BIOGRAPHY
Camilla Alay Llamas, MD, MPH
Universitair Medisch Centrum (UMC) Utrecht, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care
Dr. Llamas is a general physician from the Philippines where she worked on providing medical and surgical assistance to underserved and/or far-flung areas, in partnership with an NGO called BayanihanMD. She acquired her Master’s in Public Health/ International course for Health Development, with merit from KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam in 2018. A year later, Alay worked as a course tutor for the Netherlands tropical course and Master of International Health course at the same institute. She is passionate about sexual and reproductive health rights and health systems strengthening, and increasingly, planetary health.
Alay joined UMC Utrecht as a project manager for CATAPULT (capacity strengthening in epidemiology and public health), in partnership with Elevate Health and the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh. The consortium aims to support existing mechanisms of recruitment at AUW by giving opportunities to reach out to a broader network of female students, through provision of tertiary education in public health particularly those belonging to marginalised and underserved communities, as well as embark on the development of blended/e-learning more widely across the AUW’s curriculum to facilitate distance learning as means of improving access to a broader network of female students.