Renzo R. Guinto, MD DrPH is Associate Professor and Lead of the Planetary Health Programme at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute (SDGHI), Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore. 

One of the world’s pioneers of the new field of planetary health and Southeast Asia’s leading “pracademic” of climate and health, Renzo is a member of the National Panel of Technical Experts of the Philippine Climate Change Commission; World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on the ethics of climate and health; US National Academy of Medicine’s Committee for the Roadmap for Transformative Action to Achieve Health for All at Net-Zero Emissions; editorial boards of several journals including The Lancet Planetary Health; board of directors of Health Systems Global; and several Lancet Commissions, most notably the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare.

An Obama Foundation Asia-Pacific Leader and Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, Renzo is the convener of Planetary Health Philippines – a community for nation building and planetary healing in the Philippines, and has served as consultant for various international organizations including the WHO, World Bank, USAID, and Wellcome.

Renzo obtained his Doctor of Public Health from Harvard University and Doctor of Medicine from the University of the Philippines Manila. In 2020, Renzo was included by Tatler Magazine in its Gen.T List of 400 leaders of tomorrow who are shaping Asia’s future. In 2025, he was awarded the inaugural Kiyoshi Kurokawa Award by Japan’s Health and Global Policy Institute for “extraordinary contributions to health policy and innovation in the Asia-Pacific region.”