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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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).

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

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

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

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

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

Dr 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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) .

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.