Ivan Silva completed his PhD and postdoctoral studies from the Department of Histopathology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He worked as a Project Officer/reviewer in BARDA, U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services for 12 years prior to joining Latham Biopharm as a Prinicipal Consultant in 2021. Prior to Federal service, Dr. Silva worked as Principal Scientist in women’s health field for over 5 years.

Prof. Ezra Lockhart completed his PhD from the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Northcentral University, USA and master’s studies from the University of Sydney, Australia. He has been working as a Professor of Behavioural Sciences, Yorkville University in Canada since 2021. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals, has been serving as the founder and clinical director of Easy Does It Counseling, and board member for AAPA, the Alaska chapter of NAADAC in USA. He has 18 years’ experience in mental health and addiction counseling across multiple settings and countries.

Dr. Linda is a General Pediatrician with a long history of working with the underserved in rural and urban settings. As well she has worked in the non-profit and academic sector to promote health education and contribute to outpatient clinical research. She completed her education at the University of Virginia, B.A Chemistry, B.A French, University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine, M.D, Emory UniversitSchool of Public Health, MPH. Informatics She can speak to the diversity and disjointed nature of the American Health care system given my diverse geography of training and professional experience which includes urban and rural American, the North-East, the South and the Atlantic Coast. She has been a community advocate serving on local boards for the Red Cross, March of Dimes, and Mental Health organizations. A faithful member of Rotary International and steward of Food for the Poor. She is a proud adjunct faculty member of Liberty College of Osteopathic Medicine; however, this presentation represents my personal and professional assessment of America’s wavering decision on if to engage in Universal Healthcare.

Dr. Lorelei E. Walker (she/her) is an experienced public health professional, community advocate, policymaker, labor leader, and science educator. Her interdisciplinary focus fuels community-centric action enabling systematic change for the greater good. Dr. Walker earned a PhD in Public Health and MPH from the University of Washington’s School of Public Health, Institute for Public Health Genetics. Her work focused on allostatic load, stress response programming, environmental toxicants, epigenetic adaptation, health equity, and community organizing. She is currently the Director of Public Health Training for the Social Safety Initiative and lives in Issaquah, WA with her feisty 7-year-old daughter and her family.

Dr.Priyanka Manghani is a public health professional and budding epidemiologist with research interests in Infectious Diseases and Mental Health. She has interned and volunteered with organizations such as Sangath, Anu Agarwal Foundation, Bapnu Ghar, Humsafar Trust etc. Additionally, she has held multiple leadership roles at IFMSA India, even being part of the delegation to AM2014 Taiwan for the Public Health Sessions and at Lexicon, an online medical magazine. She was also part of the humanitarian medical organization Doctors for You, Mumbai working at their slum health center and was actively involved with various organizations in pandemic mitigation during the COVID-19 second wave in India. She is currently a Graduate Student at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington DC getting an MPH in global health epidemiology and disease control

Richard A. Gonzalez, Ph.D. (SUNY-Buffalo 2007) is a broadly trained anthropologist with scholarly and teaching expertise in biocultural and medical anthropology, evolutionary medicine, human identification, clinical anatomy, and medical education. Presently, Dr. Gonzalez is an Associate Professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School where he serves as the Director of the Contemporary Human Anatomy Education Concentration within the Doctoral Program in Medical and Health Professions Education and as Director of the Human Structure Module for the first year of medical education.

Dr. Aderajew, Waka Wassie worked as an Immunologist, Charite-University of Medicine Berlin and German Rheumatology Research Center Berlin Center for Internal Medicine, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology. Berlin-Germany

Professor of Sport and Physical Activity at Edge Hill University, UK. × Biography Andy Smith is Professor of Sport and Physical Activity at Edge Hill University, Lancashire, UK. He has worked with Everton in the Community for over eight years, including on the award-winning Tackling the Blues programme which was cited as a model of good practice in the 2017 UK Health Select Committee Suicide Prevention report. His research focuses on developing mental health awareness and literacy (alongside suicide prevention) in children and young people, schools and local communities, as well as in professional sport. Andy contributed to the government’s independent Duty of Care in Sport review, works with a range of sports organisations on mental health and suicide prevention, and led the UK’s first research project into mental health in the sport and physical activity workforce.

