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Prof. Alan Apter MD, Director Of Feinberg Child Study Center, Schneider's Children's Medical Center of Israel and Professor of Psychiatry, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and Sackler School of Medicine, University of Tel Aviv. Former Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Sackler School of Medicine University of Tel Aviv. He received his medical education from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 1969 and his psychiatric qualifications in Israel and the US. He is a visiting professor at Yale, Pittsburgh and Columbia Universities in the USA and Foreign Adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Prof. After is a world-renowned researcher in the field of suicide. He is the winner of the University of Toronto's Farrington Award and Columbia University's Brickel Award. He was also awarded the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Distinguished Investigator Award, as well as the Excellence Award by the World Health Organization's Suicide Prevention Center. Prof. Apter serves on the boards of several distinguished publications, including the Israel Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences, the Journal of Neural Transmission, the Archives of Suicide Research (contributing editor), the European Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Journal of Child Psychiatry and Psychology. He serves on several state committees, including the Israel government's Interdepartmental Committee for Suicide Prevention of Adolescents, the Committee for Child Placement Laws at the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Health Ministry's Committee on the Licensing of Firearms for the Mentally Impaired, and the Defense Ministry's Suicide Prevention Committee. He also serves as a special advisor on suicide prevention to the Israel Defense Forces, and is an adviser for the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Illness in Sweden. Prof. Apter has penned six book and more than 400 papers in international journals. He has led SCMCI site in three FP7 European-multicenter studies.

Dr. Huixiao Hong is the Chief of Bioinformatics Branch, Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), working on the scientific bases for regulatory applications of bioinformatics and computational chemistry. Before joining the FDA, he was the Manager of Bioinformatics Division at Z-Tech, an ICFI company, at NCTR. He held a Research Scientist position at Sumitomo Chemical Company in Japan. He was a visiting scientist at National Cancer Institute (NCI) at National Institutes of Health (NIH). He was also an Associate Professor and the Director of Laboratory of Computational Chemistry at Nanjing University in China. Dr. Hong is the member of steering committee of OpenTox, the member of board directors of U.S.MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society, and a member of the leadership circle of FDA modeling and simulation working group. He received Ph.D. in computational chemistry from Nanjing University in China in 1990 and followed by conducting research at Maxwell Institute in Leeds University in England in 1990-1992. Dr. Hong has more than 210 publications.

Dr. Ulrich Laaser was born in 1941 in Königs Wusterhausen near Berlin. Section of International Public Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld. Principal investigator of the Stability Pact Project on Public Health Training and Research in South Eastern Europe (2001-2010). Visiting professor at the School of Public Health in Belgrade and honorary professor in Sofia and Tirana. Member of the executive boards of the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA, president 2010-2012), the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER, president 1993-1995), and the German Association for Health Sciences and Public Health (president 1997-2001). Member of the Honours Committee of ASPHER and the Advisory Board of the WFPHA. Co-editor of the book series on International Public Health, Hans Jacobs Publishing House, Lage, Germany; co-editor of the South Eastern European Journal of Public Health (www.seejph.com). Degrees in 1970 from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA (Master of Public Health) and 1969 from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Diploma of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene). Andrija Stampar Medalist, ASPHER (2008); German Hufeland Price (1979). For the last decade various public health projects in South Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, West Africa, the Pacific Region, and for the One Health Commission.

David Randall, Ph.D. currently serves as the Resident Scholar with the American Research and Policy Institute (www.arapi.org) in Washington, DC. He also serves as a strategic advisor and advisory board member for the Solve Care Foundation (www.solve.care), a healthcare block-chain technology company. Dr. Randall has extensive experience as a former top insurance regulator, legislative staff member, health care lobbyist, consultant and executive with not only insurance companies, but also with several provider trade groups in Washington. He has testified before both U.S. House and Senate committees of Congress on a variety of health policy issues He also has over two dozen peer-reviewed and professional publications as well as book chapters on health information technology, health care entitlements, health insurance markets and the policy process surrounding health care reform. His research includes study of Medicaid and Medicare entitlements and privatization, Health Insurance Exchanges, health care data analytics and health care information technology. He has also published work examining the use of blockchain technology in health IT and is a frequent guest lecturer at universities around the world and in the U.S.

Maria de Lourdes da Silva Marques Ferreira was an Associate Professor of the Nursing Department at the Botucatu Medical School - UNESP from 2017, being admitted by the Institution in 1993. Graduation in Nursing from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (1982), Master's (1993) and Doctorate (1999) in Nursing by the Ribeirão Preto School of Nursing - University of São Paulo. Post Doc by the National Post Doctoral Program (PNPD) - Capes - Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCAr). Free teaching in 2017. Specialist in Activating change processes for the training of health professionals by the Ministry of Health / FIOCRUZ / REDE UNIDA (2006-2007), in Public Health by Centro Universitário São Camilo in 1991, specialist in Obstetrics and Obstetrics Social at the Federal University of São Paulo in 1985. Tutor in the Specialization Course in Activation of change processes for the training of health professionals at UAB / Ministry of Health / Ministry of Education / ENSP (2008-2009). Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Center for Teacher Support - NIAD - Botucatu - Teacher Training Course and Professional Education in the field of health (2009-2011). In distance learning, he worked in 2013 in the Specialization Course in Health Management at the Virtual Medical School of the Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu and Universidade Aberta do Brasil. Capes scholarship holder in Post Doc. Currently, is Associate Professor at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - UNESP in Botucatu, accredited in the postgraduate program - Professional Master's in Nursing, Academic Master's and Doctorate in the Nursing Department of the Faculty of Medicine of Botucatu . It has 115 guidelines, including course completion papers, scientific initiation, specialization, master's and doctorate. She has 59 scientific articles published in journals in the area. In the graduation of the Nursing Course, is professor in the Discipline of Gynecological, Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing, being responsible for the area of Gynecology, with specific and differentiated performance in the Program for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer and Early Detection of Breast Cancer. Is a consultant in specific journals in the area, advisor to FAPESP, Institutional evaluator of INEP. Works in the orientation of projects in the area of women's health and education.

Fary Khan is a Specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with 20 year experience in Neurological, Cancer and Trauma rehabilitation. She set up evidence-based rehabilitation programs for specific conditions such as Multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, stroke, oncology, musculoskeletal injuries and disaster management. She represents Australia (and Pacific region) at a number of international forums. She is current Chair of the Disaster Rehabilitation Committee, International Society Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM) and Executive Board member of Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia & NZ (RMSANZ), Executive Member of the ISPRM Women’s Taskforce and Cancer Rehabilitation Group; regional representative for the Asia-Oceania Society of Neurorehabilitation (AOCNR), and others. She holds 20 National/International Executive positions and over 15 international academic appointments at various Universities. She works with the Executive for the UN-International Council for Caring Communities- representing medical disability. She leads the Global Rehabilitation ‘Flying Faculty’ (endorsed by the ISPRM, RMSANZ & Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), established to support Rehabilitation Medicine capacity-building activities in 15 countries. She has a leadership role in Rehabilitative care in Australia with experience in health outcomes and health services research. She has received numerous awards, including the Joel A. DeLisa Lectureship Award (2021) by the American Association of Academic Physiatrists, ISPRM Haim Ring Memorial Award (2020), Sidney Licht Lectureship Award (2018) by the ISPRM, the Inaugural Royal Melbourne Hospital Research Medal in 2014 and the Inaugural RACP specialist award for ‘Outstanding contribution to Research and Mentoring’ in 2009. She has published over 350 scientific papers in peer-reviewed academic journals (including 18 Cochrane reviews, 20 book chapters), and is a regular invited speaker at national and international conferences (over 60 presentations in last 5 years). She leads a team of interdisciplinary researchers, implementing and evaluating healthcare innovations and quality improvement programs. She has supervised 12 PhDs and postdoctoral fellows at the University of Melbourne. She is also a reviewer for more than ten neuroscience and rehabilitation medicine care journals.

