Joseph Harris is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University and one the leading scholars of health politics and policy in low-and-middle-income countries today. His book, Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism(Cornell University Press 2017), examined how and why resource-constrained countries make costly commitments to universal health coverage and AIDS treatment after transitioning to democracy. Achieving Access is one of the first books to examine struggles to institutionalize universal access to healthcare and medicine in the industrializing world comparatively (exploring Thailand, Brazil, and South Africa), and it has been used to teach officials within the Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health about comparative health systems. While he has won two Fulbrights for his research on health politics in Thailand, he has published on issues related to the politics of healthcare access and infectious disease response on a broader range of countries that include Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and others. At Boston University, he directs the Global Health Politics Workshop, which has become the premier academic forum for work on global health politics internationally. He is currently Vice Chair of the International Studies Association’s Global Health Section, Deputy Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, past Associate Editor of Social Science and Medicine, and an Editorial Board member at Health Systems and Reform and Studies in Comparative International Development. He regularly contributes to stories in major media outlets, such as National Public Radio, Washington Post, and U.S. News and World Report.

A/Prof Carmen Huckel Schneider is Deputy Director at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Sydney where she is also lead of the Health Systems and Governance theme. Associate Professor Huckel Schneider holds positions of Co-Director, Academic Education, Sydney School of Public Health; Adviser, Knowledge Exchange, at the Sax Institute; and Honorary Senior Fellow at the George Institute.  A/Prof HuckelSchneider’s areas of expertise are the application of systems approaches for the analysis of health policy (financing, systems, institutions, services and technologies); health system governance and operational models; knowledge translation and exchange; and global health policy and governance.

Dr. Christian John Hunter, MD, is the Director for Clinical Care, Education, and Research at the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, and Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center.

Professor Hunter was most recently an Associate Professor and Head of the Departments of Physiology and Internal Medicine at the University of Namibia’s School of Medicine. Starting in 2012, he worked full-time in Namibia as part of the team establishing the first School of Medicine in the country. He oversaw the curriculum development, implementation, and assessment for both the Departments of Physiology and Internal Medicine. During these years he was course director for all Internal Medicine and Physiology courses, as well as organising and supervising the clinical rotations for students. Over 300 medical graduates are now in various stages of training and services in Namibia.

Yanzhong Huang is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directs the Global Health Governance roundtable series. He is also a professor and director of global health studies at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations, where he developed the first academic concentration among U.S. professional international affairs schools that explicitly addresses the security and foreign policy aspects of health issues. He is the founding editor of Global Health Governance: The Scholarly Journal for the New Health Security Paradigm.

Ian Johnstone is a Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has been a faculty member since 2000. From 2018 to 2019, he served as Interim Dean. Prior to that from 2013 to 2015, he was the Academic Dean. Before joining Fletcher in 2000, he served in the United Nations’ Executive Office of the Secretary-General. He continues to serve as a regular consultant to the United Nations.

Katelyn Jetelina, MPH PhD is an epidemiologist and scientific communicator. She is a Senior Scientific Advisor to several government and non-profit agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Resolve to Save Lives, and is adjunct professor at University of Texas Health Science Center, School of Public Health. In addition, Dr. Jetelina is the publisher of Your Local Epidemiologist– a public health newsletter that “translates” ever-evolving science to the public, reaching over 300 million views. Dr. Jetelina has received numerous national awards, including National Academies of Science and a medal of honor from the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Katelyn resides with her husband and two toddlers in San Diego, California.

Dr. Adam C. Levine is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University. Dr. Levine currently serves as the Associate Dean of Global Health Equity at the Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School and as Director for the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at the Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Dr. Levine received his Medical Doctorate from the University of California, San Francisco and his Masters of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley before completing specialty training in Emergency Medicine and Humanitarian Studies at Harvard University. He has previously led research and training initiatives in East and West Africa and South and South-East Asia. His own NIH, CDC, and foundation-funded research focuses on improving the delivery of emergency care in resource-limited settings and during humanitarian emergencies.

Gunnar Ljungqvist is a medical doctor and health policy researcher. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security, analyzing global policies relating to access and benefit-sharing in the context of emerging infectious diseases. He has previously worked with the London School of Economics on projects for the World Economic Forum, and the European Observatory for Health Systems and Policies, on topics of Antimicrobial Resistance and pharmaceutical policy. He is also a Family Physician in the UK’s National Health Service, having achieved his Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners. He holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) and a Medical Degree (MBBS) from King’s College London, and a Master of Science (MSc) in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Moritz Kraemer is a computational epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, and Associate Professor of Computational Epidemiology. He’s a recipient of the Branco Weiss Fellowship and Ruth L. Kirschstein National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellowship. Currently he is the co-director of the Oxford Martin Schools Programme in Pandemic Genomics, a recipient of the Google AI Faculty Award and the co-founder of Global.health, a data integration platform for open-access epidemiological and genomic data. Moritz research interests are the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases and he works at the intersection of data-science, epidemiology, public health and genomics. His work has been published in Science, Nature, The Lancet and featured widely in the New York Times, NPR, Economist, Der Spiegel, Financial Times, Nature & Science News. Moritz has given over 100 invited international talks and taught courses in data science & epidemiology at Oxford, MIT, Harvard, the University of Sao Paulo, the University of Hong Kong. His group’s work has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, Google.org & AI, The Rockefeller Foundation, NIH, and The John Fell Fund among others.