ATTY. ROSALINA U. BASCAO, CPA, MGM
Deputy Executive Director III for Administrative and Financial Service and
Officer-in-Charge Executive Director IV
National Nutrition Council
Email: oed@nnc.gov.ph
NNC Officer-in-Charge Executive Director Bio
Atty. Rosalina U. Bascao is an experienced public servant and has been a prime mover, and team leader and player.
She first served at the National Nutrition Council (NNC), an attached agency of the Department of Health, Philippines, as the Chief of the Nutrition Policy and Planning Division in October 2022; later served as Officer-in-Charge of the Office of the Deputy Executive Director for Administrative and Financial Service.
In November 2024, she was appointed as Deputy Executive Director for Administrative and Financial Service of the NNC. In June 2025, Atty. Bascao was designated as the Officer-in-Charge Executive Director IV of the NNC Secretariat.
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Scaling Up Nutrition Global Gathering (SUNGG) Held
The Scaling Up Nutrition Global Gathering (SUNGG) is the flagship event of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement that brings together SUN Government Focal Points and members from their multi- stakeholder platforms. In this gathering, participants shared progress, experiences and insights on how nutrition and multi-stakeholder partnerships can accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development…
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NNC convened multisectoral forum on stunting and Midterm PPAN updating workshop
MANILA I The National Nutrition Council in partnership with Department of Health and UNICEF Philippines held a three-day multisectoral forum and workshop entitled “MAPS: Multisectoral Actions to Prevent Stunting: A Multisectoral Forum, Mid-term Review and Updating of the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2017-2022” on 02-04 October 2019 in Manila. “We are at…
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ASec Flores presents NNC’s portfolio to DOH Technical Services Cluster
In accordance with the implementation of the FOURmula One for Health (F1) Plus strategic policy of Secretary Francisco Duque III, the Department of Health issued on March 5, 2018 Department Personnel Order (DPO) No. 2018-0889 or the “Designation of Undersecretaries, Assistant Secretaries, and Selected Officials as Heads of Clusters and Technical Units for the Implementation…
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NNC talks over partnership with NGCP for nutrition-related projects
The National Nutrition Council discussed through a meeting on 18 January 2018 a possible partnership with the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) to implement a dietary supplementary feeding program for pregnant and lactating women, and children six to twenty-three months old in various areas in Mindanao.As part of its social responsibility for 2018,…
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NNC meets with World Bank to develop study on stunting
The National Nutrition Council met with World Bank’s Program Leader for Human Development Mr. Gabriel Demombynes on 9 January 2018 at the NNC Conference Room, to discuss the proposed study on nutrition in the Philippines and how the results can be used to prioritize policy interventions at the national and local levels.Assistant Secretary of Health…
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Partners’ meeting held to operationalize PPAN
The National Nutrition Council (NNC) in partnership with Nutrition International (NI) conducted a Partners’ Meeting on 12 January 2018 at the NNC Board Room to discuss how NI’s Technical Assistance Project could facilitate the operationalization of the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2017-2022.Various key stakeholders including members of the the NNC Technical Committee,…
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OnOn airs 2017 nutrition highlights in second episode for 2018
National Nutrition Council’s own radio program One Nutrition One Nation looked back at the year that was in its opening episode for 2018 recorded on 8 January 2018 at the NNC radio hub.NNC Executive Director and Ninang sa Wastong Nutrisyon, Assistant Secretary of Health Bernie Flores led the first episode of the radio program, this…
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ASec Flores leads oath and turnover of new PAN Board of Directors
Assistant Secretary of Health and National Nutrition Council (NNC) Executive Director Maria-Bernardita Flores represented Secretary of Health and Chairperson of the NNC Governing Board Dr. Francisco Duque III as Inducting Officer of the newly-elected Philippine Association of Nutrition (PAN) Board of Directors during the Oath Taking and Turnover Ceremonies of the PAN Board of Directors…
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NNC’s top exec is new SUN Movement Executive Committee member
National Nutrition Council’s Executive Director, Assistant Secretary of Health Maria-Bernardita Flores, is appointed as a new member of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Executive Committee on 21 December 2017.The appointment came in an official letter from the SUN Movement Coordinator and United Nations (UN) Assistant Secretary General Gerda Verburg confirming ASec/ED Flores’ selection in…
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Director’s Message on the Visayas sub-conference of the 4th National Conference of the Barangay Nutrition Scholars
Pagbati…Mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog, Tagapangulo ng Iloilo City Nutrition Committee; Ms. Jocelyn Lumaad, Pangulo ng LuzViMin BNS Federation Inc.; mga barangay nutrition scholar mula sa Western Visayas/Region 6, Central Visayas/Region 7 at Eastern Visayas/Region 8; mga kasama ko sa National Nutrition Council, mga kaibigan, magandang umaga. Welcome sa inyong 4th National BNS Conference, sub-conference…