Dr. Enrique Arribas is a full professor of Applied Physics Department. He is working at Faculty of Computer Science Engineering in University of Castilla-La Mancha, city of Albacete, Spain. His research fields are related with Exposure to Radiofrequency electromagnetic waves, Science Education. Active Learning Physics, Unstable Systems, Mathematical and Computer Physics and Chemistry, Nonlinear Systems. Currently, he has 105 indexed publications of which 27 are Q1. He is strongly involved with the dissemination of Physics and Science in general. He is a member of the IEEE and the Royal Spanish Society of Physics. ORCID: 0000-0002-0229-7923.

Dr. Marion Gibbon is a creative senior public health consultant who has led the development and implementation of health improvement and prevention programmes over many years. She has worked internationally in Kenya, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Her doctoral work took place in Nepal and involved working with communities and particularly women to improve their health. She has undertaken organisational development and been involved in leading change at local, national and international levels. She is very creative and helps others to think outside the box. She has wide-ranging expertise across the public health field. She has worked in many different public health arenas including health protection, health improvement across the life-course, clinical areas as well as public health intelligence. Marion likes to be innovative in her work and seeks to ensure that programmes are of high quality and results orientated. She is interested in the use of technology within public health programmes and in ensuring that communities are able to work with statutory organisations in a co-productive manner.

Dr. Kieran Walsh is Clinical Director at BMJ. He is the clinical lead of the medical education and clinical decision support resources at BMJ. He has a vast amount of experience in online medical education, clinical decision support, face to face delivery of medical education, and both summative and formative assessment. He has experience of using all of these in programmers to strengthen health systems. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in Teaching and Research at Monash University. He has published over 200 papers in the biomedical literature and has written four books on medical education.

Dr. Samira Al-Saad a mother of a daughter with autism is the Founder & Director of Jeddah Center for Autism (1993), Kuwait Center for Autism (1994), Kuwait Autism Society (2006) and Founder & Head of Gulf Autism Union (since 2002). As an active research worker in the field of special needs many of her research works are published in scientific journals and presented/released in conferences. Being the author of first Arabic book on Autism, she is an accomplished writer and translator contributing books on Autism to Arabic literature as well as the Founder & Editor of the first specialized periodical in Autism & Special needs – “Silent Scream” newsletter distributed in the whole Middle East since 2002. The organizer for the World Autism Conference 11-13, Nov. 2014. Got many awards, one of them was Jan Amos Comenius Medal from UNESCO for her work as educator who have made a significant contribution to the development of education in autism field.

Dr. Carol Webley-Brown lives in South London and she is widowed with four children (three daughters and an adopted son). She has worked for the NHS for over forty years, 20+ years within Accident and Emergency nursing, 10+ in teaching nursing and 10+ in Primary care nursing as a General Practice nurse and have just returned to my first love Mental Health Nursing. She is currently working as a clinical assessor for covid-19. She is also working as an activist for pay fair for nursing and l want to keep the NHS public. Now she is championing Youth violence which l believe should be addressed as a public health issue.

Michael Retsky received a PhD in experimental physics from University of Chicago in 1974. His thesis project was to build a scanning transmission electron microscope that could resolve single atoms of silver, mercury and uranium and measure their elastic cross-sections (in Albert Crewe’s laboratory). While doing electron optics research at Hewlett-Packard in 1982, a friend’s wife was diagnosed with cancer. This friend organized an informal research group to study cancer and possibly help his wife. Retsky got more interested in cancer research than physics research and gradually made a career change over a period of 5 years. HP did not object as long as Retsky got his work done. He read every paper he could find at Penrose Cancer Hospital. His first publication in oncology (Speer et al Cancer Research 1984) predicted that breast cancer growth included occasional periods of dormancy. This paper studied clinical data using computer simulation. Retsky had developed skills in computer simulation at U of C and especially at H-P. He later became Prof of Biology at University of Colorado, Visiting Prof at University of Texas (in Wm. McGuire’s laboratory) and on Judah Folkman’s staff at Harvard Medical School. He is now Honorary Associate Professor at University College London.

Dr. Ioannidis studied medicine in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and graduated at 2005. He received his MSC in “Medical Research Methodology” in 2008 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in “Surgery of Liver, Biliary Tree and Pancreas” from the Democritus University of Thrace in 2016. He received his PhD degree in 2014 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki for his thesis “The effect of combined administration of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in ulcerative colitis. Experimental study in rats.” He is a General Surgeon with special interest in laparoscopic surgery and surgical oncology and also in surgical infections, acute care surgery, nutrition and ERAS. He has received fellowships for EAES, ESSO, EPC, ESCP and ACS and has published more than 130 articles with more than 3000 citations and an H-index of 32.

Dr. Brian Littlechild is Professor of Social Work in the School of Health and Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. A qualified and registered social worker, he worked as a practitioner and manager in protecting children work, youth offending and in adolescent mental health and adult mental health settings before working in universities. He is currently research lead for Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire. He is also Vice President, European Research Institute for Social Work, and Visiting Professor, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He acts as a principal supervisor on the University of Hertfordshire’s Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH). He teaches, has led 23 research projects, and carries out doctoral supervision/examining in the areas of children and families work, and mental health. He has presented over 100 papers at local, national and international conferences. He has been an expert member on a National Institute for England’s Health and Care Excellence (NIHCE) Guideline Development Group, and is an expert advisor to NICE. His publications include 35 refereed articles and over 40 books/book chapters and online resources.

Prof. Dr. Nyi Nyi Naing is medically trained and his postgraduate trainings were in public health and tropical medicine. He then sub-specialized in medical statistics. He has been working as a lecturer at faculty of medicine for 29 years. His teachings are in tropical and infectious diseases epidemiology, application of statistical methods in medical and health sciences research and research methodology. Research and publications of his focus have been respiratory medicine related epidemiological research work particularly TB-HIV co-infection, smoking related studies and acute respiratory tract infections among hajj and umrah pilgrims. He is active in conducting training courses for tropical diseases epidemiology and statistical software applications in various levels of medical statistics to healthcare personnel in developing countries. He has published more than 150 scientific publications in indexed journals with high impact. He is actively involved in national and international associations of public health medicine and medical statistics.

Professor Gerardine Doyle is Director of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and is Associate Dean of of the College Business at University College Dublin. Gerardine has been Principal Investigator in the conduct of large inter-disciplinary EU funded comparative research projects that have addressed key health policy challenges including health literacy, diabetes self-management, and childhood obesity. Gerardine is a member of the European initiative Measurement of Population and Organisational Health Literacy (MPOHL) and Advisory Board member of EIT – Health and was the Conference Host and Chair of the 4th European Health Literacy Conference 2019 at University College Dublin. Gerardine is the co-ordinator of a H2020 study surrounding the role of technology in the care of Huntington’s Disease, and is Principal Investigator for a number of major international comparative research projects addressing key areas of health policy and tax policy including, value measurement in the care of children with Cystic Fibrosis, evaluation of Sugar Sweetened Beverage taxes. A key motivation driving Gerardine’s work is to deliver societal impact by engaging in societal-challenge orientated research to influence national and international policy with special emphasis on health, tax and education policy.

