Dr. Amayun is a public health physician with four decades of project work integrating global health with other development sectors in several low and middle-income country settings in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.  He has a BS Zoology degree from UP Diliman, an MD from UP Manila, and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University. 

 

He has managed or supervised child survival, HIV/AIDS, primary health care, and integrated projects.  He was Director of International Health Programs at World Vision International in Washington, DC; Vice-President of Programs at International Aid in Michigan, USA; USAID/Benin’s Family Health Team Leader and Senior Public Health Adviser at USAID/Philippines prior to joining International Care Ministries as Institutional Partnerships Lead and then as President.

 

He returned to the Philippines in 2014 after working 33 years overseas.  Since then, he has worked on responses to crises, poverty reduction, health improvement, and advocacy to eliminate extreme poverty through the SDGs. He currently chairs the Health Cluster of Zero Extreme Poverty Philippines 2030, and sits on the Board of Trustees of Global Compact Network Philippines.

 

As adjunct faculty at the National University of Singapore, he teaches a course on proposal-writing at NUS’ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health every January.

 

Dr. Amayun is a recipient of the following awards: Gawad Lagablab from the Philippine Science High School; International Service Award from the UP Medical Alumni Society; Centennial Award for Global Public Health from the UP Alumni Association, and the Right to Health and Dignity Award from Healthserve Australia.

 

Dr. Amayun is married to Dr. Raija Ebeling-Amayun, a Finnish pediatrician.  They have two grown-up sons.