Michael is the Director of Health and Sport at Everton in the Community, the official charity of Everton Football Club. Michael leads a team to deliver a range of community-based programmes to tackle health inequalities and improve health outcomes across some of the most deprived communities in the Liverpool City Region in North-West England. Reaching 20,000 people each year, who are at-risk of premature mortality and a poorer quality of life, Michael’s work provides life-course provision supporting various population groups including those living with dementia, cancer, diabetes, obesity and other non-communicable diseases. Michael’s work has shown to generate £14.74 of societal value for every £1 invested. Separate to Michael’s role at Everton in the Community, he is a Trustee at Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services (LCVS), which has a focus on supporting the voluntary sector and making improvements in the areas of health, education and employment.

Ms Olubunmi Eyitayo Ojo, M.Sc. She is a retired pioneer Director, Surveillance and Epidemiology and responsible for implementation of International Health Regulations (IHR, 2005) at the National Public Health Institute, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control which also serves as the IHR National Focal Point. A seasoned Public Health Professional with experience spanning over three decades. She has led numerous National assignments including leading the National technical delegation on the West Africa Regional Technical Committee on Ebola Virus Disease (2014), coordination of the Nigeria Joint External Evaluation of International Health Regulations (IHR) Core Capacities in June 2017 and the National Action Plan for Health Security (2017/2018). She also coordinated the West African Health Organisation (WAHO) supported Simulation Exercise (SIMEX) of Yellow Fever Outbreak in Lagos in 2018 A graduate of the 1st cohort of IHR (2005) Implementation Course in 2010. She is a listed expert on World Health Organization IHR roster of experts and has served on various committees in that capacity. She is presently an independent Public Health Consultant.

Dr. Christopher Pritchard is a GP at Sunlight Group Practice, Wirral. He has worked with Everton in the Community since 2019 as part of a ground breaking initiative which was the first of its kind in the country to have a GP working as part of a Premier League Football Club’s Foundation. Dr Pritchard is now supervising further doctors as part of their GP training who are working with the charity. This enables the existing physical and mental health programmes to have an additional layer of support. Dr Pritchard graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Liverpool and had previously undertaken a degree in Applied Biochemistry. Dr Pritchard had previously established the first sports medicine society and national conference during his undergraduate training. He now is the mental health lead for his local federation and primary care network. He is the clinical lead for the first primary care ADHD led service in the country. Dr Pritchard is also a GP trainer and appraiser.

Samar has completed her PhD at the age of 31 years(2014) from Zagazig University, Egypt. I'm an associate professor of Zagazig University, Egypt 2019. Granted the MRCGP at the age of 29 year (2012) . Master degree in Mental Health Primary Care ,Nova University ,Portugal2020 . I have more than33 publications, Share in the writing of 4 books , and has been serving as an editorial board member of 4 Journals. I presented papers in more than 9 national and international jouranls.

Dr. Neelima (MBBS) is a Medical Design Strategist at Noora Health, where she leverages her knowledge in medicine and her understanding of design and applies it to the healthcare space to create a transformational experience for the end user. She works across health condition areas (maternal and child health, inpatient, oncology, cardiology, tuberculosis, and COVID-19) to set medical content strategy for in-person and digital services at Noora Health. Her experience in the field across various condition areas have led her to understand the value design brings to global health and incorporates it into her work

Victoria comes from a clinical and community social work background and has a strong passion to serve the society. She is a relentless problem solver. At Noora Health, she helps manage. WhatsApp bots that give users a space to learn and interact with the nurses in order to help change their behaviors and keep them healthy. Being a design strategist with a social work background helps her understand the end users better to strategize solutions using technology

Manuel Gomez has completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Global Studies with a concentration of Global Environmental Issues, University of Illinois Springfield, and Professional Science Masters from the Department of Environmental Sciences, Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville. He has been working as an Environmental Health Sanitarian for Madison County Health Department since June 2021. After his master’s completion, he published his graduate research in Transactions Journal of the Illinois State Academy of Science.

