Marilen Danguilan

Marilen J. Danguilan is a medical doctor trained in policy making, and has worked in UNICEF as senior adviser on Maternal Health and in the Philippine Senate as head of the technical staff for the Committee on Health. She is the author of Making Choices in Good Faith: A Challenge to the Catholic Church's Teachings on Sexuality and Contraception, which won the National Book Award in 1993, and women in Brackets: A Chronicle of Vatican Power and Control, which was short listed for the National Book Award in 1997.