Trent is a Predoctoral Fellow in the Health Systems and Infectious Disease unit, where he supports research to improve systems of care for HIV, COVID-19 and liver diseases.

Previously, Trent worked for the World Bank to improve country systems to finance health services and protect individual and public payers from financial risk. He also previously worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, where he advised on health systems interventions for bilateral development programs in HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and maternal and child health.

Trent holds an MPH in Health Policy from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA.

Dr. Ratzan has three decades of pioneering accomplishments in the U.S. and globally in health communication, health literacy, and strategic diplomacy. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives. He is Distinguished Lecturer at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York. Building on his work in the 1990s as a professor and Founding Director of the Emerson-Tufts Masters Program in Health Communication, Dr. Ratzan co-directs the Masters Program in Health Communication for Social Change at CUNY SPH. He also serves as a co-lead of communication efforts with the Pandemic Response Institute an initiative with ICAP at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and CUNY SPH. He recently was a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. He has worked in multiple sectors with Johnson & Johnson, ABInBev and USAID in Brussels, New York and Washington DC. He has been published extensively in the field of health communication and policy including articles related to vaccine literacy and uptake in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, Nature Medicine, National Academies of Medicine Perspectives. During the COVID pandemic, he has written articles and offered expertise including in the BMJ, Washington Post, STAT News, New York Times, and Financial Times and also in broadcast including BBC World News, Sky News, MSNBC and others. Dr. Ratzan co-founded The Council for Quality Health Communication, is on the leadership team of the Health Equity Community Cooperative including the Children’s Health Equity Working Group, as well as private sector activities with the U.S. Council for International Business Foundation. Dr Ratzan is engaged with global health efforts with serving on the Board of Global Health for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine and World Information Transfer, Inc. a UN accredited NGO. He is a Senior Fellow with World in 2050 with the Diplomatic Courier. He has served as Co-Chair of the UN Secretary General’s Every Woman Every Child Innovation Working Group, and on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Board of Scientific Counselors, Office of Infectious Disease. Dr. Ratzan co-authored the definition of health literacy adopted by HHS and integrated in the U.S. Affordable Care Act, defined as "the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions." His books include Vaccine Communication in a Pandemic: Strengthening Vaccine Literacy, Restoring Trust and Engaging Communities to Foster Vaccine Confidence and Uptake, Mad Cow Crisis: Health and the Public Good, Attaining Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities, and AIDS: Effective Health Communication for the 90s. He holds adjunct professorial appointments at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the University of St Andrews School of Medicine. Dr. Ratzan has an M.D. from the University of Southern California, an M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School, and an M.A. in Communication from Emerson College.

Dr. Ayman El-Mohandes, Dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH), is a pediatrician and public health academic with a deep commitment to public service and community engagement. He is an established researcher in the field of infant mortality reduction in minority populations. Dr. El-Mohandes’ funded research focuses on population-based interventions in underserved communities both locally and globally. His publication record includes innovative approaches towards improving perinatal and neonatal outcomes in high-risk populations. Dr. El-Mohandes has been actively engaged in the response to COVID-19 here in New York City and around the world. Since the pandemic first struck in March 2020, his CUNY SPH team has been monitoring the experiences and perspectives of NYC residents through an ongoing tracking survey. He is also collaborating with an international consortium to assess and respond to Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy worldwide. His work in this domain has appeared in Nature Medicine, The Lancet, and the American Journal of Public Health. Dr. El-Mohandes has served as a senior consultant on multiple global health services and public health interventions funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Asia Development Bank, and the Government of South Africa. These projects included the “Healthy Mother Healthy Child” program in Egypt to upgrade obstetric and neonatal services in the districts with the highest infant mortality, a “Health Services Program” in Indonesia, and establishing the first school of public health for black students in South Africa. Dr. El-Mohandes stepped down as the Chair of the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health Board of Directors (ASPPH) in March 2023, and continues as a board member of the ASPPH. He serves on the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Advisory Council and is an elected member of the American Pediatric Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. CUNY SPH has undergone dramatic transformation since Dr. El-Mohandes became Dean in 2013. Under his leadership it became an independent school within the CUNY system and received full re-accreditation in 2016. Six new institutes and centers have been launched—with an accompanying surge in research activity and funding—and an active working partnership with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has been formed. The CUNY SPH instructional portfolio has expanded similarly, with a range of new certificate programs and master’s and doctoral degrees, many of which are available fully online. CUNY SPH rose to number 15 out of 202 schools and programs of public health nationwide and number 17 in health policy on the 2023 U.S. News and World Report rankings, marking the school’s rise to the top 10% of all public health schools in less than 10 years.

Wenhui Mao is an Assistant Director of Program at Duke Global Health Innovation Center, and Instructor of Global Health at Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University. Wenhui received PhD training in Health Economics from Fudan University, China, and has a decade experience in health policy research in low- and middle-income countries. Her current interests include 1) the impact of health policy through policy analysis and economic evaluation; 2) health financing, including both external and domestic financing; and 3) access to health products. Wenhui has published over 120 academic articles, policy briefs, working papers and blogs and serves as Commissioner of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health.

Dr Ken Rabin, based in Warsaw Poland, has more than fifty years of experience in public affairs, marketing communications, and education, primarily in healthcare. In addition to his current role at CUNY SPH, he is special projects editor of the Journal of Health Communication and senior counselor to Alfa Communications in Warsaw.

Since 2019 Ken has collaborated with Dr. Scott Ratzan, Prof. Jeffrey Lazarus, and others on several international and US academic studies and editorials on vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 communications and immunization issues. His past clients include Johnson and Johnson (for whom he helped develop the Campaign for Nursing’s Future), Sanofi, Merck, L’oreal, UNESCO, PhRMA and IFPMA. His campaigns have won a Silver Anvil, Gold Quill, and the Big Apple Award of the New York PRSA.

He was executive vice president of international healthcare at Ruder Finn in Washington, London, and Paris, managing director of Burson-Marsteller’s worldwide healthcare practice, chairman of InterScience (a global healthcare PR company later acquired by 3BCom/Medicus), executive vice president of healthcare at Hill & Knowlton, and director of public affairs at Squibb (now BMS). Prior to working in the corporate sector, Ken was associate professor and director of the graduate public relations program at American University in Washington, a communications specialist at Meharry Medical College, and a USIA foreign service information officer in Africa.

He has a BA (honors) degree from Cornell, MA degrees from Yale and the University of North Carolina, and a PhD in higher education administration from the George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. He is married to Prof. Anna Wysocka-Rabin of NCBJ Swierk and has two children from his marriage to the Late Renee Efland Rabin.

Carolina Batista, MD, is a global health leader and expert who has been at the forefront of improving the health and access to care for people in various countries for 20 years. She is currently the head of Global Health Affairs at Baraka Impact Finance, where she works to bring together data analytics and innovation to catalyze investments in health solutions for the underserved. Prior to that, she had a distinguished track record of working with leading international organizations such as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi). She has served as an elected member of the International Board of MSF and was the first Brazilian (and Latin America to hold such role). In addition to that, she has extensive clinical and field experience in rural areas, indigenous communities, women and girls, urban slums, and humanitarian emergencies, where she directly treated infectious diseases, managed health programs, and delivered effective and sustainable solutions that address the root causes of ill health and social injustice. She has also published several peer-reviewed articles and reports on topics such as access to healthcare, health equity, COVID-19 pandemic, preparedness, health systems and infectious diseases.Dr. Batista serves on the board of several prestigious global health organizations and initiatives, such as The Lancet Migration Latin America, DNDi Access Committee, Movement Health Foundation , the International Society of NTDs, The Lancet COVID-19 Commission. As a woman leader in global health, she is committed to supporting and empowering other women and is a proud co-founder of the Women in Global Health Lusophone Community, launched during the WHA76. Carolina has a medical degree from Brazil and a master’s degree in international public health from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute.

Michele Barry, M.D., FACP, FASTMH, is the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Stanford University. She is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health and Senior Associate Dean for Global Health. Dr. Barry is the founder of the Gates-funded nonprofit WomenLift Health, an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Council on Foreign Relations, and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chair Emerita of the Board of Directors for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, and past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She has most recently written on the exclusion of women climate scientists from COP meetings and leadership roles but also has published in the areas of climate’s impact on megacities, tropical diseases, human and planetary health as well as global and refugee health.

Alhelí is a Medical Doctor who graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila (UA de C). She holds a Master's in Public Health from the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (INSP) in Mexico. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Joint Doctoral Program of Public Health - Global Health track at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the San Diego State University (SDSU). Alhelí is the founder and director of the Social-Environmental Tijuana River Project, a binational multidisciplinary research team. She is also the co-director of Women in Global Health - Mexico Chapter, and the Correspondent for Mexico in the Pandemic Period Collective. She has special training in global health, social and behavioral science and migration. Her interest include the intersection between substance use and environmental health, health equity, social and environmental justice, among others.

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Biostatistics at Harvard Chan. Her research focuses on developing and applying rigorous statistical methods to better understand and improve health systems globally, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. She is the Director of Research for the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change and leads research evaluating mHealth tools to support community health workers providing home-based postoperative care in rural Rwanda. Dr. Hedt-Gauthier is committed to improving partnerships in global health research, by innovating within her own practice and by leading research and advocacy on issues of power dynamics and inequitable research collaborations.

Dr. Adeline Boatin is an Ob/Gyn and a Assistant Professor leading research at the intersection of maternal health, digital health and health systems. Her research is primarily based in Ghana and Uganda. She serves as the Associate Director of Research for the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change.

Fredrick Kateera, MBChB, MSc, PhD, is the Chief Medical Officer for Partners In Health/Rwanda, leading clinical programs and advising the Rwanda Ministry of Health. As an epidemiologist and researcher, Dr. Kateera has over 10 years of experience in clinical care, research implementation, and program management in East Africa. He is a previous NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellow and has collaborated on and led several NIH-funded grants. Dr. Kateera serves as one of the scientific leads of digital health research that focuses on developing mHealth tools to support Community Health Workers providing post-cesarean, home-based care in rural Rwanda.

Tobi Olatunji is a physician turned Machine Learning Scientist focused on Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP). He founded Intron, Africa’s first speech-powered medical record, accelerating the transition to digitized care for clinicians of all typing speeds. Intron provides technology infrastructure and financing that eliminates technology adoption barriers. Over the past decade, he has worked as a Clinical NLP Scientist at Health AI, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon, the world’s largest employer; Enlitic Inc, a Radiology AI startup in San Francisco; Cambia Health Solutions, a 100+-year-old health insurance provider in the pacific northwest; and consulted for various startups and healthcare institutions in the US and Africa. His research cuts across accented speech recognition, algorithmic bias, neural and ontology-augmented information retrieval, negation & uncertainty detection in radiology reports; Radiogenomic multi-modal models combining imaging (pathology and radiology), genomics (RNA, DNA), unstructured text, and cancer biomarkers to create learnable patient representations. He has published at Neurips, MIDL, EMNLP, and other machine learning conferences/workshops.

Tobi holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree from the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan; a Master of Science in Medical Informatics from the University of San Francisco, a Certificate in Healthcare Management from Yale School of Management and an MSc in Computer Science (c) at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dheera Ananthakrishnan, MD, MSE, MBA is an experienced orthopaedic spine surgeon with over 20 years of academic practice in complex spinal deformity surgery, most recently at Emory University, Atlanta, GA. She has been voted one of Atlanta’s Top Doctors 6 out of the last 7 years. In addition to her clinical practice, Dheera is a co-founder of Orthopaedic Link, a non-profit whose mission is to leverage idle, usable surplus from a consortium of orthopaedic implant companies to provide surgeons, hospitals, and non-governmental organizations in low and middle-income countries with equipment specific to their surgical needs. She has negotiated with medical device companies, consultancies, and government alliances, as well as 3PL services to mobilize surplus equipment for the amelioration of global orthopaedic health. Since 2009, Orthopaedic Link has placed over $4 million worth of surplus implants and instrumentation, enabling the care of over 400 patients worldwide. Dheera completed her Executive MBA at MIT Sloan in 2023, having previously obtained her undergraduate degree from MIT in Mechanical Engineering, as well as a Masters in Bioengineering from the University of Washington. She actively promotes social entrepreneurship at Emory, Georgia Tech, MIT, and most recently at Babson College with the Global Slingshot Program.

Dr. Sharon Anoush Chekijian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. She is a faculty member in the Section of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine.

Her research interests lie in global emergency medicine and include conflict and public health, emergency care systems' development, unintentional injury prevention, as well as stroke and cardiac care in low and middle-income countries. Dr. Chekijian has led and participated in projects in the Republic of Armenia, Uganda, and Iraq. She has consulted for the World Bank and the US Department of State. She is an active member of the Stroke Initiative Advisory Task-Force for Armenia (SIATA) and the Armenian Stroke Council. She is a visiting professor at the National Institute of Health of Armenia. Dr. Chekijian was awarded a Fulbright in 2020 for her work to improve emergency care in Armenia by the establishment of a new emergency medicine residency program in cooperation with the National Institutes of Health of Armenia and the Turpanjian School of Public Health at the American University of Armenia.

She is deeply committed to patient experience, communication and humanism in medicine. Dr. Chekijian co-produced a film that addresses human rights as it relates to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 called “The Hidden Map” which aired nationally on PBS in the U.S. in 2022.

Charlotte Roy is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. She completed a fellowship in Global Emergency Medicine and earned her MPH at Columbia University. She did her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago. Since graduating from fellowship, she has worked as an emergency physician with Doctors Without Borders in Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Central African Republic. She also supports the emergency medicine residency program in Rwanda and is a member of the Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network. Her long-term interests include humanitarian response, global ultrasound, and research related to refugees and asylum seekers.

Dr. Danielle (Dani) Poole is a population health scientist notable for her contributions to the evidence base for humanitarian decision-making. Within the broader field of humanitarian health research, her work is centered around two themes: 1) measuring needs among populations affected by crises with a focus on health during displacement, and 2) adapting research methods for complex settings to achieve internal and external generalizability. Recent and ongoing research contributions that have informed humanitarian response include an independent review of the Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework (in partnership with UNOCHA), development of the Humanitarian Data Strategy for UNFPA’s Humanitarian Office, and geospatial analysis of health facility attacks in Ukraine (Yale University). Dr. Poole completed her doctorate at the Harvard School of Public Health, and holds a MPH from Brown University and a BA from Seattle University.

Dr. John Roberts is an emergency physician and public health practitioner specializing in humanitarian assistance and disaster response, with deep experience in emergency response and disaster medicine. Dr. Roberts joined International Medical Corps as a Medical Advisor in 2020, served as the Interim Lead for US Programs and Emergency Response in 2021, and is currently the Senior Emergency Health Advisor for the Emergency Response Unit. He was a leader in International Medical Corps’ successful efforts to be classified by the World Health Organization as an Emergency Medical Team Type 1, Fixed and Mobile; led International Medical Corps’ COVID-19 response in the US in 2020, deploying to responses in California and Texas; and led the Haiti earthquake response in 2021. In 2022, Dr. Roberts deployed to Moldova, Poland and Ukraine in the immediate aftermath of the Russian invasion to conduct assessments and provide strategic guidance as the war progressed. Before joining International Medical Corps, Dr. Roberts led medical teams responding to Cyclone Idai in Mozambique and the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece, among other emergencies. He has training in urban humanitarian emergencies, disaster response and humanitarian assistance from Harvard University, Disaster Medical Coordination International Society and McGill University, and in medical Spanish from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua. Dr. Roberts graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, LAC+USC Emergency Medicine Residency, Carolinas Medical Center Fellowship in Disaster Medicine and the University of South Florida School of Public Health in International Humanitarian Assistance.

Hani Mowafi, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor, Chief of the Section of Global Health in the Department of Emergency Medicine and he serves as the Director of the Yale-London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Fellowship in Global Health and International Emergency Medicine. Dr. Mowafi's work focuses on developing the science and practice of emergency care with emphasis on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the burden of emergency conditions is highest and where there is a large unmet need for emergency care.

Internationally known for his work on emergency and trauma care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), Dr. Mowafi has extensive experience conducting training, research, and program development in the Middle East and Africa. He has served as an expert consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, the World Bank and the World Health Organization where he is currently an Emergency Care Consultant for the WHO's Global Emergency and Trauma Care Initiative. He is the Co-Director of the NIH-funded Middle East and North Africa Program for Advanced Injury Research (MENA PAIR) - a partnership between Yale University and the American University of Beirut.

Dr. Mowafi has served on scientific review panels for both global injury and humanitarian research including the National Institutes of Health Research (UK), and Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises (UK). He serves as the Associate Editor for Trauma for BMC Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Mowafi's research interests are assessing the health burden and impacts of trauma and injury in LMICs; health and human security in humanitarian emergencies; and developing metrics for global emergency care. Dr. Mowafi has a long track record mentoring junior investigators and practitioners in global health careers including trainees in the United States, East Africa and the Middle East.

Dr. Mowafi has been recognized for his leadership and serves on the International Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), previously as the Chair of the ACEP International Section, and Chair of the of the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship Consortium. In 2017 he was awarded the Humanitarian Service Award from the Global Emergency Medicine Academy of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in recognition of his work studying and mitigating the impacts of humanitarian crises around the world.

Ginny McCarthy is a DrPH candidate in the Department of Community & Behavioral Health. Ginny joined the Colorado School of Public Health to work closely with the Injury & Violence Prevention Center on firearm injury and prevention in the realm in interpersonal violence and suicide prevention. She formerly served as Director of University Ministry at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

Jessica Evert MD is a global health educator and thought leader. She is the Global Medical Director of Child Family Health International where she collaborates with colleagues in 10 countries to provide educational immersion for students and faculty from over 200 universities. She researches and works with standard setting bodies to increase the authenticity, rigor, and ethics of short term experiences in global health.

Bibhav Acharya, MD is an Associate Professor and Founding Director of UCSF Psychiatry HEAL fellowship in Global Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at University of California, San Francisco. He is the co-founder and mental health advisor of Possible, a non-profit organization that has been testing and scaling up innovative health interventions with over $35 million invested since 2007 in partnership with the Nepali Government and local organizations. He has been the PI/MPI in multiple NIH-funded studies focused on mental health, behavioral health, and non-communicable diseases. He was a senior consultant for the MILAP pilot study. He was born and raised in Nepal and has been conducting research there for over 15 years.

Pragya Rimal, MA, is a Ph.D. student at the Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA, and a mental health advisor at Possible. Before starting her graduate school, Pragya worked with Possible as a senior mental health research manager where she contributed to developing and implementing mental health interventions in rural Nepal. She played a key role in integrating mental health services into primary care, developed a Motivational Interviewing tool for Community Health Workers to engage with patients with Depression and HIV, and oversaw a pilot family intervention study addressing mental health drivers of domestic violence among young women.Pragya grew up in Nepal, and her training led her to India, Chiapas (Mexico), and various parts of the US. She recognizes the striking similarities in healthcare disparities across resource-denied settings and borders and aims to continue working with underserved communities.

Sabitri Sapkota, PhD is the Executive Director of Possible, a non-profit organization that has been working in Nepal since 2007 and was the performance site for the MILAP pilot. She was the senior PI for the pilot study. She has been the PI and MPI for multiple grant-funded studies in women’s health, family-based interventions, behavioral health, and implementation research. She is based in Neal and has over 20 years’ experience in conducting research and supporting early-career researchers.

Ravi Goyal is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at the University of California San Diego. Dr. Goyal's research interests lie at the intersection of statistics, trial design, and public health. His research contributions have been the development of novel statistical methods and their application to aid in designing and assessing the impact of public health interventions. Previously, Dr. Goyal worked for Mathematica Policy Research and the National Security Agency; he has consulted for the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Rockefeller Foundation, Clinton Foundation, and Community Partners International. He completed a PhD and MA in biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an MA and BSE in Mathematics and BSE in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

Parveen Parmar is Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Director of Social and Global Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Her research focuses on health and human rights and she has supported health care for refugees and other vulnerable persons globally in multiple settings on issues such as emergency care delivery, maternal and child health, gender-based violence, and primary care. Dr. Parmar was Co-PI of a study to sustain cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor control during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic among Syrian refugees in Jordan, and she is Co-PI of an ongoing study of a village health worker intervention to reduce CVD risk among internally displaced persons in Eastern Myanmar. During her International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Brigham and Womens Hospital she completed an MPH in Global Health and Populations at Harvard; she received her MD from Northwestern and BS in Biology from Stanford.

Adam Richards is a general internist with advanced training in epidemiology, tropical medicine and health services research currently appointed as Associate Professor of Global Health and Medicine at the Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University. He has over two decades of experience developing and evaluating approaches that adapt evidence-based interventions to address the needs of remote and underserved populations in resource constrained settings. He is an expert in metrics to summarize health inequities and has developed methods to quantify the impact of multiple interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk in community-based trials. He is Co-PI of a cluster randomized trial to reduce CVD risk among internally displaced people in Eastern Myanmar. He completed a PhD in Health Services Research at UCLA, an MD and MPH at Johns Hopkins and an AB in History and Literature at Harvard College.

Sam is an assistant professor of environmental biogeochemistry at University of California-Riverside and co-director of University of California Global Health Institute Center for Planetary Health. Sam's research group investigates the biogeochemical processes that cause naturally-occurring contaminants to occur in groundwater and the populations that are affected by the contaminants. Their work examines the interactions between primary and secondary contaminants in the environment and the disparity in their treatment and regulations on an international scale.

Nataly Escobedo Garcia is a Water Policy Coordinator with Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability. Nataly currently works alongside communities advocating for their rights to equitable drinking water and wastewater services in the Eastern Coachella Valley and the San Joaquin Valley. Additionally, she is currently a PhD Candidate in Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. She is particularly interested in how issues in California water law, policy, and management impact communities of color. She was born in Mexicali, MX and raised in Oxnard, CA. She has a BA from University of California, Santa Cruz, in Latin American and Latina/o Studies, as well as an MA in Anthropology from California State University - Los Angeles.

Johanna Avelar is a postdoctoral scholar in the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Program at the University of California, San Francisco. Johanna's research is focused on vulnerable populations, particularly women, people experiencing homelessness (PEH), and people who inject drugs (PWID). She has expertise in mixed methods research that explores the intersection of housing instability, drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) insecurity, and health equity. Johanna has worked across different cities of California and across borders (El Salvador and Mexico). Currently, she is working with older adults experiencing homelessness in Oakland, CA to examine the ways WaSH insecurity impacts daily life, particularly for those coping with activities of daily living disabilities. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and was a GloCal postdoctoral fellow at UC San Diego.

Maura Allaire is an associate professor of water economics and policy at the University of California, Irvine. With expertise in environmental economics and spatial statistics, her research focuses on assessing equity in drinking water quality, decision support for water management, and community resilience to extreme events. Her professional experience spans the public and private sectors, including international organizations (World Bank, Fulbright Scholar Program), think tanks (Resources for the Future, International Water Management Institute), and environmental consulting (AMEC). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University's Earth Institute. She currently runs the Water Equity Lab at UC-Irvine.

Allison Sherris is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington. As an environmental epidemiologist, she defines links between prenatal exposure to chemical exposures and health outcomes in early life. Her work has leveraged environmental and population health data to explore the impact of drinking water contamination on adverse birth outcomes, as well as the child health effects of ambient air pollution. She is especially interested in exposures with disparate impact on rural communities, aiming to support evidence-based policies and programs to protect health.

Dr. Kayser is an Assistant Professor of Global Health in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She serves as a Deputy Director of the Planetary Health Center in the University of California Global Health Institute. Her environmental health research focuses on adolescent and children's environmental health, water quality, environmental determinants of risk, and environmental health disparities. She has conducted research in over 20 countries across the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia with funding from government, international organizations, and private sector sources. She is currently working on an NIEHS funded K01 career award that explores pesticide exposure, mental health and endocrine disruption among children growing up near pesticide spray sites in Ecuador.

Jibril I.M Handuleh MBBS MD Msc is an academic psychiatrist and global health specialist at Amoud University in Borama, Somaliland. He has 15 years experience in mental health services research, service development and clinical work. He single handedly set up mental health services in Borama Somaliland and advocated for mental health services in Somaliland including contribution to mental health policy and planning. He worked in primary care psychiatry services and outreach settings in prisons, schools, community settings and homelessness. He contributed to mental health teaching, exam setting and support for the two medical schools in Somaliland over a decade. He published academic papers in medical education, mental health services and global health. He is an active member of the CUGH, American psychiatry Association, World Psychiatry Association etc to advance psychiatry in global mental health. His research interests are global mental health, social determinants of mental health in vulnerable populations and migrant mental health. He wants to pursue a career in global mental health and in geriatric psychiatry. He intends to undertake doctoral training in global mental health. Currently, he is a brain health fellow at UCSF concentrating on dementia research. He had stayed and worked in Somaliland, Ethiopia and Nigeria. He also has worked in humanitarian medicine including MSF mission in Nigeria. 

Kirstin is a doctoral student in the global health track of a public health program in a joint doctoral program at both San Diego State University and University of California, San Diego. Her public health interests began as an undergraduate student where she interned at syringe exchanges for the San Francisco AIDs foundation, learning the principles of harm reduction. Those experiences lead her to her masters in global health at the University of California, San Francisco where she completed a thesis on sexual health and consent. After her masters she worked to understand barriers and facilitators to dental care for foster care youth as a researcher for University of California, Los Angeles. Her doctoral research currently focuses on how structural factors such as criminalization and policing cause harm for marginalized communities, specifically sex workers. She is interested in looking at laws and their role in health equity as she begins her dissertation work.

Richard is currently pursuing an Honours BSc in Global Health with a specialization in Health Promotion & Disease Prevention at York University. Prior to this, he graduated with a BSc in Honours Science, with minors in Biology, Chemistry, and Medical Physiology from the University of Waterloo. His interest in research stems from previous experiences working as a Research Assistant and Clerical Assistant with the Department of Emergency Medicine at St. Michael's Hospital. As a research assistant with the Global & Environmental Health Lab at the Dahdaleh Institute, he is working with Dr. Godfred Boateng to examine the effects of energy and housing insecurity on psychosocial health outcomes for those living in informal settlements in Ghana.

