BEYOND THE DATA. Lisa Grace Bersales (right), newly appointed Commission on Population and Development executive director, conducts a briefing on her first day in office on Monday (Jan. 16, 2023). She emphasized the importance of going around and getting to know the facts and faces behind the statistics. (Courtesy of POPCOM) MANILA - The newly appointed executive director of the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM) has vowed to go further beyond collecting data by getting to know the faces that comprise the numbers and understand how they thrive under difficult situations. Dr. Lisa Bersales said Friday it will be her personal advocacy to enable Filipino families to live in decent conditions. "Data and statistics will be used as the basis for prioritizing, for focus, and for monitoring successes," Bersales said in a statement. Under her leadership, she said POPCOM will look into empirical-based decisions to determine where to start and what to prioritize in accord
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President Marcos has appointed a professor of the University of the Philippines (UP) as the new executive director of the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM).
The appointment of Lisa Grace S. Bersales makes her the undersecretary for population and development or POPDEV.
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THE newly sworn-in Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) Executive Director intends to focus on the commission’s development aims. National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) Secretary Arsenio M. Balisacan has recently sworn into office former National Statistician Lisa Grace S. Bersales as undersecretary for population and development (Popdev). “The three…