for Women s Studies and Ford Foundation, Gender Issues in Cancer Care, in Gender Issues in Medicine. Reyes, D, (ed.) University of the Philippines Center for Women s Studies and Ford Foundation, Chapter Contributor: Sunny/Nikki Lansang in Her Own Words, in Love Sex and the Filipino Communist. Abinales, P. (author). Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, Inc Chapter contributor: "On Earth as it is in Heaven: The Philippine Catholic Church Hierarchy s Gendered Worldview of Society and Salvation in the 1940s and 1950s in Gender Culture and Society: Selected Readings in Women s Studies in the Philippines. Carolyn Sobritchea (ed.) Asian Center for Women s Studies and Ewha Women s University Press, Keynote address delivered at the International Meeting on Amnesty International s Sexual and Reproductive Rights Policy, London June 10-12, Published in the Review of Women s Studies, Vol. XV. No. 2. July to December University of the Philippines: UCWS. Main Author. Subversive Desire: The Thin Line Between Pornography and Erotica in Filipina Women s Page 3

4 Sexuality and Experience. WomenLead Monograph Series. Vol. 1, Issue No. 1 and 2, Sovereignty, Citizenship and Identity in the Context of a Regional Community. in Women in Action (WIA) No , Quezon City: ISIS International. Estrada-Claudio, S. (2007) Kagandahan sa Panahon ng Globalisasyon. Published in CSWCD Journal UP@100, CSWCD@40, DWDS20: In the Service of Women. The Filipino People and the Global Community. Estrada-Claudio, S. (2007) Les Rencontres internationales sur la santé des femmes : continuité et expression d identités multiples in Lien social et Politiques RIAC, 58, Les solidarités sans frontières. Entre permanence et changements. Montreal: Autumn 2007, pages 155 to 162. Estrada-Claudio, S. (2009). Keynote Speech.:Ending Violence Against Women: Lessons from the Philippine Experiences. in Proceedings of the Intenational Forum For Women s Empowerment Eradication of Violence Against Women. Tokyo Japan: National Women's Education Center. Estrada-Claudio, S. (writing as Sunny Lansang, 2009). Gender Issues in Revolutionary Praxis in Women In Asia, Volume 3, p Edwards, Louise and Roces, Mina (ed.). London and New York: Routledge. Estrada-Claudio, S. (2010). Pag-unlad ng Konspeto ng Kasarian, in Language and Mind Development. Acuña, Jasmin (ed.) Quezon City: Miriam College. Estrada-Claudio, S. Leader's Roundtable: Philippine Women's Studies. International Conference for the 90th Anniversary of Duksung Women's University, October 31, 2010, Seoul South Korea Estrada-Claudio, S. (2010). Sanctifying Moral Tyranny: Religious Fundamentalisms and the Political Disempowerment of Women. In Religious Fundamentalisms and Their Gendered Impacts in Asia. Claudia Derichs and Andrea Fleschenberg (eds.) Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert, Stiftung. Estrada-Claudio S. (2010). The International Women and Health Meetings: Deploying Multiple Identities for Political Sustainability in Solidarities Beyond Borders Transnationalizing Women's Movements. Dufour, P.,Masson, D. and Caouette, D. (eds.). Vancouver: UBC Press. PAPERS AND RESEARCHES (LAST 5 YEARS) Paper Delivered: Conversations with a Radical. CEDAW-WATCH Planning Session, March 27, Miriam College, Quezon City. Keynote address delivered: Health, Justice and Democracy. At the Annual General Meeting of Interpares. April 24, Paper Delivered: The International Women and Health Meetings: Catalyst and End Product of the Global Feminist Health Movement at the Transnationalisation of Solidarities and Women Movements Conference. Political Science Department, Universite de Montreal, April 27-28, Paper Delivered: Strengthening the social and gender dimensions of regional integration. Seminar on Regional Integration and Transboundary Issues. February 3-4, 2007, Bangkok, Thailand. Alternatives For Economic Reform, SEACA and Christian Aid. Paper Delivered: Empowering Pedagogy. Presented at the Faculty Conference and Planning Workshop of the College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines, Manila, April 11, Paper Delivered: Feminism and Decision-Making. Presented at the ESF Exploratory Workshop entitled, Feminisms and Activism: Transversal Politics in Contemporary Europe and Across the Globe held In Nicosia, Cyprus, September 13 to 15, Paper presented: Globalization and Violence Against Women. Presented t the Asia Pacific Regional Consultation with the United Nations Special Rapporteur VAW on the Political Economy of Violence Against Women, Manila, Philippines, September 12 to 13, Sponsored by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development and the Women s Legal Bureau. Page 4