Prof. Dr. Michael Stark specializes in Obstetrics and Gynecology. His main interest is gynecological oncology. He initiated the VIEZION project which combines targeted chemotherapy, PIF, immunology and stem-cell therapy for improving post-surgical oncological treatment. He modified operations like the vaginal and abdominal hysterectomy and Cesarean Section and developed the concept of single-entry natural orifice surgery. In the years 2002-2010 he was the chairman of all the gynecological departments of the HELIOS hospital group in Germany and Austria. Since 2004 he has been the President of the New European Surgical Academy (NESA), an international inter-disciplinary surgical organization with members in 57 countries. In the years 2011-2013 he was the scientific advisor of the USP hospital in Mallorca, Spain. Between 2012-2015 he was the scientific director of the new European surgical robotic system (TELELAP) at SOFAR company in Milan, Italy. Between 2016-2019 he was the scientific consultant of the ELSAN 123 hospitals in France. In 2011, Prof. Stark was nominated as the Medico Del Anno (Doctor of the Year) in Italy, and is an Honorary Member of the French, Polish, Russian, Serbian-Austrian and Italian Gynecological Associations. These days he is professor for Robotic Surgery and Evidence Based Medicine at the university of Adana, scientist at the Charite University Hospital in Berlin, adjunct professor at the MIPT university in Moscow and Honorary Professor at the University of Chisinau. He was visiting Professor at the Universities of Toronto, Moscow, Beijing, Milan, Adana, Uppsala and the Weill-Cornell University hospital in New York. Since 2019 he is the vice president of the Chinese Perinatology association.

MAJ Dr. Sorush Niknamian MD PhD CRFM PE APA_FPD OMS-IV AICP MWSES MLPI MACRO MTMA MRSB FIMS FChE EMBS FNNECOS FTSCO ANCC, AANP, ACPE, ACHE, ADA MCERP APA FMDCSCO FSASS SIAG/MPE - Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology and Oncology and Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Oncology and Biological Attacks. He is a Professional Biologist, Senior Research Scientist, Chartered Scientist and Registered His Science Council ID is: A-0008833. He is one of United Kingdom and Indiana Cancer Consortium (ICC) certified. He is a Registered Researcher in the U.S. Government's System for Award Management, Registered Scientist at National Center for Biotechnology Information. He has studied Military Medicine at Liberty University (LU), Lynchburg, VA, United States of America. He holds Bachelor’s Degree in Mechatronics Engineering, applied Mathematics, Civil Engineering and Management. He is a Member of US Government National Science Foundation, Member of Hera Swiss Volunteers (ID: 198036), Member of US Army American College of Physicians Chapter, Ambassador of American Cancer Society (ACS CAN) and former Ambassador of European Association for Cancer Research (EACR), Active Member of Federal Health Professionals at US Army Forces and Certified Member of American Red Cross and Food Regulatory Affairs Professionals. He used to be one of the Honorary Board Members and contributors 2 of Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) in Washington DC, United States of America (2017-2020). He is now the honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press (Membership ID: #EV16440). He is preserved and nominated for the preserved as Position Title: DIRECTOR OF MILITARY SUPPORT, Agency: Army National Guard Units. Announcement Number: ID: WA-10507254-AR-19-161. Extra Information: DIRECTOR OF MILITARY SUPPORT located at the WASHINGTON J3 DCSOPS. Professor Sorush Niknamian is an ACP Chapter member in United States Army and Air Force. Active Member of IMRTC-USA (International Management Research and Technology Consortium Research) as Advisor, Referee and Professor at IMRTC-USA (International Management Research and Technology Consortium Panel). He is a Service Member of Modern Military Association of America. Certified Member of World Medical Association with ID: 5c7b154b01602 as a Junior Medical Doctor. He is an Active Member of the National Guard Association of the United States of America (Branch: Army, Rank: Major, State Affiliation: Maryland) and Serving Volunteer at the Peace Corps of the United States of America (Ref ID: 10811430) and certified member of The National Bureau of Asian Research. He is a member of Military Officers Association of America (Member Number: 05670401, Rank: Major). He is one of the certified member of Texas Section of the American Physical Society. Active Member of the United Nation (ROSTER NUMBER – 1665156). MAJ Dr. Sorush Niknamian is a Certified as a professional in Terrorism Affairs, Terrorism Analysis and Terrorism Counterterrorism from American Military University (AMU). He has been written more than 40 books in different area of science specially Medicine, Evolutionary Biology, Nutrition and Oncology. He has published more than 200 research articles in International and National scientific journals. He is an activist in ASCO Action Network in Virginia, ACS CAN, ACC and FPA and Improving Heart Failure Outcomes Through Personalized Education—Improving HOPE. He is an active Member of Physicians for human rights. He is an active member of Federal Planners' Advocacy Network. Volunteer/Alumni in IRAP (International Refugee Assistance Project) at MSF (Doctors Without Borders). He is an active registered in Advocated of Internal Medicine at ACP (US Army Chapter). He is one of active American Psychiatric Association Political Action Committee (APAPAC). Ambassador of Lung Cancer Registry Foundation. Dr. Sorush Niknamian is a member of Remote Area Medical—RAM® as a volunteer. Sorush Niknamian is a Volunteer Member of UN (United Nations with ROSTER NUMBER – 1665156) and Certified Member 3 of MSF (Doctors Without Borders ROSTER NUMBER: 1665156, Chapter: New York). He is a Certified Member of ICMA’s Mid-Career Managers Institute (ICMA) and a professional in local government management. Active Member of Military Community of the United States of America (ID: 37808642). MAJ Dr. Sorush Niknamian is one of Donald Trump (President of the United States of America) Victory Volunteer and Campaign Member (ID: 123456789).

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Mr. Zeeshan Qadar is a Senior Project Manager with the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba. Our centre has a federal mandate to conduct knowledge translation and is at arm’s length with the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). Mr. Qadar is an Implementation Scientist/Knowledge Translation Scientist in Infectious Diseases Public Health. In this capacity, he is managing various project streams including migration and public health, antimicrobial resistance and surveillance, public health needs for long-term evacuees due to disasters in Canada, application of big data in public health, Tuberculosis in Canada. He is the project lead for the Public Health Agency of Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-out knowledge translation approach by managing webinars. These have been high attendance events from major stakeholders across Canada (approximately more than 10k between 2020-2021). He is a co-principal investigator for the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) grant looking into the psychosocial impact of COVID-19 in eight different nations including Canada. In addition, he is working with another CIHR grant from the University of Calgary group on a vaccine hesitancy guide for health care professionals. Mr. Qadar has developed various knowledge translation products tailoring to the needs of public health professionals in Canada. This includes webinars, podcasts, case studies, evidence reports, and others on public health. He has presented his work on numerous occasions at Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), American Public Health Association (APHA), North American Refugee Health Conference, One Health Antimicrobial Resistance Conference, and Resisting Borders International Conference. He has published over a dozen articles on emerging infections, public health, and evidence-based medicine. Previously, Mr. Qadar has worked as a Researcher on Systematic Reviews with George and Fee Yay Centre for Health Care Innovation. In addition, he has a decade of experience in public health and evidence base medicine. He has worked in various capacities at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, Centre for Rural Health & Social Services Development, Carbondale, USA and Schneider Institute for Health Policy, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA.

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Dr. Wang, MD, MPH (Tianjin Medical University) and PhD in epidemiology (University of Toronto) is a tenured professor in the Division of Community Health and Humanitieshttps://www.med.mun.ca/Medicine/Faculty/Wang,-Peter.aspx.A professor at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH)https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/wang-peter/, a senior scientist at Beatrice Hunter Cancer Research Institute (BHCRI),https://bhcri.ca/peizhong-peter-wang and director of Centre for New Immigrant Well-being (CNIW)https://cniw.org/cniw-director/. Dr. Wang earned his medical degree from Tianjin Medical University in China and his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto’s DLSPH. Academic General Contribution: Wang has extensive research experience with broad interests, including cancer epidemiology, arthritis and disability, immigrant health and quality of life, aging, health surveys, and epidemiological modeling. Among many recognitions, Dr. Wang received the Arthritis Society and CIHR Joint Fellowship Award, the distinguished visiting professor award from the Tianjin government, and the Science and Chinese National Technology Achievement Award. He has been a lead investigator and a co-investigator for more than 50 research grants that have been supported by various provincial, national, and international funding agencies. Dr. Wang is a reviewer for many funding agencies, including the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR, https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/) , Social Sciences and Humanities and Research Council (https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/) , and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC，https://www.nsfc.gov.cn/). In addition, Dr. Wang also provides service to more than 30 academic journals either as editorial board member or external reviewer. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals. Dr. Wang’s main research focus for the past 20 years has been on the epidemiology of colorectal cancer, with his research in this area receiving many international recognitions. Dr. Wang is committed to teaching and training future public health researchers and practitioners. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate classes at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Tianjin Medical University. As a teacher or mentor, Dr. Wang has trained more than 40 students and young scholars. He was nominated as the presidential award twice for his outstanding supervision at Memorial University.

