Jose Rimon

Biography

Jose “Oying” G. Rimon II is the Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is concurrent Director of the The Challenge Initiative (TCI), a business unusual platform providing reproductive and health solutions at scale in 100 cities worldwide and has mobilized more $60M local funding from cities in three years. Oying is a Senior Scientist in the faculty of the Department of Population and Family Health. He is also the Founding Director of the School’s Center for Public Health Advocacy. Oying chairs the international steering committee and the core organizing group of the biennial International Conference on Family Planning. An internationally recognized leader in population, reproductive health and family planning, Oying has more than 30 years of entrepreneurial and transformational leadership experience in public health. He has designed, managed, and evaluated more than 300 advocacy, behavior change, service delivery and knowledge management projects in more than 60 countries in Asia, Africa, and the Near East across multiple public health issues.
From 2008 to 2012, he was a senior officer in the Global Health Policy and Advocacy group of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation covering the issues of family planning, maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) and nutrition. He was one of the key planners of the seminal 2012 London Summit on Family Planning which raised $2.6B of new funding for family planning. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation in 2008, he was co-founder and Senior Deputy Director of the Bloomberg School’s Center for Communication Programs (CCP) transforming it from idea into one of the largest behavioral change organization in the world with an annual budget of $100M. He has also helped establish a number of successful self-sustaining social enterprises in the world, among them, the FriendlyCare Foundation in the Philippines.