Professor Jue Liu is a Research Professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Public Health and the Institute for Global Health and Development, Peking University. She also serves as Deputy Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, and is a senior visiting scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Her research focuses on infectious disease epidemiology, prevention and control of major infectious diseases, maternal and child health, and the application of big data in public health. She is the founder of the Global Big Data Platform for Major Infectious Disease Prevention, Control, and Management (BIG-MID), and the founding director of the Global Consortium for Study on Prevention, Control and Management of Major Infectious Diseases (GCSMID), promoting interdisciplinary collaboration in global infectious disease research.

Professor Liu has served as Principal Investigator for more than 20 national research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the National Health Commission of China, and other agencies. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers as first or corresponding author in leading journals including The Lancet, BMJ, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The Lancet Global Health, and The Lancet Psychiatry. She has also served on national and international expert committees related to COVID-19, public health safety, and global health governance.

Professor Mihajlo (Michael) Jakovljevic MD, PhD, MAE is a Top-Notch expert in the Economics of Global Health and Sustainable Development of the Global South. This is witnessed with 20 years long track record of service on behalf of various UN bodies and leading multilateral agencies such as UNESCO, WHO, GBD Project, European Commission, Swiss Japanese Spanish and Irish science funding agencies etc. After a decade of service, due to his pivotal role in collective achievements, Senior Leadership of University of Washington, decided to offer him GBD Principal Collaborator appointment which is the Top Tier position in entire Hierarchy of Global Burden of Disease Project worldwide; Holds Professorship at Hosei University Tokyo, Japan, funded by JSPS; held Forte-funded Senior Visiting position at Lund University, Sweden, 2018-2020. He published almost 400 papers in refereed journals (150,000+ citations, Hirsch factor 97). In 2015, he was the first ever nominated candidate based in Eastern Europe for the Board of Directors elections of the International Health Economics Association IHEA. He remains the only representative of Serbia ever elected in UNESCO-TWAS Academy Membership.

Adjunct Professor, (Faculty of Sciences, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Faculty of Technology and Innovation, University of Vaasa), Research Director Jari Kaivo-oja is an expert working in the fields of business and technology foresight, planning sciences, innovation research, and sustainability science. His special fields are foresight methodologies in sustainability analyses, international energy economics, and trends and megatrends of general societal development. He has special expertise in energy economics, innovation research, climate change analyses, organisational knowledge management tools, and geopolitical security politics analyses. Jari Kaivo-oja has research experience in strategic and participatory foresight processes in Europa and in international contexts (especially in Africa, in the Middle East (The Middle East Foresight), in Black Sea Region (The Middle East Foresight and Black Sea Peace Building Foresight) and in Asia (3 years in the Lao PDR and in the Mekong River research program).

I received my Ph.D. in sociology and mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969. After a year of postdoctoral study in mathematical statistics at Columbia University in New York City, I taught there and was a member of the staff of the Russell Sage Foundation for three years. I then was successively a member of the faculties of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the University of Texas at Austin before joining the Duke Sociology Department as Chairman in 1986. I served as Chair of Sociology from January 1986 to August 1997. My main research interests are contemporary social trends and quality-of-life measurement, social problems, demography, criminology, organizations, and mathematical and statistical models and methods for the study of social and demographic processes. I have done extensive research in each of these areas and have been elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1978), the Sociological Research Association (1981), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992), the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (1997), and the American Society of Criminology (2004). I teach Contemporary Social Problems (SOCIOL 111), Advanced Methods of Demographic Analysis, and the Demography of Aging Proseminar (SOCIOL 750S). 

She is Professor of Neurology since 2010, Neuropsychiatrist since 1983, and she has worked at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 1982 and the 3rd Department of Neurology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki since 1988. She has been the primary author or co-author for more than 41 Books. She has also, participated with more than 412 abstracts in Greek Conferences, with more than 389 abstracts in English International or European Conferences. She is the first author or co-author in more than 184 paper publications in Greek Journals, and more than 318 in International Journals. Three hundred ninety-three of them are available in her Scopus profile matching an h-index=60, having more than 14000 citations. She has been a reviewer for more than 96 Conferences and Journals. She has organized 27 National Conferences on AD and 6 International. She was one of the three advisory members for 50 doctora theses at the university whom which the 28 are complete. She has created the Greek Alzheimer Association in 1995 and the Greek Federation of Alzheimer.

