Dr. Lulu C. Bravo

Professor of Pediatric Infectious and Tropical Diseases

University of the Philippines Manila

Vice Chancellor for Research and Executive Director

National Institutes of Health

Professor Bravo is Professor of Pediatric Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila. She is the current Vice Chancellor for Research and Executive Director of the National Institutes of Health at the University of the Philippines, Manila. She has served as Technical Adviser for the WHO in the Child and Adolescent Health Department and she is currently a member of the WHO Technical Steering Committee of the Child and Adolescent Health Department.

At present, she is also President of the International Society of Tropical Pediatrics, Chair of the Asian Strategic Alliance for Pneumococcal Disease Prevention (ASAP) and immediate past-president of the Asian Society for Pediatric Infectious Disease (ASPID). She has served in various capacities in many other Asian medical and professional societies as well as in Philippine pediatric associations, including the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination. She is also a member of the Board of Counselors of the Dengue Vaccine Initiative (DVI).

Professor Bravo completed her MD, pediatric residency and subspecialty training in infectious disease at UPM-Philippine General Hospital and completed her fellowship in pediatric infectious disease at the University of Texas Southwestern Health Science Center in Dallas, Texas.

Professor Bravo has conducted studies on streptococcal infection, rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease, diarrhea, pneumonia, acute respiratory infections and vaccines. She has published papers in local and international journals, published monographs and chapters in pediatric textbooks, and designed instructional materials for teaching. She is the recipient of academic and faculty awards especially for community-oriented medical education.