# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-rosario-vergeire
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:59:40.545Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-rosario-vergeire"
name: "Maria Rosario Vergeire"
slug: "maria-rosario-vergeire"
description: "Maria Rosario Clarissa Singh-Vergeire is a Filipino physician and public health official. She formerly served as the top undersecretary of the Department of Health from June 2023 to July 2025. She also served as the officer in charge of the department from July 14, 2022, to June 5, 2023, following her appointment by President Bongbong Marcos. She was also the department's spokesperson beginning in 2015 under the Benigno Aquino III and Rodrigo Duterte administrations, as well as the department's assistant secretary for public health services from 2015 to 2020."
tagline: "Philippine public-health official"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Health_Assistant_Secretary_Maria_Rosario_S._Vergeire_-_Diplomatic_Briefing_n-Cov_4.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           42.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           3.571061333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Rosario_Vergeire"
    title: "Maria Rosario Vergeire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Rosario_Vergeire"
    title: "Maria Rosario Vergeire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%88_%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%A6%D8%B1"
    title: "ماریا روساریو ورگیئر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maria_Rosario_Vergeire"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98746000"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump