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1st Minda Luz M. Quesada Memorial Lecture
Date/Venue: February 11, 2:00 pm / College of Nursing Auditorium
*Lecturer: Dr. Marita V. T. Reyes, former Chancellor of the UP Manila
“Professionalism, Ethics and Health Rights”
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* An audio-visual presentation on Prof. Quesada by Prof. Cora A.
Anonuevo
(UPCN) preceded the
lecture
* Quesada Family Response: Ms. Mari Luz Quesada-Tiongson
Organizers: The CPH’s Library and
Seminars Committee (headed by
Prof. Teresita S. de Guzman) and Sibol (an undergraduate student
organization)
chaired by Ms. Mita Lourdes Angela organized the Memorial Lecture, with the
College of Nursing as co-host.
Prof. Minda Luz N. Quesada, a nurse, educator, activist and nationalist was
a
faculty member of the College of Public Health. She was the President of the
UP Manila University Assembly, Vice President of the Philippine Nurses
Association, and President of the Alliance of Health Workers, a
non-government organization advocating for the rights of health workers that
pushed for the Magna Carta of Public Health Workers. She was the lone health
sector representative in the Constitutional Commission that framed the 1987
Philippine Constitution. Through her efforts as a Commissioner of the Con
Com, health is now recognized as a right of every Filipino citizen. She had
cancer of the colon and passed away in 1995.