5 Paper presented: Counter-acting Religious Fundamentalisms and Other Forms of Intolerance. For the panel: A Centennial Conversation: Women Contesting Fundamentalisms and Other Forms of Intolerance. The UP Centennial Lecture Series. Office of the President, University of the Philippines in cooperation with the Office of the Chancellor University of the Philippines, Diliman. March 11, Panel presentation: Feminist Critical Collaborations: Confronting the Realities of the South at the 11th AWID International Forum on Women's Rights and Development:The Power of Movements. November 14-17, 2008, Cape Town, South Africa Keynote Paper: The Impact on Women s Political Participation of Religious Fundamentalisms for the Conference : Religious Fundamentalisms and Their Gendered Impacts on Political Participation. Held in Bonn, Germany, August, 15 and 16, Sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in cooperation with Stiftung Universitat Hildesheim.) Paper presented: (Dys)functional Studies: The Need for a Power Analysis of the Family in Migration Research. University of the Philippines Center or Integrative Development Studies Angara Fellowships, Family and Welfare Cluster: Focus on Migration. Lecture Delivered January 15, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, LECTURES AND TRAININGS (LAST 5 YEARS) Resource Person. Reclaiming Sexual and Reproductive Rights. One day legal orientation workshop for RH service providers. Sponsored by WomenLead, Inc. March 21, Over-all Chair. National Consultation on Averting Maternal Mortality and Morbidity. Sponsored by Likhaan with support from the Packard Foundation. May 29, Reactor. A forum on the Department of Education's "Lesson Guides on Adolescent Reproductive Health (A Population Education Concept)". Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines (DSWP), Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) and THEIA Initiative. July , Quezon City. Speaker. Talk on Violence against Women. Miriam High School. September 13, Discussant. Reproductive Health and Rights. Plenary Session 1: Theoretical and Political Issues Related to Women and Human Rights. Women s Studies Association 6 th National Conference. Davao City, October 19-21, Participant. Roundtable Discussion in preparation for the Third Feminist Dialogues on Feminist Transforming Democracies: Visions and Strategies, to be held in the World Social Forum in Nairobi. October 24, 2006, Quezon City. Sponsored by Isis International. Discussant. Sectoral Representative for Women. Working People s Assembly. Laban ng Masa, Quezon City, November 27, 2006 Participant and Session Chair, First International Meeting of Experts on Emergency Contraception. Convened by Mayor of Davao City, Asia Pacific Network on Emergency Contraception and the Brokenshire Women Center. December 1, 2006, Davao City. Resource Person, Gender and Sexuality. Trainers Training for Reproductive Health Advocates. WomenLead Foundation, Inc. December , Calatagan, Batangas. Speaker. Battered Women s Syndrome. The Anti-Violence against Women and their Children Act (RA 9262), a policy forum on the local implementation. The Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP-CIDS) and the Reproductive Health, Rights, and Ethics Center for Studies and Training (ReproCen-UP Manila). December 4, 2006, U.P. Diliman, Quezon City. Resource Person. Karapatang Sekswal at Reproduktibo ng Kababaihan at Kabataan. 2 nd National Congress of PILAKK, (a confederation of urban poor organizations Dec , 2007, Antipolo City. Lecture: Love Sexuality and Contemporary Filipino Youth during the forum on Love, Sex and Spirituality. Page 5

6 February 14, 2007 San Beda College Manila. The Faculty Association of the College of Arts and Sciences. Resource Person. Sexuality and Political Transformation. Lecture to 3 UP Fraternities. February 15, Sanlakas Slate House. UP Village. Q.C. Reactor. Paper delivered by Carol Sobritchea on Women s Participation in Politics. Normita Recto Memorial Lectures. February 16, 2007, UP Diliman. University Center for Women s Studies and Asian Center, University of the Philippines. Discussant: Current Approaches to Gender-Based Violence, HIV, and AIDS. A Forum for seven (7) women leaders who are heads of their respective organizations in South Africa. February 27, Women s Crisis Center. Resource Person. P Dialogues: Politikal, Peminista, Progresibo. Conversations on Movement Building. March 10, University of the Philippines Center for Women s Studies, Women and Gender Institute of Miriam College, Can t Live in the Closet, ISIS-Manila. Resource Person on Sexuality and Reproductive Health for the workshop, Raising Awareness and Creating Synchronicity to Enhance the Gender Sensitive Counseling