Lara Stemple is the Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and International Student Programs at UCLA School of Law, where she oversees the law school’s LL.M. (masters) and S.J.D. (doctoral) degree programs. Stemple teaches and writes in the areas of human rights, global health, gender, sexuality, and incarceration. Before joining UCLA, Stemple was the Executive Director of the human rights organization Just Detention International and was a Rockefeller Post Doctoral Fellow at Columbia University’s Program on Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights. She also served as the Senior Advocacy Officer at the Pacific Institute for Women’s Health. Before that, Stemple worked for the international program at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York and was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. Stemple currently serves as co-Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the UC Global Health Institute and is a founding faculty member of its Center of Expertise on Women’s Health and Empowerment. Stemple has drafted legislation that was signed into law, lobbied members of Congress and United Nations delegates, and testified before legislative bodies. Media commentary has included CNN, National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, and The Atlantic.

Dr. Frank Mugisha is a Ugandan LGBTI advocate and Executive Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda. A recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award and Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize, Dr. Mugisha has been recognized internationally for his activism and courage. He was a 2014 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize and was recently named to Fortune's 2017 World's Greatest Leaders List.

Laura Ferguson is an associate professor of population and public health sciences at the University of Southern California, the director of the Program on Global Health & Human Rights and the director of research at the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing health system and societal factors affecting health and the uptake of health services as well as developing the evidence base of how attention to human rights can improve health outcomes. She is interested in innovative methodologies to better understand how societal-level interventions can improve health, and she has carried out many large-scale evaluations with this aim. She collaborates with a range of United Nations agencies as well as foundations, universities and non-governmental organizations in different countries. She has spent extended periods of time living and working in low-income countries, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work focuses primarily on HIV, sexual and reproductive health and child health.

Hannah Stewart, MPH is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston). Hannah is one of many members of the Mad Pride movement globally and uses her scholarly work as a tool to empower her community through processes like lived experience consulting, participatory research, and co-created monitoring and evaluation plans. Currently, Hannah serves as the Chief Research & Knowledge Officer at Generation Mental Health, an innovative disruptor in global mental health. Hannah is part of a team at Generation Mental Health that was recently awarded a Berkeley Social Innovation Impact Grant to develop capacity building tools for mental health advocates doing policy advocacy in the Global South. Also a dedicated student leader in public health, Hannah serves on the Student Think Tank at the American Journal of Public Health and the Trainee Advisory Committee at CUGH

Ashley M. Swing, MPH, RN, is currently in the Joint Doctoral Program (JDP) in Public Health, Global Health concentration, at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. She is a graduate student researcher at the Stein Clinical Research Center at the University of California, San Diego under the supervision of Drs. Becky Colman and Timothy Rodwell. Ms. Swing’s research focuses on improving clinical diagnostics for tuberculosis and identifying molecular mechanisms that contribute to the pathogenicity and persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Currently, she is working on expanding a World Health Organization-endorsed tool to provide a comprehensive diagnostic for drug resistant tuberculosis at reduced cost and hands-on time for public health use. She also serves as a member of the CUGH Training Advisory Committee, a JDP student representative for the Global Health track and a peer mentor for incoming doctoral students. Ms. Swing received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Public Health with a concentration in epidemiology from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

Dr. M Tasdik HasanPhD Researcher (Digital Mental Health), Monash University, Melbourne, AustraliaDr. Tasdik co-designs a digital mental health intervention for vulnerable communities (i.e., people with hearing impairments) in Bangladesh as his PhD project at Monash University, Australia as a FIT Scholar. He is a medical doctor, received the Chancellors Award from His excellence, President of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh for academic excellence in Masters in Public Health course, Vice- Chancellors Gold medal and Summa cum laude from American International University-Bangladesh. Tasdik was awarded the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship to study MSc in Global Mental Health at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & Kings College London. Tasdik received a couple of global recognitions including the New Voices in Global Health Award from the World Health Summit, Berlin, the Lancet Prize from the Lancet Psychiatry & University of Oxford, UK and Fukuoka Student Award from the World Social Science Forum, Japan. He published 100+ scientific papers including original articles, correspondences, case reports in reputed international journals and contributed in UNHCR commissioned report on Culture, Context & Mental Health of Rohingya Refugees. He has expertise in managing large scale clinical trial, formative research, mixed method research & medical leadership. He completed a consultancy lately in collaboration with Shuchona Foundation & Ministry of Health, Bangladesh and contributed in the development of the National Mental Health Strategic Plan 2020- 2030. He also led developing the action toolkit, Community Engagement during public health emergencies like COVID-19: An action framework and toolkit which has just been published by the National Community Engagement Task Force under Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Pillar. Tasdik was the Chair of Trainee Advisory Committee (TAC) of Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) for the term 2019/20. Tasdik is now supporting State University of Bangladesh as an Assistant Professor of Public Health, and Moner Bondhu as a Research Scientist. He completed an Honorary Research Associate position recently at the Department of Primary Care and Mental Health, University of Liverpool and contributed in a project on mental health of Congolese refugees in Rwanda & Uganda. He accepted a faculty position in 2022 at the Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Academy (LISEAD) hosted by ESMT, Berlin.

Jessica Evert MD is a global health educator and thought leader. She is the Global Medical Director of Child Family Health International where she collaborates with colleagues in 10 countries to provide educational immersion for students and faculty from over 200 universities. She researches and works with standard setting bodies to increase the authenticity, rigor, and ethics of short term experiences in global health.

Dr. Carlos A. Faerron Guzmán is a global health professional with a deep-rooted passion for education and a commitment to promoting health equity, addressing complexity, and emphasizing the importance of values in shaping a better world. As an experienced educator, Dr. Faerron fosters an environment of collaborative learning and knowledge exchange that empowers communities and individuals.His publications reflect his dedication to health equity and exploring complex, interrelated factors that influence global health outcomes. Through his work, Dr. Faerron aims to highlight the critical role of values in guiding our collective efforts toward creating a more just, equitable, and sustainable world for all.Currently, Dr. Faerron serves as an Associate Professor and Director of the Masters of Global Health at the University of Maryland Baltimore Graduate School, Associate Director of the Planetary Health Alliance at Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the InterAmerican Center for Global Health in Costa Rica. In addition, he holds adjunct positions at the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Spain. By integrating these key principles into his academic pursuits and educational endeavors across multiple institutions, Dr. Faerron continues to make a significant impact in the global health community.

Stefano M. Bertozzi is professor of health policy and management and a former dean at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He was previously the interim director of the UC systemwide programs with Mexico (AlianzaMX). He co-edited the Disease Control Priorities (DCP3) volume on HIV/AIDS, Malaria & Tuberculosis. He has also directed the HIV and tuberculosis programs at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He worked previously with the Mexican National Institute of Public Health as the director of its Center for Evaluation Research and Surveys. He was the last director of the WHO Global Programme on AIDS and has also held positions with UNAIDS, the World Bank and government of the DRC.

Dr. Patty J. García, is a Professor at the School of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH) in Lima-Peru and member of the US National Academy of Medicine. She is the former Minister of Health of Peru, former Dean of the School of Public Health at UPCH, and former Chief of the Peruvian National Institute of Health (INS). She is recognized as a leader in Global Health. She is affiliate Professor of the Department of Global Health, at University of Washington and of the School of Public Health at Tulane University. She has been a member of the Lancet Commission for the Education of health professionals for the 21st century; member of the Lancet Commission on Diagnostics and now she is a member of the Lancet Commission on Medical Oxygen, the Lancet commission on Implementation Research and she is chairing the Lancet Commission on “Cancer and Health Systems”. Dr. Garcia is actively involved in research and training in Global health, Implementation research, quality in health services, Reproductive health, STI/HIV, diagnostics, medical informatics and HPV and cervical cancer. Dr. Garcia has been a member of the advisory board of CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations). She serves in several global advisory boards: Chair of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Disease Elimination (STAG-D) from PAHO; Member of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections (STAC-HHS)-WHO; and Member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on In vitro Diagnostics from WHO (SAGE IVD). Going forward, Dr. Garcia is interested in continuing with research in the areas of her core interests, promoting community participation in research, equity and involving the most vulnerable populations and working on health systems redesign. She is interested in continuing working in moving research into policy in Peru and Latin America.

Jorge Saavedra is the Executive Director of the AHF Global Public Health Institute at the University of Miami, Interim Chair of the Board of Trustees of IAPAC and Member of the UNAIDS Global Targets Setting Steering Committee. He was a Panelist of The Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel to Evaluate the Global Response to Ebola and served on the Strategy Committee of the Global Fund AIDS, TB and Malaria. He was previously a member of the Executive Committee of Gay Latino Network and of the MPACT Steering Committee. Dr Saavedra pursued his medical education at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and graduated education in Public Health and Health Policy and Management at Harvard University. In Mexico, he was Director General of the National AIDS Program (CENSIDA 2003-2009), Deputy Director General of Planning and Innovation at the Ministry of Health (2001-2003) and the Founding Director of Mexico City Clinica Condesa, the largest HIV Clinic in Latin America. His publications relate to AIDS economics and policies and the global response to Ebola. He resides in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Aida Kurtovic is a seasoned health leader and civil society advocate with over two decades of experience in global health, international development, and health program management. She is highly regarded as the founder of the Regional HIV and TB community network in south-eastern Europe and a former Chair of the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. In addition, she is a Harvard LEAD fellow and currently serves as the Regional HIV Coordination Specialist for the RST EEC division of UNAIDS. Aida's extensive knowledge of global and regional health landscapes is matched by her significant experience with the Global Fund, EU, and UN architecture.

Ambassador Akua Sena Dansua, Member, Global Pandemic Policy Group, Regional Chairperson, (West and Central Africa) and Global Board Member, UNITE Parliamentarians Network For Global Health.

Prof. Mirkuzie Woldie is a well-published health policy and systems researcher and educator with more than 15 years of experience. He has experience of serving as a lead and co-investigator in several health policy and systems research projects. Prof. Mirkuzie has a strong base and experience in promoting research evidence generation, synthesis, and knowledge translation to enhance use of best available evidence for policy and practice. He is currently Deputy Director for Evidence to Policy for the Fenot Project of Harvard University. He also works as the Health Policy and Systems Senior Advisor at the Ministry of Health-Ethiopia.

Prof. Peter Berman (M.Sc, Ph.D) is a health economist with almost fifty years of experience in research, policy analysis and development, and training and education in global health. He became Professor Emeritus of Population and Public Health at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada in January 2023 where he had previously been Professor and Director from 2019-21. He is also currently Adjunct Professor of Global Health at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, where he was on faculty for several decades, lastly as Professor until 2019. His current research at UBC focuses on key factors affecting government decision-making in response to public health crises (see www.governhealth.ca ). He has also been closely engaged in health systems research in Ethiopia since 2012 (see www.fenotproject.com and https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/health-financing/ ) Prof Berman is affliated as Adjunct Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) in New Delhi, India and as advisor to the China National Health Development Research Center for health care financing and health accounts. He was the founding faculty director of Harvard Chan’s Doctor of Public Health degree. He is the editor in chief of World Scientific publications series on Global Health Economics and Public Policy (see https://www.worldscientific.com/series/wssghepp ) and author or editor of six books on global health economics and policy and more than 60 academic papers in his field and numerous other working papers and reports. He has led and/or participated in major field programs in all regions of the developing world. He is co-author of Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity (Roberts, et al, Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2018), co-author and editor with Hong Wang of Tracking Resources for Primary Health Care: A Framework and Practices in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (World Scientific, 2020); co-editor of the Guide to the Production of National Health Accounts (World Bank, World Health Organization, and USAID, 2003), and co-editor of Berman and Khan, Paying for India’s Health Care (Sage, 1993).

Prof. Tsinuel Girma Nigatu is a pediatrician with 25 years of experience in clinical practice, research, and medical education. He received his Doctor of Medicine from Jimma University, a Certificate of Specialty in Pediatrics from Addis Ababa University, and a Ph.D. in Pediatrics and International Nutrition from the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He began working at the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at Jimma University, where he held various academic and administrative positions including the Medical Director of Jimma University Specialized Hospital.Dr. Nigatu is recognized for his leadership in improving the management of acute malnutrition in children within healthcare facilities and the community. He established the Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit at JUSH and led the implementation of an outpatient treatment program in Jimma Zone, which was integrated with routine primary health care services. These initiatives have informed the redesign of nutrition programs in Ethiopia.Dr. Nigatu is also known for his contribution to research capacity development for nutrition and health in Ethiopia. He is the founder and Principal Investigator of the Clinical and Nutrition Research Centre (JUCAN) at Jimma University, which has been instrumental in evidence generation, Ph.D. training, and improving research infrastructure for conducting high-caliber research in priority areas. It has also fostered an academic research culture, attracting and enabling collaborations with local and international institutions and researchers.Since July 2014, Dr. Nigatu has been the Director of Fenot-Harvard, an Ethiopia-based project that offers high-level technical support to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health and Regional Health Bureaus to improve evidence-informed decision-making and healthcare financing. He serves as a member of several national and international technical and advisory groups. He holds positions as a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in the USA and a visiting Professor of Pediatrics and Nutrition at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise, and Sports at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Honorary Professor of Public Health at Addis Continental Institute of Public Health and Honorary Professor of Pediatrics at Jimma and Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia. He is a member of the Ethiopian Pediatrics Society, the Ethiopian Public Health Association and the DOHaD Society. He has published extensively.

Tizta Tilahun joined the Fenot-Harvard project team as a Health Systems Analyst in 2018 and is currently a Senior Scientific Advisor. She earned her Ph.D. from Ghent University, Belgium, in Social-Health Sciences: Medical-Social Sciences in 2014 and her MSc in Population Studies (Reproductive Health track) from Addis Ababa University in 2006. Before joining the Fenot-Harvard project, Tizta worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Africa Population Health and Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya. She has also worked at Addis Ababa and Jimma Universities in Ethiopia. Tizta is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Bahir Dar University and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard University project. She is an experienced evaluator and researcher with a strong track record in Africa while engaged in international, national, and regional (sub-Saharan Africa) projects. Tizta is skilled in mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative), evaluation design, and generating evidence for policymaking and program decisions. She has over 40 publications in international peer-reviewed journals on public health, population health, and development issues.

Girmaye D Dinsa is a health economist with more than 15 years of experience in various capacities. Currently, Dr. Dinsa serves as the Senior Health Economist for Fenot, a project of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Dinsa also provides technical advice to selected Regional Health Bureaus and the Ethiopian Ministry of Health. Prior to joining the Fenot project, he worked as a research fellow on two projects implemented in Ethiopia by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Dinsa holds a PhD in Health Economics from the Norwich School of Medicine (UK), and a master’s in development economics from the University of East Anglia (UK), as well as Bachelors in Economics from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia).

Stephen Hargarten received his MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin, (1975) and his MPH from Johns Hopkins, (1984). He is Professor of Emergency Medicine, Founding Dean of Global Health and the founding Director of the Comprehensive Injury Center, (CIC), at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Hargarten’s research interests reflect an intersection of injury and violence prevention and health policy to address the burden of this complex biopsychosocial disease. His work in linking data systems for understanding violent deaths helped to inform the development of CDC’s National Violent Death Reporting System. He leads ballistics investigations with bullets linked to civilian deaths and injuries. He has been recently been awarded a National Endowment of Humanities grant (with colleagues at Wesleyan University) to study gun safety patents (From 1750-2010).

Dr. Hargarten was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars and was elected to the Institute of Medicine, (now the National Academy of Medicine, NAM) of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), in 2011. He was the founding President of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR). He currently serves on the Community Preventive Services Task Force of the CDC as Vice-Chair.

Jonathan Lowy founded Global Action on Gun Violence in 2022 after bringing, litigating, and winning trailblazing, impactful lawsuits, and advocating for gun violence prevention in the United States for over 25 years. He has represented dozens of government entities, including the Government of Mexico, New York City, Boston, and Los Angeles. He has litigated in trial and appellate courts in over 40 states, helped win over $100 million in verdicts and settlements for victims of gun violence, created groundbreaking precedent that holds gun companies accountable for their contribution to gun violence, reformed dangerous gun industry practices, and shut down reckless gun dealers. He helped bring the first lawsuit by a country against the gun industry and the first human rights action arguing that U.S. gun policy infringes on the right to live, and he won the first appellate decision holding that the U.S. gun industry protection law is unconstitutional, and the first settlement in which a gun manufacturer paid for a criminal shooting. He has published numerous articles on gun issues, including “The Right Not To Be Shot,” and appears frequently on television and other media. He was named one of the 500 leading lawyers in America for over 10 years by Lawdragon magazine. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Dr. Cecilia Farfán-Méndez is Head of Security Research Programs at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX) at the University of California San Diego and an affiliated researcher with the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Farfán is an expert on organized crime, gender mainstreaming, and U.S.-Mexico security cooperation. Farfán is currently serving as a consultant for the Organization of American States, developing a methodology measuring the impacts of illicit firearms trafficking with a focus on gender mainstreaming and vulnerable populations for the first edition of the Hemispheric Study on Illicit Trafficking of Firearms and Ammunition. Farfán received her doctorate in political science from UC Santa Barbara, her master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and her bachelor’s in international relations from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

Dr. Eric Goosby is an internationally recognized expert on infectious diseases. He was the founding director of the Ryan White CARE Act, interim director of the White House's Office of National AIDS Policy, Ambassador-at-Large, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Special Envoy on Tuberculosis, and a member of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine and leads the Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy and Economics.

Dr. Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH, is the Interim Chair of the Department of Global Health and a professor in the Departments of Global Health, Medicine (Allergy and Infectious Diseases), and Epidemiology at the University of Washington. She is the Director of the UW Kenya Research and Training Center and the International AIDS Research and Training Program. She received her MD at Harvard Medical School. She completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Washington, where she also earned a master’s in public health.Dr. Farquhar currently conducts research in Kenya on HIV testing and partner notification services, HIV and HCV diagnosis and access to treatment among persons who inject drugs, and non-communicable diseases among persons living with HIV. She has published 257 peer-reviewed papers and has been PI of several clinical trials evaluating HIV testing and prevention interventions, including couple counseling and testing, assisted partner services and pre-exposure prophylaxis. Her work on assisted partner services provided critical data in support of the World Health Organization’s guidance on assisted partner services that has been adopted in Kenya and around the world.She teaches two courses in the School of Public Health -- HIV: A Multidisciplinary Approach and Responsible Conduct of Research: Global and Local. Training and capacity building have been critical components of her work in Kenya since 2003 when she began directing the International AIDS Research and Training Program. She is currently PI of two D43 training grants which focus on building implementation science, epidemiology and clinical research capacity at Kenyatta National Hospital, University of Nairobi, Kenya Medical Research Institute, and Ministry of Health by supporting Kenyan clinicians and scientists pursuing MPH and doctoral degrees and through in-country courses on grant writing, mentorship and research methods. In these leadership roles and as a faculty member at UW for more than 22 years, she has prioritized mentoring. She has chaired MPH and PhD committees for more than 50 US and international students and formally mentored more than 100 students, fellows, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty pursuing careers in global health, public health, infectious diseases and medicine.In addition to her work in global health, she continues to be active clinically at Harborview Medical Center. She sees patients one half-day per week at the Madison HIV Clinic and is an attending physician 6 weeks per year on the infectious diseases consult service and internal medicine service at Harborview Medical Center.

Dr. Kilmarx, MD is Acting Director of the Fogarty International Center and Acting Associate Director for International Research at the National Institutes of Health. He joined Fogarty as Deputy Director in 2015 and assumed his current roles in January 2023. Dr. Kilmarx is an expert on infectious disease research and HIV/AIDS prevention. He previously served as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Country Director in Zimbabwe and earlier in Botswana. A retired Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General in the U.S. Public Health Service, Dr. Kilmarx served in leadership positions in CDC Ebola responses in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Dr. Biraj Karmacharya completed his MPH and PhD training at UW through a Fulbright fellowship from Nepal. He also leads the Department of Community Programs at Dhulikhel Hospital-Kathmandu University Hospital, and has more than a decade of experience developing rural community health programs and forging international collaborations for academic training and research in Nepal.

Prof. Patty J. Garcia MD, MPH, PhD, is a Professor at the School of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH) in Lima-Peru and a member of the US National Academy of Medicine. She is the former Minister of Health of Peru, former Dean of the School of Public Health at UPCH, and former Chief of the Peruvian National Institute of Health. She is recognized as a leader in Global Health. She is an affiliate Professor of the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington and Tulane University School of Public Health. She is actively involved in research and training in Global Health, Implementation research, quality in health services, Reproductive health, STI/HIV, HPV, diagnostics, and medical informatics. She participates in several global advisory boards and is a co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Cancer and Health Systems.

Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde MBChB, MMed, MscHPE is the Deputy Director and Director Health Workforce Education and Development at the African Center for Global Health and Social transformation (ACHEST), Kampala, Uganda. Before this, she was the Director of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Coordinating Center at the African Center for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST). Until December 2010 she was an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Radiology at the College of Health Sciences, Makerere University. She is an Honorary Associate Professor of Radiology at the same University. She has served as external examiner at universities in Uganda, and Tanzania. She is a Fellow of the Foundation for the Advancement of Medical Education and Research (FAIMER). She is the Immediate Past Secretary General of the Network TUFH and President, African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth). Her main research interest is Health Professions Education and Breast Imaging.

Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Biostatistics at Harvard Chan. Her research focuses on developing and applying rigorous statistical methods to better understand and improve health systems globally, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. She is the Director of Research for the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change and leads research evaluating mHealth tools to support community health workers providing home-based postoperative care in rural Rwanda. Dr. Hedt-Gauthier is committed to improving partnerships in global health research, by innovating within her own practice and by leading research and advocacy on issues of power dynamics and inequitable research collaborations.

Dr. Keith Martin is a Canadian physician who, since September 2012, has served as the founding Executive Director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). Between 1993-2011, Dr. Martin served as a Member of Parliament in Canada's House of Commons. He held portfolios in foreign affairs, health, the environment, defense and international development. In Parliament he led numerous legislative efforts across a range of issues including: addressing humanitarian emergencies, conflict prevention, healthcare, social program reform and  he founded Canada's first all party Conservation Caucus.  He has been on many diplomatic missions in areas in crisis around the world but particularly across Africa and worked as a physician on the Mozambique border during their civil war. He has been committed to addressing the biodiversity-climate change crisis and spent many years volunteering on conservation efforts in South Africa. He created the current events TV show, Beyond Politics, and  appeared frequently in the media. He  has authored over 180 articles in leading  newspapers and journals and  is a member of the King's Privy Council for Canada.

Dr Heini Utunen is Head of Unit of the Learning and Capacity Development Unit of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme. Her functions and experience cover workforce capacity building and learning solutions in a broad institutional and multilateral context.During the COVID-19 pandemic she has led the COVID-19 online learning response delivering massive scale learning interventions on OpenWHO.org based on WHO’s technical evidence-based guidance, learning resources now reaching 8 million enrolments. Ms Utunen joined the WHO during the Ebola West Africa outbreak in 2014 and led the pre-deployment trainings, and provided to the cascade training curriculum development, face-to-face trainings and e-learnings. During 2016-2018, her functions covered country capacity building and simulation exercises for the novel area of risk communications in the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness. During 2009-2013, Ms Utunen worked in the United Nations country team in Vietnam, in natural disaster preparedness and response area in the humanitarian cluster system. Ms Utunen has prior experience in the government of Finland where she served as Communication Officer of the Minister of Health in Finland. She functioned also as a Training Officer at the Crisis Management Centre, mainly involved in the capacity building of the European Union, African Union and United Nations in several post-conflict missions. Ms Utunen has a Master’s degree in Information Studies, a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies. She has a Principal’s qualification in Finland.

Jonathan E. Cohen, JD MPhil (he/him) is Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California and Director of Policy Engagement at the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health. An internationally recognized expert in health and human rights, Cohen designs and leads policy interventions that equip health leaders and systems to reach socially excluded groups and reflect demographic change and diversity. He also leads organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, serving as Faculty Lead for the initiative on Continuous Learning for Antiracist Curricular Change (CLARCC) at USC's Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. Prior to his academic appointment, Cohen was Public Health Program Director at the Open Society Foundations, overseeing 63 staff and a budget of $39,000,000 to advance health and human rights worldwide. An emerging leader in the field of healthy longevity, Cohen was a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in 2022-2023 and serves on the board of HelpAge USA. Earlier in his career, he was a researcher with the HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Program at Human Rights Watch. He holds degrees from Yale College, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Ximena Garzon-Villalba is an experienced professional in Public Health, appointed as Minister of Health of Ecuador from May 2021 to July 2022. She was member of the International Vaccine Institute Board of Trustees in 2022. Currently, she is Dean of Public Health at USFQ, member of The World Bank Pandemic Fund Technical Advisory Panel, and member of CUGH´s Board of Directors. Dr. Garzon-Villalba obtained her Medical Degree at Universidad Central del Ecuador, she holds PhD in Public Health with a concentration in Occupational Health, and a Post-doctorate in Occupational Health Research and Occupational Epidemiology, both from University of South Florida. Dr. Garzon-Villalba has been professor for undergraduate and graduate programs in several Ecuadorian and U.S. Universities. Her research work focusses in Occupational Heat Stress, Health Management and Environmental Health published in several indexed journals. She was responsible of the design and implementation of the “Plan Fenix” a comprehensive response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and led the emblematic “9/100 Vaccination Plan” which reached 9 million fully vaccinated people (more than 50% of the population) before the 100th day of its implementation. Dr. Garzon-Villalba also lead the development of the “Plan Decenal de Salud del Ecuador”, a holistic, interdisciplinary and intersectoral plan designed to improve the public health of her country under the One Health approach.

