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Editorial Board
Founding-Chief-Editor
Mihajlo Jakovljevic
Department of Global Health Economics and Policy, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
Interests:

Global health; Health economics; Emerging markets

Special Issue and Columns in AccScience journals
Profile:

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

Editorial Board Members
Morteza Arab-Zozani
Medical Sciences, Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Birjand, Iran
Interests:

Health technology assessment; Health policy; Meta-analysis; RevMan; Systematic reviews; Health systems; Randomized clinical trials; Medical overuse

Profile:

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

Elena Arbelo
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Universitat de BarcelonaInstitut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
Interests:

Cardiovascular disease; Health policy; Quality improvement; Equity; Global health; Cardiogenetics; Sudden cardiac death

Profile:

Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. Coordinator of the Cardiac Genetic Diseases and Sudden Arrhythmic Death Unit. Cardiovascular Institute Coordinator for Quality and Safety. Clinical professor of the Universitat de Barcelona and recognised researcher of the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS). Member of several Committees of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS, United States). Committee member for several large scale European Registries to gather data on atrial fibrillation and guideline implementation in these registries. Member of the Working Group on Atrial Fibrillation of the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM). Part of the RightCare and LEAN management task forces in Hospital Clinic.

Mohamed Izham B. Mohamed Ibrahim
College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Interests:

Pharmaceutical policy and supply management; Pharmaceutical economics; Pharmacoepidemiology; Socio-behavioral aspects of pharmacy & health and quality of life studies

Roy G. Beran
School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Interests:

Neurology; Public health; Sleep medicine; Concussion; Epilepsy; Legal medicine; Medical education; Neuroepidemiology

Profile:

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

Paul Arthur Berkman
Science Diplomacy, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
Interests:

Informed decisionmaking; Common-interest building; Interdisciplinary education; Earth system science; Sustainable development

Daniela Capello
Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy
Interests:

Clinical biochemistry; Biomarker research; Biobanking; Cohort studies

John Amson Capitman
Central Valley Health Policy Institute, California State University, Fresno, United States
Interests:

Population health; Health equity; Comparative health systems; Financing and delivery

Elisabetta Carraro
Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy
Interests:

Waterborne pathogens; Microbiological water quality; Environmental microbiology analytical methods; Water microbiological indicator of contamination; Wastewater-based epidemiology; Treated wastewater microbiological quality; Airborne PM genotoxic effect

Eleonora Cella
School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States
Interests:

Public health; Infectious disease; Middle east respiratory syndrome

David Crompton
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Interests:

Treatment PTSD and anxiety; Clinical redesign; Recovery orientated addiction and mental health care; Health economics; Suicide; Disaster mental health and neurochemistry of mental disorders

Profile:

Professor David Crompton was awarded an Order of Australia (OAM) for the development of community-based mental health services for veterans, and the development of community Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and anxiety and substance abuse treatment services. Professor Crompton worked in private practice as a rural general practitioner prior to commencing psychiatry training and spent 12 years in private psychiatry practice.
Professor Crompton has subsequently held leadership roles in Queensland Health and New South Wales Health Mental Health Services.
Professor Mental Health Research and Director Australian Institute of Suicide Research and Prevention Griffith University.
Clinical Consultant Translational Research Institute (TRI) Brisbane
Director Research Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services
Co-chair Brain and Mental Health Brisbane Diamantina Health Partners
RANZCP Margaret Tobin Award 2017
Bruce Lord for excellence in research methodology Australian Social Work Journal 2018
RANZCP Joan Lawrence award 2019
Research interests include:
impact of disasters on psychological and physical health in Queensland
clinical redesign
recovery
health economics
suicide.
Neuro-imaging and mental illness
Professor Crompton contributes to a significant number of organisations/committees. His roles have included:
Member of Australian Expert Advisory Disaster Committee and Queensland Health Psychosocial Disaster Committee
Member of Centre of Excellence in Relapse Prevention
Chair Southern Queensland Mental Health Clinical Cluster (Queensland Health)
Project lead for the activate: mind & body initiative
Australian Council on Health Standards (ACHS) surveyor
Head of Centre Trauma, Loss and Disaster Recovery
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.  Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.  Diamantina Health Partners - Chair Centre Neuroscience Recovery and Mental Health

Professor Crompton's qualifications
MBBS (Queensland)
Grad. Dip. Soc. Sci. (Psych), University of New England
FRANZCP FAChAM (RACP) Faculty Addiction Psychiatry (RANZCP).