Begoña García-Zapirain was born in San Sebastian (Spain). She graduated in Communications Engineering, specializing in Telematics at the Basque Country University, Bilbao (Spain) in 1994. In 2004, she defended her doctoral thesis in biomedical signal processing research area. After four years of working for ZIV Company, in 1997, Prof. García Zapirain joined the University of Deusto as a lecturer in signal theory and electronics at the Engineering School. She was the head of the Telecommunication Department at the University of Deusto from 2002-2008 and head of DeustoTech-LIFE Department from 2008-2018. In 2001 she created eVIDA research group (evida.deusto.es). She has participated in more than 120 research projects on international, national and regional levels, published more than 140 papers in international scientific ISI indexed journals, and presented more than 160 papers in international and national scientific conferences. She has been supervising 11 thesis and has ongoing 5 PhD students. She has strong collaborations with research labs in USA, France, Ireland, and Netherlands among others. She has 6 research awards at national level.

Prof. Francesco Saverio Mennini is presently Professor for Health Economics and Microeconomics (Business Administration Course) at University of Rome "Tor Vergata”, (Faculty of Economics). He is also Professor for Political Economics at University of Rome "Tor Vergata”, Faculty of Science. Visiting Professor, Institute of Leadership and Management in Health, Kingston University, London, UK (from 2011). Research Director, Centre for Economic Evaluation and HTA (EEHTA), CEIS - Faculty of Economics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. President, SiHTA (Italian Society of Health Technology Assessment). His main contributions have dealt with Welfare policies, health system analysis, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Pharmaco-economics, and pharmaceutical economics. He is a member, as economists expert, of Consiglio Superiore di Sanità (From 2017) and Member of the Working Group (WG) "Vaccines and anti-COVID-19 vaccinations", Ministry of Health (from November 2020). Also, he is an author of numerous publications, national and international, of Health Economics, HTA and Economic Evaluation.

Dr. Donato Bonifazi is an Economist specialised in European Project Management and Chief Executive Officer at CVBF, a non-profit research consortium with 20 years’ experience in healthand pharmaceutical research management, acting as a recognised clinical research organisation based in Italy and Albania. He has been Coordinator of two EU-funded Projects (DEferiprone Evaluation in Paediatrics and GAbapentin for Paediatric Pain), each involving more than 20 clinical centers from European and Mediterranean countries.He is involved in two H2020 projects, the IMI2 conect4children (c4c) - COllaborative Network for European Clinical Trials for Children project and the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD). He has been the President of the AICRO, the Italian Association of Contract Research Organisations.He is member of the Paediatric Working Group and Chair of the Events & Training Working Group of the EUCROF (European Clinical Research Organisations Federation). He is between the founders of INCiPiT, the Italian Network for paediatric clinical trials, and of the first two YPAGs (Young Persons Advisory Groups) in Italy (KIDS Bari) and Albania (Tirana), and is member of the Coordinating Group at the Enpr-EMA (the European Network of Paediatric Research at the European Medicines Agency) representing the TEDDY European Network of Excellence for Paediatric Research. He is Coordinator of EPTRI (European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure) aimed to create the framework for a new Research Infrastructure (RI) intended to enhance technology-driven paediatric research in drug discovery and early development phases to be translated into clinical research and paediatric use of medicines, grouping more than one hundred research centers form 25 EU and not EU Countries.

Kadhim Alabady is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (FRCP), Fellow of Faculty of Public Health UK (FFPH). He has completed his Doctorate degree in Public Health and Epidemiology, Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology (MSc), Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH), all from The Netherlands universities with broad experience driving research and development (R&D) strategies and operations. He has been registered as an Epidemiologist Grade A with The Netherlands Epidemiological Society. He has numerous publications in the UK in mental illnesses, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, dementia, autism, COPD, population health, road casualties and others.

Dr. Clark is a PA specializing in cardiovascular medicine at Heart Center of North Texas in Fort Worth Texas. He has over 35 years of clinical and academic experience. He is a Fellow in the American College of Cardiology and Distinguished Fellow in the American Academy of PAs. He has a degree in Physician Associate Sciences from the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He completed a Doctor of Medical Science at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions and a PhD and Masters in Life Sciences from the City University Los Angeles. He completed a post graduate surgical internship in at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. Dr. Clark has been involved in academia at several universities and was founding faculty for two Texas PA programs including founding director for the Texas Tech Health Science Center PA program. He currently holds adjunct clinical appointments at Touro University in Long Island, New York, Chatham University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and University of North Texas Health Science Center Fort Worth, Texas. He has been author or co-author of several journal publications and medical text contributions. He is a retired U.S. Navy officer.

Dr. Ozpolat has expertise in Immunology, Cancer biology, Genetics, Gene therapy, Experimental Therapeutics, Nanotechnology, nanocarriers and development of highly targeted therapeutics for cancer. After getting his M.D. degree Dokuz Eylul University, Dr. Ozpolat received his Ph.D. degree in Immunology from The University of Texas- MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX, USA and completed post-doctoral training at MD Anderson Cancer. Dr. Ozpolat has been serving as a faculty for more than 15 years at MD Anderson Cancer Center, which is ranked as #1 cancer center for 15 years in the US. Dr. Ozpolat has 5 patents for development of targeted therapeutics and published more than 137 publications (H-index 39) (90 research papers, 20 book chapter sand 24 review articles) in peer-reviewed high impact journals.

Dr. Gomes has been a board certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner since June of 2018 who has worked in various settings consisting of seasonal, residential, outpatient, inpatient, and government facilities. She treats psychiatric patients across the lifespan with complex mood and anxiety disorders, comorbid substance use disorders, dual diagnosis, eating disorders, psychosis and PTSD. Dr. Gomes shares a passion for global public health and disaster medicine, which assists her in treating a diverse clientele. She places emphasis on treating the whole person by incorporating a holistic approach to treatment with psychopharmacology. Her mission is to provide preventative care and education on public health and decrease the stigma surrounding mental illness. Gomes currently works at the prestigious McLean Hospital as a PMHNP providing inpatient evaluations in the Clinical Evaluation Center. Dr. Gomes is the founder and CEO of New England Psychiatry PC©.

Dr. Ashley Tharpe is the Online Dean of the School of Health Sciences and Associate Professor for the Department of Public & Community Health at Liberty University. She holds an EdD in Educational Leadership, Master of Public Health, MA in Human Relations, a Master of Health Sciences, and is a Certified Health Education Specialist. She is currently serving as the past-president of the Virginia Public Health Association (VPHA) and serves on several health-related committees with ImmunizeVA, VPHA, and APHA. Dr. Tharpe is passionate about online education and supporting the optimal health of people and communities. Her association with the Medical Institute for Sexual Health and the NSR Coalition has resulted in the opportunity to help address the growing public health concern of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States.

Brandon Lucke-Wold was born and raised in Colorado Springs, CO. He graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Neuroscience and distinction in honors from Baylor University. He completed his MD/PhD, Master’s in Clinical and Translational Research, and the Global Health Track at West Virginia University School of Medicine. His research focus was on traumatic brain injury, neurosurgical simulation, and stroke. At West Virginia University, he also served as a health coach for the Diabetes Prevention and Management program in Morgantown and Charleston, WV, which significantly improved health outcomes for participants. In addition to his research and public health projects, he is a co-founder of the biotechnology company Wright-Wold Scientific, the pharmaceutical company CTE cure, and was a science advocate on Capitol Hill through the Washington Fellow’s program. He has also served as president of the WVU chapters for the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, Neurosurgery Interest group, and Erlenmeyer Initiative Entrepreneur group. In addition, he has served as vice president for the graduate student neuroscience interest group, Nu Rho Psi Honor Society, and medical students for global health. He was an active member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He is currently a member of the UF House Staff Council and Positive Culture Committee. He is married to Noelle Lucke-Wold and has two children. As a family, they enjoy running with their dogs, rock climbing, and traveling. In his spare time, Brandon frequently runs half marathons and 10ks together with is wife. Brandon also enjoys reading and discussing philosophy and playing chess. He is currently a Pgy4 neurosurgery resident at University of Florida with R25 funding and plans to pursue endovascular training.

Josef Noll is Professor at the University of Oslo (UiO) and Secretary General at the Basic Internet Foundation. His focus at UiO is on communication, IoT-security, and especially Societal Security, including the impact of digitization. He is leader of the cross-cutting theme “Digital Global Health” at the Centre for Global Health at UiO. He has been project leader of a series of international projects, amongst them "Non-discriminating Access for Digital Inclusion" (DigI) and "Security for IoT for Smart Grids" project, as well as involved in several Digital Health projects. Besides his academic background, he has worked in SIEMENS (DE), European Space Agency (NL) and Telenor (NO). Through the Foundation he focusses on "Connecting the Unconnected" through addressing access, skills, regulation and inclusion. He advocates for "free access to information on the Internet is a Human Right".

Shelia Gulnara has completed his Ph.D. at the Georgia State Medical University and postdoctoral studies at St. Petersburg University. She was the first Deputy Chairperson of the Healthcare and Social Issues Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, She has over 25 years of experience as a teacher in University and a research career in Public Health and Clinical Epidemiology. At present, she is professor of Tsereteli State University. Shelia G. has published more than 67 papers in reputed journals. She has participated in more than 21 international conferences and congresses (such as AMEE; FIGO; ESC; FIAPAC and etc.), as well as in several international projects.

Dr. Dali Trapaidze has completed her Specialty General/Internal Medicine in 1972-1978 in Tbilisi State Medical Institute. In 1981, she has qualified in cardiology at the Institute of Cardiology. She has completed her Post-graduating / Specialization in Clinical Cardiology on the basis of Institute of Cardiology during 1982 – 1984. She has worked as a Leading Research Worker at Department of Preventive Cardiology Institute of Cardiology from 1984-2009. Dr. Dali Trapaidze’s current positions 2009– present, Chief Specialist of the Non-Communicable Disease Department, National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia). 2007 – Present, Invited Professor, Department of Internal Diseases, Tbilisi State University. 2002 – Present, Head of the AH Control Working Group of GSH - Georgian Society of Hypertension. 2017-2019, May Measurement Month, MMM Georgia, Country leader.

Medicine Doctor, Specialist in social evaluation of projects and Magister in public health. Currently a student of the Doctoral program in Modeling in Politics and Public Management at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. Academic Coordinator of the Specialization programs in Health Quality Management and Auditing, Occupational Health and Safety Management, Health Economics and Management and the Master's Degree in Health Management and Policies. Professor in these programs in Assurance Audit, Health Policies, Health Models and Systems, Introduction to Health Economics, Health Determinants and Health Quality Management.

Abdalla Abotaleb is one of the most profound experts in healthcare policy and regulations in the MENA region His expertise extend from HTA & Reimbursement policies , policy analysis to regulatory and supply chain strategies in the public sector. He has been involved in the fields of health economics, Health policy reforming and reimbursement policies for 15 years, with experience across the pharmaceutical, biological and vaccines. And now works for WHO as a project manager at health care reforming area. He, in addition to being a committee member and project manager in a number of national projects in many countries including Germany. United Kingdom, Egypt, Algeria, Sudan, Russia, UAE, Morocco, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey, KSA, GULF, USA and Poland. Multiple engagement efforts are well recognized in his research through introducing concepts of stakeholder engagement. He also does that by being an active member and editorial member of many research organizations internationally and locally.

Dr. Ahmed Nasr Ghanem,. MD (Urol.), FRCSEd was educated in Egypt and qualified in 1968, Mansoura University, Egypt. He spent his internship at Mansoura University Hospitals. He gained all postgraduate experience in UK where he was promoted in posts up to the consultant level. He practiced as consultant Urologist in UK, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. During his career life he attended many conferences and won the award of Princes Alexandra Memorial Award and reported over 100 articles of which he made important discoveries in medicine, physiology, urology, nephrology, cardiovascular and surgery. He discovered two new types of vascular shocks, proved that one physiological law is wrong and provided the correct replacement. He resolved the puzzles of 4 clinical syndromes: the transurethral of the prostate (TURP) syndrome, acute dilutional hyponatraemia, the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and the loin pain haematuria syndrome (LPHS). Now he is happily retired in Egypt and UKdedicating his time to writing scientific medical articles and peer reviewing and editorial board member for many Journals. He is the Editor in Chief for Surgical Medicine Open Access Journal (SMOAJ).

Carme Carrionholds a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2002) from the University of Barcelona, a Master inBiotechnology (1995) from the same University and a Master in Conflictology (2008) from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She is currently vice dean for Research at School of Health Sciences and part-time Assistant Professor in the University of Girona (UdG). Previously she has been Senior Researcher at the Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia (CAHTA) (2012 – 2016) and the director of Fundació UdG Medicina (a non-profit Organization linked to University of Girona) (2012 – 2015). Her research has gone from the basic biochemical sciences to translational medicine and impact assessment. She has been the director of a the Master’s Degree in eHealth at UOC’s School of Health Sciences (2017-2021), a new World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating centre in the field of eHealth. Linked to research she is the Principal Investigator of eHealth Lab Research Group and she is leading now the Design and Assessment of eHealth intervention area of knowledge in the eHealth Center at UOC. The eHealth Center is an academic centre whose main goalis to capacitate and empower citizens and professionals through the use of technology so that they can lead the paradigm shift in health. She has published several papers on high impact scientific journals and had been professor of various graduate and postgraduate modules, mainly in the areas linked to eHealth, Evidence-Based Medicine, Public Health and Research Methodology. She is also reviewer fordifferent European Projects and has been actively involved as Researcher in different international projects in the areas of ICT-Health.

Professor Rita Mano received her PhD from the Polytechnic Institute of Israel (Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management in 1995. She currently engages in a wide range of studies in mHealth, e-Health and nonprofit management studies. Her research has been funded from Maccabi Health Services (2011) and Israel Society Foundation (2016). Professor Rita Mano publishes regularly in social sciences, technology and health leading journals including Health Expectations, Social Science and Medicine Computers in Human Behavior, Human Relations. Professor Rita Mano published three books on (1) Complexity of Management in human services (2) Nonprofit organizations in Israel and (3) eHealth, mHealth and the self-management of health concerns (forthcoming). Professor Mano serves as a member of the Editorial Boards in several health and human service journals. Professor Rita Mano currently serves as Head of Department in Human Services for a second term.

Dr. Dar is a physical therapist (B.PT) and has completed her M.Sc. and PhD from the Department of Anatomy, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. She is a full member in the Department of Physical Therapy at Haifa University, Israel being the head of the department since 2019. She is also working as a physiotherapist in "Wingate Institute" which is the national institute for physical education and sport in Israel. Her research focuses on the musculoskeletal system in order to better understand function, injuries and treatment. Her main research areas are: orthopedic and sport injury rehabilitation, pelvic floor muscle function, low back pain rehabilitation, sacroiliac joint and dry needling effect on muscle function and for musculoskeletal problems.