Prof. Peter Berman (M.Sc, Ph.D) is a health economist with almost fifty years of experience in research, policy analysis and development, and training and education in global health. He became Professor Emeritus of Population and Public Health at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia in Vancouver Canada in January 2023 where he had previously been Professor and Director from 2019-21. He is also currently Adjunct Professor of Global Health at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, where he was on faculty for several decades, lastly as Professor until 2019. His current research at UBC focuses on key factors affecting government decision-making in response to public health crises (see www.governhealth.ca ). He has also been closely engaged in health systems research in Ethiopia since 2012 (see www.fenotproject.com and https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/health-financing/ ) Prof Berman is affliated as Adjunct Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) in New Delhi, India and as advisor to the China National Health Development Research Center for health care financing and health accounts. He was the founding faculty director of Harvard Chan’s Doctor of Public Health degree. He is the editor in chief of World Scientific publications series on Global Health Economics and Public Policy (see https://www.worldscientific.com/series/wssghepp ) and author or editor of six books on global health economics and policy and more than 60 academic papers in his field and numerous other working papers and reports. He has led and/or participated in major field programs in all regions of the developing world. He is co-author of Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity (Roberts, et al, Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2018), co-author and editor with Hong Wang of Tracking Resources for Primary Health Care: A Framework and Practices in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (World Scientific, 2020); co-editor of the Guide to the Production of National Health Accounts (World Bank, World Health Organization, and USAID, 2003), and co-editor of Berman and Khan, Paying for India’s Health Care (Sage, 1993).

Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde is the Deputy Executive Director, African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST). She was the Director of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)) at ACHEST. She is a Radiologist and formerly Head of the Radiology Department at Makerere University in Uganda. She holds an MBChB and an MMed Radiology from Makerere University and a Masters degree in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She is a Fellow of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER), Philadelphia USA and a Fellow in Ultrasound from the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. She is the Secretary General for The Network Towards Unity for Health (TUFH). She is the President of the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth). She has over 25 years experience in Health Professions Education. She has published over 80 publications in Health Professions Education and Radiology.

Judy N. Khanyola is Chair of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) Center for Nursing and Midwifery based in Kigali, Rwanda. Judy is a registered community health nurse/ midwife and recognized nursing leader in Africa with over 25 years’ experience in clinical nursing and education programs. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton and a master’s degree in Advancing Health Care Practice from the University of Manchester in the UK. Judy is currently the Africa Representative for Nursing Now, the global campaign to raise the status and profile of nurses and midwives worldwide Judy is the 2019 recipient of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) Global HIV Award.

Stefan Wisbauer is the Managing Director at Lecturio GmbH. With a decade of experience in healthcare, Stefan previously worked at the World Bank and McKinsey & Co, where he advised health insurance, medical devices and biotech companies. Stefan also worked as a consultant to the National Health Service and with private healthcare operators on Public Private Partnerships and on establishing innovative approaches to care delivery. Previous to founding iHealth, Stefan helped build Circle Health, which build next generation private hospitals in the U.K. based on a Kaiser Permanente style model, in which clinicians are co-owners in the business. Prior to that, Stefan was Bid Manager for Nations Healthcare under Tony Blair's leadership. Stefan holds a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, Diploma in Mathematics from University of Bonn and a 'Part III' in Mathematics from Cambridge University.

Dr. Keith Martin is a Canadian physician who, since September 2012, has served as the founding Executive Director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). Between 1993-2011, Dr. Martin served as a Member of Parliament in Canada's House of Commons. He held portfolios in foreign affairs, health, the environment, defense and international development. In Parliament he led numerous legislative efforts across a range of issues including: addressing humanitarian emergencies, conflict prevention, healthcare, social program reform and  he founded Canada's first all party Conservation Caucus.  He has been on many diplomatic missions in areas in crisis around the world but particularly across Africa and worked as a physician on the Mozambique border during their civil war. He has been committed to addressing the biodiversity-climate change crisis and spent many years volunteering on conservation efforts in South Africa. He created the current events TV show, Beyond Politics, and  appeared frequently in the media. He  has authored over 180 articles in leading  newspapers and journals and  is a member of the King's Privy Council for Canada.

Georgina Yeboah is the Executive Director of the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth). She holds Bachelor of Science Degree in Administration and Master of Business Administration both from the University of Ghana, Legon. She has twenty-five years experience in hospital administration practice and human resource management at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi - Ghana. She has played key roles in national activities such as Health Sector HR Policies and Strategies development, Staffing Norms development and Conditions of Service Negotiations. She is passionate about total quality health care and looks forward to its achievement in her work with AFREhealth. She is a member of the Institute of Human Resource Management, Ghana and a member of the National Governing Council. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Administration and Management Consultants – Ghana.

Dr. Kristen Danforth is a Research Scientist and Teaching Associate at the University of Washington School of Public Health. Her work centers on using implementation science theories and methods to improve the design and rollout of health policies in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on non-communicable diseases. At the University of Washington, she leads a collaboration with Ministry of Health partners in Malawi to understand the barriers to implementing their essential package of health services. She supports global implementation science projects focusing on improving policies for gender-based violence, tertiary care services, and rheumatic heart disease. Previously, she served as a member of the Secretariat for the Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition (DCP3) publications.

Prof. Patty J. Garcia MD, MPH, PhD, is a Professor at the School of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH) in Lima-Peru and a member of the US National Academy of Medicine. She is the former Minister of Health of Peru, former Dean of the School of Public Health at UPCH, and former Chief of the Peruvian National Institute of Health. She is recognized as a leader in Global Health. She is an affiliate Professor of the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington and Tulane University School of Public Health. She is actively involved in research and training in Global Health, Implementation research, quality in health services, Reproductive health, STI/HIV, HPV, diagnostics, and medical informatics. She participates in several global advisory boards and is a co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Cancer and Health Systems.

Felicia Marie Knaul is the Director of both the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and Office of Hemispheric and Global Affairs and Full Professor at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. She is Founding President of Tómatelo a Pecho A.C., a Mexican NGO dedicated to promoting women’s health and equity. Currently, Dr. Knaul serves as Co-Chair of the Lancet Commission on Cancer And Health Systems and the Lancet Commission on Gender-based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People, and previously chaired the Lancet Commission on Global Access to Palliative Care and Pain Relief. Her advocacy and research focus on health system strengthening, equity, and poverty alleviation and has produced some 300 academic and policy publications.

 

Dr. Knaul earned her MA and PhD in economics from Harvard University.  She holds a BA in international development from the University of Toronto

Prof. David Jaffray is world-renowned for pioneering state-of-the-art image-guided radiation therapy, advancing the science and practice in medical physics, and for international leadership in clinical data science for oncology. He is the Senior Vice President and CTDO at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he oversees the strategic development, management, and implementation of technology infrastructure, ensuring system integrity and intellectual property. He leads MD Anderson's Information Services and Cybersecurity divisions, focusing on enhancing data integration, governance, and clinical engineering across campuses. He also manages innovation efforts and collaborates with the Strategic Industry Ventures team and CSO to advance technology agendas and forge industry partnerships. Dr. Jaffray is a LCCHS Commissioner and leads the Data, Technology, and Innovation working group.

Prof. David Contreras Loya is an Assistant Professor at Tec de Monterrey's Institute for Obesity Research. He is an applied micro-economist who studies health, management, productivity, and entrepreneurship. His work in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) focuses on designing and evaluating novel interventions to enhance human capital for individuals and public organizations. With a decade of experience in extensive research across Latin America and Africa in global health and education, Prof. Contreras combines traditional econometric techniques with artificial intelligence to estimate causal effects. He advocates utilizing observational data through modern causal inference to inform decision-making and policy development. He is the Project Coordinator of the LCCHS EffectO study, which aims to accelerate progress on cancer control in LMICs by generating new economic and health systems evidence that will challenge existing paradigms around the cost-effectiveness of cancer care and health system priorities.

Kathryn H. Jacobsen, PhD, MPH, is a professor and chair of the Department of Health Studies and holds the William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair at the University of Richmond. An epidemiologist, she has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles plus two textbooks: Introduction to Global Health (now in its 4th edition) and Introduction to Health Research Methods (now in its 3rd edition), both published by Jones & Bartlett. She is the co-chair of the CUGH Global Health Educators Community (GHECo), a past co-chair of the Subcommittee on Master's and Undergraduate Degrees in Global Health (SMUDGH), and was the recipient of the 2023 Velji Global Health Award for Teaching Excellence. See https://hs.richmond.edu/faculty/kjacobse/ for more information.

Eucharia Oluchi Nwaichi, an eminent figure in the field of Environmental Biochemistry and Toxicology, achieved a groundbreaking milestone by becoming the first African to receive the prestigious John Maddox Prize in 2022. Currently serving as a Professor and the Director of Academic Planning, Research, and Control at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, she has established herself as a distinguished academic and researcher.In addition to her roles within the university, Eucharia is also the Vice Chair of the Organization for Women in Science in the Developing World (OWSD) Nigeria. Her profound passion lies in the meticulous monitoring and understanding of soil, water, and air environments, aiming to safeguard these essential elements and enhance overall quality of life. Eucharia holds a patent for her innovative biological technology, showcasing her commitment to advancing scientific solutions.As a dynamic science communicator, Eucharia is dedicated to influencing policies through evidence-based advocacy, particularly in expanding opportunities for women and girls in the field of science. Her notable recognitions and awards, easily discoverable through a simple Google search, underscore her impactful contributions to the realm of science.Eucharia's extensive publication record includes over 90 articles in reputable journals, along with well-regarded books and book chapters. Her commitment to improving life and well-being has earned her numerous awards, honors, and recognitions. Beyond her academic pursuits, Eucharia is well-traveled, holding degrees from the University of Port Harcourt, complemented by post-doctoral experiences in Poland, England, and the United States of America. Additionally, she has served as a Visiting Professor in Spain, contributing to her wealth of expertise in the realm of global health.

Dr. Tracy Rabin is associate professor of medicine and director of the Office of Global Health in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. She co-directs the Global Health Ethics Program at the Yale Institute for Global Health and is Graduate Medical Education Director for Global and Community Health Education at Yale New Haven Health. Since 2011, she has served as the Yale co-director of the Makerere University-Yale University (MUYU) Collaboration, a bidirectional clinical education capacity building collaboration based in Kampala, Uganda and New Haven, CT (USA). Her academic areas of focus include global health workforce education, ethical and equitable global health academic partnerships, and ethical challenges related to short-term clinical work in resource-limited settings.

Dhanu is the global women's health fellow within the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Michigan. She is a biomedical engineer and OBGYN whose research focuses on developing and implementing devices, simulation models, and programs to help improve women's health in low- and middle-income countries.

Generation Mental Health Founder, Lived Experience Advocate, PhD Student in Health Policy at UC Berkeley

Dr. Laura Hosman is Associate Professor at Arizona State University, with a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and The Polytechnic School. She is also co-founder and co-director of SolarSPELL initiative, housed at ASU. SolarSPELL is an offline solar-powered digital library and information literacy initiative designed for low-resource locations globally that may lack access to books, libraries, and internet connectivity. SolarSPELL’s approach combines 1) co-created libraries featuring localized, educational, open-access digital content, 2) easy-to-use, ultra-portable, rugged, solar-powered technology, 3) partnered capacity-building, and 4) impact evaluation.

Yoorim Bang is a postdoctoral researcher of Institute for Development and Human Security (IDHS) at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. She earned a Ph.D. degree in international studies majoring in development cooperation with a specific focus on gender and health. Her doctoral dissertation analyzes the effects of gender-sensitive health official development assistance (ODA) projects on women’s health with a focus on the success factors. She involved in various research projects addressing South Korea’s development cooperation especially in the health sector.

Dr. Tomoko Y. Steen is the Director of two graduate programs, Biomedical Science Policy and Advocacy and Biohazardous Threat Agents & Emerging Infectious Diseases, and a Professor at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Over the years, Dr. Steen has been active in many scientific research projects ranging from theoretical population genetics to the epidemiology of antibiotic-resistant strains. Currently, she is working on microbiomics, focusing on the biological effects of radiation on gut microbiota and the gut-brain axis. Effects of COVID-19 infections on the gut microbiome and immune systems, including cases of long-term COVID-19. She also works on international collaborations regarding COVID-19's public health management in Asia, Russia, and Oceania.
Her primary degree and one of her master's degrees are in Pharmacology, and she has a federal pharmacist license in Japan. Before moving to the US, she worked as a clinical pharmacologist for the Tokyo University Medical School Hospital..Before finishing her joint Ph.D. studies at the Department of Science and Technology Studies and the Section of Ecology and Evolution in 1995, she started her work at Emory University as a Postdoctoral Fellow under the leading microbiologist and geneticist, Professor Bruce Levin on the project - molecular evolutionary mechanisms of antibiotic-resistant strains and molecular clocks. She also gained advanced epidemiology and public health understanding through the Levin lab's collaborations with CDC. Dr. Steen came to Washington DC two decades ago to take up a position as a Senior Research Specialist at the leading government institution in Washington DC. Before taking her current role at Georgetown University, she held a research faculty position at George Washington University's Center for Recent History of Science, working under the leading historian of recent science, Professor Horace Freeland Judson. She also held joint departmental appointments at Johns Hopkins University. Before moving to Washington DC, Dr. Steen was a faculty member jointly at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and History of Science Department.
Dr. Steen has been regularly invited to be on the advisory board for various research grants committees such as NIH, NSF, US Department of State, and DoD. She has also often been invited to review leading academic journals published by Nature, Springer, Oxford University Press, and Elsevier. She was Associate Editor for the Journal of Heredity (Oxford University Press). For almost two decades, she has been running a science policy discussion group, "Global S&T Forum," in Washington, collaborating with colleagues from various embassies, the US Department of State, DTRA, and the Library of Congress. Participants in this forum are science policy experts from the US federal government agencies, universities, and foreign embassies. Since 2012, she has organized an annual nuclear security summit at Georgetown University – the "Nuclear Security Summit at Georgetown." The primary purpose of this summit is to generate cross-disciplinary discussions on nuclear security and safety issues. Past speakers for the conference are internationally known scientists, policymakers, and ambassadors. She has also been organizing "The Cancer Moonshot Panel” at the Library of Congress since 2016, when the bill was passed in December, collaborating with presidential advisors at the White House.
Dr. Steen has advised various governmental and non-profit organizations domestically and internationally on everything from big data, AI, public health, WMD, Nuclear Safety, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Regulations and Bioethical Examinations of Emerging Technologies. She leads several other working groups, including the Emerging Technology Working Group, the East Asian STM Working Group, currently working on "Riding COVID waves in Asia, Oceania, and Russia," and the BioNuclear Working Group with colleagues at the US Department of State and DTRA/DoD. For the last three decades, she has been invited to present on diverse topics at domestic and international conferences, including Kyoto STS Forum and Biosecurity Meeting hosted at WHO/UNODA/UNIDIR.

Dr. Sumegha Asthana is a Postdoctoral research fellow and an Adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University. She is a physician, health administrator, and health policy and systems researcher. She works at the intersections of health policy, global health governance, health security, influence of development aid on national health policies, gender, and the mainstreaming of alternative systems of medicine in public health. Sumegha is a Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellow (SYLFF) and a DAAD scholar. She worked as an independent public health consultant with multiple international and national healthcare organizations including the WHO Country Office for India. Sumegha is the co-founder, in addition to the founding chair, Women in Global Health, India and was named in Apolitical’s 100 Most Influential Academics in Government list in 2021.

Nataliya Shok is a Public Policy Fellow at the Kennan Institute working on the intersections between vaccine diplomacy and biosecurity, public health and science policies in the context of the future pandemic preparedness, response and geopolitics with a focus on authoritarian countries and their alliances. She holds degrees in philosophy (M.A.), political science (Ph.D.) and history of medicine (Dr. Sci.). Nataliya is an academic professional with a long history of teaching and research in the departments of health humanities and bioethics at medical schools. Nataliya pursues interdisciplinary approach and combines data from comparative policy analysis, history, and strategic studies.

Jean-Paul Joseph GONZALEZ, M.D., Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Life Sciences, Global Health, One Health. Georgetown University Medical Center, Department of Immunology and Microbiology faculty. Dr. Gonzalez is a healthcare professional, with a career as a scientist and research director. With over more than thirty-five years of global experience, he has won several research and training program supported from national and international funding agencies. He was therefore able to manage medical research under contract with several federal/civilian and military agencies (USG, European Commission, local national). Dr. Gonzalez has extensive international experience having served and operated primarily in Africa (Central African Republic, Senegal, Gabon, Tunisia), Asia (Thailand, Laos, Cambodia) and the Americas (Mexico, Brazil, Caribbean, Guyana). There, he successfully led multidisciplinary teams for public and private medical research. Its scientific activities range from understanding the emergence of communicable diseases to preventing and responding to epidemics. He thus has enormous field and laboratory experience on pathogens with serious consequences for public health, in many countries around the world, which has earned him an internationally recognized scientific reputation. In the development and application of vaccines and vaccination programs, Dr. Gonzalez also has unique experience such as his active participation in the preclinical and clinical phases of development of the tetravalent attenuated Dengue vaccine at Mahidol University. He also led the implementation of the Rift Valley Fever vaccine for livestock in Senegal. In the Central African Republic, it is launching targeted vaccination campaigns against yellow fever for populations in areas where the virus is emerging. In Southeast Asia, Dr. Gonzalez conducted fundamental research on the preparation and use of vaccines against different genotypes of Japanese encephalitis viruses. Deputy Director of the DHS Center of Excellence at the University of Kansas, he oversaw a preclinical phase of the Ebola vaccine and the Rift Valley fever virus nucleoprotein vaccine. As a professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, he directs courses on Global Health Security and Policy and Interdisciplinary Perspective of Global Infectious Diseases threat. As a life science researcher, Dr. Gonzalez is considered an international expert (USG DOD, DOS, NIH; WHO; European Union; ) for disease detection, response, and preparedness for emerging and high consequence diseases and pathogens. Dr Gonzalez exercised expertise, leadership, training, motivation required to carry out successfully research projects in a variety of environment and culture, from Low- and medium-income countries, eventually building a consistent professional network partnering with local and international institutions. Ultimately his fields encompass eco-epidemiology, biosurveillance, outbreak response, vaccine & therapy for which it has co-authored 350+ articles in peer reviewed journal (accessible in NCBI My Bibliography).

John P. DiMoia is Professor of Korean History at Seoul National University (SNU). He is also affiliated with the STS group at the university.

He is author of Reconstructing Bodies (2013, Stanford University Press), and one of the editors of Engineering Asia (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is currently working on a book outlining Korean developmentalism, 1954-present.

Outside of SNU, he has held visiting fellowships at The Needham Research Institute / NRI (Cambridge University), Kyujanggak Institute of Korean Studies, (SNU), Asia Research Institute (NUS), Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), UCLA (Center for Korean Studies) and FAU STSG (STS Gender).

Since July 2022, he has been the editor of Seoul Journal of Korean Studies.

Michele Barry, M.D., FACP, FASTMH, is the Drs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Stanford University. She is the Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health and Senior Associate Dean for Global Health. Dr. Barry is the founder of the Gates-funded nonprofit WomenLift Health, an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, Council on Foreign Relations, and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chair Emerita of the Board of Directors for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, and past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She has most recently written on the exclusion of women climate scientists from COP meetings and leadership roles but also has published in the areas of climate’s impact on megacities, tropical diseases, human and planetary health as well as global and refugee health.

Dr. Carlos A. Faerron Guzmán is a global health professional with a deep-rooted passion for education and a commitment to promoting health equity, addressing complexity, and emphasizing the importance of values in shaping a better world. As an experienced educator, Dr. Faerron fosters an environment of collaborative learning and knowledge exchange that empowers communities and individuals.His publications reflect his dedication to health equity and exploring complex, interrelated factors that influence global health outcomes. Through his work, Dr. Faerron aims to highlight the critical role of values in guiding our collective efforts toward creating a more just, equitable, and sustainable world for all.Currently, Dr. Faerron serves as an Associate Professor and Director of the Masters of Global Health at the University of Maryland Baltimore Graduate School, Associate Director of the Planetary Health Alliance at Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the InterAmerican Center for Global Health in Costa Rica. In addition, he holds adjunct positions at the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Spain. By integrating these key principles into his academic pursuits and educational endeavors across multiple institutions, Dr. Faerron continues to make a significant impact in the global health community.

Lawrence Palinkas is a Clinical Professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Longevity Science at the University of California, San Diego. A medical anthropologist, he is an expert in the areas of preventive medicine, cross-cultural medicine and health services research. He is particularly interested in behavioral health, global health and health disparities, implementation science, and community-based participatory research. His research has included studies of psychosocial adaptation to extreme environments and disasters; mental health needs of older adults; cultural explanatory models of mental illness and service utilization; HIV and substance-abuse prevention in Mexico; evaluation of academic-community research practice partnerships; and the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices for delivery of mental and behavioral health services to children, adolescents and underserved populations. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, NASA, National Institutes of Health, the MacArthur Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation. His current research encompasses implementation of child and adolescent primary care and mental health services and effects of climate change on vulnerable populations. Among Palinkas’ scholarly achievements are the Antarctic Service Medal from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Navy in 1989; deputy chief officer of the Life Sciences Standing Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research in 2002; chair of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s External Advisory Council in 2003; co-lead of the Grand Challenge for Social Work; and membership on committees of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, Society for Social Work and Research, American Anthropological Association and Society for Applied Anthropology. He is the author of more than 490 publications.

Dr. Goldenberg is a social epidemiologist and mixed-methods researcher who leads a program of NIH and Canadian-funded research on sexual and reproductive health, HIV, and substance-related inequities amongst migrants, sex workers, and other marginalized populations. She is an Associate Professor of Public Health at San Diego State University and Co-Director of the SDSU/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health (Epidemiology). Dr. Goldenberg has published extensively on HIV, sexual and reproductive health, and mental health inequities faced by migrants and marginalized women at the Mexico-U.S. border, in Canada, and internationally, in addition to numerous policy briefs and reports. Dr. Goldenberg has provided expert guidance on several global and national policy initiatives and clinical guidelines related to HIV, sexual and reproductive health care, and human rights of marginalized communities.

Julia Neusner is a lawyer, researcher, and educator whose work has focused on refugee protection, climate justice, and human rights. She leads the consulting group Human Security Initiative, which conducts research and writing on climate displacement for the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) and other organizations. Julia also helped launch the Stanford Migration and Asylum Lab, which provides country conditions research to support asylum applicants. Julia was previously a Research and Policy Attorney with Human Rights First, where she worked on advocacy initiatives around refugee protection. Julia received a Juris Doctor and Master of Arts in International Policy from Stanford University, where she established the interdisciplinary student research organization Refugee Rights Network and a pro bono program for law students to provide legal services to asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. Julia is admitted to the New York State Bar and lives in Oakland, California.

Eric Cioè-Peña MD MPH is the founder and current Vice President of the Center for Global Health of Northwell Health and the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.  He is an associate professor of Emergency Medicine.  He is also the ACEP lead ambassador to El Salvador.  He is a graduate of SUNY Downstate Emergency Medicine Residency program and the Columbia University International Emergency Medicine Fellowship.  He has worked extensively in Ecuador, Guyana, India, Botswana, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador on health systems development projects, trauma care and humanitarian assistance.  He has a Masters in Public Health and Humanitarian Assistance from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and received his doctorate of medicine with concentration in Global Health from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Cioè Peña is leading the global initiatives at Northwell and Hofstra with specific focus in stakeholder-led projects centered on access to global mental health, global surgery, utilization of technology to close health-equity gaps globally as well as to mitigate the effects of climate change on global health.  Dr. Cioè Peña was redeployed in 2020 and 2021 with Northwell at a 108-bed COVID alternate care facility in conjunction with the State of New York as the Medical Director where he directed the care of over 1,000 COVID patients.Dr. Cioè Peña is the past president of the Global Emergency Medicine Academy of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and is also the past president of the Global Emergency Medicine fellowship consortium.  He served on the Public Health and Injury Prevention committee and is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.  He has met and been recognized for his work in Global Health by Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, Minister of Health Frank Anthony in Guyana and most recently President Zelenskyy of Ukraine.

 Dr. Cioè Peña lives with his wife, María, and two children, Emiliano and Aurelia in Montclair, NJ.

 

 

Shari Jardine is a senior public health practitioner and strategist, serving as Deputy Director and co-founder of Northwell's Center for Global Health. She has extensive experience in community, city, federal, and multinational organizations, elevating educational and social value for partner institutions. With vast experience in establishing education, evaluation, and research (EER) programs in global health inclusive of fostering knowledge and skills development for both local and global learners, Shari has established successful public health programmatic activity across the Center for Global Health's core sites and assists in overseeing program implementation and deliverables. Some of her collaborations include the Ministry of Health in Guyana and Ecuador, along with Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, the national hospital in Guyana, helping to address the nursing deficit, and elevating the research apparatus and capacity at the national level.

Dr. Young is Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and Chair/SVP of Behavioral Health at Northwell Health. Previously, he served as Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Psychiatry at the Zucker School of Medicine and the Zucker Hillside Hospital. His impressive career includes directing the Psychiatry Residency Training Program at ZHH and chairing the Curriculum Committee responsible for overseeing the medical school's four-year curriculum. His research contributions have significantly impacted patient safety and clinical learning environments. With a diverse background that includes human rights work and legislative directorship, Dr. Young brings a wealth of experience to his influential roles in medical education and psychiatry leadership. He also directed the Psychiatry Residency Training Program at Zucker Hillside and chaired the Curriculum Committee, which oversees the four-year curriculum at the Zucker School of Medicine. Prior to joining Northwell, Dr. Young served as associate professor of psychiatry at the UCSF School of Medicine. He held a number of roles including associate director of the Residency Training Program in the department of psychiatry (2005-2012), director of the medication management clinics at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics (2005-2012), and chair for the Advanced Studies Committee at the Zucker School of Medicine (with oversight over the Med4 curriculum, 2008-2012). While based at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center (2012-2013), he was the associate director for the Kaiser-UCSF Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship and a physician investigator with the Behavioral Health Research Initiative at Kaiser’s Northern California Division of Research. During this time, he also helped create a primary care consult service supporting over 120 primary care physicians. Dr. Young’s research has focused on improving quality and patient safety in the clinical learning workplace. In particular, he has made important contributions to multiple literatures, including cognitive load, handoffs and patient safety; the ‘July Effect’; professional identity formation; and workplace-based assessment in psychiatry. He has published extensively in the leading medical education journals. He served as associate editor for AHRQ’s WebM&M (2009-2013) and now serves as associate editor for Perspectives on Medical Education and as an invited member of the International Competency-Based Medical Education Collaborative. Throughout his career, he has participated in local patient safety committees and led efforts to incorporate quality improvement processes into ambulatory settings. Dr. Young has held leadership roles in numerous medical education organizations. He is a former program chair and chair of the Assessment Committee and the current president-elect and member of the Steering Committee and executive council of the Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training. He was a member of the National Board of Medical Examiner’s (USMLE’s) inaugural Patient Safety Test Materials Development Committee and now serves on the Evidence Based Medicine Interdisciplinary Review Committee. From 2017 to 2023, he served on the ACGME Psychiatry Review Committee. Prior to his career in medicine, he did human rights work in southern Africa and Asia and served as legislative director for an assemblywoman in the California State Legislature where he helped lead several important health policy initiatives. He received a BA (magna cum laude) from Harvard University with a double concentration in social studies and the comparative study of religion. He earned a master's degree in public policy from the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy and a PhD in health professional education from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He obtained his MD from the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, where he also completed residency training in general adult psychiatry.

