Vivette Glover is Visiting Professor of Perinatal Psychobiology at Imperial College London. Her research has shown how the emotional state of the mother during pregnancy can have adverse effects on the developing fetus and longer term on the child, especially on neurodevelopment. Her group has also shown some of the underlying biological mechanisms. She has published over 320 papers in peer reviewed journals. This work has contributed to changes in UK government policy, including more funding for perinatal mental health. She is currently also carrying out collaborative research in Africa and India about how music can help reduce perinatal stress.

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Dr Edmund L C Ong MBBS MSC FRCP FRCPI DTMH graduated from University of Newcastle Medical School, UK and trained in UK in Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and General Internal Medicine. His research interests are in the field of opportunistic infections, evaluation of anti-infective agents, clinical epidemiology and innovations in healthcare quality improvement and clinical audit. He is a principal investigator and collaborates in numerous research projects including HIV, Tuberculosis, Dengue fever in Nigeria, South Africa and Myanmar. Dr Ong has contributed to numerous text books of infection and has co-authored more than 160 papers in peer reviewed journals. He is an examiner for both undergraduate and postgraduate examinations including MRCP, Dip in HIV Medicine and MMed qualifications. He is an International Global Advisor (Malaysia) for the Royal College of Physicians, London. He is a member and a former Chairperson of the British HIV Association Audit and Standard of Care Committee. He is a trustee of the Charity Health and Hope (UK).

From Febrile Illness to Critical Care: Piecing Hidden Dangers of Dengue

PROF. FRANK CHINDAMO, CHP, has top-level experience in comedy, film, and TV production, Academia, app production, and business, with three successful startups so far. Prior to this, Frank was an award-winning Adjunct Professor in Web Video at USC, UCLA, Chapman, Pepperdine University, and Emerson College. He began his media career in writing and production at SNL and on Ghostbusters. Frank has won 30+ awards for producing comedy videos for HBO, Showtime, CBS, and more. He launched the world’s first mobile comedy channel, for which he was featured on the front pages of Forbes Magazine and the LA Times, and in the Wall Street Journal and the NY Times. He is vetted by professionals in humor therapy as a Certified Humor Professional of the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor. Please check out the 2-minute video intro at www.LaughMD.com to see how LaughMD has proven it reduces pain and stress in patients and providers in 5 different studies at USC (University of Southern California,) Chapman University and A.T. Still University. Results include: · 91% of participants with pain at USC Norris Cancer Center reported decreased pain, and 94% of those chemotherapy patients reported decreased stress. · 13% reduction in stress levels for providers at Chapman University’s Crean College of Health & Behavioral Sciences in only 3 minutes. · Patients at AT Still University reported a 60% chronic pain decrease after viewing 30 minutes of comedy per day for 28 days.

The Science of Humor in Healthcare

The Writing: Method to Work with the Interiority

Dr. Reynolds began toying with the idea of fictional writing back in early 2008, after having spent years writing scientific and nonfiction pieces during the process of obtaining his doctorate. Then, one Sunday morning in March, he simply sat down and started writing and writing – and the rest is history. He was (and still is) heavily inspired by Santa Clarita’s year-round fire seasons. After witnessing three simultaneous wildfires in the valley in October of 2007, the gears started to turn in his head.

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Prof. Rostislav Stefanov Kostadinov is Organizing and leading the educational process for Medical University of Plovdiv and Medical College of Plovdiv students. Delivering lectures, leading seminars and the students examine. Monitoring, organizing, and facilitating the International relations and Project activities of the Public Health Faculty academic staff. Organizing and leading Ph.D. and resident programs on Disaster Medicine and Disaster Medical Support at the Medical University of Plovdiv Planning, organizing, and managing courses for improvement of the population skills for healthy behavior in case of disasters and catastrophes. Leading and managing courses for disaster medical support (for medical professionals) and advance medical training for search and rescue team members.

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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.

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Zhenhuan LIU professor of pediatrics, Pediatric acupuncturist Ph.D. tutor. He has been engaged in pediatric clinical and child rehabilitation for 40 years. Led the rehabilitation team to treat more than 40,000 cases of children with intellectual disability, cerebral palsy and autism from China and more than 20 countries, More than 26800 children's deformity returned to school and society and became self-sufficient. The rehabilitation effect ranks the international advanced level. Vice-chairman of Rehabilitation professional committee children with cerebral palsy, World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies. Visiting Professor of Chinese University of Hong Kong in recent 10 years. .He is most famous pediatric neurological and rehabilitation specialists in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in China. He has edited 10 books. He has published 268 papers in international and Chinese medical journals.