Narimasa Kumagai is Professor in the Department of Economics at Seinan Gakuin University, Japan. He holds a doctoral degree from Hiroshima University and has held academic appointments in economics, including a visiting scholar position at the University of Queensland.
His research focuses on health economics, social security, econometric analysis, long-term care, elderly care, caregiver burden, continuity of care and Japanese health-care policy. His work uses quantitative methods to examine how health and social care systems affect patients, families and population wellbeing.

Senior Neurologist/Clinician-Scientist/ Advocate/ Global Health Expert/ Educator 
Professor Tissa Wijeratne is a highly qualified, world recognised senior Neurologist and clinician scientist interested in promoting brain health and preventing neurological disorders globally.
He is the Director and Chair, Department of Neurology and Stroke Services at Western Health, St Albans, 3021, Victoria, Australia.
He holds honorary academic roles at University of Melbourne, La Trobe University, Victoria University in Australia, and the University of Rajarata, Sri Lanka.
Tissa has supervised over 450 basic physician trainees in Australia since 2006 and continue to facilitate train the trainer workshops on behalf of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in Australia since the inception of this program ( well over 100 workshops with where over a 1,000 Australian physicians were trained with skills in supervision) .
Tissa became the first Sri Lankan neurologist to be awarded with the  prestigous Order of Australia Award( Order of Australia Medal) on 26th January 2023.  This is in recognition of his services to Medicine as a neurologist.
He is the first  Sri Lankan/ Australian Neurologist to be appointed as the President, Asian Regional Consortium of Headache (www.archhub.org) .

Jay Pan is Dean and Professor at West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University. He directs research platforms focused on healthy cities and western rural health development, and has served as a consultant for international development organizations.
His research focuses on health policy, health economics, health-care reform, health insurance, access to care, active health, value-based health care and the interaction between population health and social development. He has led major national and international projects and contributed to policy-oriented publications and editorial work in public health.

Rainer W. G. Gruessner is Professor of Surgery and Chair at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. He has held senior surgical leadership roles in Europe and the United States and has directed pancreas transplant programs for more than three decades.
His research and clinical work focus on transplantation, transplant surgery, pancreas and islet transplantation, surgical innovation and outcomes in complex surgical care. He has contributed internationally to clinical practice, academic surgery and the development of transplant programs and training.

Dr. Carles Muntaner’s research interests include social inequities in health, social epidemiology, health disparities, work organization, employment conditions, race/ethnicity, gender, mental health and the philosophy of population health.

The World Health Organization appointed Dr. Muntaner as Co-chair of its Employment Conditions Knowledge Network of WHO’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health. In this role, he provided a rigorous analysis of how employment relations affect different population groups, and how this knowledge may help identify and promote worldwide effective policies and institutional changes to reduce health inequalities.

Dr. Muntaner holds cross-appointments at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Psychiatry. He’s an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is a Co-chair of the Social Equity and Health Section at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Morteza Arab-Zozani currently works at Social Determinants of Health Research Center (SDHRC), School of Health, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran. Morteza does research in Overuse and Underuse of Healthcare services and also Health Technology Assessment. Their current project is 'a policy package for preventing overuse and underuse of healthcare services in the Iranian healthcare system'.

Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Hospital Clínic of Barcelona.

Coordinator of the Cardiac Genetic Diseases and Sudden Arrhythmic Death Unit. Cardiovascular Institute Coordinator for Quality and Safety.

Clinical professor of the Universitat de Barcelona and recognised researcher of the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS).

Member of several Committees of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS, United States).

Committee member for several large scale European Registries to gather data on atrial fibrillation and guideline implementation in these registries.

Member of the Working Group on Atrial Fibrillation of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM).

Part of the RightCare and LEAN management task forces in Hospital Clinic.

Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim is Professor of Social and Administrative Pharmacy at Qatar University. He trained in pharmacy and pharmacy administration and has developed a broad international research profile in pharmaceutical policy and health services.
His research interests include social and administrative pharmacy, pharmacoeconomics, pharmaceutical policy, medication use, patient safety, quality use of medicines and health systems. He has published extensively and contributed to pharmacy education, research capacity building and policy-relevant pharmaceutical outcomes research.

Roy G. Beran is trained as a consultant neurologist and accredited sleep physician, in addition to working within legal medicine, military medicine and aviation medicine.  His qualifications include: MBBS, MD, FRACP, FRACGP, Grad. Dip. Tertiary Ed., Grad. Dip. Further Ed., FAFPHM, FACLM, FRCP, FAAN, FACBS, B Leg. S, MHL and FFFLM (Hon). His Orcid ID is 0000-0002-5884-0606. He is registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a specialist in Neurology, Public Health and Sleep Medicine and was a Designated Medical Examiner for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, a medical assessor for Dispute Resolution for the State Insurance Regulatory Authority and an assessor for the Workers Compensation Commission of New South Wales (NSW). He is a Conjoint Professor of Medicine at the University of NSW; Professor in the School of Medicine at Griffith University, Queensland; and Professor, Chair, Medical Law, Sechenov Moscow 1st State University, Moscow, Russia.  Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he refused to re-sign the agreement with Sechenov University. He was the inaugural Visiting Professor at the International Research Institute of Health Law Sciences at the Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. In 2022, he was appointed as a Conjoint Professor in the School of Medicine at the Western Sydney University, in addition to the above appointments.

Associate Professor Daniela Capello is a researcher at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy, with a scientific profile in biochemistry, molecular medicine, biomarkers and biobanking. Her work links laboratory science with translational and population health questions.
Her research focuses on biomarkers of disease and aging, omics technologies, biobanking, cancer biology, cognitive and functional decline and the reliability of biological measurements. She contributes to studies that support precision medicine, public health research infrastructure and sustainable biomedical discovery.

Professor Elisabetta Carraro is a public health and environmental microbiology scholar at the University of Torino, Italy. Her academic work connects hygiene, environmental health, microbiology and the prevention of health risks.
Her research focuses on water quality, waterborne pathogens, Legionella, wastewater reuse, antibiotic resistance, environmental microbiology and public health surveillance. She applies molecular and microbiological methods to assess environmental risks and support safer, more sustainable health-related infrastructure.

Dr. Eleonora Cella is an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Central Florida with doctoral training in infectious diseases. Her research combines molecular epidemiology, genomic surveillance and computational analysis of pathogens.
Her research focuses on phylogenetics, genomic epidemiology, infectious disease surveillance, bacteria and viruses, nosocomial infections and public health genomics. She has contributed extensively to studies using sequence data to understand pathogen transmission, antimicrobial resistance and epidemic dynamics.

I currently serve as Director and Professor of the School of Computing at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Prior to joining Montclair State, I was Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative Chair of Population Health and served as the Inaugural Department Chairperson and Ron and Carol Cope Endowed Professor for the Cyber Systems Department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. I also served as a member of Education committee of the Center for Intelligent Health Care at UNMC-University of Nebraska Medical Center and an elected Board Member of CyncHealth-Nebraska Healthcare Collaborative, a nonprofit organization. Prior to Nebraska, I served on a variety of senior leadership roles as Division Head/Head of School, Associate Dean of Graduate School, Sub Dean, Associate Dean of Research, and Interim/Acting Dean at leading research universities such as the University of Sydney Australia (USYD), and the University of Hong Kong (HKU). I also spent sabbatical year as Professor and continue to be Senior Research Affiliate at the Informatics Department of Lund University, Sweden. I worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Information Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology after completing my PhD in Information Technology and Computer Science from the University of Wollongong Australia.

Dr. Denny John is Research Methodologist at CPHR.
Denny’s research focuses on evidence synthesis, health economics and health technology assessment.
As a Research Methodologist he supports the CPHR team for methodological aspects related to tobacco control, tribal health, and One Health. He has been involved in evidence synthesis in clinical and public health since 2012 and published over 30 systematic reviews, rapid reviews, scoping reviews and evidence gap maps. He is Chair, Campbell & Cochrane Economic Methods Group (CCEMG), and President-Elect, Professional Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) India Chapter. He has published over 120 peer-review publications and is listed among the top 2% most cited in the field of public health in 2022 Stanford list. He is on the Editorial Boards of Systematic Reviews, Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, and BMC Public Health, journals.