Dr. Berkowitz is the Medical Director for Emergency Telehealth, Transfer, and EMS at Northwell Health. He focuses on building virtual programs that improve healthcare access through technology. Whether it be a hospital stroke patient, or a patient at home, he believes the best care is the care that meets the patient where they are. Global Telehealth is an important part of Northwell's portfolio. He is the Medical Director of our Virtual Medical Specialties program, which is used by several partners, most notably the Department of State, to share his medical expertise across the globe. In addition, Dr. Berkowitz is the Chief of the Division of Prehospital & Disaster Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine. He has successfully secured several grants to study the impact of virtual on health. Grants include evaluating eConsults for rural health, to utilizing virtual nursing and community paramedicine to improve dementia care.

Anna Helova, DrPH, MA, MBA, MPH, is a Co-Chair of the CUGH Global Health Operations Committee, as well as a Deputy Director of the Sparkman Center for Global Health and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Organization in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Helova has expertise in outcomes research, global health, operations, implementation science, and health policy, with over 17 years of experience working in the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central and Latin America. Her research utilizes qualitative and mixed methods with a focus on HIV studies, maternal and child health, mental health, stigma reduction, behavioral interventions, healthcare services, and engagement of lay health workers. Dr. Helova's work aims to identify optimal and feasible strategies to translate and implement research findings into practice, clinical tools, and policy recommendations in low-resource settings through the engagement of policymakers, community, and other key stakeholders.

Oriaku OKEREKE is a Chief Medical Officer at University Health Services (UHS), University of Abuja Nigeria. She coordinates the clinical activities, collates and interprets data for planning of the University health policies. Oriaku has researches and case studies with other researchers and junior colleagues who she mentors.

Oriaku has served as the Acting Director; as the Clinical and Administrative Head of the University Health Services, she developed, planned and implemented quality, effective and feasible health policy for the University, and oversees the health activities in the Centre. Under her leadership, UHS brought health innovations and enhanced the health indices of the University community by collaborating with academic and research institutions, Governmental and Non Governmental agencies, Ministries and Sectors. One of her pet projects was to bring the students with Sickle Cell Disease under a forum for proper monitoring and follow up while they are being assisted to improve their quality of life (QoL) and prompt assessment of health- related quality of life (HRQoL).

She obtained MBBS from Abia State University,Uturu Nigeria, a Diploma in Health Systems Management from Galilee International Management Institute, Israel, her MPH from Walden, USA, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Family Medicine from National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria.

Dr. David Vanderpool brings over two decades of experience as a general surgeon to his role as a humanitarian and founder of LiveBeyond, a non-profit organization committed to improving the lives of individuals in low-income countries through healthcare, education, and nutritional support. His journey from practicing medicine in the United States to addressing global health disparities reflects a deep-seated belief in serving others and fostering well-being among the world's most vulnerable populations.

In 2005, in response to Hurricane Katrina and motivated by a desire to make a tangible difference in low-income communities beyond the confines of traditional medical practice, Dr. Vanderpool established LiveBeyond. The organization's mission is to bring healing and hope to communities that lack access to basic healthcare services. Through the construction of hospitals, clinics, and maternal and child health programs in five countries across Africa, Central America, Haiti, and the Middle East, LiveBeyond has become a beacon of support for those in dire need. This work has been enriched by a collaboration with Texas A&M University Medical School, which has provided valuable academic support and expertise.

A key to LiveBeyond's approach is its emphasis on leveraging technology to enhance the delivery and efficiency of healthcare services. This strategic use of technology has enabled the organization to reach and positively impact the lives of over 10,000 mothers and their children, ensuring they receive the care and support necessary for a healthy life.

Dr. Vanderpool, along with his wife Laurie, has taken the extraordinary step of living in Haiti and the Middle East since 2013. This commitment to being on the ground alongside those they serve allows for a deep understanding of the communities' needs and ensures that LiveBeyond's initiatives are both relevant and sustainable.

Dr. Bhekumusa Lukhele holds a BNS, from the University of Eswatini, an MPH, and a Ph.D. in Medical Science from Kyoto University in Japan. Currently, Dr. Lukhele is the Assistant Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) with a joint appointment as a UAB Sparkman Center of Global Health Scholar.
Before joining UAB, Dr. Lukhele served as the Executive Director, of Baylor College of Medicine Children Foundation-Eswatini, and Country Director, of the Institute for Health Measurement Southern Africa and was a member of different Global Health Consortium such as the Collaborative African Genomics Network, Trials of Excellence In Southern Africa III. At the Institute for Health Measurement Southern Africa Dr. Lukhele was responsible for rolling out the Eswatini National Client Management Information Systems in public health facilities.
His research is on mhealth interventions designed to prevent HIV infection in Eswatini, he is the Executive producer of SwaziYolo, an innovative serious game designed to increase HIV risk perception. He also focuses on child TB stool diagnosis and child TB outcomes predictive tools.

Sofia Gruskin directs the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH). She is Professor of Preventive Medicine and Chief of the Disease Prevention, Policy and Global Health Division at the Keck School of Medicine; Professor of Law and Preventive Medicine at the Gould School of Law; and an affiliate faculty member with the Spatial Sciences Institute at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Within USC, she is highly engaged in university service, including serving as a member of the USC Academic Senate Executive Board, and primary convener of the USC Law & Global Health Collaboration.

Daniel Tarantola has occupied senior leadership positions in large-scale programs led by the World Health Organization (WHO), including the eradication of smallpox; expanded immunization; control of diarrheal diseases and acute respiratory infections; and the Global Program on HIV/AIDS. His career has alternated between academic and leadership positions with the WHO. He was an instructor at the Harvard School of Public Health through the 1990s, then a Senior Policy Advisor to the WHO Director-General and Director of the WHO Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals; and later a Professor of Health and Human Rights at the University of New South Wales School of Public Health and Community Medicine in Sydney, Australia.

His work primarily focuses on immunization, HIV/AIDS and the application of human rights principles, norms and standards to public health policy and programs. Now an associate editor for the American Journal of Public Health and an independent consultant based in France, Tarantola engages in research, teaching and publications on a variety of themes, devoting much of his time to the evaluation and strategic planning of global and international health ventures. He works closely with the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health.

Prof. Patty J. Garcia MD, MPH, PhD, is a Professor at the School of Public Health at Cayetano Heredia University (UPCH) in Lima-Peru and a member of the US National Academy of Medicine. She is the former Minister of Health of Peru, former Dean of the School of Public Health at UPCH, and former Chief of the Peruvian National Institute of Health. She is recognized as a leader in Global Health. She is an affiliate Professor of the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington and Tulane University School of Public Health. She is actively involved in research and training in Global Health, Implementation research, quality in health services, Reproductive health, STI/HIV, HPV, diagnostics, and medical informatics. She participates in several global advisory boards and is a co-chair of the Lancet Commission on Cancer and Health Systems.

Dr Jocalyn Clark was appointed International Editor of BMJ in August 2022, re-joining the journal 20 years after starting her editorial career as BMJ registrar in 2002. Previously she was an Executive Editor of The Lancet (2016-2022); Executive Editor at icddr,b in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2013-16); and Senior Editor at PLOS Medicine (2006-13). She serves as a scientific advisor to the INDEPTH Network of health surveillance systems and WHO Reference Group on Health Statistics, board member of Global Health 50/50 and WomenLift Health, and chair of the governance council of the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), and is co-founder of advocacy groups Canadian Women in Global Health and WGH Canada. Jocalyn holds a BSc in biochemistry & microbiology, and MSc and PhD in public health sciences (with gender studies). She is an adjunct professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and honorary associate professor at the Institute for Global Health, UCL. In 2019 Jocalyn was elected into fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in recognition of her scholarship and leadership in advancing gender equity, women’s and reproductive rights, the social and political contexts of health, and global health.

Faith Nawagi: is the African Representative for FAIMER and ECFMG divisions of Intealth, where she leads the implementation, and evaluation of the organization's Africa programs. She is based in Kampala Uganda. She has recently completed her Ph.D. in Health Profession Education (HPE) IPE track at Makerere University. She pursued her master's in International Public Health (Global Health) from Euclid University, a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and Midwifery from Makerere University Uganda. She has led various multicounty projects and programs in Africa in the domain of Global health, health workforce, internationalization in health professions education in 20 countries with 56 training institutions, Nursing leadership, and Governance mapping, among others. She has served global health, and Health Equity academic roles with the University of Minnesota, Nexus International University, Sigma Academy, University of Oxford, and Cambridge University in the UK. She has various scientific publications in the Global health field majoring in Africa.

Nelson K. Sewankambo MBChB, MSc, M.MED, FRCP, LLD (HC) is a Professor Emeritus, a former Dean of Makerere University Medical School, Uganda and a past Principal Makerere University College of Health Sciences. He is a member of the AFREhealth Governing Council. He was Chair of the MEPI Council in 2013 which culminated into AFREhealth. During his academic career, he facilitated the establishment of many collaborations between Makerere University and institutions in both high and low or middle-income countries.

He has a wide experience as a Principal Investigator and investigator on several capacity building projects of health professionals that are externally funded including a MEPI consortium of Ugandan Universities that jointly addressed the country’s health workforce education needs; NURTURE: Research training and mentoring program for career development of junior and mid-level faculty at Makerere; Training Health Researchers into Vocational Education in East Africa (THRiVE) consortium of seven African institutions and two UK universities. He steered the development of an East African effort that led to an internationally acclaimed institutional brokerage mechanism for linking research to policy and action, “The REACH Policy Initiative” under the East African Community.

He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London; an Honorary Doctorate of Letters Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health; a Grand Silver Medal from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; a Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa from McMaster University, and is Honorary Fellow of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is an external affiliate of the US National Institute of Medicine, and a fellow of African Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Eric Goosby is an internationally recognized expert on infectious diseases. He was the founding director of the Ryan White CARE Act, interim director of the White House's Office of National AIDS Policy, Ambassador-at-Large, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Special Envoy on Tuberculosis, and a member of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine and leads the Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy and Economics.

Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde is the Deputy Executive Director, African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST). She was the Director of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)) at ACHEST. She is a Radiologist and formerly Head of the Radiology Department at Makerere University in Uganda. She holds an MBChB and an MMed Radiology from Makerere University and a Masters degree in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She is a Fellow of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER), Philadelphia USA and a Fellow in Ultrasound from the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. She is the Secretary General for The Network Towards Unity for Health (TUFH). She is the President of the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth). She has over 25 years experience in Health Professions Education. She has published over 80 publications in Health Professions Education and Radiology.

Prisca Olabisi ADEJUMO worked in the area of nursing education and later worked specifically on various conditions of people living with HIV and AIDS till 2004 when she defended her dissertation on Care and Support for People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) among The Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria in 2004. She has been a co-investigator and collaborates with colleagues on several projects to establish the UCH Interdisciplinary Wound Care Team and the ongoing cancer risk clinic in UCH.  She teaches Medical Surgical Nursing to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Ibadan and her area of research interest includes HIV/AIDS, Wound care, and Cancer Genetics with a current focus on cancer genetic counselling. She has some publications in peer-reviewed journals and has attended several locals, national and international conferences and scientific meetings with membership in learned societies. She has some awards to her credit also. These include the Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship Award (2001/2002). Small Grants Programme for Thesis Writing, CODESRIA (Council for Development and Social Research in Africa) Award, Dakar, Senegal. (2003/ 2004). Mac Arthur Grant: Visiting Scholar (2005), University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, USA. West African Health Organization Fellowship Award. Dakar, Senegal (2008). International Interdisciplinary Wound Care Course Scholarship, University of Stellebonsh, Capetown, South Africa sponsored by the University of Toronto, Canada. (2010). Postdoctoral Fellowship in Nursing, INDEN and STTI Award, Iowa, USA (2011).

Dr Heini Utunen is Head of Unit of the Learning and Capacity Development Unit of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme. Her functions and experience cover workforce capacity building and learning solutions in a broad institutional and multilateral context.During the COVID-19 pandemic she has led the COVID-19 online learning response delivering massive scale learning interventions on OpenWHO.org based on WHO’s technical evidence-based guidance, learning resources now reaching 8 million enrolments. Ms Utunen joined the WHO during the Ebola West Africa outbreak in 2014 and led the pre-deployment trainings, and provided to the cascade training curriculum development, face-to-face trainings and e-learnings. During 2016-2018, her functions covered country capacity building and simulation exercises for the novel area of risk communications in the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness. During 2009-2013, Ms Utunen worked in the United Nations country team in Vietnam, in natural disaster preparedness and response area in the humanitarian cluster system. Ms Utunen has prior experience in the government of Finland where she served as Communication Officer of the Minister of Health in Finland. She functioned also as a Training Officer at the Crisis Management Centre, mainly involved in the capacity building of the European Union, African Union and United Nations in several post-conflict missions. Ms Utunen has a Master’s degree in Information Studies, a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies. She has a Principal’s qualification in Finland.

Joshua Greenberg is a physician-economist (M.D./Ph.D.) currently serving as a U.S. National Institutes of Health Fogarty Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of Michigan. His work melds the biomedical and social sciences to develop new ways of thinking to address pressing global problems. His research focuses on health, human rights, and social development, with an emphasis on political economy and governance in health service provision. He believes that change starts with our greatest asset — togetherness — which we must channel toward building better systems and institutions for the governance of our societies.

For nearly fifteen years, Dr. Greenberg has worked in Uganda, where he co-founded Progressive Health Partnership, a health and human rights organization. Through this work, he has pioneered a scientific, systems-based approach to community health, running programs in areas ranging from maternal and neonatal health to water, sanitation, and hygiene to governance, civic engagement, and human rights. Creating unique partnerships between academia, government, local communities, and civic society, he has worked from the local to national level to develop strategies that enable community members to directly participate in the governance of health systems. His scholarship in this area, at the intersection between democracy and health, has opened new pathways at the grassroots to address widespread accountability gaps in health service provision.

Dr. Greenberg is a two-time Fulbright Awardee, a former Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development Training Fellow, a recipient of the Velji Leadership Award for Emerging Leaders in Global Health, and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. His work has been funded by the Abdul Jameel Latif Poverty Action Lab, the National Science Foundation, and Ronald McDonald House Charities, among others.

Roojin Habibi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and Senior Visiting Fellow of the United Nations University’s International Institute for Global Health. Bridging the fields of international law, health law and human rights, her research program examines normative interpretation and change in global health law. Professor Habibi’s research has a track record of global impact. She is currently contributing her expertise in ongoing negotiations to draft a WHO pandemic instrument and to amend the International Health Regulations. In 2022, she was appointed by the WHO Director-General to the Review Committee regarding amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005), providing technical recommendations to WHO Member States on more than 300 proposed amendments to the Regulations. Alongside these roles, she has led on consensus-building initiatives at the forefront of global health law and human rights, founding a partnership between the Global Health Law Consortium and the International Commission of Jurists that culminated in the 2023 Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies.

Safura Abdool Karim is a public health lawyer focusing on applications of the law and policy to improve public health. She is presently a postdoctoral researcher at the Berman Institute, Johns Hopkins University (and jointly with the Ethox Center, Oxford University) and an Adjunct-Assistant Professor at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.  Her scholarship is on public health and human rights and her research converges on the legal determinants of health and rights-based approaches to prevention and control of both infectious and non-communicable diseases. Most of her work in infectious diseases has focused on vaccine equity and she has been called upon to advise a number of international bodies on issues of COVID-19 vaccine access in Africa. She also provided technical assistance in developing South Africa’s COVID-19 regulations. With regard to non-communicable diseases, her research has included regulatory interventions such as sugar taxes, sodium restrictions in food and child-directed food marketing and simplified nutrition labelling, with the latter two informing the development of draft regulations for the adoption of front of package warning labels in South Africa. She has led multi-country studies on sugary-beverage taxation and other obesity prevention measures using policy, legal and qualitative research methods. Blending this academic expertise with her legal practice in litigation, Safura has been involved in novel class actions related to occupational lung disease in mines and defending health-related laws including COVID-19 policies and a certificate-of-need requirement for private healthcare providers against constitutional challenges. Her cross-cutting expertise is reflected in her more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in leading legal and public health journals including the Lancet, Nature Food, South African Journal on Human Rights and the Journal of Medicine, Ethics and Law.  She is involved in advisory committees for government departments, the Africa CDC and academic programs. She has been actively involved in translating her research into policy impact through dissemination and knowledge translation and developed this skill further during her fellowship with the Aspen New Voices programme. In summary, Safura is passionate about the law and its key role in human rights, global equity and making the world healthier, safer and better for all.

Lawrence O. Gostin is Distinguished University Professor, Georgetown University’s highest academic rank conferred by the University President. Prof. Gostin is Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and is the Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law. He served as Associate Dean for Research at Georgetown Law from 2004 to 2008. In 2021, Prof Gostin received the Steve Goldberg Memorial Award for Community Service at Georgetown. He is Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University and Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University. Prof. Gostin’s Georgetown Profile is available here.

A systematic empirical analysis of legal scholarship, independent researchers ranked Prof. Gostin 1st in the nation in productivity among all law professors. In 2023, he was ranked fourth in the world among law professors. He is consistently ranked 1st in the nation in citations for health law. Prof. Gostin is also ranked first among health law professors on Google Scholar and on West Law. He is in the top 10% worldwide for downloads on SSRN.

Prof. Gostin is the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. He is working with the WHO and the Intergovernmental Negotiation Body (INB) to draft a Pandemic Treaty. He also currently serves on WHO’s Review Committee for amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR).

The WHO Director-General has appointed Prof. Gostin to high-level positions, including the IHR Roster of Experts and the Expert Advisory Panel on Mental Health. He served on the Director-General’s Advisory Committee on Reforming the World Health Organization, as well as numerous WHO expert advisory committees, including on the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework, smallpox, genomic sequencing data, migrant health, mental health, NCDs, and gender, equity and human rights. He served on the WHO/Global Fund Blue Ribbon Expert Panel: The Equitable Access Initiative to develop a global health equity framework. He chaired the WHO Health and Migration Consultation on Knowledge and Research in Migrant Health, including the WHO Triple Billion Goals.

Prof. Gostin is an elected lifetime Member of the National Academy of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences. He has served on the National Academy’s Board on Health Sciences Policy, the Board on Population Health, the Human Subjects Review Board, and the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. He served two terms on the National Academies of Sciences Engineering, and Medicine, Board on Global Health. He also served on the National Academies Expert Committee on the Analysis to Enhance the Effectiveness of the Federal Quarantine Station Network based on Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Gostin chaired has chaired numerous National Academies committee including the Committee on Global Solutions to Falsified, Substandard, and Counterfeit Medicines. He has chaired National Academy Committees on national preparedness for mass disasters, health informational privacy, public health genomics, and human subject research on prisoners.

Commissioned by the White House, Prof Gostin currently chairs the National Academies Committee on Current State of Research, Development, and Stockpiling of Smallpox Medical Countermeasures.

Prof. Gostin co-chaired the Lancet Commission on Global Health Law, which proposed the foundational concept of the Legal Determinants of Health.

Professor Gostin has been at the center of public policy and law through multiple epidemics from AIDS, SARS, and Influenza H1N1 to Ebola, MERS, Zika, and mpox. The Washingtonian Magazine lists Prof Gostin as the most influential 500 people shaping policy in America. He served on two global commissions to report on the lessons learned from the 2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic. He was also senior advisor to the United Nations Secretary General’s post-Ebola Commission. Prof. Gostin also served on the drafting team for the G-7 Summit in Tokyo 2016, focusing on global health security and Universal Health Coverage.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Prof Gostin has worked with the White House, federal public health agencies, and governors in the United States, as well as the World Health Organization, GAVI, and the World Bank. Gostin currently serves as a member of the Independent Panel for a Global Public Health Convention (PGPHC): “global leaders working to strengthen the world’s ability to prevent, prepare, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks before they become widespread pandemics.” Prof. Gostin also serves on the Panel for the Global Health Security Index—the world’s most comprehensive assessment of global health security capabilities in 195 countries. He chairs the O’Neill Institute/Foundation of the National Institutes of Health Global Consultations on a Pandemic Treaty in support of the World Health Organization.

Professor Gostin’s policy work extends to major areas of U.S. policy including working for Senators Kennedy and Dole in the drafting and enactment of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act.

Prof. Gostin holds multiple international academic professorial appointments, including at Oxford University, the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa), Melbourne University, and Sydney University. Prof. Gostin served on the Governing Board of Directors of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.

Prof. Gostin holds editorial appointments in leading academic journals throughout the world. He is the Legal and Global Health Editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association. He was also Founding Editor-in-Chief of Laws (an international open access law journal). He was formally the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.

Prof. Gostin holds several honorary degrees. In 1994, the Chancellor of the State University of New York conferred an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree. In 2006, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Vice Chancellor awarded Cardiff University’s (Wales) highest honor, an Honorary Fellow. In 2007, the Royal Institute of Public Health (United Kingdom) appointed Prof. Gostin as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public

Health (FRSPH). In 2012, the Chancellor of the University of Sydney – on the nomination of the Deans of the Law and Medical Schools – conferred a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa), presided by two Justices of Australia’s highest court—Justices Kirby and Haydon. In 2021, The Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom elected Prof. Gostin as an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Public Health.

Prof. Gostin is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Fellow of the Hastings Center. In 2016, President Obama appointed Prof. Gostin to a six-year term on the President’s National Cancer Advisory Board to advise the nation on cancer prevention, research, and policy. He also served on the National Institutes of Health Director’s Advisory Committee on the ethics of public/private partnerships to end the opioid crisis.

Prof. Gostin has led major law reform initiatives in the U.S., including drafting the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) to combat bioterrorism (following the post-9/11 anthrax attacks) and the “Turning Point” Model State Public Health Act. He also spearheaded the World Health Organization and International Development Law Organization’s major report, Advancing the Right to Health: The Vital Role of Law. He is currently advising the Uniform Law Commission on a model emergency health powers law in response to COVID-19.

Prof. Gostin’s proposal for a Framework Convention on Global Health – an international treaty ensuring the right to health – is now part of a global campaign, endorsed by the UN Secretary-General and Director of UNAIDS.

In the United Kingdom, Lawrence Gostin was the Legal Director of the National Association for Mental Health, Director of the National Council of Civil Liberties (the UK equivalent of the ACLU, now called “Liberty”), and a Fellow at Oxford University. He led Liberty during its 50th anniversary, started by George Orwell and EM Forster. He helped draft the Mental Health Act (England and Wales) and brought landmark cases before the European Court of Human Rights.

Prof. Gostin’s books include: Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future (Harvard University Press, 2021); Global Health Law (Harvard University Press, 2014); Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press, 3rd ed., 2016); Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (University of California Press, 3rd ed., 2018); Law and the Health System (Foundation Press, 2014); Principles of Mental Health Law & Practice (Oxford University Press, 2010). He has published a trilogy of global health books for Oxford University Press: Global Health Law & Policy: Ensuring Justice for a Healthier World (2023); Foundations of Global Health Law and Human Rights (2020); Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World (2018).

Gostin’s two books published by Harvard University Press have been widely acclaimed. His book on the COVID-19 pandemic, Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future (HUP 2021) won the prestigious Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences, and the best book for 2021 in Clinical Medicine.

Gostin’s classic textbook, Global Health Law (HUP, 2014) is read throughout the world—translated and published in both simplified and traditional Chinese, in Korean, and in Spanish. Paul Farmer, Partners in Health, says of his book: Global Health Law is “more than the definitive book on a dynamic field. Gostin harnesses the power of international law and human rights as tools to close unconscionable health inequities — the injustices that burden marginalized populations throughout the world. Gostin presents a forceful vision, one that deserves a wide embrace.”

Honors and Awards

The National Academy of Medicine awarded Prof. Gostin the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal for distinguished service to further its mission of science and health. He received the Public Health Law Association’s Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award “in recognition of a career devoted to using law to improve the public’s health” presented at the CDC. The New York Public Health Law Association conferred the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for extraordinary service to improve the public’s health. In 2015, the American Public Health Association awarded Prof. Gostin the Lifetime Achievement Award for his career in public health law. In 2018, Gostin was awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Who’s Who highest honor.

Internationally, Prof. Gostin received the Key to Tohoko University (Japan) for distinguished service for human rights in mental health. In the United Kingdom, the National Consumer Council bestowed Prof Gostin with the Rosemary Delbridge Memorial Award for the person “who has most influenc

Sofia Gruskin directs the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH). She is Professor of Preventive Medicine and Chief of the Disease Prevention, Policy and Global Health Division at the Keck School of Medicine; Professor of Law and Preventive Medicine at the Gould School of Law; and an affiliate faculty member with the Spatial Sciences Institute at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Within USC, she is highly engaged in university service, including serving as a member of the USC Academic Senate Executive Board, and primary convener of the USC Law & Global Health Collaboration.

Prof. Lisa R Hirschhorn is a Professor of Medical Social Science at Northwestern University Feinberg Medical School and a Senior Lecturer at UGHE. Trained in primary care, infectious disease and public health, Dr. Hirschhorn has worked to develop and implement better methods to measure and improve quality of care for people living with HIV and other underserved populations in the U.S. and globally. She is a leader in the fields of implementation and improvement science focused on evaluating and spreading effective approaches to improve the quality and delivery of services in HIV, maternal and child health, non-communicable diseases and primary care in the U.S. and low- and middle-income countries. She has taught and mentored in monitoring, evaluation and quality improvement and implementation science in a number of countries. She has published widely and served as an advisor on quality measurement and improvement for national and international organizations.