Quality of Life children with autism spectrum disorder

Minerva kelada,MD Been involved in many research issues related with teenage kids And other health issues Dr kelada was an adjunct professor of medicine with UCSD For many years As well was a medical consultant for the California medical board of medicine. Has been in private practice for several decades, and missionary medical practice.

Vaccination and COVID 19

Dr. Maria Dalamagka, MD, MSc, PhD Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) is an Anaesthetist - Physician, Acupuncturist. Her expertise spans anesthesia management in pediatric, autistic, surgical, orthopedic, urological, obstetric, and otorhinolaryngological cases, as well as emergency treatments. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she played a critical role in managing ICU patients. Additionally, she has explored acupuncture as an early intervention for chronic pain and acute postoperative pain. Dr. Dalamagka is an active editor for various medical journals and has contributed significantly to the field through her research and editorial work

Emergence Delirium in children

RANJANI K MURTHY I bring to the table around 25 years of experience in evaluation, e-teaching, training/toolkit development, mainstreaming and research on gender and development. With respect to evaluations, I have experience with project/programme evaluation, country programme evaluation, strategic evaluation, thematic evaluations and meta evaluations, and am one of the resource persons on an online South Asian course on gender transformative evaluation (going to scale globally this year). My sectoral focus has been on of issues of economic empowerment, food security, health/SRHR, disaster-risk-reduction, adolescent girls’ empowerment, masculinities and international commitments like SDGs, CEDAW and Beijing Platform for Action. My primary clients include UN organisations, Asian Development Bank, national governments, INGOs and NGOs. For the last five years I have been focusing on intersectionality, social transformation and looking at gender beyond binary. 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 on the editorial board of the international Journal Gender and Development. I am on board of three NGOs in India, and on Advisory committee of a South Asian study on backlash against women and expert committee of Indira Gandhi National Open University. 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.

Attention to gender and intersectionality in evaluations of health sector in south asia

DR.B.Sendilkumar,Dean and Director of School of Allied Health Sciences,Vinayaka Missions Research Foundation-DU hails from the beautiful temple city of Kanchipuram in India and has acquired the following Qualifications starting from BDS,MBA,MPH,MPhil-HHSM,PhD,D.Litt,D.Sc, FISRO,FSASS,FRSPH[UK],FSAPHO(UK),MDP in HM & DA [IIM-Ahmedabad].He is also a qualified NABH Assessor, CII SR EHS Assessor,Certified Six Sigma Blackbelt in Quality,ISO Lead Auditor for ISO 9001:2015, IS0 14001:2015, IS0 45001:2018 ISO 21001:2018 Standards. Administering nearly 20 UG and 11 PG courses in Allied Health Sciences at 3 different campuses in Salem,Pudhucherry & Karaikal. Since July 2018, He has been serving as Head-Transformation for the Vinayaka Mission Hospital, Salem, and as an additional responsibility, oversees its overall operations and is also responsible for ensuring that the hospital’s quality of service, efficiency and customer satisfaction is at its highest at all times Ensured Diploma in Family Medicine & Diploma in Emergency Medicine courses are accredited with Royal College of General Practioners, UK Executive Member in Purchase committee of the VIMS Hospital,Salem Executive Member in NABH accreditation process and Quality Control board in the VIMS Hospital,Salem Secretary for the Infection Control Committee ,VIMS Hospital,Salem Chief Executive Member of Ethical Committee, VIMS Hospital,Salem Chief Executive in International affairs of the Vinayaka Mission’s and working out for the Collaboration with Harvard University He also holds the valuable posts and memberships of being the Chairman,Board of Studies,Allied Health Sciences,Vinayaka Missions Research Foundation,Salem, Subcommittee member in CII Southern Region on Education,Skills & Job Creation for the year 2021-22 ,Member in CII Tamilnadu Healthcare Panel and Member in CAHO Startup-Tech Committee. With a rich 25 years of experience including Academics ,He has published 25 Research Papers and Articles,Had been invited as a Guest speaker and Panelist in around 30 International and National events, Organized 20 International and National Conferences and 100+ webinars.As a recognition for His Outstanding and Excellent Contribution to various academic and research activities he had been awarded 21 prestigious and honorary awards by different International and National conclaves. The CSR activities organized by him for the benefit of the society has been well appreciated and acclaimed by people of all sectors. His vision is to work towards an education system of equal access to all .He is a dynamic and versatile person having a quest for knowledge and is continuously marching towards success.

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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.

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