Didier Demassosso volunteers both for the Healthcare Information for All (HIFA) and Mental Health Innovation Network Africa (MHIN-Africa) as HIFA country representative coordinator Afro region and MHIN-Africa knowledge exchange assistant respectively. He has about 10 years’ experience in mental health development and knowledge management in health. He is a mental health leadership and advocacy programme (mhLAP) alumni from the University of Ibadan. He holds a postgraduate diploma in school counselling from the university of Bamenda and a Bachelors in Arts in Psychology from the University of Yaoundé 1. He is ASG of the Cameroonian Association of science journalist and communicators for the promotion of health (AJC-PROSANTE) member of the World Federation of Science Journalist. He is currently an independent consultant working with the mental health department at the MoPH in Cameroon. Awarded HIFA Country representative of the year 2014.

I bring to the table around 25 years of experience in research, evaluation, e-teaching, training/toolkit development and mainstreaming on gender and development. My sectoral focus has been on of issues of economic health/SRHR, disaster-risk-reduction, adolescent girls’ empowerment, masculinities and international commitments like ICPD, SDGs, CEDAW, Beijing Platform for Action. My primary clients include UN organisations (including WHO and UNFPA), national governments, INGOs and NGOs. I was a Guest Tutor for the short course ‘Men, Women and Development’ as the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex for a year, and am a facilitator of two Modules in the course “Gender Transformative Evaluations in South Asia” organised by the Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi. I combine global and regional reviews with field research, evaluations and training in India and Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Moldova, Sudan, Mozambique, Cambodia, Indonesia and Vietnam. Before consulting, I was managing programs and leading an organisation on gender and development. I am on the editorial board of international journal Gender and Development, and on the board of three NGOs in India

Nolan Pillay is the CEO and Founder of StraightTalkWithNolan, Transformational Coach, Inspirational Speaker, Author, Enlightened Warrior and a Humanitarian at heart. He is also the brilliant and dynamic founder of the trademarked self-development programme: Be the BEST Version of YOURSELF™. Nolan's is also a Philanthropist and focuses his attention on restoring Humanity, together with his foundation "Be the BEST version of YOURSELF", they work on various projects. This year they will climb one of the highest mountains in Africa, Mt Kilimanjaro to raise funds and give the gift of hearing to a child. Even more inspiring is that seven of the fifteen climbers are from the Deaf community, he believes this is the start to bridge the gap between the hearing and deaf communities. He almost lost his life through covid-pneumonia in January 2021 and is here to share his journey.

Passionate about innovative E-health solutions that could add a significant value to preventive medicine. Hoping to become an active member of a health entrepreneurship initiative and making a real impact on humans’ lives.Majed is a person who have came a long way to study medicine in the hope of helping people. However, he realized that he can help more people at a much broader spectrum. Especially that Doctors are not the ones saving lives; what is saving lives is the System meaning that ensuring a reliable health care system and stable security is more significant than becoming a mere doctor. Hence, his dream goal is to finally find the right team members that will engineer a whole new revolutionary health vision which will ensure an equal easily accessible health care system benefiting all humans from all different socio-economic levels. For what is the benefit of treating individual cases while we could have prevented them in the first place and didicated these wasted reaources to others in desperate need for it!

I obtained my doctoral Degree in Public Health emphasis on Preventive Health Care. I also finished MPH with two emphases namely Health Promotion and Nutrition. As well, I have the background of Nursing, and Rural Development and Family Science at an undergraduate level. Moreover, I have more than six years of experience working as chief registrar and teaching in College, Ethiopia, and more than five years’ experience in teaching graduate school, being consultant, journal editor, and researcher in different organizations both in Ethiopia and outside of the country. I spoke in `moral recovery` for Dasmarinas city Jail officers, and conducted several presentations in the community and scientific community, including poster presentation in the Philippines. As well. I taught MPH students at the Asia-Pacific International University in Thailand. Then, I joined Health System and Reproductive Health Research Directorate at Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) as Technical Assistant to coordinate research projects. Currently, I am working at Knowledge Translation Directorate (KTD) at EPHI with Researcher position. As I am working at KTD in EPHI, We generate more than 18 evidence synthesis including Evidence-Informed Policy Brief, Executive Summary, Policy Dialogue Report, Health Technology Assessment, Issue Brief, Rapid Evidence Review, and Evidence Summary.

