Carlo Irwin Panelo is the deputy chief of party for the Health Policy Development Program of USAID and an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines (UP), Manila. He formerly served as executive director of the UP Medical Alumni Foundation and as executive assistant to the Secretary of Health. He has held consultancy engagements with the German Development Bank, WHO, and CordAid. He received an M.D. and an M.A. in economics from UP.