Professor Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PHD is the retired Vice-Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity, an initiative of Partners in Health. She is a Rwandan who worked for 20 years in the public health sector between 1996-2016, first as clinician after as the Executive Secretary of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission, then as Permanent Secretary, and lastly as the Minister of Health for five years. She serves as Senior Advisor to the Director General of the WHO, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Adjunct Clinical Professor of Paediatrics at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, and Professor of Paediatrics at UGHE. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, a fellow of the African Academy of Sciences, was named among the 100 Most Influential African Women for 2020 and is a board member of CUGH. In 2022, she received the L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science International Award for Africa.

A medic, global public health specialist and social entrepreneur, Dr Peter Drobac is a Senior Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford, and the outgoing Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. The Skoll Centre promotes social innovation by developing talent, promoting actionable insight through research, and catalysing deep exchanges with a global community of innovators.Peter was a co-founder and first Executive Director of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. Working at the intersection of health, education, and technology, UGHE aspires to train the next generation of global health leaders and to become a worldwide innovation hub for health care delivery science.Peter has nearly two decades of academic, clinical and policy experience in global health. He played a key role in the transformation of Rwanda’s health system, which has delivered unprecedented gains in population health and prosperity. As Executive Director of Partners In Health in Rwanda, Peter established community-based health system incubators that developed and scaled care delivery innovations from infectious diseases to cancer. While at Harvard, he led a major health systems research programme. Peter’s interest in systems-led approaches to social innovation has continued in Oxford. He teaches systemic change leadership at Said Business School and hosts the entrepreneurship podcast, Reimagine.Peter is currently focused on initiatives to build better systems in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. He frequently comments on global health issues for CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera and other outlets.

Professor Anil Krishna, Ph.D, is the Director of the Centre for Leadership in Global Health Equity at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) and Principal Investigator of the project supported by Gates Ventures. He has vast experience in public health research, academic leadership, and governance and served as full professor faculty positions and adjunct professor at universities across the globe. He has contributed immensely to health systems strengthening in various countries by engaging policy development and development of models that have impacted thousands of lives especially in primary health care settings. His research experiences include implementation science in primary health care settings focuses on infectious diseases and noncommunicable disease prevention and management. Professor Anil Krishna was invited as presenter in many international conferences, speaker in different fora, and has been mentoring public health professionals in many countries in the areas of implementation science, and results-based management. He has over 40 publications in the broad area of public health. His primary areas of interest and expertise lie in the field of health systems policy and development, developing primary health care models on prevention and management of noncommunicable diseases and implementation science.

Chevy Lazenby is a senior manager with the Exemplars in Global Health (EGH) program based at Gates Ventures. EGH brings together experts from around the world with the mission of identifying positive global health outliers, analyzing what makes countries successful, and disseminating transferable lessons for replication in comparable settings. Prior to joining Gates Ventures in 2020, Chevy was based in Dakar, Senegal and worked with Dimagi, where she designed and implemented digital tools for health programs in fourteen countries across sub-Saharan Africa. Chevy has also worked with Grand Challenges Canada, Médecins Sans Frontières and as a public health fellow in Kigali, Rwanda. Chevy received her MPH from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and holds a BA&Sc from McGill University. She is currently working towards a DrPH degree at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Rishi Mediratta, MD, MSc, MA, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Innovation in Global Health. For the last 19 years, Dr. Mediratta has created partnerships in Ethiopia to support community- and hospital- level education and research initiatives aimed at decreasing preventable newborn and child mortality. He is chair of research for the American Academy of Pediatrics Subcommittee on Global Health within the Section on Hospital Medicine. He has conducted implementation research to understand how remote Helping Babies Breathe training and instructional videos about identifying respiratory distress in children can empower healthcare providers in low-resource settings.

Archana Shrestha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at Kathmandu University School of Medical Science. She is interested in developing, testing, and implementing preventive interventions to reduce the impact of non-communicable disease epidemics in low-income countries. She leads two cohort studies to study the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases among adults and pregnant women in Nepal. For the past eight years, she has been conducting implementation research to adapt and test evidence-based interventions to lower the impact of non-communicable diseases. She serves as the country director for the North Pacific Global Health Program and co-director of AMPATH Nepal.

Katherine is a second year medical student at Stanford. She is passionate about developing accessible health innovations for global communities. She studied biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University and led teams to invent low-cost health technologies for mothers and children in resource-limited settings, including Sierra Leone. She also founded an afterschool program for underserved Baltimore elementary students and taught children in Spain. These experiences showed her the disparities that exist in the care, education, and innovation for marginalized communities, especially for children, and have driven her to pursue a career as a global physician-innovator, combining clinical care and medical device development to address worldwide health inequities.

Social Sciences and Global Health researcher based at Institute of international Health, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. Research focus: social and societal determinants of health, migration and health, reproductive and sexual health, Sub-Saharan Africa

Ishika Mukherjee is a Global Health Fellow working at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas. She is a post-graduate student from Emory University who majored in Neuroscience and Global Health.

Hebatalla Mohamed is a graduate student at the Harvard School of Public Health, pursuing an MS in Global Health & Population. She recently graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in History of Science, earning Highest Departmental Honors. Her senior thesis on the evolution of medical humanitarian aid under siege in Gaza received a Summa cum laude grade as well as the best department thesis award. In addition to designing and teaching undergraduate courses on refugee crisis response, medical anthropology, and social medicine at Harvard, Heba has worked with Physicians for Human Rights, the International Rescue Committee, and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, contributing to a number of projects in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and the DRC.

Yian Fang is a PhD student at Peking University, major in global health policy. He obtained his master’s degree at Harvard University. After that, he joined the World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office as a young professional. He has published articles in several leading journals, including the Lancet, BMJ Global Health. He has extensive global health experience in Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Japan and other countries. Email: yian.fang@hotmail.com

Joshua Greenberg is a physician-economist (M.D./Ph.D.) currently serving as a U.S. National Institutes of Health Fogarty Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of Michigan. His work melds the biomedical and social sciences to develop new ways of thinking to address pressing global problems. His research focuses on health, human rights, and social development, with an emphasis on political economy and governance in health service provision. He believes that change starts with our greatest asset — togetherness — which we must channel toward building better systems and institutions for the governance of our societies.

For nearly fifteen years, Dr. Greenberg has worked in Uganda, where he co-founded Progressive Health Partnership, a health and human rights organization. Through this work, he has pioneered a scientific, systems-based approach to community health, running programs in areas ranging from maternal and neonatal health to water, sanitation, and hygiene to governance, civic engagement, and human rights. Creating unique partnerships between academia, government, local communities, and civic society, he has worked from the local to national level to develop strategies that enable community members to directly participate in the governance of health systems. His scholarship in this area, at the intersection between democracy and health, has opened new pathways at the grassroots to address widespread accountability gaps in health service provision.

Dr. Greenberg is a two-time Fulbright Awardee, a former Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development Training Fellow, a recipient of the Velji Leadership Award for Emerging Leaders in Global Health, and a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. His work has been funded by the Abdul Jameel Latif Poverty Action Lab, the National Science Foundation, and Ronald McDonald House Charities, among others.

Nancy R. Reynolds is the associate dean of global affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; director, Center for Global Initiatives; co-director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Information, Knowledge Management; and co-secretary general, Global Network of the WHO Collaborating Centers of Nursing and Midwifery. Formerly the Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing at Yale University, Dr. Reynolds is a researcher in the field of chronic illness self-management (especially HIV) with over 20 years of continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has extensive research experience as PI of multidisciplinary teams and as an investigator with the AIDS Clinical Trials Group and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. Her work is focused on development of interventions that use low-cost cellphone technology to bring health care services to vulnerable populations affected by HIV. In Ghana and India, Dr. Reynolds has implemented programs to improve medication adherence and mental health outcomes of women and children living with the disease. She has a strong leadership background in research development and training of domestic and international pre- and postdoctoral fellows. She has been the director/faculty sponsor of NIH-funded T32, F31, and K training grants, and has provided leadership to global health projects sponsored by USAID, Clinton Foundation, World Bank/JHPIEGO, and Fogarty focused on clinical and research development of interdisciplinary scholars in international settings. Dr. Reynolds has served as board member on governmental and non-governmental organizations (e.g., Ohio Department of Public Health, AIDS Drug Assistance Program, Yale-China Association), is former chair of the Outcomes Committee of the NIH–sponsored AIDS Clinical Trials Group, and is a member of the WHO Steering Committee for the inaugural State of the World’s Nursing report. She is a member of the scientific review group—HIV special sections—at NIH. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the recipient of numerous research awards including induction into the Sigma Theta Tau International Researcher Hall of Fame.

Andrew Dykens, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), a core member at the UIC Center for Global Health, and a NIH funded researcher who studies the implementation of sustainable cervical cancer screening programs in Senegal and other non-communicable diseases globally. Andrew is the Founding Co-Director of the Capacity Strengthening Platform at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, a global initiative that aims to facilitate institutional partnerships focused on strengthening healthcare training capacity by connecting locally identified human resource gaps to existing resources. 

Andrew is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Mauritania 1997-99) and a Rotarian at the Rotary Club of Chicago.  Andrew lives in Chicago with his wife, Lauren, and their two daughters, ages 10 and 14. Andrew loves observing the little moments of growth when his girls overcome some seemingly insurmountable challenge, he plays enough music to annoy neighbors and dreams of someday harmonizing with his girls, and to stay active he enjoys backpacking and maintaining a competitive pace through the first 100 meters of a very occasional triathlon.

Georgina Yeboah is the Executive Director of the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth). She holds Bachelor of Science Degree in Administration and Master of Business Administration both from the University of Ghana, Legon. She has twenty-five years experience in hospital administration practice and human resource management at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi - Ghana. She has played key roles in national activities such as Health Sector HR Policies and Strategies development, Staffing Norms development and Conditions of Service Negotiations. She is passionate about total quality health care and looks forward to its achievement in her work with AFREhealth. She is a member of the Institute of Human Resource Management, Ghana and a member of the National Governing Council. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Administration and Management Consultants – Ghana.

Dr. (Prof.) Miliard Derbew Beyene FRCS, FACS, FCS ECSA, is a distinguished figure in the field of pediatric surgery and a respected educator, with a prominent role in global surgery initiatives. He holds the position of Professor of Pediatric Surgery at the College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, while also serving as an adjunct professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto and the Wilson Center.

Dr. Beyene currently presides as the President of the Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia presence , showcasing his commitment to the advancement Global Surgery and Anesthesia and pediatric surgery in the region. His impactful leadership was further evident during his tenure as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of King Faisal Hospita Rwanda from August 2020 to August 2022.

With over three decades of extensive experience in medical and surgical education, healthcare workforce capacity building, and organizational leadership, Dr. Beyene has made significant contributions to various sub-Saharan African countries. He has also taken on the role of principal investigator in multiple National Institute of Health (NIH) grant projects, including the Health Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) project and the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) project. These endeavors have focused on enhancing health institutional capacity and fostering medical education partnerships.

Dr. Beyene's dedication to surgical education is reflected in his past roles as President of the College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) from 2015 to 2017, and as President of the Surgical Society of Ethiopia from 2011 to 2015. He has also held leadership positions at Addis Ababa University College of Health Sciences, serving as the Vice President from 2010 to 2011, and as the Dean of the School of Medicine from 2007 to 2011. During his tenure, he played a pivotal role in expanding post-graduate and fellowship training programs.

In addition to his leadership roles, Dr. Beyene is a prolific author, having published over 80 articles related to his national, regional, and international work. His contributions to global health are further exemplified by his membership in the Global Governing Council of LifeBox International, where he holds the honorable title of Ambassador for Lifebox-Smile Train.

Dr. Miliard Derbew Beyene's unwavering commitment to surgical education, global health initiatives, and his extensive leadership experience make him a distinguished figure in the field of pediatric surgery and a driving force in medical education and healthcare capacity building.

Emilia Noormahomed is Professor of Human Parasitology, Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Mozambique and invited Professor at University of California San Diego, USA. Her research work aims to defining the epidemiology of NTDs and their intersections with HIV. She served as the Dean of the UEM Faculty of Medicine and Deputy Rector at the Lurio University, PI of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) (2010-2015), MEPI Junior Faculty (MEPI-JF) programs (2018 – 2022) and Chair of the MEPI PI Council (2013-2014) . Currently, she is the PI of the Mozambique Health Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) and serves as Chair of HEPI schools and member of the AFREhealth Research Standing Committee.

Woutrina Smith leads the multicampus UCGHI Planetary Health Center of Expertise and has been part of the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine’s One Health Institute since its inception. Originally from Alaska, Dr. Smith studied at Pomona College in Los Angeles, at School for Field Studies in Australia, and at UC Davis on her way to becoming a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Dr. Smith has One Health research projects in Africa and Asia, as well as in California, where multidisciplinary teams work together to solve complex population and planetary health problems in innovative ways. Dr. Smith has received funding from diverse sources including the National Institutes of Health, the US Agency for International Development, the US Department of Defense, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support her research and training endeavors.

Liz holds a chair in Global Health and Development. She is responsible for developing and supporting global health partnerships with colleagues in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) communities, and for local and global advocacy translating global health research into action.

Liz is a co-director of the University of Edinburgh's Global Compassion Initiative developing work on the value base of the Sustainable Development Goals, the science of compassion, and the contribution that faith communities make to the SDGs.

Liz has led the development of a suite of global health MSc programmes, MOOCs and coordinates the Global Health PhD programme all specifically designed for students from resource constrained countries. She currently is the Co-Director of the Masters of Family Medicine and the MSc in Global Health Challenges.

Her own research interests span planetary health and palliative care in contexts of poverty and conflict – new beginnings and better endings. She sits on the Scottish Government NHS Global Citizenship Board.

Liz was on the Board of Directors for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, (CUGH), an association of over 170 Academic institutions training in Global Health,  and currently chairs the CUGH Research Committee.  Previously Liz was the Senior Health Advisor to the Scottish Government’s International Development Team working primarily in Malawi.  She has  worked for NHS Lothian’s Public Health Directorate leading an NHS HIV partnership between the NHS and Zambia.  She has been an advisor to a number of global health charities, and serves as a trustee for CBM Scotland. 

Dr. Andrew T. Maccabe is the Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges.

He received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from The Ohio State University in 1981 and 1985, respectively, and began his professional career working in a mixed animal practice with primary emphasis on dairy herd health.

Dr. Maccabe was commissioned as a public health officer in the U.S. Air Force in 1988, where he managed preventive medicine activities and directed programs in occupational health, communicable disease control, and health promotion. After 24 years of combined service on active duty and in the Air Force Reserve, he retired as a Colonel in 2017.

Dr. Maccabe completed his Master of Public Health degree at Harvard University in 1995 and his Juris Doctor degree (Magna Cum Laude) at the University of Arizona in 2002. He served as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s liaison to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, coordinating policies and programs between the CDC and the FDA. 

He has been elected as a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Practice and holds memberships in many professional organizations, including the American Veterinary Medical Association and the District of Columbia Veterinary Medical Association. He is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia and is a licensed patent attorney. 

Dr. Dandu is a Professor of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature and Biomedical Sciences and then a medical degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She completed her residency training in the Categorical Medicine Program at UCSF in 2003. Afterwards, Dr. Dandu attended the University of California, Berkeley and received a Masters in Public Health with a focus on international health and health and human rights.

Prior to returning to UCSF, Dr. Dandu spent two years back at the University of Michigan with the Department of Medicine in the hospitalist group providing inpatient clinical care to patients and teaching residents and medical students. At UCSF, Dr. Dandu spends part of her time on the inpatient clinical services supervising and teaching medical students and residents.

Her main nonclinical areas of focus are in global health education, curriculum development, and mentorship especially in the areas of ethics and cultural humility. She is an active member of the Academy of Medical Educators. She has served in several educational leadership roles and previously directed multiple programs at UCSF including:
1) The Master of Science in Global Health, a one-year program designed for students or practitioners in a health science profession or related field who wish to achieve mastery and leadership skills in the field of global health.
2) The Global Health Pathway/Area of Distinction for the Internal Medicine Residency. In this capacity she coordinated international experiences of residents, assisted with their scholarly projects, and provides curriculum for those committed to careers in global health.
3) Co-director of the Global Health Core for the Division of Hospital Medicine and a senior curriculum adviser for the HEAL Fellowship.

She is now Director of the University of California Global Health Institute- a UC-wide initiative that stimulates, nurtures, and promotes global health research, education, and collaboration to advance the University’s global health agenda. She has also joined the Global Action in Nursing (GAIN) Initiative where she supports learning and quality improvement initiatives. In addition she continues to collaborate with colleagues and community-based partners on cultural humility training and initiatives focused on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Dr. Rohit Ramaswamy is a Professor of Pediatrics at the James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence. Prior to joining Cincinnati Children's, he was the Associate Director of the Public Health Leadership Program and a Professor in Maternal and Child Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Ramaswamy’s area of expertise is in Implementation and Improvement science, which deals with the development and evaluation of systematic methods and tools to sustainably implement and improve complex interventions. His work blends the tools of systems science, design thinking, implementation science and continuous quality improvement to build capacity for implementation. His global projects include the improvement of clinical and operational processes in tertiary maternity hospitals in Ghana, integrating mental health service delivery into the district primary health care system in India. His has developed and taught Implementation Science programs in South Africa and in Zambia. In the US, he has led the development of innovative methods to evaluate complex community transformation initiatives. Dr. Ramaswamy has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, MS and PhD degrees in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a MPH degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Graduate Diploma in Biostatistics from the University of Sydney.

Rachel Sturke, PhD, MPH, MIA

Acting Deputy Director for the Fogarty International Center and Deputy Director and Senior Scientist in the Division of International Science Policy, Planning, and Evaluation

Rachel Sturke joined the Fogarty International Center in 2006 and currently serves as Acting Deputy Director for the Center in addition to her roles as Deputy Director and Senior Scientist in the Division of International Science Policy, Planning, and Evaluation and the Center for Global Health Studies. She is an expert in implementation science and oversees a portfolio of global projects that include a focus on building research capacity in this discipline in low- and middle-income countries and using innovative platforms to bring practitioners together with decision-makers and program implementers from LMICs. She has engaged in this work in LMICs across the world and has extensive experience in India, Ecuador, Peru, and sub-Saharan Africa. She obtained her PhD in population, reproductive, and women's health from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received both a master's in public health and a master's in international affairs from Columbia University.

Dr. Juliet Iwelunmor is a Professor of Medicine and an Associate Director for Global Health and Dissemination at Washington University School of Medicine. A passionate advocate for health equity and sustainability, Dr. Iwelunmor is widely regarded for understanding how to make evidence-based interventions last, reshaping the focus on community engagement using participatory research, improving the dissemination of health information, while amplifying the voices of young people in health interventions. She combines more than a decade of authority and leadership in the use of dissemination and implementation science to deliver cutting-edge health programs that create tangible impact. Prior to joining WUSM, Dr. Iwelunmor has served as a Professor at Saint Louis University and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. From 2010-2013, she worked as a program specialist for the intersectoral platform on HIV at UNESCO in Paris, France.

Sociologist specialized in Public Health and cancer prevention. Ph.D. in Social Sciences -University of Buenos Aires. Staff member of the National Program of Cervical Cancer prevention (2009-2017) with participation the implementation of HPV test and scaling up of HPV-self collection in Argentina. At present, Researcher at Center of Study of State and Society and the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CEDES/CONICET). She co-led several studies that used implementation science frameworks and methodologies to develop, implement and evaluate implementation of cancer prevention strategies in real word contexts. This work included the evaluation of implementation fidelity of HPV self-collection and the development and evaluation of mHealth implementation strategies to increase retention to follow up of HPV-positive women. She participated in the development of Latin American and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer and in international meetings (e.g., the 2023 meeting of the HPV Prevention and Control Board). She has several publications in international journals.

Dr. Alethea Desrosiers is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and a faculty member in the Implementation Science Core. Her work focuses on implementation science in the global mental health context. Dr. Desrosiers earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, Teachers College. She also completed a T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Substance Abuse Prevention Research at Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Desrosiers is the PI of a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded R01 hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial to investigate implementation of an evidence-based mental health intervention delivered by teachers in Sierra Leone’s secondary schools, and a Hilton Foundation award to culturally adapt and pilot test an evidence-based mental health intervention delivered within entrepreneurship training to forcibly displaced Colombian and Venezuelan migrant youth in Colombia. Her work applies user-centered design and task-sharing approaches to improve delivery quality of evidence-based interventions for vulnerable populations of youth and families globally.

Dr. Guevara’s research is focused on understanding nutrition and disease, specifically how adequate dietary intake contributes to lower disease burden. She is a nutritional scientists with extensive training in economics and food policy. Her expertise includes developing nutrition-related interventions that improve dietary intake among vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. As part of her work at New York University’s School of Global Public Health, she is  investigating the intersection between nutrition and cancer prevention using Dissemination & Implementation Science methods. For example, as part of an NCI funded study she is using food insecurity scales to further identify critical links between cancer and nutrition, particularly among people living with HIV. She is also studying implementation strategies for scaling primary and secondary cancer prevention interventions in LMICs. The cancer prevention intervention research she is undertaking is critical to human health and to addressing the quickly unfolding cancer crisis in LMICs.

 

Karla is a health systems researcher with a strong interest in the development and successful implementation of context-appropriate evidence-based interventions for cancer control and prevention in Mexico. Her research has focused on understanding the lived experience of cancer patients to access timely diagnosis and treatment. Her findings suggest that the largest proportion of delay in Mexico is due to quality problems and access barriers that hinder the diagnostic and referral processes after the patient’s first contact with medical services. She was a Commissioner in the Lancet’s Women, Power and Cancer report published in 2023, which proposes a more holistic approach to cancer research, prevention and care by applying feminist values and principles of social justice. She was recently awarded by the NCI to establish LISTOS, the first center in Mexico aimed to strengthen Implementation Research capacity for cancer control.

Dr. Sam Miti is a pediatrician and HIV care clinician with more than 15 years’ experience working with children, adolescents and young people from different settings in Zambia. He holds a Medical doctor’s degree and a Master of medicine in pediatrics and child health from the University of Zambia. He is also a founding fellow of the Zambia Colleges of medicine and surgery. His expertise as an HIV clinician extends from clinical practice to conducting pediatric/adolescent HIV research ranging from biomedical research to psychosocial and implemention science research.

Dr Miti brings substantial clinical and program implementation experience working with children and adolescents with communicable and non-communicable diseases including HIV and cancer in Zambia. He has over 15 years’ experience of health program implementation in both rural and urban contexts having run health programing in rural and urban Zambia, coordinating pediatric and adolescent HIV programs at a regional level at the Copperbelt Provincial health office, and is a member of the National HIV technical working groups. He is currently principal investigator for multiple NIH grants including the REACH study (a 5-year NIH adolescent Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine integration into HIV care services implementation science grant), the Family connections study, the COSTs of Childhood Cancer Care, Caring for Care Givers Study, and Project YES Plus. Currently, Dr Miti is a Consultant Pediatrician at the Arthur Davison Children’s Hospital and a clinical researcher at the Tropical Diseases Research.

Honorary Lecturer, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology University of Nairobi, Director of the Integrating prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases and HIV care through research training in Kenya and C-PI of a study evaluating effectiveness and implementation outcomes of the Integrated Perinatal Mental Health Program in MCH and PMTCT in Kenya.

Dr. Kinuthia’s research has focused on evaluation of uptake of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission interventions, understanding incidence and cofactors of HIV incidence during pregnancy and after delivery, and utilization of HIV prevention interventions and mental health services during pregnancy and postpartum period. He has substantial experience conducting biomedical and socio-behavioral research in Kenya, providing HIV care, and mentoring and training different cadres of health care and research personnel.

Simon Manga, RN, PhD, is a Reproductive Health Specialist serving the Women’s Health Program of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services (CBCHS) as a Clinical Consultant/Research Scientist. He is the Deputy Director in charge of Clinical Services for the CBCHS. He has several years of clinical experience in cervical cancer screening and colposcopy, HPV vaccination, family planning, and syndromic management of reproductive tract infections. He earned his PhD in 2019 from the University of Massachusetts Boston. In 2021, he completed a postdoc in Global Reproductive at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He is now an Assistant Professor at the UAB. His primary research interest is cervical cancer prevention and health disparities among underserved women in Cameroon such as female sex workers (FSWs).

Judy N. Khanyola is Chair of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) Center for Nursing and Midwifery based in Kigali, Rwanda. Judy is a registered community health nurse/ midwife and recognized nursing leader in Africa with over 25 years’ experience in clinical nursing and education programs. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton and a master’s degree in Advancing Health Care Practice from the University of Manchester in the UK. Judy is currently the Africa Representative for Nursing Now, the global campaign to raise the status and profile of nurses and midwives worldwide Judy is the 2019 recipient of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) Global HIV Award.

Dr. Keith Martin is a Canadian physician who, since September 2012, has served as the founding Executive Director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). Between 1993-2011, Dr. Martin served as a Member of Parliament in Canada's House of Commons. He held portfolios in foreign affairs, health, the environment, defense and international development. In Parliament he led numerous legislative efforts across a range of issues including: addressing humanitarian emergencies, conflict prevention, healthcare, social program reform and  he founded Canada's first all party Conservation Caucus.  He has been on many diplomatic missions in areas in crisis around the world but particularly across Africa and worked as a physician on the Mozambique border during their civil war. He has been committed to addressing the biodiversity-climate change crisis and spent many years volunteering on conservation efforts in South Africa. He created the current events TV show, Beyond Politics, and  appeared frequently in the media. He  has authored over 180 articles in leading  newspapers and journals and  is a member of the King's Privy Council for Canada.

Woutrina Smith leads the multicampus UCGHI Planetary Health Center of Expertise and has been part of the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine’s One Health Institute since its inception. Originally from Alaska, Dr. Smith studied at Pomona College in Los Angeles, at School for Field Studies in Australia, and at UC Davis on her way to becoming a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Dr. Smith has One Health research projects in Africa and Asia, as well as in California, where multidisciplinary teams work together to solve complex population and planetary health problems in innovative ways. Dr. Smith has received funding from diverse sources including the National Institutes of Health, the US Agency for International Development, the US Department of Defense, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support her research and training endeavors.

