MEET OUR TEAM

Dr. Alacapa is a medical and public health professional with more than eight years of progressive experience in health system strengthening, research, policy and organizational strategy, and end-to-end project management across sectors such as development agencies, government, non-governmental organizations and the private sector.

Jason aspires to be a “chief health strategist,” a change agent who works across sectors and uses data and resources to address social, environmental, and economic conditions that affect health and health equity. He hopes that his current part-time Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) studies in Implementation Science at Johns Hopkins University will help him accelerate his vision and allow him to give more of himself to others.

He graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine with a Doctor of Medicine degree. After completing his MBA at AIM, he earned a dual MPH in Health Economics and Master of Health Management at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.

Renee Rose Maglente, Medical Affairs, Operations, and Quality Lead of Innovations for Community Health (InnovationsCH), is an experienced epidemiologist with a demonstrated 12-year history of working in the hospital and healthcare industry. Before starting her career with InnovationsCH, Renee spent ten years as an Infection Prevention and Control Specialist and two years as an Operations and Quality Professional.

Renee obtained a postgraduate diploma in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of the Philippines and has been actively involved in clinical practice guidelines development, rapid reviews and other research.

Marlex Nuguid is the Operations and Field Engagement Manager of Innovations for Community Health (InnovationsCH). He has been involved with several Internationally funded Projects covering different themes from Health, Environment, Education, Agriculture, and Youth Leadership. In Health, he helped improved Access to Medicine (ATM) and Access to Diagnostics (ATD) initiatives in the Philippines by mainstreaming the Programmatic Management of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis (PMDT) Satellite Treatment Centers (STC), Rapid TB Diagnostic Laboratories (RTDL) in Northern, Central, and Southern Luzon and by liaising Patient Access Programs (PAP) for Cancer Patients.

He is a humanitarian, a member of Lions Club International, a volunteer Board Advisor of the nonprofit- Benjamin 1784, and the Community Organizer of Kalikasan Leadership and Social Support (KLSS), a community-based organization which advocates Responsible mountaineering, Environmental conservation, and Ethical ecotourism.

Nicole Uy is a young public health professional with profound experience in the monitoring and evaluation of public health programs and the implementation of private sector engagement and public-private mix strategies for tuberculosis. Currently, as Innovations for Community Health’s Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning, and Development (MELD) Manager, Nicole guides the development of the M&E framework for all projects, and collaborates directly with external M&E reviewers of grant funders. She also co-leads and trains a team of public health professionals in the conduct of InnovationsCH’s M&E activities. Outside her role at InnovationsCH, Nicole serves as a consultant for other organizations, especially on infectious disease research.

She is currently a graduate student at the University of the Philippines Manila under the Master of Arts in Health Policy Studies program. She also volunteers at the Junior Chamber International as the Vice President for Internals within her local organization.