Services of UP Diliman. March 14, University of the Philippines Diliman Gender Office. Member, Panel of Judges, 2nd Women s Short Film Competition, 2007 of the 17 th International Women s Film Festival. University of the Philippines Film Institute. Resource Person, Exploring Our Human Sexuality. Titus Brandsma Media Center, July 21, 2007, Quezon City. Meeting on Healing for Feminist Activists. Chiang Mai, Thailand. September 26 to 30, Panel Chair and Discussant: Abortion Advocacy: A Global Space. Global Conference on Safe Abortion, Marie Stopes International. October 23 and 24, London, UK. Member of the Board of Judges, Quezon City GAD Award for Most gender Sensitive Film for the Metro Manila Film Festival Speaker, Usapang Kamunduhan: Pagkatao, Sekswalidad at Karapatan: Perspectives in Global Sudies on Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights. UP Center for International Studies series with Dr. Mark Belasis, Visiting Professor of UPCIS and Fulbright Senior Specialist on Political and Sexual Theory, City University of New York. February 6, 2008, Quezon City. Speaker, Celebrating Gains, Confronting Issues: Assessing the Women s Movement. University of the Philippines Visayas Cebu College, Gender and Development Office and SIDLAK Resource Gender Center Region 7 in collaboration with the Office of Continuing Education and Pahinunghod Social Sciences Division. March 5, UP Cebu Campus. Speaker, Feminist Counseling: An Alternative Therapy Model. Office of Student Affairs, UPV Cebu College in Collaboration with Guidance Personnel Circle, Cebu Chapter. March 6, 2008.UP Cebu Campus. Speaker, Pasanag kay Eba: A Lecture Forum on Feminist Counseling UP Visayas Gender and Development Program and UP Visayas Anti-Sexual Harassment Office. March 7, UP Iloilo Campus. Speaker, The Politics of Beauty. Ateneo School of Medicine. March 12, Speaker, Being Here and Becoming There : The Diasporic/Nomadic Woman. 18th International Women s Film Festival. University of the Philippines Film Institute. March 13, Speaker, Handling of Sexual Harassment Cases from the Perspective of Counseling and Assessment. Office of the Vice Chancellor for Instruction and the Office of Anti-Sexual Harassment, University of the Philippines Los Baňos. March 18, Speaker, 1st Plenary on Mapping Out 21st Century Challenges for Women s Studies and Feminist Scholarship in Asia. Second Asian Regional Conference and the 7th Women s Studies Association of the Page 6

7 Philippines National Conference with the theme: 21st Engagements: The Politics and Praxis of Women s Studies in Asia. Quezon City, Philippines, March 24, Speaker, 2nd Plenary on Roundtable Discussion on Gender, Rights and Citizenship in the Context of New Conservatism. Second Asian Regional Conference and the 7th Women s Studies Association of the Philippines National Conference with the theme: 21st Engagements: The Politics and Praxis of Women s Studies in Asia. Quezon City, Philippines, March 25, Convenor, panel on, Debate: Who s Afraid of Post Feminisms? Second Asian Regional Conference and the 7th Women s Studies Association of the Philippines National Conference with the theme: 21st Engagements: The Politics and Praxis of Women s Studies in Asia. March 26, Speaker, First Plenary on Body Politics. Asian Women Conference on Womanhood: Needs, Rights, Development and Cultural Diversity in Asia. Women'd Studies and Resource Center and the Mindanao Working Group on Reproductive Health and Sexuality. March 28-30, Davao City, Philippines. Speaker, Forum on Violence against Women: Is it About Sex or Is it About Power? Development of People s Foundation, Inc. and Davao Medical School Foundation, Inc. March 29, Keynote: Ang Globalisasyon ay Pakikidigma sa Katawan ng Kababaihan! (Globalization is War on Women s Bodies.) An Internationa Forum for the International Day of Action for Women s Health. Co-sponsored by The Women s Global Network on Reproductive Rights, UPCWS, Likhaan, Philippines. May 28, 2008, Q.C. Philippines. Resource Person. Crisis Counseling/Intervention of Abused Women and Children. Deprtament of Health. Center for Health Development IV-A (Calabarzon). June 19, Subic International Hotel. Reactor. This House Resolves that Transsexual Women Should be Given Access to Women Only Spaces. Women s Night. AustralAsians Debate Tournament. Ateneo Debate Society/AIDA. July 6, Makati, City. Keynote address: The Filipino Woman and Globalization: Towards a New Perspective. The Davao Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Inc. 23 rd Annual Convention. August 14, Davao City. Resource Person: Batang Ina: Implikasyon ng Maagang Pagbubuntis. College of Social Work and Community Development, September 9, 2008, Quezon