Noel Macalalad

As the Division Chief of the Biologicals Manufacturing Division (BMD), Dr. Macalalad is part of the RITM Executive Committee. He oversees the planning and administering of all the activities of the BMD, supervises the work and activities concerning the production of vaccines (i.e. BCG, PCAV), and storage and distribution of the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) vaccines and other biologicals. Dr. Macalalad also decides the approval of the requests for local and international trainings. As the Division Chief, he ensures that the production of vaccines and other biologicals are in accordance with the cGMP.

Prior to taking the helm at BMD, Dr. Macalalad was the head of the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (NTRL) for more than a decade and was an active consultant as an Adult Infectious Disease Specialist from 2007 until July 2015. He has also once served as the Officer-in-Charge of the Laboratory Research Division from 2007 to 2009. Apart from these, Dr. Macalalad also served in the academe as a part-time associate Professor at the De La Salle Health Science Institute-College of Medicine from January 1994 to June 2015. He has authored papers on drug resistance surveillance, clinical research on flu, meningococcal and varicella zoster vaccine and other researches.

Dr. Macalalad took his bachelor’s degree in Biology at the University of the Philippines Los Baños and his master’s degree in Public Health at the University of The Philippines-College of Public Health. He earned his medical degree at the De La Salle Health Science Institute.