Dr. Karen Raju is a dentist who is led by her passion for public health. She graduated from the interdisciplinary Master of Public Health program from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 and the Dental Public Health Postgraduate residency program from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2020. She is currently an Associate Specialist at UCSF and serving as chair of CavityFree SF (San Francisco’s local oral health coalition) Children and Youth of Special Health Care Needs workgroup and co-chair of American Association of Public Health Dentistry’s Council of Scientific Information.

Name : Lisa Wadzanai Kashiri 1. BSc Biokinetics (UNIVEN) 2.Post Graduate Diploma In primary healthcare and district health management (UNIVEN) 3.Masters of Public health (UNIVEN) Currently studying PhD Public health Medicine (University of Kwazulu natal,South Africa )

Mrs. Ragni Kumari, born February 15, 1986, Gopalganj, Bihar, India. She completed her basic education in her village. She completed her Bachelor of clinical Optometry and Master of Clinical optometry from Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune and Amity University, Haryana, respectively. She also has post-graduation in MBA (Hospital Management and Supply Chain Management). She is pursuing Ph. D. in Public Health from Amity Institute of Public Health, Amity University, Noida, U.P. Presently she is working as an Optometrist in Lokbandhu Shree Rajnarayan Combined Hospital, Lucknow. She was former and founder HOD & Assist Professor, Department of Optometry, Era University, Lucknow. She was Assistant Proctor and member of anti-ranging committee of Era University. She is member of Society for Allied Health and health care professional’s education and research, Era University, Lucknow. Ragni Kumari has 15 years of clinical and academic experience. She is Ex. Sr. Consultant Optometrist in various organizations (Vision Express, AB Optique Pvt. Ltd, Lenskart.com). She organized many national and international conference in Era University and Amity University. She has Attended and presented papers in National /International Conferences and training programs. She Chaired Several National Scientific Conferences. Mrs. Ragni Kumari written more than 25 articles and Research Papers for National and International Journals of optometry and ophthalmology and Multidisciplinary Journals. She has been invited faculty in training programs and conducted many Workshops and training programs all over India. Mrs. Kumari has been invited as guest faculty in several conferences. She is member of Optometry council of India and International Contact Lens Educator, Australia. She is teaching the Contact lens, Indian Medicine & Telemedicine, Binocular Vision & Orthoptics, Dispensing Optics, Public Health for Diploma, UG and PG optometry students. She has several research interests subjects like contact lens, public health, Cataract, dispensing optics. She has published two books as co-author handbook of Ocular Terminology (Kavya Publication) and textbook of clinical optometry (Taurean Publication). She has written a book chapter in Challenges in eye care services and deliveries during COVID-19 pandemic”- An overview (Special Issue on Covid-19 by Ramaiah group of Educational Institution with collaborators; University of Illinois, U.S.A and University of Manitoba, Canada). These books are prescribed as Textbook in many Optometry Schools in India Besides this she has written chapters and articles in other books and Magazine. She is reviewer of journals, Acta Scientific Ophthalmology journal & International Journal of Creative Research Thought (IJCRT).