City. Resource Person: Social and Economic Implications of the Reproductive Health Bill. Buklod CSSP, UP Economics Towards Consciousness, UP Organization of Business Economics Majors and UP School of Economics Student Council. September 18, 2008, Quezon City. Resource person: In a Different Voice at the 5 th Post Graduate Course entitled Babae. Department of Psychiatry, University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital. October 23, 2008, Manila. Resource Person: International Conference on Gender, Conflict and Development. Theme: In Search of Peace and Development : Women Hold Half the Ground. Mindanao Working Group on Health, Gender and Sexuality and the Ateneo de Davao University. Davao October 22-24, Practical Freethinking: Reproductive Health. First Filipino Freethinkers Forum: Panel Discussion. Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street, Makati. February AWID Feedback Forum, Speaker: Crossing Divides, Building Intersections: The Future of Women s Movement! Sponsored by the UP Center for Women's Studies, UP Diliman Gender Office,Department of Development Studies, CSWCD, ISIS, International. March Lecture Series: What is Socialist Feminism? Seven Lectures for various organizational units of the Akbayan Party List. February to August Responses from Below: People s Initiatives and Popular Action 2009 UP TWSC Seminar on Globalization Understanding Globalization: Confronting the Current Global Economic Crisis A Joint Project of the UP Third World Studies Center, the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines Diliman, and Business World Asian Center Romulo Hall University of the Philippines Diliman, May 15, Page 7

8 Lecture: Forensic Psychology in Cases of Violence Against Women. Guest Lecturer. Lyceum Law School. July 23, Introductory Plenary on the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD): The Cairo Experience: What Was it Like and Why Does it Matter? Global Partners in Action NGO Forum, Berlin, September 1-4, Dysjunctures and Conjunctures: Reproductive and Sexual Health? Rights? Justice? Panel at the Asia-Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing Plus 15. Miriam College. October 22, Main Resource Person: Feminist Theories. Training for or all Gender Centers of UP system. Sponsored by the UCWS. CSWCD Seminar Room, UP Diliman. May 21 to 23, Resource Person: Peer Facilitation. Training for all UP Gender Centers. Sponsored by the UCWS. CSWCD Seminar Room, UP Diliman, May 19 and 20, Main Resource Person: Gender Sensitivity Training and Gender Planning Exercise for the Freedom from Debt Coalition. April 22, MAJOR PAST POSITIONS Features Editor, Philippine Collegian Associate Editor, Philippine Collegian, Editor-in Chief, UP Medics Founding member, Pangkalusugan Lingkod Bayan (PLB). The PLB was a student organization exploring social issues in medicine. It had outreach health programs in rural and urban poor communities. Rural health physician, Mountain Province (Sagada Rural Health Unit and Bontoc Regional Hospital) Coordinator for Education, Medical Action Group, Inc. (MAG) MAG is an organization of physicians working on issues of health and human rights. It provides basic medical services to victims of human rights violations. Program Coordinator, Philippine Action Concerning Torture of the Medical Action Group, Inc. (MAG- PACT), PACT is a comprehensive program for the rehabilitation of torture survivors. It was the first such center in the Philippines. Founding Secretary General, Health Alliance for Democracy (HEAD), Re-elected as Secretary General HEAD is an organization of health professionals and community health workers concerned with issues of social justice and national sovereignty. Founding Secretary of the Board, Women in Crisis Center, Inc Member of the Board, Deputy Coordinator for the Secretariat, Philippine Organizing Committee to convene the Sixth International Women and Health Meeting, 1990 (POC-IWHM, 1990), Convenor and later Executive Director, Gabriela Commission on Women s Health and Reproductive rights, Inc Lecturer, Inter-Congregational Theological Center, on sexuality, Coordinator for the Secretariat of the Organizing Committee for Southeast Asia to convene the East and South East Asian women and health network s first organizational meeting, Member, Gabriela National Council, Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Reproductive and Genetic Engineering, Journal of International Feminist Analysis. Published by Pergamon Press, London, Member, Department of Health Committee on Women s Health, The committee was tasked to review all the Department s programs and policies dealing with women and to make policy and programmatic recommendations for a national comprehensive women s health and safe motherhood program. Page 8