Merhawi Gebremedhin Tekle
College of Health & Medical Science, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia
Interests:

Global health; Health equity and equality

Profile:

Merhawi Gebremedhin Tekle was born in Ethiopia's northernmost region of Tigray, more specifically in the incredibly historic city of Axum. In 2007, He received a BSc in public health officer with distinction from Mekele University, and a Master of Public Health (MPH) with an "Excellent" research thesis from Addis Ababa University in 2013. He has held various positions and contributed to Ethiopia's health system since 2007. He is a member of the Ethiopian Public Health Association and serves on the national core team for a number of national health surveys, including SPA, EMONC, and HEP Assessment. Also, he is working as a research collaborator for the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), which is based in the United States.

He is currently an academic staff member at Haramaya University's School of Public Health, where he devotes more than 60% of his time to research. He serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals and has over 35 publications in well-indexed and peer-reviewed journals on topics such as family planning and fertility, abortion, maternal and child health, disease burden, including noncommunicable diseases, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, injury, project evaluation, health workforce, adolescent health, and gender-based violence.

Yorgos Goletsis
Laboratory of Business Economics and Decisions, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
Interests:

(Clinical) Decision support systems; Operations research; Data analysis; Health technology assessment; Entrepreneurship; Innovation

Philippe Gorce
International Institute for Biomechanics and Occupational Ergonomics, Université de Toulon, Toulon, France
Interests:

Biomechanics; Occupational health; Public health; Musculoskeletal disorders; Occupational ergonomics; Biorobotic; Disability; Sport

Rainer W.G. Gruessner
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, New York, United States
Interests:

Surgery for chronic pancreatitis; Surgical oncology; Liver, bile duct and pancreatic tumors; Abdominal Transplantation

Monica Das Gupta
Department of Sociology, Maryland Population Research Center, College Park, Maryland, United States
Interests:

Population; Poverty; Climate change; Public health systems

Profile:

Monica Das Gupta is an anthropologist and demographer, who studies how family systems shape maternal and child health outcomes, and the causes and consequences of son preference in Asia. Other work includes reviewing the literature on population, poverty, and climate change. She also studies the organization of public health systems to reduce a population’s exposure to disease, in particular the institutional arrangements of successful models of low-cost preventive public health systems in India and Sri Lanka.

Previously, she worked at the Development Research Group of the World Bank (1998-2012); the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University (1992-98); and the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi (1982-92).

Liaquat Hossain
Department of Cyber Systems, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, United States
Interests:

Disasters; Disaster medicine; Social medicine; Bio-security; Resilient systems

Profile:

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

Javad Javan-Noughabi
Department of Health Economics, University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Interests:

Economic evaluation; Econometrics; Health equity; Qualitative research

Denny John
Faculty of Life and Alied Health Sciences, M. S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru, India
Interests:

Evidence synthesis; Health economics and health technology assessment

Profile:

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

Jari Kaivo-oja
Finland Futures Research Centre, Turku School of Economics, Turku, Finland
Interests:

Futures research foresight; Sustainablity; Social sciences; Economics

Profile:

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

Narimasa Kumagai
Department of Economics, Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan
Interests:

Health economics; Econometric analysis; Social security

Kenneth C. Land
Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, North Carolina, United States
Interests:

Biodemography of aging; Mathematical demography; Statistical methods

Profile:

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

Munjae Lee
School of Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea
Interests:

Healthcare management; Medical device industry; Digital health; Community health

Kevin Lu
College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
Interests:

Pharmacoeconomics & pharmacoepidemiology; Comparative effectiveness research; Pharmaceutical health outcomes research; Big data analysis

Profile:

Kevin Lu, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the College of Pharmacy and a research associate at the Hollings Cancer Center located in Medical University of South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical health services research from the University of Maryland and his bachelor of science degree from Peking University.
Lu’s current researches focus on study design and the application of quantitative analysis of big data, including pharmacoeconomics, pharmacoepidemiology, comparative effectiveness study and drug safety evaluation techniques in pharmaceutical and health outcomes research.
Lu is a member of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology and serves as faculty adviser for ISPOR-USC Student Chapter and as vice president of the Chinese Association of Columbia. He has lent his professional expertise as a reviewer for a number of scientific journals and as a judge at international conferences.

Nicola Luigi Bragazzi
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of York, Toronto, Canada
Interests:

Big data mining in biomedicine; Vaccination; Global health; Biostatistics; Data science

Profile:

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

Marta Mazur
Department of Dentistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Interests:

Dental caries; Dentistry; Oral health; Orthodontics; Fluoride; Diagnosis; Dental materials

Silvio Monfardini
European School of Oncology, Istituto Palazzolo, Milan, Italy
Interests:

Geriatric oncology

Profile:

A graduate of the University of Milano Medical school, Dr Silvio Monfardini has been the first coworker of Gianni Bonadonna at the Division of Medical Oncology of the Istituto Nazionale Tumori of Milan.

Then in sequence he was Scientific Director of the Centro di Riferimento Oncologico of Aviano, Scientific Director of the Istituto Nazionale Tumori of Napoli, Chief of the Division of Medical Oncology of the Istituto Oncologico Veneto of Padova.

He was President of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), president of the Associazione Italiana di Oncology Medica (AIOM) and president of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology (SIOG). Dr. Silvio Monfardini is the author of over 350 indexed publications, of whom over 100 dedicated to Geriatric Oncology. While in Aviano and in Napoli he pioneered the comprehensive geriatric assessment in older cancer patients.

He organized and directed the International Society of Geriatric Oncology Treviso advanced Course in Geriatric Oncology (2014-2020)

Monfardini received in 2006 the Paul Calabresi Memorial lecture award of SIOG, in 2015 the B.J. Kennedy ASCO award for Scientific Excellence in Geriatric Oncology, and in 2018 of the career award of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology.

Daniel Mont
Center for Inclusive Policy, Washington, United States
Interests:

Disability; Inclusion; Social protection

Profile:

Dr Mont is Principal Research Associate in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London. He is currently working on issues of inclusive development, disability and poverty, and inclusive social services in developing countries. He is co-investigator on the ESRC project Social Protection and Disability - Policy Lessons from Vietnam

He previously worked for the World Bank, where he was stationed in Vietnam working on poverty reduction programme and statistical capacity building -- primarily dealing with vulnerable groups -- such as ethnic minorities, people in remote rural areas, and disabled people. He was also the gender focal point for the World Bank office in Hanoi.

He also worked extensively on disability issues for the World Bank for six years, and served as the chair of the analysis working group for the United Nation's Washington Group on Disability Statistics. He has published extensively on disability issues in developing countries.

Most of his published research and career has been spent on issues relating to disability -- improving quantitative measures of disability and integrating disability issues into economic development activities in poor and middle income countries and his seminar talk will reflect this research.

