Capability Statement - SPHERES, Inc.

Capability Statement | SPHERES, Inc.

SPHERES, Inc. is a Philippine public health consulting firm built around end-to-end project management, carrying a program from design through implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and closeout under one accountable team. Its technical competencies in program design, health systems strengthening, epidemiology, and capacity building are delivered within that same project management structure. The result is a single accountable partner for government agencies, UN agencies, and civil society organizations managing public health programs in the Philippines.

Core Competencies

Every engagement is managed end to end, from design through implementation, monitoring, and closeout, under one accountable team. Within that project management structure, SPHERES delivers:

Program Design & Implementation: maternal and child health, reproductive health, communicable disease, nutrition, and digital health programming, from concept design through field rollout.
Health Systems Strengthening: Health Care Provider Network formation, UHC Act implementation, and local governance reform support.
Monitoring & Evaluation: framework design, indicator development, data quality assessment, and evaluation aligned with DOH and donor reporting standards.
Epidemiology & Public Health Research: facility and situation assessments, disease surveillance support, and evidence synthesis for program and policy design.
Capacity Building & Training: training needs assessment, curriculum development, and competency‑based training for health workers and LGU teams.
Digital Health & Information Systems: in house design and build of data collection tools, live data pipelines, and dashboards compliant with DOH and PhilHealth reporting requirements.

Strengths

A single team stays accountable for the full engagement, so there is no hand‑off between a design consultant, an implementation contractor, and a separate M&E firm, the usual point where donor‑funded projects lose momentum.
A full public health bench under one roof: epidemiology, M&E, health systems, digital health, and policy expertise, so a single engagement does not require three separate consultants.
Builds its own digital tools when a project calls for them, data collection instruments, scoring engines, live dashboards, instead of outsourcing the technical build to a third party.
Written directly against the Philippine system. Tools are built against DOH Administrative Orders, the UHC Act, and PhilHealth reporting requirements from the start, not adapted afterward from a generic global template.
SEC registered, VAT registered, and Data Privacy Act compliant, meeting the institutional requirements UN agencies and LGUs require before contracting.
Backed by a pool of experienced public health consultants, physicians, epidemiologists, M&E specialists, and program managers, who can be brought onto an engagement for surge capacity or specialized technical input without a new hiring cycle.

Performance

Project	Partner / Funder	Location & Scope	Period
Maternal Health Facility Readiness Self-Assessment (MHFRSA) 7-domain, 114-indicator digital readiness tool with live HCPN mapping	Subcontract under PSRP; funded by UNFPA Philippines	Santa Cruz, Laguna	Jun to Aug 2026
Buntis Partner Program Community based maternal risk registration, classification, and referral platform	Development partner PSRP; funded by UNFPA Philippines	Sta. Cruz, Laguna, all 26 barangays	2026, 3-month pilot

Both engagements were secured through competitive selection against a Terms of Reference and are ongoing as of August 2026.

Flagship Tools & Digital Platforms

Digital systems designed and built in house for engagements that call for them, including facility assessment tools, community data collection instruments, and reporting dashboards. Manual processes and third-party platforms are used where those better fit a project’s scope and budget. The tools below are currently in active use.

MHFR Self-Assessment Tool

Turns a full day of manual facility audits into an hour long digital self-assessment. Seven domains, 114 indicators, built on the WHO Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA), the WHO Harmonized Health Facility Assessment (HHFA), and DOH Administrative Orders 2012-0012 and 2020-0047. Produces an instant Facility Readiness Scorecard and a live, GPS mapped Health Care Provider Network view for the whole municipality.

MaTRIS, the Maternal Tracking and Risk Identification System

Gives barangay health workers a single mobile tool to register, classify, and follow high risk pregnancies from first contact through postnatal care, complementing paper logbooks with a live supervisor dashboard, an interactive risk map, an RHU client lookup tool, and a mobile BHW Client Viewer.

Buntis Partner Program

The MaTRIS architecture configured for Santa Cruz, Laguna. The digital tools are built and pretested, and Barangay Health Worker and Rural Health Unit staff are currently completing orientation and training ahead of full rollout across all 26 barangays, targeting approximately 500 pregnant women.

Leadership

Dr. Agnes Jacinto-Pacho, MD, PHSAEEpidemiologist

Dr. Agnes Jacinto-Pacho, MD, PHSAE, is President and CEO of SPHERES, Inc., bringing decades of experience in public health, epidemiology, and program management to the organization. She previously served as President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Management and Research Group, Inc. (APMARGIN) from 2016 to March 2026, leading that organization’s full project lifecycle, from proposal and study design through implementation, data management, and evaluation. At SPHERES, she leads the technical and epidemiological grounding behind the firm’s assessment tools and program designs, and provides senior oversight on project management structure and quality across engagements.