Associate Professor Munjae Lee is a health policy and health-care management scholar at Ajou University, Republic of Korea. His research links health services management, health-care industry analysis, public health and digital health innovation.
His work focuses on health-care management, health policy, medical service innovation, health economics, technology adoption and population health outcomes. He has published in journals covering medical Internet research, health policy and technology, and public health, with particular interest in data-driven approaches to improving health system performance.

Nicola Luigi Bragazzi got his MD in general medicine and surgery from Genoa University (Genoa, Italy) in 2011, his PhD in biophysics from Marburg University (Marburg, Germany) in 2014 and his specialization in Public Health from Genoa University (Genoa, Italy) in 2017. He is a member of the Cochrane Association (Cochrane Reviewer) for the Cochrane Epilepsy Group. He has been awarded Young Knight of the Italian Republic by the President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in 2005. Recently, in 2019, he has been nominated as one of the top five biomedical researchers worldwide aged less than 40 years in terms of number of publications, articles in Q1 biomedical journals, total impact factor and h-index. He is currently working on infectious disease and vaccination modelling and big data mining in biomedicine at York University.

Dr. Maria Schirone is Associate Professor of Food Hygiene and Quality Control at the University of Teramo, Italy. Her academic training includes food science and technology and a PhD in food biotechnology.
Her research focuses on food hygiene, food safety, microbiological quality of foods, pathogens, spoilage microorganisms, biogenic amines, marine biotoxins and proteomic characterization. Her work contributes to public health protection through safer food systems, risk assessment and quality assurance.

Dr. Saeed Shahabi is a health policy researcher affiliated with the Health Policy Research Center at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. He holds doctoral training in health policy and has contributed to international policy discussions on inclusive development and rehabilitation services.
His research focuses on health financing, provision of health-related rehabilitation services, disability policy, evidence-informed policy making and inclusive health systems. His work examines how health and social policy can improve access, equity and financing for populations with rehabilitation and disability-related needs.

Professor Yin Shi is a management scholar at Hebei Agricultural University, China. He is recognized as a Taihang scholar and has served in provincial science and technology and editorial roles.
His research focuses on innovation management, digital green innovation, technology and policy evaluation, decision analysis, sustainability and management science. His publications and projects address the governance and assessment of innovation systems, with relevance to environmental sustainability, public management and health-related decision making.

Sathish Thirunavukkarasu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory School of Medicine. Sathish completed his Medical Degree, Diploma in Family Medicine, and Master's Degree in Public Health in India and received a PhD in Diabetes Epidemiology from the University of Melbourne in Australia. After his PhD, he did two years of Postdoctoral training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and three more years at McMaster University in Canada.

His primary research focuses on the epidemiology of type 2 diabetes and its prevention by developing novel interventions. He is also keen on translating the evidence from research into clinical and public health practice. Sathish has published research articles in very high-impact, leading medical and global health journals such as Nature Reviews Endocrinology, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, The Lancet Global Health, Diabetes Care, and PLoS Medicine as the lead author.

Apostolos Vantarakis is Professor of Public Health at the Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Patras, Greece. He teaches and supervises work in environmental hygiene, infectious epidemiology, public health, environmental microbiology and bioethics.
His research focuses on environmental microbiology, microbiological quality of water, air, soil and food, molecular detection methods, infectious disease surveillance and risk assessment. His work connects environmental health, public health protection and sustainable management of health-related risks.

Dr. Elisabetta Versino is Associate Professor in Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Torino, Italy. Her academic work is based in public health, epidemiology, preventive medicine and health promotion.
Her research interests include public health, hygiene, epidemiology, health education, health services organization and preventive medicine. She contributes to teaching and research that support disease prevention, population health and the development of evidence-based public health practice.

Mustafa Younis is a tenured Professor at Jackson State University with a concentration in health policy and management, health economics and finance, and global health. His academic training includes public health, economics and business administration.
His research focuses on global health, health economics, health-care finance, health policy, quality, efficiency and international health systems. He has published and served widely in professional roles related to health administration, public health education and policy-oriented health services research.