Dr Manorama Bakshi, is a Persuasive Public Health and Social development Professional, an advocate for Public Health challenges like RMNCHA/ NCD/HIV and AIDS /Gender/SDG’s/ Human Rights of KPs. She has over 24 years of experience in offering Strategic Partnerships, Advocacy, Research, Techno-managerial, and Policy support to Government Ministries, NITI Aayog, State governments, Multilateral organisations like (UNDP, USAID, ILO, JSI,) Corporates, and Philanthropies like Tata Trusts. Currently working as Head Public Health and Advocacy at Consocia Advisory a leading boutique advisory firm with a separate vertical on Health and Wellness. She is recognized as a consensus-builder of national and international stakeholders in advancing the public health agendas. She also has a keen interest in innovation and med tech. As Senior Technical Officer, RMNCHA, Manorama supported Govt. of India at the National, State, District and Block level for implementing RMNCH+A Strategy across 184 HPDs in 29states and 7 UT’s reaching out services that impacting 300 million populations. Manorama was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with an international NGO, UVCT working towards Gender and Adolescents. This garnered her an opportunity to emotionally connect with adolescent and young women, spotting their talent and letting them realise their potential. She has been Government Consultant on UNDP Project, “Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS” offered Techno managerial and Advocacy support Ministry of Tourism, Tribal and surface transport. As a Workplace advisor on the ILO project, Tripartite Response to HIV/AIDS, have been instrumental in putting the HIV/AIDS component in the policy in the framework of 12 major corporate and 286 members of the hospitality sector. Manorama has written extensively on public health issues both nationally and internationally. She is a widely acclaimed speaker both nationally and internationally with frequent appearances on radio, television and print media. Besides this, Manorama is part of various prestigious forums and has won many Academic laurels. Manorama is a victim of the Kashmiri Pandit genocide and is voluntarily supporting All India Kashmiri Samaj as a Vice president.

Dr. Valerie McGaha is an Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences, Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Oklahoma State University. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Licensed Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor. Her research interests center around multicultural counseling, psychosocial development, mental and addictive disorders, and suicide prevention and education. In her scholarly work, she has examined individual and collective factors related to academic, personal, and social success of various populations.

Precious Olayinka graduated recently, with a B.sc in Public Health. She had her internship with Monitor Healthcare Limited, a health NGO, whose present focus is to reduce the burden of Breast Cancer in Nigeria. She has anchored sensitization programmes on the risk factors and prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases. She has concentrated most of all in Community Health, Epidemiology and Health Promotion. She has also developed a profound interest in Global Health and Research for public policy. She has a research paper that has been accepted by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, for Publication. She has participated actively in community and volunteer services and she is currently volunteering with APIN Public Health Initiatives, a health NGO that works to reduce the burden of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. She loves Public Speaking and she is an active member of the Toastmaster’s club. She is determined to pursue postgraduate studies in Public Health, to heighten her contribution to the health of the society, assume positions with high level of responsibility in education and program planning and translate

Janvier MUNGARULIRE, MPH, is a public health professional with more than 19 years of clinical and programmatic experience related to community health programs, reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and Malaria. Janvier has extensive experience in implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and scale up of high impact community health interventions and health system strengthening initiatives, with ministry of health (MOH), implementing partners and United Nations agencies. Currently serve as Malaria Specialist at Ingobyi Activity/IntraHealth International where he supports Rwanda’s malaria control program to implement malaria prevention and control interventions at all levels. Prior to this role, Janvier worked for national and international organizations such as UNICEF, Chemonics International, Save the Children International, JHPIEGO, Partners in Health, Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) and Kanombe Military Hospital where he supported development, implementation, and evaluation of community health interventions. Led the design and implementation of new approaches based on community engagement principles which were adopted by RBC as innovations in community health. These are Quality Improvement for Community Health Workers (CHWs), community health mentorship, CHW’s curriculum, CHW’s e-learning courses among others. Janvier holds master’s in public health from University of Rwanda and a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Kigali Independent University.

I am a recent Honours Public Health (HPH) graduate from Monash University (SA). I have majored in Epidemiology with the focus on the concepts of epidemiology and their application to the prevention of disease, promotion of health and the development of health interventions and health policy and Applied Biostatistics with the focus on basic concepts in statistics that allowed one to identify and quantify diseases and their associated risks. I have completed research on maternal and infant health with the focus on the association between maternal anaemia in women of child-bearing age (15-49) and low birth weight (LBW) in new-born infants in rural SA. Prior to completing my HPH, I obtained a BA in psychological counselling with the University of South Africa (UNISA) during the time which I was also awarded my six-month theoretical course certificate in HIV/AIDS Care and Counselling (2017). I worked as a volunteer between 2017 and 2018, and as the volunteer team, we worked with children and the old and the frail from one disadvantaged community in Pretoria Gauteng as well as assist the Habitat for humanity building project to build and provide housing for those without proper housing and shelter. I am yet to pursue a Masters in Public Health (MPH) and I plan to continue with my research on maternal and child health with a focus on the improvement of maternal and child healthcare systems.