Ms. Daphne Joyce Maza is part of the Secretariat of the Philippine Health Research Ethics Board (PHREB), the national policy-making body for health research ethics in the Philippines, mandated under the Philippine National Health Research System (PNHRS) Act of 2013 with ensuring adherence to the universal principles for protection of human participants in research in the country. As PHREB Secretariat, she works closely with the other PNHRS Technical Working Committees including the Research Agenda Management Committee, which is mandated to formulate, monitor, and update the National Unified Health Research Agenda. She also serves as Regional Project Officer for the Western Visayas Health Research and Development Consortium, staff secretary of the National Ethics Committee (NEC), and member of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) committees, such as the GAD Focal Person System and Grievance Committee, among others. Prior to joining the PCHRD and the PHREB Secretariat, she was part of the team of a PCHRD-funded research project entitled Gender Competence in Ethics Review in the Philippines. From this study, a poster presentation was formulated, entitled When reviewers are reviewed: Obstacles and Ethical Dilemmas When Ethics Reviewers Are Themselves the Subject of Study. The poster was presented to the 15th World Congress of Bioethics of the International Association of Bioethics and won the MH-Poster Prize for the Oceanic Region. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree on Political Science from the University of the Philippines Manila (UPM), with a thesis paper on the inclusion of research ethics in the curricular program of the BA Political Science in UPM.