From Okinawa to Oceania:
Reflections on International Cooperation with Japan
in the Medical Treatment Fields

Paper presented during the teleconference on January 25, 2001 for the two-week Area Focused Training Course on Community Health and Welfare Policy in Islands Regions conducted in Okinawa, Japan.

Promoting Partnerships for Women's Health and Safe Motherhood:
The Eastern Visayas Experience

Text of the popular magazine version of the mid-term report of the five-year Women's Health and Safe Motherhood Project - Partnerships Component (WHSMP-PC), a European Union-funded project in the Leyte-Samar Region. Published in December 2000.

The 1998 Multi-Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in Samar, from which report this paper and the paper below were derived from, received funding and support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Paper presented at the RHRDC-8 5th Regional Health Research Forum, Ritz Tower de Leyte, Tacloban City, December 17, 1999. Also presented at the 3rd National Research Forum of the Research and Educational Development Training Institute (REDTI), St. Scholastica's College of Health Sciences, Tacloban City, January 24-26, 2001.

Speech before the 3rd Scientific Meeting of the Integrated Midwives Association of the Philippines, Inc. (IMAP), Biliran Chapter, at the Biliran National Agricultural College (BNAC), Biliran, Biliran Province on May 28, 1997.

Paper and poster presentation at the "Regional Conference on Health Sector Reform in Asia," Asian Development Bank (ADB) Building, Mandaluyong City, Metro-Manila, Philippines, May 22-25, 1995.

A case study commissioned by the Philippine Health Social Science Association (PHSSA) and presented at its scientific session in Bacolod City on April 6-7, 1995.

The research report of a maternal and child health (MCH) survey in Eastern Samar Province, which received funding and support from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Narrative report only, the tables are still being converted into HTML files.