Sulaiman Mouselli
Faculty of Business Administration, Arab International University, Manchester, United Kindom
Interests:

Asset pricing; Corporate governance; Information risk

Carles Muntaner
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Interests:

Globas health; Politics and health policy; Social inequities in health

Profile:

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

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

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

Eiji Nakatani
Graduate School of Public Health, Shizuoka Graduate University of Public Health, Shizuoka, Japan
Interests:

Biostatistics; Clinical trials; Clinical studies; Medical big data

Jay Pan
West China School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Interests:

Health policy; Health economics

Salvador Cruz Rambaud
Department of Economics and Business, University of Almería, Almería, Spain
Interests:

Investment; Financial analysis; Portfolio; Financial economics; Capital markets

Chhabi Ranabhat
Department of Health Promotion and Administration, Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky, USA
Interests:

Global health; Health policy; Social epidemiology; Health financing and social health insurance; Health promotion

Giovanna Ricci
Section of Legal Medicine, Università degli Studi di Camerino, Camerino, Italy
Interests:

Telemedicine; Telehealth; COVID-19; Healthcare; Legal medicine; Pharmaceuticals; Ethics; Legislation

Maria Schirone
Faculty of Biosciences and Technologies for Food Agriculture and Environments, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy
Interests:

Food Hygiene; Pathogens; Foodborne diseases; Biogenic amines; Marine biotoxins

Saeed Shahabi
Health Policy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
Interests:

Health research methodology; Health policy; Evidence synthesis (systematic review and meta-analysis); Decision science and disease modeling; Applied statistical analysis in healthcare research

Yin Shi
College of Economics and Management, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
Interests:

Digital innovation management; Knowledge management; Energy and environmental assessment; Green innovation processes; Digital transformation; Green manufacturing; Environmental sustainability; Sustainable process engineering; Industrial engineering; Healthcare big data; Social network data analysis and mining; Fuzzy rule based systems

Special Issue and Columns in AccScience journals
V. Scott H. Solberg
Counseling Psychology of Counseling Psychology and Applied Human Development, Boston University, Boston, United States
Interests:

Designing culturally responsive career; Workforce development strategies for youth and young adults

Profile:

Dr. V. Scott Solberg is a professor in the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development Department at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development.  He works internationally and nationally on the design, implementation, and evaluation of effective career development programs and services, especially for high-need youth populations, including youth with disabilities.

Michael Talias
Health Economics and Statistics, Open University of Cyprus,  Nicosia , Cyprus
Interests:

Healthcare management; Health policy and planning

Matthew Taylor
York Health Economics Consortium, Heslington, York, United Kingdom
Interests:

Health economics; Health technology assessment and economic evaluation; Economic model; Cost-effectiveness; Drug wastage; Vial size; Demand for health; Cost-utility analysis; Social Return on Investment (SROI); Social cost-benefit analysis; Green social prescribing; Wellbeing; Physical activity; NICE; HTA; Quality of life; QALY; Public health

Profile:

Matthew Taylor is the Director of YHEC. Matthew has a PhD in health outcomes research and an MSc in health economics from the University of York, and has worked for YHEC since 2003. Matthew has led over one hundred economic evaluations for NICE, SMC and AWMSG industry submissions as well as health technology submissions in various international settings.

Matthew teaches on the University’s Distance Learning course, and leads a number of health economics training courses at YHEC, including “Early Modelling: Using Models to Inform Drug and Device Development”, “Understanding and Critiquing Economic Models” and “Economic Evaluation for Oncology“.

Matthew is a former member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Public Health Advisory Committee, is an Expert Advisor to NICE and the Scientific Lead and Director of NICE’s Economic and Methodological Unit.

