Jason is a lawyer and the mayor of the Municipality of Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental. In his term as a mayor, Jason’s goal has been to transform his municipality by strengthening education and health services and enabling social programs and economically sustainable development.

He has a strong commitment to promote health equity in his municipality, where 80 percent of the population are indigenous people; he sees a pathway to making progress on health equity through strengthening health, education, and social welfare programs, especially addressing issues related to HIV, mental health and depression, and LGBTQ concerns.

He brings planning and management competency to this job in order to create more responsive, streamlined, and efficient delivery of programs, projects, and services to the community.

Before becoming mayor, he was an elected board member of the undivided province Davao del Sur from 2013-2016 and then was a vice mayor of Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental from 2016-2019. In recognition of his transformative leadership in Jose Abad Santos, the Civil Service Commission awarded him with a Dangala ng Bayan Award. He looks forward to building a strong network of health equity advocates and learning about the sustainable development initiatives of other countries in the region and globally.