Ruth Berkowitz, PhD, is an assistant professor at the School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Israel. She has a PhD in social work from Bar Ilan University, where she studied the contribution of positive school climate to students’ academic achievements and educational equality. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, where she researched strategiesto establish unique solutions for military-connected students’ socioemotional and family needs in school settings by increasing positive school climate.She serves as the regional editor in the Middle East of the International Journal of School Climate and Violence Prevention. Her research focuses on school climate, bullying and violence, parental school involvement, and associated prosperity and well-being among students, educators, and families. She is a current recipient of a fellowship from the Israeli Science Foundation focusing on school social and organizational climate and teachers’ workplace victimization. She has published numerous articles in leading peer-reviewed journals (including Review of Educational Researchand Teachers College Record) and several encyclopedia entries on school climate and school violence. She is devoted to improving youths’ socioemotional life,especially those living in contexts of injustice, experiencing increased deprivation, and attending schools where odds are stacked against them. She believes that a forum ofscientists and educators with a special interest in school climateis an ideal platform to gather the best available knowledge on means to improve the social, emotional, and ethical abilities of schools to better support these youths.

Elena L Tostov, MD, PhD was born in Russia, and worked in Russia, Israel, Canada and USA. She is nationally and internationally recognized expert in Integrative Pain Management, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Chemical Dependency. She accomplished multiple visiting professorships around the Globe, working with International Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, World Health Organization, United Nations promoting innovative methods of treatment. Dr. Elena L. Tostov, received her MD in Russia, and later on she completed PhD program at the St Petersburg University Medical School, Lesgaft Academy. In collaboration with the World leading rehab centers, she conducted original research in rehabilitation medicine. She completed numerous visiting professorships in many distinguished universities in the USA and worldwide. Dr. Tostov was a professional athlete, competing in the Russian Olympic Team Reserve in gymnastics and she had been actively collaborating with the International Olympic Committee. Her special interests include art & sports medicine, special services for top level executives and elite athletes.

Dr. Maria do Socorro Cirilo-Sousa is a Brazilian, born in João Pessoa City, capital of Paraíba. She has been teaching at universities for over 30 years, with numerous publications and scientific production and participation in congresses. She is an academic researcher at the Regional University of Cariri(URCA), graduation and Federal University of Paraíba(UFPB), master and doctorate. Currently, a member and academic coordinator of the Human Performance Cineantropometry and Studies Laboratory (LABOCINE and LABCINDH), with studies focused on physical training and its methods, training with blood flow restriction (RFS), creation and development of equipment for tests and measurements in Physical Education and other variables associated with physical training and performance, Regional University of Cariri(URCA), graduation and Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), master and doctorate.

Dr. Vasiliki E. Kalodimou is the Board/Committee on Research Ethics at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Ε.Ι.Ε), previously was the Director at the Flow Cytometry-Research and Regenerative Medicine Department of IASO MaternityPediatric and Research Hospital in Athens, Greece, as well as the CBB Director & Processing Facility Director at MedStem-Cryobanks of IASO. Before her current appointment, Kalodimou served as a hematology research associate at General University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, and as an instructor at both the General University Hospital of Heraklion and the Ipokratios Medical-Technical Institute of Athens. Since 2006, Dr. Kalodimou has studied and working with stem cells from placenta, umbilical cord and adipose tissue, in every day practice and their applications in regenerative medicine, clinical trials, medical tourism and Flow Cytometry. Also is working in the area of human genetics & population genetics as well as cellular standards. In addition to collaboration with state universities and pharmaceutical companies on research projects (16), Kalodimou frequently publishes (45 & 9 books) her findings. She has 2 patents. She received the experienced “Shining Star” award, AABB PEP Program, 2017, the AABB PEP Volunteer of the Year Award for 2018, she is the AABB PEP International Ambassador, a TEDx Speaker & a Skill Mentor at EUvsVirus for 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic & in October 2020 she received the AABB President’s Award for her work in cellular therapy and as a mentor. She is in the editorial board and a reviewer in several scientific international journals as well as board member in scientific organizing committee’s for medical conferences worldwide.

Maria Dalamagka currently works at the Department of Anesthesia, General University Hospital of Larissa. Maria does research in acupuncture and Anesthetics. She is PhD medicine, doctor of pain, MD. Editorial board member : Scifed Journal, Pain Medicine and Management, Enliven, Cient Periodique, Journal of Pain Management and Medicine Longdom, Anesthesia &Pain Research Scivision, GJNFS, Journal if Pain and Relief. Speaker and organizing committee to conferences as: Pain Research and Management Zurich 2018, 5th international conference Pain Research &Management London 2017, and Vancouver, Canada 2016, Word congress on Pain Medicine and Management Singapore 2019, International Conference on Alzheimers & Neurodegenerative disease Madrid , Spain 2018, scientific federation speaker.

Dr. Maria Fernanda Tobar Blandon is a Health professional, specialist in Health Auditing, Master in Public Health and candidate for a doctorate in public health with an emphasis on health systems and services, with a diploma in health services habilitation. Coordinator of the Master in Health Administration at the School of Public Health of the Universidad del Valle in Cali Colombia. And, advisory expert in sectorial public policies, with experience in the development and organization of health services.

Elena CIGU PhD. is Associate Professor at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, where she works since 2009. She received a B.S. in 2002, a M.S. in 2003, and the PhD. in Finance in 2011 from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. She followed a postdoctoral stage at Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, in collaboration with Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. She has experience in project management as director or member in several structural and research projects (such as Erasmus+, Erasmus Mundus, POSDRU, POCU, UEFCSDI, CEEX), in the organizing committee of 10 international conferences and in international teaching through Erasmus and Erasmus+ programs. Her teaching and research activities are in the fields of public finance and public administration. She authored and co-authored 11 books, along with over 50 articles published in journals indexed in international databases, 60 articles published in conference proceedings, and attended over 70 international conferences.

Raluca Anton, PhD is a psychotherapist, teacher and supervisor in psychotherapy. She obtained her PhD degree at the doctoral school "Evidence Based Assessment and Psychological Interventions" from Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca, Romania. She currently is Managing Partner at PsyLife Clinic - a psychological services company that offers to its patients therapeutical assessments and interventions for all types of emotional disorders. Dr. Raluca Anton is interested in studying and working on the relationship between the mind and the body, on the dynamic between life experiences and emotional and physical disorders.

Amaia Méndez is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Deusto. Her publications and research interests are mainly in Biomedical Engineering and New Technologies applied to society. She has participated in many regional and international projects, and during last years she has developed her activity around ageing and physical activity areas.

Ibon Oleagordia Ruiz holds a Doctorate from the University of Deusto, a degree in Physical Sciences (specializing in Electronics and Automation) and an Electronic Engineer from the University of the Basque Country. He is currently contracted as a Doctor commissioned by the University of Deusto, at the Bilbao Campus, specifically, in the Faculties of Engineering. His teaching activity includes all engineering degrees in which he teaches Kalkulua I (called Kalkulua in some degree) and Kalkulua II. It belongs to the eVIDA research group and the scientific publications are framed in the lines of Digital Processing of biomedical signals and New technologies at the service of society. In recent years he has been working on projects to improve the quality of life of people with special needs.

Raquel Ramirez-Vazquez has PhD in Science and Technologies Applied to Industrial Engineering from the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Currently, she is a researcher as a member of Radiofrequency research group of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Her research fields are related with Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields, Statistical and Geostatistical Analysis, Geographic Information System, Science Education and Active Learning Physics. She has 36 indexed publications of which 7 are Q1. She has conducted several research internships in some countries such as Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Jordan, and Brazil. ORCID: 0000-0002-4773-4146.

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Dr. Fida Khater is an Associate Professor at the University of Angers with a focus in bioinformatics approaches applied to rare and infectious diseases. She got involved in translational and applied research in medical sciences after obtaining her engineering degree, a Master's degree in biotechnology at INA-Paris, a PhD thesis in molecular biology/biochemistry at INRA of Montpellier and a Postdoctoral fellowship at CHU Sainte Justine, Montreal, Canada. She has been brought to drive complex projects within and across multidisciplinary teams with expertise in functional genomics, genetics, genomic data analysis and bioinformatics analysis. Recent years, thriving in gathering and evaluating clinical and scientific data, allowed her to understand in-depth basic and clinical needs in rare diseases, with analytical and critical thinking approach. She has also kept abreast of the latest industry trends and drug discovery programs, as well as clinical trial processes in rare and infectious diseases.