Dr. Catherine Machalaba supports the EcoHealth Alliance’s efforts to operationalize One Health approaches for more coordinated, preventive, and cost-effective systems that promote human, animal, and environmental health given their integral links. As part of these efforts, she works closely on One Health initiatives with a range of governmental and intergovernmental partners and initiatives. She was a lead author of the World Bank One Health Operational Framework published in 2018.

Dr. Machalaba currently manages the organization’s acute febrile illness project with Liberian researchers and health officials, as well as a project on strategic coordination of One Health and veterinary programs across the African continent.

Fonna Forman (JD, PhD Chicago) is a Professor of Political Science and Founding
Director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego. She is known internationally for her revisionist research on Adam Smith, recuperating the ethical and public dimensions of his thought. Since 2009 she has served as Editor of the Adam Smith Review, the premier international journal of Smith’s thought.

Forman’s research engages the intersection of ethics, public culture, urban policy and the city – with a special focus on climate justice, border ethics and equitable urbanization. Current research includes a book project on “cross-border citizenship”, a study of Adam Smith’s diverse legacies in twentieth-century Latin American development, and various projects on climate justice, including an NSF-funded investigation of climate risk and vulnerability in California’s underserved communities.

Federico Castillo is an Environmental/Agricultural Economist with graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.  He is currently a Research Specialist at the College of Natural Resources, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley. He is also a lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California at Berkeley. His research interests center on the socio-economic impacts of climate change, with emphasis on droughts and heat waves. Dr. Castillo currently serves as Deputy Director for the University of California Planetary Health Center of Expertise and is co-lead of the Latinx and the Environment Program at UC Berkeley. He has over 25 years experience teaching both at Higher Education Institutions and designing short courses for the public, non-profit and private sectors in areas related to sustainable business practices, technology adoption and innovation, field work methods, protected areas and biodiversity related issues, and public policy. He is currently involved in multidisciplinary research activities with scholars from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), Arizona State University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, University of California Davis among others. He enjoys teaching, working with, and mentoring students.

Abraham Flaxman, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. He is currently leading the development of a simulation platform to derive “what-if” results from Global Burden of Disease estimates and is engaged in methodological and operational research on verbal autopsy. Dr. Flaxman has previously designed software tools such as DisMod-MR which IHME uses to estimate the Global Burden of Disease, and the Bednet Stock-and-Flow Model, which has produced estimates of insecticide-treated net coverage in sub-Saharan Africa.

Stefano M. Bertozzi is professor of health policy and management and a former dean at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He was previously the interim director of the UC systemwide programs with Mexico (AlianzaMX). He co-edited the Disease Control Priorities (DCP3) volume on HIV/AIDS, Malaria & Tuberculosis. He has also directed the HIV and tuberculosis programs at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He worked previously with the Mexican National Institute of Public Health as the director of its Center for Evaluation Research and Surveys. He was the last director of the WHO Global Programme on AIDS and has also held positions with UNAIDS, the World Bank and government of the DRC.

Dr. Quinn obtained his M.D. from Northwestern University. He was a research associate in infectious diseases in the NIAID Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases and completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Washington. He returned to NIAID and later became chief of the Section on International HIV/STI Research. In 2006, he was appointed as associate director for International Research in the Division of Intramural Research. Since 1981, he has been assigned to the division of infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins University, where he became a professor of medicine in 1991, and in 2006 became director of the Center for Global Health. Dr. Quinn is a member of the National Academy of Medicine in the National Academies of Science and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of American Physicians.

Jayoung Park serves as a Senior Researcher at the JW LEE Center for Global Medicine, Seoul National University. She began her academic journey with a Bachelor's in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. Later, she deepened her expertise with a Master's in Global Health Planning and Management from Johns Hopkins University. Subsequently, she earned her Ph.D. in Global Public Health from the Department of Human Systems Medicine at Seoul National University. Jayoung's research is notably centered on implementation science and program evaluation, particularly focusing on health workforce capacity building. Her extensive academic background coupled with her professional endeavors position her as a knowledgeable voice in global medicine and public health.

Sugy Choi is Assistant Professor of Population Health at the Department of Population Health at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Her prior research includes evaluating policies and treatment programs and addressing socioeconomic determinants across multiple settings at domestic and international levels.

Woong-Han Kim is a respected Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Seoul National University College of Medicine. In addition to his academic commitments, he serves as the Director of the JW LEE Center for Global Medicine, highlighting his dedication to advancing global healthcare. Professor Kim's research passions encompass a wide range, from global health and surgery to appropriate technology, health systems research, and implementation research. His commitment to strengthening global surgical capacity is evident through his extensive participation in ODA projects, impacting nations such as Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Nepal, Iraq, and Ivory Coast.

Dr. Narimon Islamov is a distinguished cardiac surgeon based at the National Children's Medical Center in Uzbekistan. Under the meticulous guidance of Prof Kim for 14 years, Dr. Islamov honed his surgical expertise to unparalleled levels. His commitment to cardiac care in Uzbekistan is evident in his monumental achievement of establishing a dedicated cardiac team. This team, under his leadership, now successfully performs over 1,000 surgeries annually. Dr. Islamov's dedication to his field and his nation has firmly positioned him as a pillar in the cardiac care community of Uzbekistan.

(Career) Korean Foundation for International Healthcare (May 2013~ Present) - Director, Dr LEE Jong-wook School (2021~present) - Country Director, Ghana (2018~2021) - Manager, Africa Latin America Team (2013~2018) (EDUCATION) - Yonsei University - Seoul, Korea (2020~present) Ph.D candidate in Medical Law and Ethics - KDI School of Public Policy and Management - Seoul, Korea (2013) MPP in Economic Development

Shubha Kumar, PhD, MPH, is Director of Education & Training at the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health and an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California. Her professional and research interests include management and leadership in global health and development, program planning and evaluation, health systems strengthening, and capacity building. She has successfully led the design and oversight of several programs in healthcare, education, and disaster relief, as well as launched an international humanitarian NGO for which she was the chief operating officer. Her recent projects include monitoring & evaluation of health programs and capacity-building and training of health workforce. She is most well-known for her expertise in impact evaluation, particularly social return on investment (SROI) analysis. Dr. Kumar teaches graduate courses in global health leadership, global health ethics, and sustainable development and health. She earned her MPH and PhD in public health management & policy from UCLA.

Mellissa Withers, PhD, MHS is Associate Professor at the Keck School of Medicine in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. She also is also Director of the Global Health Program of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, a non-profit network of 60 universities in the Asia-Pacific. She is also the director of pedagogical enrichment and training. She received a PhD from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health with a minor in cultural anthropology, a Master’s in International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a BA in international development from UC Berkeley. Her research interests include gender—based violence, mental health, and global sexual and reproductive health. She is also interested in pedagogy in global health. Dr Withers is the editor of two books, has published more than 70 scientific articles and serves on the editorial boards of six international global health journals.

Elly Vandegrift is the program director for Global Science Education Initiatives in the Division of Global Engagement at the University of Oregon. Trained as an ecologist, Elly has taught university-level life sciences courses, led STEM education professional development programs, and supported curricular and pedagogical reform to make science interesting, engaging, and relevant to improve students learning experiences. She has facilitated STEM education and communication workshops with US and global partners. As recognition of her teaching excellence, Elly has received four university and national pedagogy awards. She is the author of several articles about STEM education reform and professional development.

Wing Yan Vivian Lee joined the Center for Learning Enhancement And Research at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in July 2019. She received her Bachelor of Sciences in Biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles and her Doctor of Pharmacy at the University of Southern California. She is the senior fellow of the United Kingdom Higher Education Academy. Prof. Lee is a clinician-scientist utilizing innovative technology and education to improve patient care. She is a dedicated teacher and researcher who has received numerous teaching and research awards.

Indri Hapsari Susilowati is an Professor in The Occupational Health and Safety Department, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia. She was graduated from the Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia, as Bachelor of Public Health in 1999 and Master of Occupational Health and Safety in 2008. She holds her Ph.D. in Human Science Design from Kyushu University, Japan in 2012 with dissertation about Risk Factors of Safety Driving among Young and Elderly Drivers in Japan. Her interest research areas and expertise are aging, ergonomics, human factors, and safe transportation. Currently, she is also appointed as Manager of Collaboration, Alumni, and Ventura in the Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia and Steering Committee for Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Population Aging representing Universitas Indonesia. She had some publications in international and national journals, such as the Journal of Physiological Anthropology; Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health; International Journal of Occupational Health and Public Health Nursing; International Journal of Public Health and Research Development; Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Prevention; Global Pediatric Health; Heliyon; Digital Health; Kesmas: National Public Health Journal; Makara Journal of Health Research; Journal of Japanese Area Studies; Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research; Journal of Accessibility and Design for All; Safety and Health at Work, Asian Journal Ergonomics, and et.al.

A pharmaceutical data analyst at the Pharmaceutical Policies and Market Access Administration at the Egyptian Drug Authority. She has always had a passion for coming up with inventive solutions to challenges, whether experimenting with damaged objects or applying critical thinking and problem-solving skills to complex issues. After completing her bachelor's degree, she pursued a master's in public policy at the American University in Cairo, where she honed her skills in data analytics, pharmaceutical regulatory affairs, and social service. Nourhan is a self-motivated pharmacist with a talent for designing and implementing innovative welfare policies using new technologies with economic, legal, and political implications.

Dr. Gladson Vaghela is a medical doctor based in Gujarat, India.

Dr. Stephanie Petzing serves as the Senior Global Health Security Advisor at USU’s CGHE. She is a USU graduate with a Ph.D. in Emerging Infectious Diseases where her scientific work focused on the entry mechanisms of Nipah and Hendra, two highly pathogenic zoonotic viruses. After completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship, she was awarded an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowship. She served at the Department of Defense (DoD) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs as a global health and scientific advisor assisting in the coordination of the Global Health Security Agenda for the DoD. Dr. Petzing’s extensive expertise covers bacteriology, parasitology, pathology, statistics, immunology, and virology with a focus on military health and biodefense, as well as extensive high level interagency and policy work in the Global Health, Force Health Protection, Global Health Engagement, and Threat Reduction arenas.

Dr. Camille Effler is interested in the intersection of the environment, public health, and agri-food systems, focusing on the livelihoods that depend on these systems and incorporating an environmental justice lens. Her research will explore sustainable agriculture's role in human and ecosystem health and livelihoods, particularly in decreasing food, economic, and environmental insecurity, but also impacts from zoonotic diseases and climate change. Before Stanford, Dr. Effler served thirteen years as an Army officer specializing in food systems, global health, and Women, Peace, and Security. She holds a B.S. in agriculture from New Mexico State University, an MPH from Johns Hopkins, and a DVM from Auburn University.

Mr. Ludy Suryantoro has over 15 years of experience in high level diplomacy and policy for health security particularly on pandemic preparedness. He has previously worked at the secretariat of the Global Agreement of Tariff and Trade (GATT) for the Marrakesh roundtable and for the secretariat of the Group of Fifteen (G15). In 1999 he joined the WHO and served with the health security cluster in 2003 during the SARS outbreak. From 2010 to 2016 he served as the Senior political advisor to the Assistant Director General for Health Security. Currently, as the Head of Multisectoral Engagement, he is responsible for the Strategic Partnership for health security by strengthening and advancing the multisectoral collaboration and partnership for country health emergency preparedness.

Dr. Rebecca Katz is a Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University. Much of her work has been on domestic and global pandemic preparedness and response as well as global governance of public health emergencies. Dr. Katz is also a senior advisor at the Department of State, working on global health security and diplomacy. She has authored over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts, and seven books in addition to numerous op eds, blogs, white papers and book chapters. Dr. Katz received her undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, an M.P.H. from Yale University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Professor Kamradt-Scott specializes in global health security, international law, and international relations. His research and teaching explore how governments and multilateral organizations respond to adverse health events such as epidemics and pandemics, as well as emerging health and security challenges. Adam's most recent research examines civil-military cooperation in health and humanitarian crises, and the current intergovernmental negotiations in global health law. Prior to entering academia, Adam's professional experience includes having worked as a health professional, a political adviser, and public servant in national health security and pandemic planning. He is convenor of the Global Health Security conferences, and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Health Security Network.

Harvy Joy Liwanag’s research interests are focused on unpacking complex ideas in global health, such as reflexivity and decolonisation, accountability, co-creation and participation, and decentralization in ways that advance thinking in these topics, stimulate debate, and improve practice. Originally from the Philippines, he has expertise in epidemiology (PhD in Epidemiology, 2019) and medicine and management (MD, MBA, 2012). His publications have been cited, among others, to promote the practice of reflexivity in global health, integrate primary care and public health, use co-creation in health policymaking, plan for the future of human resources for health, and optimize decentralization for the health sector, and address the burden of soil-transmitted helminthiasis and schistosomiasis (Neglected Tropical Diseases). He previously worked as a physician in a hospital in an urban setting, as a scientist in the Department of Health of the Philippines, and as a postdoc of the United Nations think tank on global health.

Leah List is a Senior Program Associate at Results for Development where her work focuses on supporting collaborative learning and co-creation projects and communities of practice. She is a young professional who is developing expertise in facilitation and monitoring, evaluation and learning. Over the last five years, she has supported a variety of peer-learning networks including the Joint Learning Network for Universal Health Coverage, the Learning Network for Countries in Transition and the Linked Immunization Action Network. She has a degree in Political Science and International Studies from the University of Michigan.

Shita Dewi has a background in Social and Political Science, Management, and also in Public Policy. She joined the Centre for Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing Universitas Gadjah Mada in 1998. In the early 2000s, she was the main tutor for a series of comparative study on health system reform to support the Ministry of Health, Government of Indonesia, facilitating Indonesian policymakers learning about decentralization and health reform in Australia, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, London (UK), Netherlands, Singapore, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, and the People’s Republic of China. She is one of the facilitators in the international annual executive course on Building Public-Private Partnership for Health System Strengthening in collaboration with Asia Pacific Network on capacity building for Health System Strengthening. Her interest is in health policy and health system strengthening, as well as public-private partnership in the health sector.

Pio Justin V. Asuncion is the Chief Health Program Officer of the Health Research Division of the Health Policy Development and Planning Bureau who serves as oversight on the overall research management processes of the Philippine Department of Health, such as research agenda setting, contracting, research monitoring, research dissemination and utilization, and research ethics. He finished his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree at Far Eastern University Manila in 2012. He earned his Master of Public Health at the University of the Philippines Manila in 2015 and his Master of Health Research Ethics in University of Malaya in Malaysia in 2020 where he graduated with distinction. He is also a Professorial Lecturer at Far Eastern University Manila and also a Research Supervisor of the joint Master of Health Research Ethics Program of the University of Malaya in Malaysia and Johns Hopkins University.

Dr Baral is a Nepali citizen, born in a remote hill district. He has more than 25 years of experience in health systems, public health policy and planning, implementation research, and wider social development in developing countries context, especially in South Asia. His professional portfolio ranges from a community health worker to a public health professional and advisor to reputed international organisation and government. Dr Baral is the founder chair of two health research institutions – HERD Nepal and HERD International - contributing to national and global health systems, policy and public health agendas through research and innovations. Over the years, he has successfully managed large-scale research and programmes of global significance. His continued interest is to contribute towards Health Policy and System Research and scale-up of evidence based best practices that is contextually tailored and benefits people. His knowledge and experience include operational research, development of sector wide approach, health service decentralisation, health sector reform, strategic planning, health policy and management. Likewise, he has gained experience in areas of disaster management and response to emergencies with his strategic engagement in Nepal’s post-earthquake health and humanitarian response and recently to a nationally led response to COVID-19.

Nancy R. Reynolds is the associate dean of global affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing; director, Center for Global Initiatives; co-director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Information, Knowledge Management; and co-secretary general, Global Network of the WHO Collaborating Centers of Nursing and Midwifery. Formerly the Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing at Yale University, Dr. Reynolds is a researcher in the field of chronic illness self-management (especially HIV) with over 20 years of continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She has extensive research experience as PI of multidisciplinary teams and as an investigator with the AIDS Clinical Trials Group and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. Her work is focused on development of interventions that use low-cost cellphone technology to bring health care services to vulnerable populations affected by HIV. In Ghana and India, Dr. Reynolds has implemented programs to improve medication adherence and mental health outcomes of women and children living with the disease. She has a strong leadership background in research development and training of domestic and international pre- and postdoctoral fellows. She has been the director/faculty sponsor of NIH-funded T32, F31, and K training grants, and has provided leadership to global health projects sponsored by USAID, Clinton Foundation, World Bank/JHPIEGO, and Fogarty focused on clinical and research development of interdisciplinary scholars in international settings. Dr. Reynolds has served as board member on governmental and non-governmental organizations (e.g., Ohio Department of Public Health, AIDS Drug Assistance Program, Yale-China Association), is former chair of the Outcomes Committee of the NIH–sponsored AIDS Clinical Trials Group, and is a member of the WHO Steering Committee for the inaugural State of the World’s Nursing report. She is a member of the scientific review group—HIV special sections—at NIH. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the recipient of numerous research awards including induction into the Sigma Theta Tau International Researcher Hall of Fame.

Allison P Squires, Ph.D., FAAN, RN, is a professor and the Director of the Global Consortium of Nursing and Midwifery Studies, or GCNMS. The GCNMS is a 70-country research consortium collaborating on research capacity-building projects in nursing and midwifery globally. The consortium's current collaboration is examining the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nursing and midwifery workforces globally. Domestically, her research focuses on improving immigrant and refugee health outcomes with a special interest in addressing inequities in health outcomes resulting from language discordance during a healthcare encounter. Prof. Squires has consulted with the Migration Policy Institute and the World Bank on nursing and health workforce issues and produced several major policy analyses with their teams. A prolific writer, Squires has authored over 200 publications, including 125+ in peer-reviewed journals. She serves as an associate editor of the International Journal of Nursing Studies since 2012. She was the 2019–2020 Distinguished Nurse Scholar in Residence for the National Academy of Medicine where she worked on the consensus study "Future of Nursing 2020–2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Equity". In 2023, she received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues interest group of Academy Health. Prior to entering academia full-time, Squires worked as a staff nurse in solid organ transplant and as a staff educator for 11 years in the U.S. healthcare system. Her practice has since shifted largely to community-based nursing roles as a volunteer. Prof. Squires received her Ph.D. at Yale University, MSN at Duquesne University, and BSN with a minor in Latin American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Health Outcomes Research at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her primary appointment at the College of Nursing, at NYU she holds affiliated faculty appointments/affiliations with the Department of General Internal Medicine at the Grossman School of Medicine, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research.

Angela Agore, MRes, RGN, BSc, is a healthcare professional with extensive experience in nursing and clinical research. Currently serving as the Lead Research Nurse at the Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust in Kent, United Kingdom, Angela plays a pivotal role in spearheading innovative research initiatives. She has demonstrated exceptional leadership as the team Lead for the South East London and Kent research nurses and practitioners, notably contributing to the Galleri trial focused on early cancer detection.

Angela's academic journey reflects her commitment to excellence. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the esteemed University of Ghana School of Nursing at Legon and later obtained a Master’s in Clinical Research from King’s College London, UK. With over a decade of professional experience spanning Ghana and the UK, Angela possesses a wealth of expertise in healthcare delivery and research methodologies beyond borders.

Passionate about advancing nursing education and fostering inclusivity in clinical research, Angela advocates for increased participation of Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in ground-breaking research endeavours. She actively engages with stakeholders to address disparities and enhance representation in healthcare research, particularly focusing on the underrepresented BAME demographic.

Angela's dedication extends beyond her professional responsibilities. She is instrumental in establishing the Public Research Champions (PRC) programme which is part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research’s (NIHR) Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) initiatives for clinical trials within her Trust and local community, serving as the PPIE lead. Additionally, Angela volunteers her time and expertise with the Ghanaian diaspora nursing alliance (G-DNA), where she holds the role of co-director for research and quality improvement, as well as serving as the UK liaison. Furthermore, Angela serves as an advisor and nurse operations manager for CareForMe, a technology-based clinical trial organization dedicated to promoting diversity and accessibility in research through decentralised trial models.

With her multifaceted contributions to healthcare, Angela Agore continues to make significant strides in advancing patient care, research innovation, and inclusivity within the healthcare landscape.

Yvonne Commodore-Mensah is a cardiovascular nurse epidemiologist whose current program of research seeks to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease risk among Africans locally (United States) and globally (sub-Saharan Africa) through community-engaged research. Her research expertise includes immigrant health, global health, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, and social determinants of health. She is the principal investigator of the ADHINCRA Study, a randomized control trial to address hypertension control in Ghana and the African Immigrant Health Study, which is examining the health of African immigrants in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. She is a fellow of the American Heart Association and was awarded the American Heart Association (AHA) Martha N. Hill New Investigator Award in 2016. She is a fellow and board member of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association. She serves on the writing committee of the 2019 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Clinical Performance and Quality Measures for Adults with High Blood Pressure. She is the President and Co-founder of the Ghanaian-Diaspora Nursing Alliance.

He currently serves as the Director for Research Development and Innovation Center at Our Lady of Fatima University in Valenzuela City, Philippines. As a researcher and development scientist, he has published numerous patents and research papers in peer-refereed journals on leadership, management, nursing, migration, humanoid robots and constructive integration of technology in teaching and learning. His telehealth programme for seniors improved health literacy among older adults in 2012 and his Breastfeeding and Breastmilk Banking (CRIB3) project improved care and restoration of infants. As the Past Presidents chair of the PhiGamma Chapter of Sigma Nursing, he deployed a 3-tier project that would lead up to the global initiative to support, promote, and protect breastfeeding. During the COVID-19 pandemic, his multimedia project on #VaccineEquity (with support from the International Council of Nurses) was deployed in various regions and countries. He is the recipient of numerous awards and global recognitions, such as ‘Outstanding Professional of the Year Awardee’ in the field of nursing 2023 by the Professional Regulation Commission in the Philippines, and ‘Emerging Nurse Researcher Honoree’ of Sigma’s 30th Nursing Research Congress 2019. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), Academy of Nursing Education (ANEF), and Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Dr. Keith Martin is a Canadian physician who, since September 2012, has served as the founding Executive Director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). Between 1993-2011, Dr. Martin served as a Member of Parliament in Canada's House of Commons. He held portfolios in foreign affairs, health, the environment, defense and international development. In Parliament he led numerous legislative efforts across a range of issues including: addressing humanitarian emergencies, conflict prevention, healthcare, social program reform and  he founded Canada's first all party Conservation Caucus.  He has been on many diplomatic missions in areas in crisis around the world but particularly across Africa and worked as a physician on the Mozambique border during their civil war. He has been committed to addressing the biodiversity-climate change crisis and spent many years volunteering on conservation efforts in South Africa. He created the current events TV show, Beyond Politics, and  appeared frequently in the media. He  has authored over 180 articles in leading  newspapers and journals and  is a member of the King's Privy Council for Canada.

Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde is the Deputy Executive Director, African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST). She was the Director of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)) at ACHEST. She is a Radiologist and formerly Head of the Radiology Department at Makerere University in Uganda. She holds an MBChB and an MMed Radiology from Makerere University and a Masters degree in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She is a Fellow of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER), Philadelphia USA and a Fellow in Ultrasound from the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA. She is the Secretary General for The Network Towards Unity for Health (TUFH). She is the President of the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth). She has over 25 years experience in Health Professions Education. She has published over 80 publications in Health Professions Education and Radiology.

Engineering by training, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Mozambique, and I hold a Master in Business Administration from the Pompeu Fabra University, Spain She is currently the Research Training Manager at the Manhica Health Research Centre (CISM), Mozambique since 2016, previously she was in charge for Training and Communications (2008-2016). Currently Project Manager for the Centre of Excellence in Southern Africa (Trains of Excellence in Southern Africa-TESA), Training Coordinator for the PAMAFRICA consortium, and in the past acted as coordinator of the TRREE project for Africa (2010-2012). Before joining CISM, she worked for the World Food Programme as a project monitor and for Action Aid International as Programme Coordinator for six years (2000-2006). Trained as a Good Clinical Practice Trainer by TDR/WHO in 2016 and Research Trainer of Trainers by the School of Public Health, University of Ghana supported by TDR/WHO in 2018, Member of several training committees at Manhica Health Research Center, at ISGLOBAL and the Consortium of Universities in Global Health, Co-Chair of the Advisory Programme Partnership Initiative (APPI) –, Committee CUGH since 2021 and was part of the CUGH Sustaining Technical and Analytic group of CUGH.

She is a member of several committees in the Malaria Modelling for Sustainable Public Health Policy in Africa Consortium (MAMODAFRICA), including the PhD Committee, the Master's Committee and the Events and Conferences Committee, of which she is co-chair.

She is also a guest lecturer at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Rwanda.

Dr. Doobay-Persaud is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Medical Education and the Co-Director of the Center for Global Health Education in the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.  She is a hospitalist, the founder and director of the McGaw Global Health Clinical Scholars Program for graduate medical trainees, faculty director for the online Master of Science in Global Health through the School of Professional Studies, the global health elective director and a leader in teaching social medicine at health and society curriculum for the medical students. She is an active member in the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) where she has served and led in education subcommittees and was awarded CUGH’s Hall-Sewankambo Mid-Career Leadership Award in 2022.

Throughout her work Dr. Doobay-Persaud has become a national and international expert and leader in pedagogy, particularly ethical practice, and curriculum development and is now collaborating with international partners to support health professions education focusing on faculty development and working closely with colleagues from AFREhealth. Dr. Doobay’s work in global palliative care spans education and service delivery with a focus on implementation.

Lauren Swan-Potras is drawn to the intersection of storytelling and public health, believing that how public health practitioners communicate is as important as what they communicate. Lauren is currently the Managing Editor of the Journal of Health Communication and a graduate of the Health Communication for Social Change program at CUNY (City University of New York) School of Public Health and Health Policy. She is also the Social Campaign Coordinator for Big Shots, a social media based COVID-19 vaccination awareness campaign that centers the experiences and work of everyday heroes, or “Big Shots,” who are confronting vaccine hesitancy in their communities. Lauren has worked with the oral history nonprofit StoryCorps, as well as various New York based theater companies in both creative and administrative capacities.

