Portia Grace F. Marcelo
Associate Professor
University of the Philippines Manila
Overview
Dr. Portia Fernandez-Marcelo finished her Doctor of Medicine at the University of the Philippines Manila in 1993 and completed her Master in Public Health at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 2001.
At present, she is an associate professor in community medicine, social medicine and global health at the College of Medicine and Philippine General Hospital, UP Manila.
She was director of the National Telehealth Center (NTHC) under the National Institutes of Health in UP Manila. The NTHC spearheaded several pioneering eHealth innovations such as the National Telehealth Service Program, Real-time Monitoring of Maternal and Child Health Indicators through the Community Health Information Tracking System or rCHITS, and the RxBox, a biomedical telemedicine device aimed to provide smarter care in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas in the Philippines. These programs entailed the training of many government health workers from Batanes to Tawi-Tawi on the use of ICT literacy for health and the ethical use of eHealth applications. These innovations have become the basis for national policy discourse on eHealth in the Philippines. The University of the Philippines Manila is part of the National eHealth Steering Committee which charts how eHealth will be leveraged towards Universal Health Care.
Education & Training
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1983-1987 Bachelor's Degree Biology, General, University of the Philippines
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1988-1993 Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), University of the Philippines
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1999-2001 Master's Degree Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2011-now Director, UP National Telehealth Center
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1996-now Associate Professor, University of the Philippines College of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine
Selected Publications
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Amoranto, A. J., Macabasag, R. L., Yarza, T. K., Cruz, T. L., Santos, A. D., Fullante, P., ... & Marcelo, P. G. (2023). Design of a Blended Learning Course for Training Community Healthcare Providers on eHealth-enabled Newborn Hearing Screening. Acta Medica Philippina, 57(9). Design of a Blended Learning Course for Training Community Healthcare Providers on eHealth-enabled Newborn Hearing Screening.
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Amoranto AJ, Fullante P, Yarza TK, Santos AD, Tulisana ML, Sunga M, Capco C, Domingo J, Racal M, Marcin J, Sison L, Chiong C, Marcelo PG. Pilot Implementation of a Community-based, eHealth-enabled Service Delivery Model for Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention in the Philippines. Acta Med Philipp [Internet]. 2023Sep.27 [cited 2023Nov.21];57(9). Pilot Implementation of a Community-based, eHealth-enabled Service Delivery Model for Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention in the Philippines.
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Fullante, P., Labra, P. J., Mauricio, J. M., Luistro, A., Marcelo, P. G., Sison, L., & Chiong, C. (2023). Evaluation of an Investigational Hearing Screening Device (HeLe) to Demonstrate Acoustic Brainstem Response among Normal-hearing Adults. Acta Medica Philippina, 57(9). Evaluation of an Investigational Hearing Screening Device (HeLe) to Demonstrate Acoustic Brainstem Response among Normal-hearing Adults.