Orientation and Preliminary Meeting with Potential Partner Organizations January 20 | By invitation | UP Manila Chancellor's Board Room, PGH - UP Manila
FEBRUARY
Research, Policy, and Program: The Philippine Newborn Screening Experience, a Challenge to the Role of Nurses 15 February | Public | Hosted by the UP Manila-College of Nursing in partnership with the National Institutes of Health-UP Manila and Volunteer Youth Leaders for Health - Philippines | JVSotejo Hall UPM-CN Seminar Room | Event [Link] Happy Walk 2016 (Down Syndrome Consciousness Month Celebration) 21 February | SMX, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City | Event [Link] Organized by DSAPI (Down Syndrome Association of the Philippines, Inc.) 7th National Rare Disease Week 22-29 February | Nationwide | Event [Link] Coordinated by PSOD (Philippine Society for Orphan Disorders Inc.) and VYLH-Philippines Negros Occidental Province-wide Birth Defects Surveillance Meeting and Re-Orientation 24 February | By invitation | Bacolod City I am Rare 2.0 / Fly and Sail with Rare 27 February | By invitation | Venue World Rare Disease Day 29 February | Worldwide
MARCH
World Birth Defects Day 03 March | Worldwide WorldBDday Booth 02 March | National Institutes of Health, UP Manila 03 March | Philippine Normal University (PNU College Y Club - Y'ers Volunteers' Summit) National Pregnant Women's Day (Pambansang Araw ng mga Buntis/Buntis Day) 10 March | Nationwide | POGS-organized event
World Birth Defects Day - Philippines Secretariat Institute of Human Genetics, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila (c) 2016