Filipino doctor Dante Salvador overcomes financial obstacles to pursue his passion for medicine and public health, in the Philippines and abroad
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owner. His parents were upfront with the aspiring doctor that they could not financially support his medical education. “An aunt in the USA financially supported my undergraduate education. From then until I completed my PhD, I was funded by various scholarships. So, all of my education, someone else was financially responsible,” Salvador said.Finding his ‘why’program when he had an epiphany. He was working as municipal health officer in San Roque in Northern Samar, managing the municipal health
In 2015, after applying to different scholarship programs, Salvador started a Master’s degree in Public Health through the Erasmus Mundus program. The program, which is celebrating its 20th year, is supported by the European Union and offers fully-funded Masters degrees. He is especially proud of their research on alcohol tax modeling, which they presented at a hearing in the Senate. “I may not be helping individuals, but through my work, I helped reduce the ill health and economic effects of alcohol consumption,” he said.Salvador is an advocate of Health Technology Assessment , which is a multidisciplinary way to evaluate properties of health technologies and interventions.
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