R. Guinto, MD DrPH is Associate Professor of Global and Planetary Health at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute, Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore. He is also Visiting Professor of Global and Planetary Health at the St. Luke's Medical Center College of Medicine in the Philippines and Senior Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge. Renzo is a member of the National Panel of Technical Experts of the Philippine Climate Change Commission; World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on the ethics of climate and health; editorial boards of several journals including The Lancet Planetary Health and PLOS Global Public Health; and two Lancet Commissions – The O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health, and The Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare. An Obama Foundation Asia-Pacific Leader and Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, Renzo has served as consultant for various organizations including the WHO, World Bank, USAID, and Wellcome Trust. He currently serves as convener of Planetary Health Philippines, and chair of the Committee on Environmental Health and Ecology of the Philippine Medical Association and of the Thematic Working Group on Climate Resilient and Sustainable Health Systems of Health Systems Global. Renzo obtained his Doctor of Public Health from Harvard University and Doctor of Medicine from the University of the Philippines Manila, and received further training from Oxford, LSHTM, Copenhagen, Western Cape, Institute of Tropical Medicine-Antwerp, and East-West Center (Hawaii). He has traveled to and lectured in nearly 60 countries and 100 universities across the world; published more than 200 reports and articles in scientific journals, books, and popular media; and directed and produced short films that communicate the message of planetary healing to the world. In 2020, Renzo was included by Tatler Magazine in its Gen.T List of 400 leaders of tomorrow who are shaping Asia’s future. In 2022, he was named one of The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) and Women of the Philippines for pioneering the field of planetary health in the country. In 2023, the St. Luke’s Planetary and Global Health Program which he founded was awarded the inaugural CUGH-Velji Planetary Health Innovation Award by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.