Dr. Grace Marie V. Ku is a public health expert, a family and community medicine physician-specialist and a health researcher and academician with background and experience in health systems, health policy & health development research & implementation; in strategic and quality management systems; and in bioethics. She is a senior researcher at the Health Policy Unit, with main focus on chronic conditions. Grace leads a capacity strengthening programme for Cambodia and is course leader of the MPH advanced course on NCDs and the Challenges in International Health core course on Health Systems and Policies for UHC at ITM.  Grace is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Gerontology of the Faculty of Medicine & Pharmacy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Associate Professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine,  Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Santo Tomas, the Philippines.