Dr. Caroline Orr is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maryland, focusing on cognitive security, malign influence, mediated communication, and mis/dis/malinformation related to COVID-19, vaccination and the pandemic. Dr. Orr earned her Ph.D. in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she and her colleagues won the International ABERJE Top Paper Award in 2016 for their research investigating vaccine-related misinformation on social media. Along with her colleagues, Dr. Orr pioneered a new theory-based mixed-methods approach to studying misinformation on social media platforms and was among the first to develop a theory-based framework for classifying misinformation on image-based platforms. In 2019, Dr. Orr led the Election Integrity Reporting Project at Canada’s National Observer in the lead-up to the Canadian federal election. Her work on that project was the subject of a 2020 white paper, Digital Fractures: Disinformation, Democracy, and the Media, and is being used as a model for the study of disinformation in newsrooms.

Dr. Ratzan has three decades of pioneering accomplishments in the U.S. and globally in health communication, health literacy, and strategic diplomacy. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives. He is Distinguished Lecturer at CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York. Building on his work in the 1990s as a professor and Founding Director of the Emerson-Tufts Masters Program in Health Communication, Dr. Ratzan co-directs the Masters Program in Health Communication for Social Change at CUNY SPH. He also serves as a co-lead of communication efforts with the Pandemic Response Institute an initiative with ICAP at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and CUNY SPH. He recently was a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. He has worked in multiple sectors with Johnson & Johnson, ABInBev and USAID in Brussels, New York and Washington DC. He has been published extensively in the field of health communication and policy including articles related to vaccine literacy and uptake in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, JAMA, Nature Medicine, National Academies of Medicine Perspectives. During the COVID pandemic, he has written articles and offered expertise including in the BMJ, Washington Post, STAT News, New York Times, and Financial Times and also in broadcast including BBC World News, Sky News, MSNBC and others. Dr. Ratzan co-founded The Council for Quality Health Communication, is on the leadership team of the Health Equity Community Cooperative including the Children’s Health Equity Working Group, as well as private sector activities with the U.S. Council for International Business Foundation. Dr Ratzan is engaged with global health efforts with serving on the Board of Global Health for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine and World Information Transfer, Inc. a UN accredited NGO. He is a Senior Fellow with World in 2050 with the Diplomatic Courier. He has served as Co-Chair of the UN Secretary General’s Every Woman Every Child Innovation Working Group, and on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Board of Scientific Counselors, Office of Infectious Disease. Dr. Ratzan co-authored the definition of health literacy adopted by HHS and integrated in the U.S. Affordable Care Act, defined as "the degree to which an individual has the capacity to obtain, communicate, process, and understand basic health information and services to make appropriate health decisions." His books include Vaccine Communication in a Pandemic: Strengthening Vaccine Literacy, Restoring Trust and Engaging Communities to Foster Vaccine Confidence and Uptake, Mad Cow Crisis: Health and the Public Good, Attaining Global Health: Challenges and Opportunities, and AIDS: Effective Health Communication for the 90s. He holds adjunct professorial appointments at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the University of St Andrews School of Medicine. Dr. Ratzan has an M.D. from the University of Southern California, an M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School, and an M.A. in Communication from Emerson College.

Amy currently serves as the Director of Immunization Initiatives and the Deputy Associate Director for the Global Health Initiatives Team with Project ECHO, based at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque, NM. She works on many of ECHO's global partnership, and serves as the lead for the TEACH AMS Intiative, a collaboration to support antimicrobial stewardship education and trainig in low and middle income countries.

Prior to joining ECHO Amy worked for over 20 years with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, supporting immunization programs and public health capacity building with the Indian Health Service and Tribal nations in the U.S. She also served as a member of CDCs Global Rapid Response team, supporting outbreak responses in Venezuela, Guyana, India, Angola, Sierra Leone, and Zambia. She has a Master of Public Health from Boston University, with a concentration in International Health.

Dr Heini Utunen is Head of Unit of the Learning and Capacity Development Unit of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme. Her functions and experience cover workforce capacity building and learning solutions in a broad institutional and multilateral context.During the COVID-19 pandemic she has led the COVID-19 online learning response delivering massive scale learning interventions on OpenWHO.org based on WHO’s technical evidence-based guidance, learning resources now reaching 8 million enrolments. Ms Utunen joined the WHO during the Ebola West Africa outbreak in 2014 and led the pre-deployment trainings, and provided to the cascade training curriculum development, face-to-face trainings and e-learnings. During 2016-2018, her functions covered country capacity building and simulation exercises for the novel area of risk communications in the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness. During 2009-2013, Ms Utunen worked in the United Nations country team in Vietnam, in natural disaster preparedness and response area in the humanitarian cluster system. Ms Utunen has prior experience in the government of Finland where she served as Communication Officer of the Minister of Health in Finland. She functioned also as a Training Officer at the Crisis Management Centre, mainly involved in the capacity building of the European Union, African Union and United Nations in several post-conflict missions. Ms Utunen has a Master’s degree in Information Studies, a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies. She has a Principal’s qualification in Finland.

Dr. Bruce Struminger, MD, MA, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in the Division of Infectious Diseases. He serves as Senior Associate Director at UNM’s ECHO Institute and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Digital Learning in Health Emergencies. Dr. Struminger has a decade of experience providing TA to partner organizations adapting the ECHO telementoring model for HIV, tuberculosis, COVID-19, laboratory strengthening, antimicrobial resistance, and emergency preparedness and response among other topics. He previously worked as a medical officer with the US Indian Health Service [2002-2007] and as US CDC Country Director in Cote d'Ivoire [2007-2009] and Vietnam [2009-2012]. He has helped support the introduction of the ECHO model to a wide variety of global learning networks, and fostering equitable, enduring communities of practice. He holds an MA in Medical Anthropology from Harvard University and an MD from Johns Hopkins University.

Shawn D’Andrea MD, MPH is an emergency physician with a background in global emergency medicine and public health. In 2014 Dr. D’Andrea completed a fellowship in international emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has experience in disaster and epidemic response, health systems strengthening, and has worked as a clinician, emergency department director, and hospital administrator. From 2019 and 2022 he served as the Chief Clinical Consultant for Emergency Medicine for the US Indian Health Service (IHS) and later as Chair of the National Council of Chief Clinical Consultants. Since 2022 he has worked as a consultant with Project ECHO to develop and deliver digital emergency care training education programs to reach clinicians working in settings of armed conflict. He currently serves as the Assistant Program Director of Emergency Medicine at the University of Botswana.

Dr. Ellis is the Associate Director of Emergency Medicine Programs at Seed Global Health. He has been involved in Emergency Medicine development in Uganda since 2018. Dr. Ellis also is on staff with the San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation in Arizona, serving as the Director of EM Quality and is part of the US Indian Health Service EM Chief Clinical Consultant Core Group.

Dr. Nada Fadul is a Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the Specialty Care Center at the Division of Infectious Diseases and Assistant Dean of DEI Education Programs at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Dr. Fadul is the founder and president of the Sustainable Development Research Organization (SuDRO), a nonprofit organization whose goal is to build sustainable communities through partnership, knowledge exchange and capacity building. SuDRO achieves these goals through multiple ECHO programs which focus on training volunteers to improve sustainable development goals of their communities. After the start of the civil war in Sudan in April 2023, the SuDRO network was used to provide emergency medicine training to health care providers across the country. Dr. Fadul is a Board of Directors member and chairs the Awards Committee of the HIV Medical Association.

Emily Jones is the Research and Innovation Coordinator for Operation Smile, a global non-profit specializing in expert cleft surgery and comprehensive care. After graduating with a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Dayton, Emily completed her Fulbright grant at the University of Gothenburg where she worked in a molecular biology lab studying antibiotic resistance. The past two years with Operation Smile have fostered Emily's passion for health equity as well as gender equity, namely through her contributions to Operation Smile's "Women in Medicine" initiative which supports women into healthcare through educational and professional advancement opportunities.

Chief Medical Officer of ABC’s for Global Health Master’s in Public Health Student in the University of the Philippines

Dr. Janet M. Turan is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Organization at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health and Senior Advisor in the UAB Sparkman Center for Global Health, with secondary appointments in Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. Dr. Turan is a social and behavioral scientist with research interests in the areas of sexual and reproductive health and HIV prevention and treatment in low-resource settings. She completed her doctoral training at Johns Hopkins University and her postdoctoral training at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. Dr. Turan’s research includes qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies to address HIV-related stigma; as well as intersectional stigma related to poverty, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, substance use, and reproductive choices; in settings such as rural Kenya and the southern United States. She is the principal investigator on NIH-funded studies that examine effects, mechanisms of action, and interventions for HIV-related stigma and intersectional stigma, as they relate to healthcare utilization, HIV testing, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and engagement in HIV care. Her current research also includes the study of stigma as it relates to other health conditions; including unintended pregnancy, obstetric fistula, breast cancer, and COVID-19.

Dr. Ben Chi, MD, MSc, holds the distinguished position of Anne Louise Wilkerson, MD ‘36 Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His impactful research career, primarily based in Zambia from 2003 to 2015, focused on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), HIV care, maternal-child health, and more. Dr. Chi has successfully led multiple research grants funded by organizations like the NIH, CDC, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Since his return to Chapel Hill in 2015, he maintains strong collaborative ties with Zambian institutions and governmental bodies. Dr. Chi also spearheads training programs to promote U.S. international collaborations, including the UNC Global Women’s Health Fellowship and the UJMT Fogarty Global Health Fellows Consortium. Moreover, he plays a pivotal role in mentoring students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty in patient-oriented research through his NIH K24 award. 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH NAME: Mehta, Kajal POSITION TITLE: Resident Physician EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.) INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE (if applicable) Start Date MM/YYYY Completion Date MM/YYYY FIELD OF STUDY University of Texas at Austin University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) Harvard University University of Washington BA MD MPH Residency Training 08/2008 08/2012 08/2015 06/2017 05/2012 06/2017 05/2016 Anticipated 06/2024 Plan II Honors Program (Interdisciplinary liberal arts) Doctorate of Medicine, with Distinction in Global Health Global Health and Population General Surgery A. Personal Statement My journey through research has included many interests but has led me to long-term research interests in burn care and injury prevention in low-resource settings, and global health systems capacity development. My academic training, clinical training, and global health research experiences have provided me with an excellent foundation in the disciplines of public and global health, and more recently in clinical surgical care and surgical health care systems. As an undergraduate student, my initial interests were in psychology and I was able to conduct research as a research assistant with the Self-Regulation Laboratory studying human vulnerability and human self-bias, where I assisted in recruiting participants and running the study. As my interests evolved through the interdisciplinary coursework I was taking in the Plan II Honors Program, I found an intellectual home in the field of public health. I worked with Dr. Andrew Springer at the UT Austin School of Public Health to design sub-studies of data examining factors contributing to childhood obesity in central Texas. This was my first experience overseeing a project from inception to completion; the findings were presented to the Texas State Department of Health and led to a manuscript publication. During my final year, my interests expanded further to social entrepreneurship and education in the context of public health. For my capstone thesis project, I conducted qualitative research with social entrepreneurship educators around the country to ultimately develop a unique social entrepreneurship curriculum for the UT Austin Plan II Honors undergraduate degree program. This project was awarded the Model Thesis award for my undergraduate class. My next academic steps led me to medical school, where I participated in various public and global health projects, which I presented as posters at multiple conferences. The cornerstones of my medical school research experience were my global health field experiences in rural India and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In India, I conducted population-based survey and community visits with local NGOs on chronic disease epidemiology, and as my clinical interest matured to surgery and burns, I performed clinical research related to burn admissions and epidemiological trends in Ethiopia. Through these experiences I learned of the rewards and challenges of global health field research, including relationship development, data integrity, and retaining the ability to adapt to various circumstances. These interests were augmented by my educational time at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health where I studied Global Health and Population sciences and focused on health systems strengthening coursework. More recently, as a general surgery resident physician, I consolidated by clinical and research interests into burn care and injury prevention research. Recent and ongoing projects include analysis of risk factors for childhood household burn injury in rural Ghana, which has been submitted for presentation at the 2020 American Burn Association national conference. Additionally, I have been working with the Kirtipur Cleft and Burn Center in Nepal to examine their admissions data and understand their burn epidemiology over the past 5 years of admissions. This work has also been submitted for presentation at the ABA conference. These research experiences have already resulted in much personal growth and development of skills in global health networking and collaboration, study design, analytical skills, grant and manuscript writing. My sponsors for the proposed project, Dr. Barclay Stewart, Dr. Tam Pham, and Dr. Charles Mock from the US-side are renowned researchers with extensive clinical experience in burn care as well as expertise in global surgery. In working with these mentors, proposed project will further enhance these skills and will provide additional training and experience in survey design, qualitative research, a conceptual framework for implementation sciences, and ultimately set me up for my goal career as a funded independent investigator in global health sciences. B. Positions and Honors Positions and Employment 2017-pres Resident Physician, University of Washington Department of Surgery Other Experience and Professional Memberships 2012-pres Phi Beta Kappa 2012-2017 Dallas County Medical Society 2012-2017 Texas Medical Association 2015-2016 Harvard Voices in Leadership Staff Writer 2016-pres Harvard Alumni Association 2016-pres Harvard Chan School Alumni Association 2017-pres American College of Surgeons Resident Member 2019-pres UW Department of Surgery Women’s Council, Resident Member 2019-pres UW General Surgery Residency Advisory Council Honors 2008-2012 Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholar, Texas Education Agency 2010, 2011 Louise and Ira Iscoe Endowed Presidential Scholar, University of Texas Board of Regents 2011 Endowed Presidential Scholar, University of Texas Department of Psychology 2011 Zelman Endowed Scholar, University of Texas, Board of Regents 2012 Plan II Honors Program Model Thesis 2013 Global Health Research Scholarship, UTSW Office of Global Health 2014 First Place and Participant’s Choice Award, International Emory Global Health Case Competition 2015 First Place at American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin National Research Poster Competition 2017 M.D. awarded with Distinction in Global Health, UTSW C. Contributions to Science 1. Pre-Clinical Academic Career: My early academic career contributions were focused on learning and applying my skillset of epidemiological analysis for public health intervention research. I worked with a team of public health researchers focusing on childhood obesity in central Texas. My specific role in the project was to design a study aimed at elucidating the cross-section of socio-economic status, gender, and race/ethnicity with obesity levels in middle-school aged children. a. Springer AE, Li L, Ranjit N, Delk J, Mehta K, Kelder SH. School-level economic disadvantage and obesity in middle school children in central Texas. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2015 Jul; 12 Suppl1:S8. b. Mehta, K. An Investigation of Socio-economic Status and Race/Ethnicity in Childhood Obesity from the CATCH Middle School Program in Central Texas. Oral presentation at Texas Department of State Health Services; May 5 2011, Austin TX. 2. Clinical Academic Career: My subsequent academic career contributions were from medical school and onwards into residency. My interests focused on various aspects of access to healthcare in rural or low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Over time, my research focus has focused on burn care and injury prevention metrics in these settings, alongside my clinical interest in surgery in Burn/Critical Care. a. Mehta, K. Factors Influencing Water Fluoride Levels in Rural Rajasthan. Poster session presented at: 33rd Annual American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin National Conference; 2015 June 17-21; Orlando FL. b. Ready FL, Gebremedhem YD, Worku M, Mehta K, Eshte M, GoldenMerry YL, Nwariaku FE, Wolf SE, Phelan HA. Epidemiologic shifts for burn injury in Ethiopia from 2001 to 2016: Implications for public health measures. Burns. 2018 Nov; 44(7):1839-1843. c. Mehta, K., Gyedu, A., Mock, C., Stewart, BT. Annual Incidence of Childhood Burn Injuries and Prevalence of Household Risk Factors in Rural Ghana: a population-based cluster-randomized survey. Abstract submitted for presentation at annual meeting of the American Burn Association in 2020, Orlando, FL. d. Mehta, K., Stewart, BT., Pham, T., Nakarmi, K. Epidemiology of acute burn admissions at a referral center in Nepal: a comparison between direct admissions and external referrals. Abstract submitted for presentation at annual meeting of the American Burn Association in 2020, Orlando, FL. D. Additional Information: Research Support and/or Scholastic Performance Harvard T. C. Chan School of Public Health YEAR COURSE TITLE GRADE 2015 Introduction to Biostatistics and Epidemiology A 2015 Fundamentals of Global Health A 2015 Society and Health A 2015 Health Sector Reform P 2015 U.S. Health Policy A- 2016 Societal Responses to Disaster and War A 2016 Global Healthcare Delivery Models A HSPH courses are graded on a letter scale, although students may elect to take certain classes on a Pass/Fail basis (P/F). Passing is C of better.

Dr. Jimah is an assistant professor at Northeastern University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Health Sciences and the Department of Pharmacy and Health System Sciences. Her multidisciplinary research spans the domains of technology and health, adopting novel techniques in the design of health interventions to address existing disparities and to promote global health equity. She was a 2022-2023 Fogarty UCGHI GloCal Fellow based in East London, South Africa, where she conducted real-time monitoring of adherence to tuberculosis treatment.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH NAME: Alayande, Barnabas Tobi eRA COMMONS USER NAME (credential, e.g., agency login): POSITION TITLE: Global Surgery Fellow EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.) INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE (if applicable) Start Date MM/YYYY Completion Date MM/YYYY FIELD OF STUDY College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin MBBS 06/2001 02/2008 Medicine and Surgery Baptist Medical Centre, Ogbomoso Internship 04/2007 05/2008 Surgery/Medicine/ Obstetrics/Gynecology /Pediatrics National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria/Jos University Teaching Hospital FMCS (Residency) 10/08/2011 06/2019 General Surgery Jos University Teaching Hospital/West African College of Surgeons Residency 10/08/2011 10/2018 General Surgery Quantic School of Business MBA 06/2020 06/2021 Business Administration Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital Fellowship 06/2020 Present Global Surgery and Social Change University of Global Health Equity Fellowship 11/2020 Present Global Surgery A. Personal Statement I am a general surgeon appointed as a postdoctoral Global Surgery fellow at the University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda and a senior research fellow with the Harvard Program in Global Surgery and Social Change. I was raised in Nigeria, and my training has largely been within sub-Saharan Africa. This has given me a deep, personal, cultural, and contextual connection with the region and immersed me in the gaps in surgical training and surgical safety. As a young general surgeon with the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and a general surgery senior registrar with the West African College of Surgeons, I have dedicated myself to increasing access to safe essential surgical procedures in district hospitals through education, training, improvisation, and social change. I have worked to design a surgical system for neglected, minority HIV positive patients in Jos, Nigeria, strengthened health systems in Imo State, south-east Nigeria, and have also led and contributed to various surgical missions. In addition, I have previously assessed gaps in surgical education for West African College of Surgeons trainees and contributed to the development of several Lowand Middle-Income Country surgical educational curricula including the undergraduate surgical curriculum and postgraduate Masters in Global Health Delivery, Global Surgery option at the University of Global Health Equity. My current work is focusing on surgical curriculum development, surgical safety, and implementation of Non-Technical Skills for Surgery (NOTSS) in the West African context. I view the vision of my life’s work as improving equity in surgical care for sick and injured people in SSA by developing the capacity of researchers, educators, clinicians, and scholars in global surgery. My long term goal is to drive contextualized, innovative, and evidence-based surgical education and safety research for sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with a focus on essential surgery for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). I am passionate about the intersection of noncommunicable (surgical) diseases, surgical safety, improvisation, and medical education. This fellowship, along with supervision from my expert mentoring team of experts will provide me with the strong platform to effectively carry out the proposed study, and strengthen my trajectory to become a leader in surgical safety and education research. I plan to build on research outcomes from this fellowship to subsequently apply for a NIH Career Development Award. B. Positions, Scientific Appointments and Honors Positions 2008 – 2009 House Officer, Baptist Medical Centre, Ogbomoso, Nigeria 2009 – 2010 Medical Officer, Obowo Local Government Area, Imo State, Nigeria 2010 – 2011 Medical Officer, Oasis Medical Centre, Jos 2009 – 2010 President, Corps Health Team, Imo State 2011 – 2014 Registrar, Department of Surgery, Jos University Teaching Hospital 2014 – 2019 Senior Registrar, Department of Surgery, Jos University Teaching Hospital 2017 – Present Volunteer General Surgeon, Faith Alive Foundation, Nigeria 2020 – Present 2021 – Present Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellow, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital Global Surgery Research Fellow, University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda Other Experience and Professional Memberships 2007 – Present Nigerian Medical Association 2014 – Present West African College of Surgeons 2019 – Present Fellow, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (General Surgery) 2020 – Present International Member, Association for Academic Surgery 2020 – Present Associate Fellow, American College of Surgeons 2021 – Present Faculty of Rural, Remote, and Humanitarian Healthcare, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburg Honors 1999 Best Graduating Student (valedictorian) - Federal Government College, Jos,Nigeria 2001 Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited Scholarship Awards 2001 – 2007 Shell University Scholarship Award, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited 2006/2007 Dr Hamza Olayinka Braimah Academic Prize in Community Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin 2007 Winner of the Duro Soleye Annual prize donated by Duro Soleye to the best student in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin 2021 Global Surgery Research Fellowship Award, Association for Academic Surgery 2021 Dean of Medicine’s Research Grant, University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda C. Contributions to Science 1. Identifying gaps in surgical safety in Low- and Middle- Income Country Contexts: I have been involved in global collaborative research to identify gaps in surgical safety by monitoring outcomes of surgery. I have also contributed to the evaluation of surgical glove perforations in Ethiopia, with ongoing work on pre-and postoperative glove perforations in Rwanda. In early research, I defined gaps in the practice of episiotomy in a district level hospital demonstrating the high percentage and factors associated with it. a. Alayande BT, Amole IO, Ola-Olorun DA. Relative frequency and predictors of episiotomy in Ogbomoso, Nigeria. Internet Journal of Medical Update 2012 July; 7(2):41- 44. b. Bekele A, Abate M, Mekonnen N, Alayande B, Hakizimana D, Taye M, Zemenfes D. Evaluation of surgical glove integrity: does an African country receive inferior quality? Ethiop Med J. 2021; 59(4): 281- 288 c. COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative, SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study, British Journal of Surgery, Volume 108, Issue 9, September 2021, Pages 1056–1063, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znab101 d. COVIDSurg Collaborative; GlobalSurg Collaborative. Effects of pre-operative isolation on postoperative pulmonary complications after elective surgery: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2021 Aug 9. doi: 10.1111/anae.15560. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34371522. 2. Defining and addressing gaps in surgical team technical and Non-Technical Skills in West Africa: I have helped define the most difficult steps in hernia repair for West African surgical trainees, and helped prepare trainers and clinical educators to address them. I have also been leading undergraduate and postgraduate surgery curriculum development for UGHE medical and MGHD students in response to needs analysis. I have experience in driving a Delphi consensus process involving surgeons from all over Africa for that surgical curriculum development (publication under development). Ongoing work is in defining gaps in non-technical skills for surgery in West Africa, and developing contextualized non-technical skills for surgery in variable resource contexts (NOTSS-VRC) for Nigeria. In addressing training gaps and building local capacity for trauma care and research, I have contributed to West African College of Surgeons Trauma Management courses in Nigeria and Intermediate Operational Research Training (IORT) in Rwanda. a. Ismaila BO, Alayande BT, Ojo EO, Sule AZ. Inguinal hernia repair: a survey of surgical trainees. Hernia. 2019 Jan 17:1-5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10029-019-01885-0. b. Niyigena A, Gato S, Alayande B, Miranda E, Hedt Gauthier B, Hedt-Gauthier B, Goodman AS, Nkurunziza T, Mazimpaka C, Hakizimana S, Ngamije P, Kateera F, Riviello R, Boatin AA. Functional recovery after cesarean delivery: a prospective cohort study in rural Rwanda. Research Square; 2021. DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-885444/v1. (IORT paper) 3. Safe improvisation and innovation for surgery in Low-Middle Income Countries: Improvisation is critical to surgical practice, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, as resources are not always optimal, costs are a major barrier to accessible surgery. This improvisation must be safe and I have contributed to and led research to ensure safe improvisation in the African context. I contributed to improvisation in minimal access surgery and described a new method of primary port placement that is versatile and can utilize any type of primary port. My postgraduate dissertation was a randomized controlled trial on the validation of a cost effective, equally effective improvised, closed tube, negative pressure drain versus a standard Redivac drain, and I am currently collecting data via a randomized controlled trial on contextualized office procedures for hemorrhoids in Nigeria. Results from my improvisation research were highly relevant in driving down costs for surgical patients in LMICs and making surgical access more equitable. I have also been involved in validating mobile- Health interventions for cesarean section patients in Rwanda. a. Adejumo AA, Adeosun OA, Omoriege PO, Alayande B. Improvisation of surgical equipment in the surgical services of a developing country. Nigerian Journal of Surgical Research 2016;17:48-52. b. Ismaila BO, Adighije PF, Alayande BT, and Ajulo AA. Therapeutic Endoscopy with Limited Resources in Jos: The Road Less Traveled. Nigerian Journal of Surgery. 2018 Jul-Dec; 24(2):144– 154. c. Ismaila BO, Alayande BT. A modified open primary laparoscopic surgery port placement through umbilical tube. Nigerian Journal of Surgery 2019 Jan– June NJS_34_18 d. Alayande BT. Dissertation: Randomised controlled trial comparing improvised closed tube drain and Redivac drain in thyroidectomies at Jos University Teaching Hospital. Dissertation for the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in part fulfilment of the requirement for the award of final fellowship of the medical college (F.M.C.S) in General Surgery (2019). 4. Promoting equity and reducing disparities in global surgery a. Alayande B, Chu KM, Jumbam DT, Kimto OE, Danladi GM, Niyukuri A, Anderson GA, El-Gabri D, Miranda E, Taye M, Ngyal T, Yempabe T, Ntirenganya F, Byringiro JC, Sule AZ, Kobusingye OC, Bekele A, Riviello RR. Disparities in access to trauma care in sub-saharan africa: a narrative review. Current Trauma Reports. Manuscript Number CTRS-D-21-00027 (Under Review) b. Pigeolet M, Al-Wahdani B, El Omrani O, Enabulele O, Walumbe R, Senkubuge F, Alayande B, Maki L, Meara J, Park K. The future of global health is inclusive and anti-racist. Tropical Doctor. Manuscript Number TD-21-0811.R1 (Under Review) c. Alayande BT. Integrity in Medicine. In: Alayande CO, Alayande BT, editors. Integrity: building foundations for character. Abuja: Xplicitmode Media; 2010. p. 49-68. D. Scholastic Performance YEAR COURSE TITLE GRADE 2014 National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria Health Management and Ethics Course 2014 National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria Research Methodology in Medicine Course 2018 West Africa College of Surgeons Manuscript Writing Workshop 2018 West Africa College of Surgeons Research Methodology Workshop 2020 Implementation Science Course, University of Washington 2020

Arthur Johnson is a general surgeon with an interest in global surgery. He has worked in various settings including academic and trauma facilities in the US as well as Ministry of Health facilities in low-middle income settings in southern and eastern Africa. He also spent 4-years with the US Navy serving aboard an aircraft carrier and a deployment in Iraq. He is currently based in southern Sweden working as a general surgeon. He completed his 2022-2023 INSIGHT Fogarty fellowship with Botswana Baylor, in Gaborone, Botswana. His fellowship research investigated if type of HIV antiretroviral medications impacted survival in women living with HIV (WLWH) and estrogen-receptor (ER) positive breast cancer. He also evaluated the persistence to adjuvant endocrine therapy among women with ER-positive breast cancer in Botswana. Work completed during his fellowship year has been presented at 2 international conferences and a manuscript has been submitted to a high-impact journal.