9 Writer, Health Alert, a monthly magazine providing news and technical updates for community based health personnel. Health Alert is published by HAIN, Member, Women Health Advocates on Microbicides (WHAM) WHAM is an international group of women health advocates currently working with the Population Council to ensure the incorporation of women s perspectives in the development of microbicidal agents that may be protective against AIDS. Member, HERA HERA is an international think tank of women health advocates currently based in New York that is attempting to monitor implementation of the agreements reached at the UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo Egypt, Member of the Board, Center for Women s Resources, Inc. (CWR). CWR is a non-governmental organization serving as library, data bank, education and research center for women s issues ( ). Women s Desk Coordinator, Health Action Information Network, Inc. (HAIN) ( ). HAIN is a library, databank and resource center servicing a nationwide network of health institutions and community based health programs in the Philippines. Policy Consultant For Health, National Commission on the Role Of Filipino Women, on the Policy Development and Advocacy For Women s Health Project. Republic of the Philippines-United Nations Fund for Population Activities (PHI/96/13) Coordinator for Women s Health Issues: Beijing Scoreboard. PBSB/WSAP/UP-CIDS/UPCSWCD. June to August Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Reproductive Health Matters. Reproductive Health Matters is a monthly journal on reproductive health issues published in London, Consultant, Policy Development and Advocacy for Women s Health project, NCRFW-WCC-UNFPA to Philippine Research Director, Gender Reproductive Health and Population Policies (GRHPP) research project. Network Coordinator, Gender Reproductive Health and Population Policy international research project under the aegis of the Medical Anthropology Unit, University of Amsterdam, HAIN, Philippines and ECOSUR University, Chiapas Mexico. Coordinator, Women and Development Program, College of Social Work and Community Development, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Member of the Board, Women s Studies Association of the Philippines Member of the Board of Directors, Medical Action Group, Inc Member, International Liaison Committee, World March for Women A coalition of hundreds of women s organizations world-wide working against violence against and poverty. Psychological consultant, University Center for Women s Studies, University of the Philippines Co-coordinator of the Secretariat, ESEA. ESEA is a network of East and Southeast Asian women s groups working around women s health issues in the region. Member, EWHA-WSAP Research Project on Women s Studies in Asia (2002). Member, International Advisory Committee, 9 th International Women and Health Meeting, held in Toronto Canada, September Member, the University Center for Women s Studies (UCWS) Advisory Committee ( ). Member, International Board, Women s Global Network for Reproductive Rights Member, International Advisory Committee, 10 th International Women s Health Meeting held in New Delhi India, September Founding Chair of the Board of Directors, WomenLead, Inc. a feminist legal center. Established in 1999 and served as its Chair until Anchor, Pag-ibig, Sekswalidad, Relasyon, a radio program on youth/adolescent sexuality and relationship issues. Produced by the Creative Collective Center, Incorporated. The program was aired over DZME 1530 AM every Friday from 8 to 9 p.m Co-convenor, Trauma Interrupted-House of Comfort. An international art exhibit and conference held May Page 9

10 2007. Partial support from the National Commission on Culture and Arts. Member, Board of Directors, Freedom from Debt Coalition, Member, Task Force MDG 5. UP Population Institute and the Philippine Legislators Council for Population and Development, Member, Technical Working Group, Benchmarks of Fairness (BoF) Project-Philippines. A joint project of the World Health Organization and the UP Social Studies and Philosophy Research Foundation, Lead Fellow University of the Philippines Center or Integrative Development Studies Angara Fellowships, Family and Welfare Cluster: Focus on Migration, Project Leader, Enhancing the Capacities of Women NGOs and Networks to Monitor and Document Human Rights Compliance in Local Governments and Educational Institutions. UCWS-Unifem. Implementation Period: September 1, March 30, Member of the Steering Committee for the ICPD@15: Global Partners in Action NGO Forum, Berlin, September 1-4, Page 10