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I am a learner with an overwhelming desire to go beyond my comfort zone to learn ways to make the world a better place and that lead me to the academic world. Education is the key to growth and I am being enriched every day via European Masters in Health Economics and Management (EU-HEM), a joint degree by Universities of Oslo, Rotterdam, Bologna & Innsbruck and simultaneously pursuing Masters in Healthy Ageing and Rehabilitation from HVL, Bergen. It’s tough balancing all my responsibilities but no pain..no gain. Looking forward to developing competency and expertise in Decision making in healthcare and above all, enjoying being a part of the new extended family of learned fraternity :). 26 years of experience as a Consultant Dental Surgeon and 7 years as a Cosmetologist in my own private practice and as a Head of the Dental Department in a hospital, and six months as a patient advocate in Inspire2live helps me with a broader perspective to every situation. Hoping to amalgamate them to find better solutions. A firm believer of the concept of Social and Emotional Intelligence, I follow the approach: “Do unto others, what you want to be done unto yourself”

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Herminia Gonçalves Doctor of Social Work from ISCTE-IUL (Pass with Distinction and commendation); Doctor of Sociology from the University of Salamanca (Pass with Distinction and award); Master in Rural Development from UTAD. Graduated in Social Work from Higher Institute of Social Work Porto (ISSSP). Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro. Researcher in the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies for Development (CETRAD). Director of the Graduation in Social Work. With publications and participation in research projects in areas such, changes in social policies; municipal decentralization; multilevel governance; third sector; aging; poverty; community participation and public health; critical theory of social work.

Dr. Haleama Al Sabbah is Associate Professor and former Chair of Health Sciences Department at Zayed University in UAE. She completed her PhD in Public Health Nutrition (PhD in Medical Sciences) in 2008 from the Faculty of Medicine, Gent University, Belgium. She awarded a doctoral scholarship from Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC). Her PhD study was part of the National Study of the Palestinian Health Behaviors in School-aged Children (HBSC-2004). Dr. Al Sabbah was a Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholar and did Post-Doctoral studies in Public Health and Nutrition at Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Center, Tufts University, Boston, USA from 2011 to 2012. She served as the director of Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, An-Najah University, Palestine from 2009 to 2013. Dr. Al Sabbah has published numerous number of articles in scientific journals and served as an editorial board member and reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Al Sabbah is regularly invited to both national and international conferences, courses and research studies in all over the world, including Europe, USA, Canada, West Africa and some Arab countries.

Dr. Botshelo Rachel Sebola has worked as a Professional nurse, and a lecturer in a Nursing college teaching Social Sciences. She is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the University of South Africa since 2020, in the department of Health studies. She has published two papers in scientific journals between 2000 and 2001. She has contributed a chapter for an academic book that is presently awaiting publication. Her interests are adolescent pregnancy issues as well as self-forgiveness. She had Obtained BA (Cur), BA (Cur) honours, MA Nursing Science (cum laude) and D Litt et Phil, all at Unisa.

Dr. Bulelwa Maphela is a senior Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of Johannesburg – South Africa her focus is on Public Policy, Local Economic Development and Governance. Bulelwa has embarked on high profile research projects over the years including the areas of Water Policy and Indigent Status in the Johannesburg Metropolitan municipality; Sector Education and Training Authority project on emerging enterprises in the Funeral Directors Industry. She is also has been playing an adjudication and training role of SME in all the nine provinces of South Africa. In addition to her lecturing role Bulelwa is a seasoned Ethics executive officer with the Research Ethics Board for the College of Business and Economics. Bulelwa graduated Doctor Litterarum Philosophiae in Public Management and Governance with specialty in Policy Analysis having conducted an extensive study on South Africa’s Water Policy. Bulelwa is a traditional, cultural and a township academic. Currently she is pursing Local Economic Development topics in the townships of various provinces with Maters and PhD student. She is a member of the pool of specialist in the South African Defense Force, where she teaches local economic development as a multi-disciplinary discourse.

Mmahiine Mosana (Nee Molepo) is a Senior Technician and an Academic Technical Coordinator at the School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Mmahiine Mosana’s educational qualifications are Bachelor of Sciences Degree in Environmental Sciences (Wits), Bachelor of Science with Honours in Environmental Sciences (Wits), Master of Science in Biology (NWU) and PhD Medical Physiology (Wits) (In progress). She serves in the school of physiology teaching and learning committee. Her research interest include using phytochemicals to programme for good metabolic health through neonatal interventions during critical windows of development. Her interests also include general gastrointestinal and nutritional physiology. Her research has produced a few peer reviewed original scientific manuscripts and presented at a few local and international fora.

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Antonio Hegar is a current PhD candidate at Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK where he is pursuing a degree in data science with a focus on big data in the health sector. Prior to beginning his PhD, he obtained his Master’s degree in public health with an emphasis in the environment and health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Following this he returned to Belize where he worked as an epidemiologist for a year with the local Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) office where he worked on national and international projects related to both infectious and non-communicable chronic diseases. He briefly interned as a monitoring and evaluation consultant with the National AIDs Commission, and then ultimately entered service at the Ministry of Health and Wellness. He worked at this institution from 2015 to 2021 first as a Quality Assurance Specialist before transferring to a full-time role as an epidemiologist within the Epidemiology Unit. In this capacity he not only applied statistical analyses to the large, national electronic health dataset, but collaborated internally and externally on original studies in topics ranging from infectious disease, vector borne diseases, renal failure and other chronic diseases, nutrient deficiencies in children, and most recently the impact of behaviour modification programmes on long-term health prognoses. His passions include biostatistics, coding in RStudio, and mastering other programming languages such as Python and SQL.

Dr. Júlia Lelis Vieira has a bachelor's degree in Physical Education from the University of Franca (2007), graduated in Physical Education Bachelor's degree from the University of Franca (2006), master's and doctorate in Collective Health from the State University of São Paulo Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2015/2022). She has experience in the area of Public Health, with emphasis on Health Promotion for different audiences, working mainly on the following topics: leisure activities, leisure for specific groups and mental health.

Vitor Alves Marques is physical education by profession, he holds licenciaded in Physical Education and currently pursuing a doctor in Health Science at the Federal University of Goias. Vitor is master in Health Science at the Federal University of Goias, and its dissertation is about the effects of chemotherapy treatment on muscle performance in women with breast cancer in the year 2018. He is member the Laboratory of Physiology of the Exercise and Nutrition and Healthy at the Federal University of Goias (LAFINS/UFG)and also is member the Laboratory of Analyzes of Human Moviment (LAMOVH/UFG.

Vanessa Klimkowski Argoud is a Pharmacist specialist in Primary Health Care and specializing in Health Management at the School of Public Health of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is currently a Multi-professional Resident in Health at the State Secretariat of Health of Rio Grande do Sul at the Department of Pharmaceutical Assistance. She works in the planning, implementing, and monitoring State Pharmaceutical Assistance Policies and Programs; lines of institutional research are about implementation science and intercultural validation of standard tools for health evaluation in the scope of pharmaceutical care for people with non-communicable diseases and evaluation of the influence of pharmaceutical care in the health of the population and in the pharmacist staff.

My name is Glenda Beatriz Brazão Buzaglo, Brazilian, born in Borba, in the interior of Amazonas, I am an academic researcher at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM). Scholarship for 2 years by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ) of the Neurological Rehabilitation Program (PRONEURO) at the Laboratory of Neuroscience Studies (LENC), performing therapeutic follow-up and rehabilitation studies with patients with neurological diseases such as Parkinson's , CVA, Spinocerebellar Ataxia, Cerebral Aneurysm, Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis, integrating the multidisciplinary team of the program, where I presented several studies on the subject in several national congresses. Currently a member and academic coordinator of the Human Performance Studies Laboratory (LEDEHU), at the Federal University of Amazonas within the Physical Education and Physiotherapy Unit-FEFF, scholarship holder of the Amazonas Research and Support Foundation-FAPEAM, developing research with women diagnosed with Breast Cancer in Amazonas, by the Oncology Control Center Foundation of the State of Amazonas (FCECON) reference and cancer treatment center in the North of Brazil, being part of the Women's Network for Fighting Cancer in Amazonas – RFCC and volunteer in the Amazon League Against Cancer – LACC.

