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Veronica E. Ramirez

  • Associate Professor

Areas of Interest

  • Migrant work
  • Character education
  • Visual art
  • Higher education

Dr. Veronica Esposo Ramirez is the Chair of the UA&P Research Ethics Review Board and is an Accreditor of the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA).

She has held various positions in her 25 years of teaching in UA&P: Director for Operations of the Center for Research and Communication, Director of the Education Program of the School of Education and Human Development, and Chair of the Arts Department. She was the first holder of the UA&P-BPI Professorial Chair in Migration and Overseas Filipino Work (2014-2018).

In 2019, Dr. Ramirez won the inaugural APEC Healthy Women, Healthy Economies Research Prize for her study on common health problems of women Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). She also received the Best Research Award from PACUCOA in 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

She is the author of a number of books on character education and is co-author and editor of textbooks on values education for Grades 1 to 10, MAPEH Grades 7 to 10, and Philippine contemporary art for senior high school.

Publications

  • Bringing Out the Best in Character. University of Asia and the Pacific. 2013.
  • Teaching School Children Virtues. Anvil Publishers, Inc. 2009.
  • Teaching Beyond Content. Great Books Publishing. 2007.
  • Teaching Virtues through the Visual Arts. Anvil Publishers, Inc.  2007.
  • GRI Sustainability Reporting in Higher Education Institution: The UA&P Experience. SYNERGEIA. University of Asia and the Pacific. Vol. 6. 2020.
  • Common Health Problems of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs): Implications to Prevention and Health. Monograph. Department of Science and Technology, National Research Council of the Philippines. ISBN: 978-971-813-016-2.
  • OFW Health Woes. Policy Brief. Department of Science and Technology. National Research Council of the Philippines. A Special Series on Social Issues. Issue 1 Q2018.  
  • “Assisting the Poorest of the Poor.” Opus Dei News. July 9, 2021. https://opusdei.org/en-us/article/the-poorest-of-the-poor-not-to-be-left-behind/
  • “Enabling Aeta Capabilities for a Better Life.” Inside PNAA. Official newsletter of the Philippine Nurses Association of America, Inc. Vol. 10 Issue 7 Sept 2022. pp. 42–47. https://mypnaa.wildapricot.org/Inside-PNAA
  • “Pumps for Life: Clean and Continuous water supply for Aeta families” Inside PNAA. Official newsletter of the Philippine Nurses Association of America, Inc. Vol. 10 Issue 1 Sept 2022. pp.79-80. https://mypnaa.wildapricot.org/Inside-PNAA

Edited books

  • Working Overseas: Diaspora that Sustains the Nation (ed.) University of Asia and the Pacific, Pasig City. 2013.
  • Social Enterprise: Work that Uplifts Human Life. Pasig City: University of Asia and the Pacific. 2014. 

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Contact

Phone: (632) 8637-0912 to 26
E-mail: [email protected]

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