Bellagio Residents/

Ronald Law

March 2022 Cohort

Bellagio Residency: March 2022

Project: “Enhancing Climate and Health Resilience of High-Risk Coastal Communities in the Philippines Using Data-Driven Program Planning”


Ronald Law is a 2019 Fulbright U.S. – ASEAN scholar, a professor of public health at leading universities in the Philippines, and a member of the WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management. During his Bellagio residency in March 2022, he developed a project to inform strategies in the health sector on how to respond to climate and health threats affecting high-risk and vulnerable communities in the Philippines. Currently the Chief of Preparedness at the Philippine Department of Health’s health emergency bureau, Law has led the response to major emergencies and disasters.