Nour Eldaim Elnoman Elbadawi is an associate Professor of Medical Biochemistry. He has got his Ph.D. from University of Gezira, college of medicine , Sudan, 2007. He has published about 20 papers in reputed journals. He has many scientific papers to be published. He is interested in tropical diseases research. He has considerable contributions at the level of his institution and community. Now, he is a research team leader at the college of medicine, Shaqra University .

Charuwan Manmee is a public health technical officer and a research consultant in Rajavithi Hospital, the largest hospital in the Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. I graduated with was Ph.D. in Epidemiology from Newcastle University, UK. After graduation over ten years, my expertise is in identifying the determinants of ill health and evaluating interventions to improve health and reduce disease burden. The observation and intervention studies are performed regularly. I conducted research to assess health outcomes and proposed informative results to the policymakers. My expertise in epidemiology, research methods, and statistical analysis are routinely disseminated inside and outside the organization. I have been the principal investigator or co-principal of funded national and institutional grants focusing on the epidemiology of the burden of disease, health prevention, and promotion. Among my scientific interests has been the determination of health burdens to provide information and appropriate solutions to policymakers. In addition, the development of interventions or tools for health promotion, treatment outcomes, and better quality of life is also proposed.

Mr. Kasemsan has the position of Deputy Director of Administrative, Rajavithi Hospital who was formerly head of the human resources department. Therefore, bringing the policy into practice will make healthcare workers work happily and still maintain their good health is an important goal reached; work is effective, and people are happy. He has a connection inside and outside the hospital to perform research to assess healthy personnel and intervention. The application of evidence-based is therefore essential and credible for reference to practice. He has been the principal investigator or co-principal of funded institutional grants focusing on the human resource management and organization development. Among my scientific interests has been the healthy and happy organization, and appropriate solutions to policymakers in terms of human capital. Supervising over 5,000 healthcare workers is difficult, especially for healthcare workers with heavy work and no time to take care of themselves. Healthy and happy programs are required for healthcare workers. He has been practicing this work for over twenties years.

Ms. Krissana Arsayot graduated from Mahidol University, Thailand, with a Master of Public Health degree. She is working as a public health technical officer at Rajavithi Hospital, a large hospital under the Department of Medical Services of the Ministry of Public Health. Rajavithi hospital is an academic organization that provides information on prevention, rehabilitation, super tertiary care, and the training excellence center for physicians in many fields. For 13 years, she has been a research assistant and a consultant for physicians and healthcare professionals in medical research to treat and monitor disease outbreaks both inside and outside the hospital. She could advise on research proposal development, methodology study, data collection, and statistical analysis. Moreover, She is a researcher and co-research interested in the physical and mental health of physicians and the public as inputs for sustainable improving the population's well-being.

Ms. Nion Mayod has completed BSc (Public Health) and Master of Public Health. She is working as a public health technical officer at Rajavithi Hospital, a large hospital under the Department of Medical Services of the Ministry of Public Health. Rajavithi hospital is an academic organization that provides information on prevention, rehabilitation, super tertiary care, and the training excellence center for physicians in many fields. For 6 years, she has been a research assistant and a consultant for physicians and healthcare professionals in medical research, member of the ethics committee of Rajavithi Hospital and, Project manager for “clinical research methodology for residents” at Rajavithi Hospital. She also has experience in data analysis, both quantitative and qualitative studies. She is a co-investigator who has conducted health promotion research for more than six years.

Ms. Sirinat Treesinchai has graduated from Naresuan University, Thailand, with Bachelor of Public Health (BPH) Community Health. She is a public health technical officer in Rajavithi Hospital, a tertiary hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. Her responsibility is to support the researchers to conduct the high research quality in terms of research questions, literature review, methodology, statistical analysis, result interpretation, research report, academic presentation, and international publication. She conducted this study to describe the prevalence of cervical cancer screening in reproductive women. Cervical cancer screening has been recommended for detecting cervical cancer at early stage to decrease severity of the disease however screening practice was limited in reproductive women. Therefore, this study was showed reasons for non-participant screening and identify factors associated with screening in health care worker women.

Dr. Noor Izni Mohamed Shapie is a medical doctor as well as a Public Health Specialist under Ministry of Health, Malaysia. Currently she works as Head of Family Health Development Sector of Miri Health Divisional Office, Sarawak, Malaysia. She is managing 45 health facilities in Miri which include the Flying Doctor Services (FDS) as well Rural Clinics Visiting Doctor (RCVD). She has been actively involved in COVID-19 Task Force and successfully led the National COVID-19 Immunization Program for Miri Division which consist of urban, suburban and a lot of rural areas. She has completed her Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) degree from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. She is interested in research related to family health, mental health, primary health care and health management research.

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Dr. Serkan YILMAZ is currently Professor at Ankara University and his studies focus on the genotoxic, carcinogenic properties of mycotoxins, environmental pollutants and food additives. He has over 35 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He currently serves as editorial board members of many internationally recognized journals. He participated many national and international conferences.

Dr. Mirza Muhammad Faran Ashraf Baig is a registered Pharmacist and currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Professor Chengfei Zhang. He received his Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) and MPhil (Pharmaceutical Chemistry) degrees from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Pakistan, and a Ph.D. degree from the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University (NJU), China under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Xing-Hua Xia. His research work is about Biomedical Engineering, Mechano-Pharmacology, Polymers, Material Chemistry, DNA Nanotechnology, Developmental Biology, Neuroscience, Nano-Therapeutics, Bio-sensing, Bio-imaging, Diagnostics,Biotechnology, Biophysics, and Biochemistry. His current research focus is designing DNA based novel functional & bio-active nanomaterials to apply in Restorative Dentistry, Oral Microbiology& Oncology, Regenerative Therapeutics, Stem Cells Research, Drug Delivery, and Molecular Pharmaceutics. He published in the top journals e.g Nano Letters (ACS, USA), indexed in Harvard University Library Press.

Dr. Otgontogoo was born in Mongolia. She works at the Darkhan-Uul branch medical school, Mongolian National University of Medical School, as the head of Research and Information Technology division. She is a pharmacist. In 2014, she graduated Ph.D (in Pharmacy) degree in the Mongolian National University of Medical School. Her research work is about Pharmaceutical technology, Public health, Medical professional’s bioethics, and Medical education. She is a member of Academic Committee of the Alliance for Healthy Cities.

Adanze Cynthia known to many as Ada, is a public health specialist and holds a Master of Public Health degree and currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Public Health with a minor in health policy. Adanze is passionate about public health related matters (from a holistic point of view) especially in the African continent. Co-founded the Integrated Health Organization in 2017 (IHO), a Cameroonian health NGO aimed at promoting better health services especially in the rural regions. She is also a gender equity activist which led to her becoming the She Decides 25x25 CameroonYouth Ambassador for 2020-2021; to promote Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) amongst youths as a tool to fight against teenage pregnancies and illegal abortions. Her ambassadorial role in she Decides led her to creating a new movement knows as YOUTHS4CSE, an international movement aimed at raising youth leaders and demystifying CSE myths especially in Cameroon and the African Continent at large. Her passion for achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) led her to starting the first ever Inter-African Webinar Series on UHC in Africa which took its debut in 2020 and continues to thrive even with the last 2021 edition gathering public health leaders and analysts from across 7 African countries. She is a public speaker who has moderated several international meetings, project critique/grant writer and freelance writer.