Joao Paulo Teixeira
Department of Environmental Health, Politechnical Institute of Braganca, Braganza, Portugal
Interests:

Speech; Signal processing; Artificial neural networks; Modulation; Rehabilitation

Sathish Thirunavukkarasu
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University,  Atlanta, USA
Interests:

Chronic disease; Hypertension; Risk factors; Diet; Diabetes prevention; Lifestyle change; Diabetes and cardiovascular epidemiology; Implementation science; Prediabetes; Prevention; Primary care

Profile:

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

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

Tran Khanh Toan
Family Medicine Department, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Interests:

Health sciences; Family medicine; Public health

Profile:

Dr. Tran Khanh Toan graduated from the Hue Medical School in 1995, he worked as an MD for Quang Binh Provincial Health sector for 13 years. He completed a Masters degree in Public Health at Hanoi Medical University in 2002 and obtained a PhD in Public Health from the Nordic School of Public Health ten years later. Since 2008, he has worked as a lecturer at Family Medicine Department of the Hanoi Medical University (HMU). Dr Toan has been working as the leader of DodaLab urban HDSS and a senior researcher of FilaBavi rural HDSS. He has been involved as the PI or coPI in many several national and international research projects in health system, especially in community health and health care utilization, which was conducted at these two sites. He also has been the national assistant coordinator and a national consultant for the Joint Annual Health Review of Ministry of Health.

María José Muñoz Torrecillas
Department of Economics and Business, University of Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Interests:

Behavioral finance; Health economics; Social discount rate; Intergenerational equity

Magda Tsolaki
1st Department of Neurology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests:

Neuropsychiatry; Neuropsychological assessment; Individual traditional and computerized cognitive programs; Cognitive interventions; Motion and art therapy; Physical activity and mental imagery; Reminiscence for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

Profile:

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

Apostolos Vantarakis
Department of Medicine, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Interests:

Epidemiology; Public health; Environmental virology; Risk assessment

Elisabetta Versino
Departemental Centre of Biostatistic, Medical School University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Interests:

General and applied hygiene

Eugenio Vocaturo
1. CNR-NANOTEC University of Calabria, Rende, Italy;  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Modeling, Electronics and Systems - DIMES, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
Interests:

Machine learning; Optimization; Health informatics; Process mining; Cultural heritage

Tissa Wijeratne
Western Health Clinical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Interests:

Clinical neurology; Stroke; Movement disorders; Development of stroke services in the resource limited setting; Improving better

Profile:

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

Wenqing Wu
Academy of Tianjin Technology Economy and Management Modernization, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Interests:

Management on business incubator and venture capital; Small enterprises management; Technology innovation management; Entrepreneurial finance

Profile:

Dr. WU Wenqing is a full associate professor at the Institute of Technological and Quantitative Economics in College of Management and Economics Tianjin University. He received his PH.D. in Technology economy and management from Tianjin University. He went out of the post doctoral post from the Tianjin University School of management in 2009. His research interests focus on innovation and entrepreneurship, small business and business incubator, entrepreneurship finance and crowdfunding etc. Dr. Wu teaches strategic management, management consulting, introduction to actuarial.

Dr. Wu has published tens of articles in the journals at China and abroad, such as Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Journal of Systems Engineering, Journal of Systems & Management, Systems Engineering, Chinese Journal of Management, Science of Science and Management of S.& T., Journal of Management Sciences and so on. He is author or co-author of several books including Cooperative Governance and Policy of Business Incubator and Venture Capital, System Research on Business Incubator, etc. He has also been the project leader for several Key or General research projects granted by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), National Social Science Foundation of China. She has been awarded the first prize in Philosophy and Social Science in Tianjin in 2016, and awarded the second prize in Science and Technology Progress in 2008.

Dr. Wu is the secretary general of academy of Tianjin technology economy and management modernization. He is the Reviewer of several journals such as Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Universal Journal of Management, Chinese Journal of Management.

Tetsuji Yamada
Department of Economics Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, New Jersey, USA
Interests:

Health economics; Economics of health behavior and health education; Cost benefit/effective analysis; Pharmaceutical economics; Public health and health promotion; Economics of social welfare and public policy; Applied microeconomics

Lianping Yang
Faculty of Health Management, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Interests:

Public health policy and management; Health technology assessment; Global health

Mustafa Younis
School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Jackson State University, Jackson, USA
Interests:

Global health; Health economics; Healthcare finance; Public health

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