Dr Annette David

Guam Department of Public Health’s Tobacco Control Consultant

Biography

Dr David is an internist and Occupational/Environmental Medicine specialist who completed her MD degree at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, MPH at Columbia University (NY), Internal Medicine training at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, and post-graduate fellowship at Yale University.

She was Technical Officer, and eventually Regional Adviser, for the Tobacco Free Initiative at the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office, before moving to the US Territory of Guam. She serves as the Guam Department of Public Health’s Tobacco Control Consultant and chairs the  State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup for  the  Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center. She is adjunct faculty at the University of Guam Cancer Research Center, the University of Hawaii Cancer Research Center and guest faculty for the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health’s Institute for Global Tobacco Control.

Dr David sits on the Board of the American Cancer Society Hawai’i Pacific and the Guam Board of Medical Examiners. She is a founding member of the Guam NCD Consortium, Guam Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition, and Guam Tobacco Control Action Team, which was a 2019 WHO World No Tobacco Day awardee. She is founder and Senior Partner at Health Partners, LLC, in Guam.