Romulo de Castro is the Director of the Center for Informatics (CFI) at the University of San Agustin (in Iloilo City, Philippines). He currently leads projects in telehealth (TDP4/ATIPAN+), mental health (MHAI) and Indigenous health (IHECs) funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada), the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO, UK), Fondation Pierre Fabre – Global South eHealth Observatory (ODESS, France), and INCITE Global Change Program (at Columbia University, USA). He obtained his PhD in Biochemistry & Genetics from the University of Texas Medical Branch (in Galveston) and conducted his postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology (Neuroscience) and The Burnham Institute (Developmental Neurobiology). He took off from laboratory research to pursue Informatics/Data Science via the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Autism Speaks, Pathway Genomics, 3R Biosystems and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (where he focused his work on Minority Health and Health Disparities). His current work in Digital Health includes telemedicine in remote, underserved and marginalized Indigenous and rural low-income communities, planning and developing of the Philippines’ Mental Health Information System (MHIS), the Negros Occidental Mental Health Information Resource (NOMHIR), the Poison Control Network – Toxicology Information System (PCN-TIS), e-Care for Dementia and Health AI.