Ms. Woodson is a candidate in Epidemiology at the University of Arizona. She spent her fellowship year at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Peru, working under the mentorship of Magaly Blas, PhD, MD and Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD. Her research project explored the sexual and reproductive health of adolescent women in vulnerable populations in the Amazon Basin. She hopes to use this knowledge to help inform programs within the Amazon Basin region to help reduce adolescent pregnancy and to promote greater gender equity around reproductive health issues. 

 

Dr. Nhial T. Tutlam is an assistant professor and associate director for research at the International Center for Child Health (ICHAD) based at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. His research centers on the mental health impact of war trauma among youth from conflict affected families resettled as refugees in the U.S. and those still residing in refugee camps in Sub-Saharan Africa with the aim of developing and testing culturally congruent community-based interventions to address the myriad of mental health challenges in this vulnerable population. Dr. Tutlam is currently leading NIH-funded study focused on addressing HIV risk and mental health among refugee youth in Uganda. Additionally, Dr. Tutlam is conducting a study to adapt and test a combination intervention to address emotional and behavioral health challenges related to intergenerational trauma among adolescents born in the U.S. to parents resettled as refugee.

Dr. Stephen Kimani is an accomplished medical professional with expertise in global oncology, hematology/oncology, and internal medicine. His educational background includes a Master of Science in Global Health from Duke University and a Medical bachelor’s degree (M.B.Ch.B.) from the University of Nairobi. Throughout his career, Dr. Kimani has been actively engaged in research, clinical practice, and education. His research interests encompass various aspects of cancer in underserved populations, and he has received numerous awards for his contributions, including the Pope Clinical Trainee Award from UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with notable works on cancer stigma and treatment outcomes. Dr. Kimani's multidimensional involvement in cancer research, education, and community initiatives underscores his commitment to advancing healthcare and improving cancer care in underserved communities.

Omar Karlsson is a postdoctoral fellow at Lund University and a Visiting Research Fellow at Duke University. His research concentrates on health and health disparities in low- and middle-income countries. Omar received a PhD in Economic History from Lund University in 2018 and was a Takemi Fellow in International Health at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health from 2019–2022.

Sarah Bolongaita, SM, is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Bergen. Her research concentrates on health systems in low- and middle-income countries, with the goal of enhancing understanding of health distributions and guiding policy development towards greater equity and financial risk protection. Prior to her doctoral studies, Sarah was trained in global health systems at Georgetown and Harvard Universities and held roles at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Bank’s Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice.

Wenhui Mao is an Assistant Director of Program at Duke Global Health Innovation Center, and Instructor of Global Health at Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University. Wenhui received PhD training in Health Economics from Fudan University, China, and has a decade experience in health policy research in low- and middle-income countries. Her current interests include 1) the impact of health policy through policy analysis and economic evaluation; 2) health financing, including both external and domestic financing; and 3) access to health products. Wenhui has published over 120 academic articles, policy briefs, working papers and blogs and serves as Commissioner of The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health.

Angela Y. Chang is an Associate Professor at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study and Danish Centre for Health Economics at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research lies in the areas of health economics and health metrics. Her recent work includes measuring experienced burden of disease, improving measures of gender inequality in health, studying youth climate migration in Uganda, and analyzing global epidemiological and demographic trends as part of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health. Angela received her master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, doctoral degree from Harvard University, and postdoctoral training at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. 

Ole F. Norheim is a physician and Professor of Medical Ethics, Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen and Director of Bergen Center for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS) at UiB. He is also Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health (2015-2025). Elected member of Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2021. Norheim’s wide-ranging research interests include theories of distributive justice, inequality in health, priority setting in health systems, and how to achieve Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goal for health. Norheim has previously chaired the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board (2019-2023), WHO's Technical Advisory Group on Health Benefit Packages (2019-21), the World Health Organization’s Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage (2012-2014) and the third Norwegian National Committee on Priority Setting in Health Care (2013-2014).

Sitalire Kapira is an experienced clinician and a maternal and child health specialist working with Partners in Health/Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo in Neno district, Malawi. Sitalire works as a clinician responsible for maternal health and through the training and mentoring of staff on maternal and child health initiatives. He also supports health programs that improve infrastructure, supply chains, systems, and clinical tools in the Neno district. Sitalire holds a Bachelor of Science with honors in international obstetrics and leadership from Warwick University and a Master of Medical Science in global health delivery from Harvard University. Sitalire’s master’s thesis work focused on assessing barriers adolescent girls face when accessing contraceptive services in rural Malawi.

Dr. Were is a Health Economist and Health Services researcher. He is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences and Global Health, and the Director of Research, Global & Local Center for Mental Health Disparities at Boston University. His research focusses on analyzing the impact of health systems reforms on the outcomes of marginalized and high-risk populations such as informal traders, HIV+ individuals, people with mental health disorders, refugees & internally displaced persons in Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, South Africa, and the United States. Specific to mental health, Dr. Were has projects focused on: population level estimation of depression and integrating HIV/Depression care in primary care settings in Kenya; access to mobile emergency psychiatric services in Boston; and suicide prevention among African Immigrant Youth in the North Eastern United States. All these studies have been supported by eleven different grants from the NIH and foundations.

William Byansi, PhD is an Assistant Professor at Boston College School of Social Work and a Global Mental Health Scholar with expertise in community-engaged research, intervention development and evaluation, implementation science, and robust quantitative and qualitative methodologies. My research focuses on enhancing adolescents’ access to mental healthcare within resource-constrained settings and examines the intricate interplay of individual, family, and community-level factors that contribute to the overall well-being of adolescents and their families. Dr. Byansi has actively implemented large-scale mental health intervention research projects in Uganda, Kenya, and Ghana. He is leading research to understand the impact of prolonged droughts and erratic rainfall patterns on the mental health of young adults in Uganda. Dr. Byansi has authored numerous publications addressing the psychosocial well-being of vulnerable children and adolescents globally. His work has also explored the effectiveness of combination interventions in mitigating the vulnerabilities of adolescents and their families.

Dr Salma Abdalla, a Sudanese medical doctor, is an Assistant Professor in Global Health and Epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health. She is also the Director of the Rockefeller-Boston University 3-D Commission on Determinants of health, Data science, and Decision making. She also served as a secretariat member for the WHO Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her research focuses on understanding how microsocial forces shape the health of the global population. In particular, she studies how data on the social, economic, and commercial determinants can be used to inform decision-making on health and health equity in different contexts. She also studies the effects of trauma on global population mental health. She has published over 60 scientific journal articles, co-authored 8 reports and policy briefs, and co-authored 9 book chapters.

Alexandra Phelan is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Dr. Phelan is a globally recognized expert in global health law, with expertise in international law and infectious diseases and the impact of global change events on health, including planetary health issues such as biodiversity and climate change. She/they advises international organizations, international institutions, and governments on pandemic preparedness and response, and has served on several national and international advisory bodies, including for the World Health Organization and the US National Academies.

Kent Buse directs the Healthier Societies Programme at The George Institute for Global Health and co-directs Global Health 50/50. Kent is a political-economist whose work focuses on health policy analysis, particularly the role of power and politics in policy processes. He applies such analysis to a range of health issues, including HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rights, non-communicable diseases, migrant health, etc, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. He is interested in how best to include gender, equity and rights considerations in health policy. He is lead author of the key textbook in this field Making Health Policy.

Laura Ferguson is an associate professor of population and public health sciences at the University of Southern California, the director of the Program on Global Health & Human Rights and the director of research at the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing health system and societal factors affecting health and the uptake of health services as well as developing the evidence base of how attention to human rights can improve health outcomes. She is interested in innovative methodologies to better understand how societal-level interventions can improve health, and she has carried out many large-scale evaluations with this aim. She collaborates with a range of United Nations agencies as well as foundations, universities and non-governmental organizations in different countries. She has spent extended periods of time living and working in low-income countries, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work focuses primarily on HIV, sexual and reproductive health and child health.

Quentin Eichbaum was born and raised in Namibia and South Africa. He initially studied law at the University of Cape Town and then completed his MD, MPH, PhD/postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston followed by residency and fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is currently Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and immunology and Professor of Medical Education and Administration at Vanderbilt University where he also directs the a fellowship in pathology, as well as the Pathology Program in Global Health and the Vanderbilt Pathology Education Research Group. He serves on numerous national and international global health education and pathology committees. For example, he chairs the Global Transfusion Forum at AABB, and the International Affairs Committee at ASFA. He is on the Board of Directors on the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH - the largest academic global health organization in the world with over 180 institutions and a network of 30 000) and is the Chair of the CUGH Education Committee. He co-founded the Consortium of New Sub-Sahara African Medical Schools (CONSAMS) and is involved in health professional education and clinical medicine in several African countries

Dr. Julie Gastier-Foster is the Medical Director of Global Pathology at Texas Children’s Hospital and a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology/Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine. She is leveraging her 20+ years’ experience in clinical laboratory testing, centralized testing for the Children's Oncology group trials, biorepositories, and large cancer sequencing projects to help build laboratory and pathology infrastructure in low-resourced global settings. Her work includes many areas of diagnostics including point of care, flow cytometry, sickle cell disease, virtual pathology, therapeutic drug monitoring, and genomic analysis. She also supports the education of in-country pathologists and laboratory personnel to build local capacity. Dr. Gastier-Foster has been an invited member of several grant review committees, both permanent and ad hoc, related to her work in cancer biomarkers, genomics and health equity, and biorepository best practices. She has also been a member of advisory groups to develop guidelines in the area of clinical molecular genetic testing.

Emilia Noormahomed is Professor of Human Parasitology, Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Mozambique and invited Professor at University of California San Diego, USA. Her research work aims to defining the epidemiology of NTDs and their intersections with HIV. She served as the Dean of the UEM Faculty of Medicine and Deputy Rector at the Lurio University, PI of the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) (2010-2015), MEPI Junior Faculty (MEPI-JF) programs (2018 – 2022) and Chair of the MEPI PI Council (2013-2014) . Currently, she is the PI of the Mozambique Health Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) and serves as Chair of HEPI schools and member of the AFREhealth Research Standing Committee.

Maarten C. Bosland has a Doctoral Degree in Veterinary Science and PhD in Experimental Pathology from the University of Utrecht. He is Professor Emeritus of Pathology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include prostate carcinogenesis, particularly the role of estrogens and androgens, prostate cancer chemoprevention, preclinical research and human clinical trials of cancer chemoprevention by natural substances, and global health. He has served on several expert panel committees on of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO) and the US EPA and National Academy of Science. He is currently involved in capacity building in pathology in Ghana and collaborative research on prostate cancer with investigators at universities in Nigeria.

Fred Ssewamala is the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor of Social Work and Public Health and Associate Dean for Transdisciplinary Faculty Research at the Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis. He directs the International Center for Child Health and Development (ICHAD). Through various NIH-funded field projects, Ssewamala leads innovative, interdisciplinary research that informs, develops and tests economic empowerment and family strengthening combination interventions to improve long-term developmental impacts for children, adolescents and families impacted by poverty and health disparities in low-resource communities. Ssewamala is conducting 10+ NIH-funded large-scale longitudinal randomized control trials across Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, he is a co-principal investigator on several NIH funded training programs (D43 ACHIEVE, R25 RRT, T37 LEAD, and D43 CHILD-GRF) that focus on training early-career researchers from under-represented groups committed to careers in child behavioral health, HIV, and mental health disparities. His scientific work has been published in 170+ peer-reviewed journal articles.

Arvin Bhana is a Chief Specialist Scientist Honorary Research Associate in the Health Systems Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council and an Honorary Associate Professor at the Centre for Rural Health in the School of Nursing and Public Health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He holds a PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the USA and is a registered clinical psychologist. His research is focused on developing collaborative integrated models of mental health care at a primary health level, Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) and the development of mental health interventions for vulnerable populations of children and adolescents using implementation science models.

Muthoni Mathai is an associate professor at the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi. She graduated as a doctor from the University of Nairobi in 1983, and was awarded a master’s degree in Psychiatry (MMed Psychiatry) at the same university in 1990. She completed her PhD in Social Work in 2005 at the University of Kassel in Germany. Her research interests include depressive disorders, trauma, adolescence and maternal mental health. She is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the NIH-funded study on Depression and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder- SMART-DAPPER, and a Co-investigator of Health-Professional Education Partnership Initiative (HEPI) and the ACHIEVE consortium under the FIC LAUNCH program. She is also an MPI in a newly NIH funded project Psychoeducation, Relaxation, PrOblem solving, Activation, Cognitive coping Therapy (PRO-ACT) for Adolescents and Youth in HIV Care. She is a member of the Decolonization and Democratization committee of the CUGH.

Keng-Yen Huang, PhD, MPH, is a Professor of Population Health and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. She is global mental health researcher, with expertise in psychiatric epidemiology, developmental psychology, health disparities, prevention and implementation research. Her research has been centered on health equity and mental health promotion in underserved populations. These include investigating patterns and mechanisms of mental health disparities; testing cost-effective family- and system-level approaches of preventive strategies to address mental health disparities; and studying integrated and scalable strategies for broader evidence-based interventions dissemination and implementation to diverse global populations and settings (e.g., schools, communities, and primary cares in Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Nepal, and the US). Current research includes two main areas: (1) developing and testing e-Health/mHealth strategies for mental health promotion with children, adolescents, and adult caregivers in diverse settings; and (2) studying effective strategies and mechanisms for scaling up and sustaining multi-level approaches of evidence-based interventions (in the US and African and European Countries).

"Manuel De La Rosa, MD, is the Vice President for Outreach and Community Engagement at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). Dr. De la Rosa was formerly the Regional Dean for the School of Medicine at TTUHSC El Paso, and was the Founding Dean for the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, overseeing the establishment of the first medical and nursing schools in El Paso. Prior to serving as Founding Dean, he was a Professor of Pediatrics, where he oversaw the establishment of various community clinics serving El Paso’s most vulnerable populations. Appointed by former President George Bush in 2003, Dr. De la Rosa continues to serve as a member of the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission."

Brian Elmore, MD is the co-founder and medical coordinator for Clinica Hope in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. He is an Emergency Medicine resident at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas. Before entering medicine, Dr. Elmore served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone and Zambia. Following his service in the Peace Corps, he worked with various NGOs in the Middle East serving displaced populations. In medical school, he founded the MUSC Asylum Clinic, one of the South's first clinics for asylum seekers. His writing on treating migrant patients has been published in multiple outlets, including the Atlantic.

Monica Reyes, PhD, serves as the Border Health Program Director for Doctors of the World USA and has 20 years of experience developing and implementing large-scale public health, educational, and clinic-based programs. With a Ph.D. in Public Health and Family and Community Medicine, she has expertise conducting scientific and evidence based research to achieve organizational and program goals and has worked with U.S. Health and Human Services, with the Centers for Disease Control, and at the Mexico Border Health Commission.

Originally from Spain, Jesús has a Master's in Migration Studies at the University of San Francisco under a Fulbright scholarship. He holds a Bachelor's in International Relations (studied in Spain and Brazil) and a Master's in European Union. He has been honored to accompany migrant justice advocacy movements in Spain, the US, and Central America. His research interests focus on border externalization policies, comparative migration policies, and the root causes of forced migration. 

Glenn Fennelly MD, MPH is an expert in pediatric infectious diseases. He is Professor and Vice President of Global Health at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas. Dr. Fennelly has worked with various non-governmental organizations supporting infection prevention and treatment programs in less developed countries, including during scale up of PEPFAR-supported treatment for children with HIV in Vietnam between 2006 and 2008.

He has been involved with National Institutes of Health-supported studies to develop vaccines against HIV and tuberculosis, and to improve prevention and treatment of HIV in children for over 20 years. He has co-authored several articles on these studies.

Dr. Fennelly received an MD from New Jersey Medical School and a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University.

Charles-Antoine Barbeau-Meunier is a physician and empathy scholar with training in media studies (B.A.), sociology (M.A.), medicine (M.D.) and neuroimaging (PhD, ongoing). He is currently completing his medical residency in psychiatry at the University of Toronto. Charles-Antoine has modelled empathy in various social, cultural and institutional settings, namely in contexts of crisis and leadership such as healthcare, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. His more recent work has focused on loneliness and youth mental health. He is currently the co-chair of the CUGH Global Health Humanities working group.

Rosemary Jolly is the Sparks Chair of Literature and Human Rights at the Pennsylvania State University.  She has co-founded two rape crisis clinics in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and has worked on rolling gender-based violence prevention into HIV prevention programmes.  She is author, most recently, of The Effluent Eye: Narratives for Decolonial Right-making (Minnesota UP, 2024).

Quentin Eichbaum was born and raised in Namibia and South Africa. He initially studied law at the University of Cape Town and then completed his MD, MPH, PhD/postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston followed by residency and fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is currently Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and immunology and Professor of Medical Education and Administration at Vanderbilt University where he also directs the a fellowship in pathology, as well as the Pathology Program in Global Health and the Vanderbilt Pathology Education Research Group. He serves on numerous national and international global health education and pathology committees. For example, he chairs the Global Transfusion Forum at AABB, and the International Affairs Committee at ASFA. He is on the Board of Directors on the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH - the largest academic global health organization in the world with over 180 institutions and a network of 30 000) and is the Chair of the CUGH Education Committee. He co-founded the Consortium of New Sub-Sahara African Medical Schools (CONSAMS) and is involved in health professional education and clinical medicine in several African countries

Associate Professor in Occupational Therapy and Programme Director at Buckinghamshire New University, UK. Her research interests are health policy and systems, prisons, the ‘NEET’ (young people neither in education, employment or training) population, social transformation and community co-creation. The primary aim of her work is to address the needs and challenges faced by marginalized communities, addressing health inequalities and fostering equity and justice.

Assistant Professor (Adjunct) in Global Development Studies and School of Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her research interests, in the context of rural health, include social determinants of health, cultural traditions, community mobilization, gender-based violence, and youth mental health.

Dr. Charles Chineme Nwobu is a Public Health Physician whose work spans Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive, Sexual and Child Health, disability rights, advocacy, education and development in communities. He leads the Global Health Projects Committee of the Princess Marie Louise Children’s Hospital. He is the Director of the project known as “Rehabilitating Children With Disabilities In Accra: Community Engagement And Sensitisation and the DFSexEdS4WGDs Project (Disability-Friendly Sexual, Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Education and Services for Women and Girls with Disabilities), which runs in Central Region, Ghana, in partnership with other NGOs and stakeholders in disability interventions in Ghana. He currently consults and has experience working with various global institutions and international organisations, including the WHO/United Nations, where he served as a Senior MD in the UN COVID-19 Field Hospital in Accra during the COVID-19 pandemic.

He is a member of the CHIFA (Child Health Information For All) working group – Child Health And Rights International Organisation, in Oxford, U.K. In addition, he has over ten years of experience working in Ghana’s public and private sectors as a Family Practitioner and Public Health Physician. He is a member of the World Medical Association (WMA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health (FRSPH), U.K., with an MSc in Public Health for Development from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the University of London, UK, as well as undergoing an MSc in Medical Education for Healthcare Practitioners from the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. In addition, he trained in International Development at the Madingley Hall of the University of Cambridge, UK and has a Professional Diploma in Paediatrics from the Royal College of Physicians, Ireland (RCPI). Before his Postgraduate qualifications, he studied at the University in Ghana, where he achieved a BSc. in Medical Sciences and a medical degree (MBChB).

Prof Nceba Gqaleni trained as a biochemist at the former University of Natal and obtained his doctorate at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland in 1996. He is a National Research Foundation rated researcher with interest on immunology, infectious and non-infectious diseases and traditional medicine. He has served on the Interim Traditional Health Practitioners Council of South Africa appointed by the Minister of Health.
In 2007 was appointed Chair of Indigenous Health Care Systems Research, a prestigious programme funded by the Department of Science & Technology and administered by the National Research Foundation. Prof Gqaleni has also served in various positions within UKZN including Director of the Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, Deputy Dean and Director of the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health.
He has served on various national and international bodies including the Presidential Task Team on African Traditional Medicine, Chairperson of the IKS Bioprospecting and Product Development Platform of the Department of Science & Technology, Deputy Chairperson of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Council on AIDS, and has been a member of the WHO (African Regional Office) expert committee on Traditional Medicine. Currently, he is the member of the task team drafting SA’s Policy on African Traditional Medicine, Project Coordinator of the KwaZulu-Natal IK-Based Healthy Lifestyle Strategy to fight COVID-19 and Beyond, and member of the WHO Regional Expert Committee on Traditional Medicine for COVID-19.

Dr. Ietza Bojorquez, MD, MPH, PhD is an epidemiologist whose work focuses on the social determinants of health. She has conducted research on migration and health (migrant’s mental health, changes in health-related practices after migration, and migrant’s access to healthcare services), and health-related practices (dietary and physical activity practices). 

Among her more recent projects are “Evaluating health system responsiveness and inclusion of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in health and public health policies in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic”, ““Mobile Populations and Covid-19 in Mexico: Health Risks and Access to Services” and “Implementation and evaluation of a community-based model to improve access to mental health and psychosocial care among migrants”.

Farah Massoud, the MENA Program Manager for PROTECT in the Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, plays a crucial role in coordinating and enhancing surveillance capacities in the region. She has managed various surveillance projects aimed at improving public health outcomes in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Oman. Farah is passionate about leveraging innovative approaches to strengthen cross-border surveillance and disease response and addressing other public health challenges in MENA. She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental health from the American University of Beirut and a master’s degree in public health from Imperial College London. Farah's academic and professional journey reflects her commitment to public health and global well-being.

Laura Buback is a technical advisor who has been supporting SFDPH for the COVID-19 response since March 2020. She has supported Case Investigation/Contact Tracing/Outbreak Management work through leading Standard Operating Procedures, Trainings, and piloting new workflows. In August 2020, she also began supporting the University of Guam and Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services to strengthen their COVID-19 response. At IGHS, Laura also works for Global Strategic Information (GSI) where she provides program management and technical assistance in strategic information to countries throughout Africa, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. Prior to IGHS, Laura spent 6 years working in West Africa working on monitoring and evaluation of nutrition, immunization, and maternal and child health programs, as well as polio and ebola outbreak response. In global health work, Laura has always been dedicated to the use of data for an equity-based approach to highlight and address disparities, and is grateful to now translate that approach locally with UPIEA.

Francis Kakooza is a Molecular Microbiologist and Public Health Specialist currently serving as the Head of the Global Health Security (GHS) Department at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University. The GHS department goal is to strengthen the capacities and capabilities of Ministries of Health in Africa to prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies including biological threats. As of December 2023, the GHS department had 136 staff, 18 projects from 14 different funders valued to approximately $32M in co-operative agreements in Uganda and across Africa. The scope is AMR, laboratory, infection prevention, epidemic intelligence, vaccines, planetary health and policy. I am also the Regional Program Director for the Africa CDC Implementation Science program that focuses on vaccine roll-out studies, safety surveillance and capacity building of National Institutes of Public Health in 25 Africa Union member states towards disease outbreak preparedness and response. I am an honorary lecturer at Makerere University, School of Pharmacy delivering course modules on pharmaceutical microbiology and bio-technology, a technical member of the Sudan Ebola-Virus sequencing team at Ministry of Health, Uganda and a WHO expert for global STI guidelines development. My PhD training was focused on pathogen genomics and molecular epidemiology of STIs and AMR at the Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, Makerere University College of Health Sciences. As part of my doctoral studies, I had training in genomics, global health and molecular epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance at the WHO Collaborating Center in Sweden. I have over 25 peer-reviewed publications in the global health security space, presented keynote addresses at the inaugural Uganda National AMR symposium and the Uganda Pharmaceutical Symposium 2023.

Solange Madriz, MA, MS is As an Academic Coordinator at the Institute of Global Health Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. She has designed, implemented, and monitored global health programs in diverse settings including Mexico, Guatemala, Paraguay, India and the United States. Her research focuses on health professions education. In addition to her research activities, Ms. Madriz teaches graduate level courses on global health for public health practitioners and medical providers. From 2015 to 2018, Ms. Madriz led the implementation of a maternal and newborn health quality improvement project in all the secondary health facilities of the states of Huehuetenango and Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. This program continues as a capacity strengthening strategy. During the COVID-19 pandemic Ms. Madriz led the educational program to train over 100 community-based organization members as case investigators and contact tracers working for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Ms. Madriz obtained her undergraduate degree from the Central University of Venezuela and a MA in International Studies from the University of San Francisco followed by a MS in Global Health from the University of California, San Francisco. She is currently a third-year doctoral student at University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health.