India

I am a dedicated healthcare professional with a strong passion for patient care and raising awareness of public health issues. I have worked tirelessly to provide the highest quality care to my patients while also educating the public on various diseases and how to prevent them. I believe in training the next generation of healthcare professionals and have been an active mentor to aspiring medical students. In addition to providing direct patient care, I am a vocal advocate for promoting basic public health issues like hygiene and vaccination. I am committed to improving the health and well-being of communities and strive to make a positive impact in the lives of those I serve.

Ghana and Nigeria

Senior Lecturer University of Ghana Medical School and Secretary-General West African College of Physicians.

Uruguay

India

Being an avid reader of research papers and supporting health organizations garnered my interest in Health Equity which has led me to complete a course in Foundations and Application of Health Equity Research, John Hopkins University.

Serbia

Lawyer and Mediator in ADR. Manager of the Polyclinic Best Medica. Was a Director of the Healthcare Center within the MediGroup. Former Deputy in the Assembly of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (2016-2020), the highest body in charge of normative functions. As a deputy, actively advocated at regional level for the same values for which SHEM globally advocates for, like universal availability of health care to all categories of the population and a healthy and sustainable environment.

United States of America

Representing the Health Equity Network of the Americas

Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Health Equity Network of the Americas executive committee member. Dr. Castro is a medical anthropologist trained in public health

Brazil

Physician, Master in Epidemiology and Professional Master in Public Health - Global Health and Health Diplomacy. Since 2007, coordinates the Executive Committee of the World Social Forum on Health and Social Security and General Coordinator of the Brazilian Network for Cooperation in Emergencies - RBCE (2020/2023). Since 2020, holds a mandate as member of the Mechanism of Experts on the Right to Development of the UN Human Rights Council.

South Africa

Dr Atiya Mosam is a medical doctor and honorary lecturer with a specialist degree in Public Health Medicine. Atiya is an independent health system strengthening consultant with expertise including policy development, health leadership, human resources for health, primary health care and non-communicable diseases. She has also served on various Executive Committees, including a role as the Secretary of the Public Health Association of South Africa. Atiya is an IAP Young Physician Leaders alumnus and serves as the chair of the YPL Alumni Committee. She is also currently a Steering Committee and technical working group member for the WHO Roadmap for the Public Health and Emergency Workforce.

Switzerland

Professor of Public Health, Institute of Global Health, University of Geneva; Executive Director of the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA), headquartered in Geneva. Dr. Borisch is an MD and a Histopathologist, MPH and Fellow of the Royal College of Pathology (UK)

Palestine

I am an Associate Professor of Dental Public Health at the Oral Health Research and Promotion Unit at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, Palestine. I also serve as the Chair of the Public Health committee at the International Dental Federation (FDI) and co-chair of the Organization of Women in Science OWSD-Palestine Chapter.

Global

The FCGH Alliance advocates for the adoption of a Framework Convention on Global Health. The FCGH is a proposed treaty based in and creating greater accountability to the right to health and aimed at national and global health equity

Indonesia

Represented by Syarhan.

I am rural family physician, active as a rural wonca council and chair of Indonesian Rural and Remote Doctors Association) and vice chair of IAFP (Indonesian Association Of Family Physician).

Argentina

President of Fundación Trauma Argentina and a full member of Argentine National Academy of Medicine. President of The Certification Council of Medical Professionals.

Cuba

He is a medical doctor from Spain. Since the 80s, he has combined clinical, public health, research, and design on health systems, in many countries in Europe, Africa, and America He is co-founder of the Sustainable Health Equity Movement.

Sweden

Representing the Council of Finnish Academies

Liisa Laakso has acted in different national and international positions of trust including the Finnish Government’s Research and Innovation Council. Currently, she is a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Council of Finnish Academies

China

Professor and executive dean of the School of Health Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College. From 1993 to 2013, Dr. Liu worked at the Harvard School of Public Health in the area of global health policy and practice. In 2017, Dr. Liu was named one of the top 50 most influential people in China with an overseas education and working background. He has consulted for many international organizations, including WHO, WB, and Fortune 500 companies.

Brazil

Medical doctor with a Master’s and a Doctorate degree in Public Health. Senior researcher at the Center for Global Health of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ), conducting research in Social Policy, Science, Technology, Environmental Politics and International Relations. Current project regards health on the Agenda 2030 and its SDGs, also has an appointment as adjunct professor at Georgetown University-department of Global Health.

Brazil

MD, Ph.D., professor at the Federal University of Bahia, president of the World Federation of Public Health Associations.

South Africa

Dr. Mariana Makhanani Khoza is a South African final-year Public Health Medicine Registrar from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her special interests are health equity, priority setting in health, health economics, and community engagement. Mariana holds two postgraduate diplomas from the College of Medicine South Africa, one in Child Health and the other in HIV Management.

I am a global and public health professor in Tampere University, Finland. My research has been on health in all policies and policy space for health, globalizatioealth,health, and trade, acommercializationialization of health systems and pharmaceutical In addition, policies. I have some background in working with social movements, public administration, and governments for health equity nationally, within the European Union, and globally.

Africa

FBA, FMedSci, FRCP, is Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. Currently the Director of The UCL Institute of Health Equity. Has led research groups on health inequalities for over thirty years, working for various international and governmental bodies.

Cameroon

Representing the Pan-African Institute for Development

I am Senior researcher at the international University of Applied development Sciences , Sao Tome working on the project entitled : Science-Policy-data interface for responding to the COVID-19 in Sub-saharan Africa. I am also senior lecturer teaching, sanitation leadership courses at University of Ebolowa and University of Dschang Cameroon, Task force officer at the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) , USA, Deputy chair of Experts Working Group Eklipe, EU and monitor at the African Academy of Sciences as well. My expectation is to co-work with the steering team in order to strengthen SHEM' organizational capacity governance processes from global to local level.

Brazil

MD, MPH, D.Sc. is Emeritus Professor of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Full Professor of the National School of Public Health since 1977, Full Member National Academy of Medicine Brazil since 2005 and Director of FIOCRUZ Center for Global Health since January 2009.

Italy

Representing the InterAcdaemy Partnership

Peter McGrath had a research career when he focused on virus transmission by insects. He joined The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2003 and in 2006 took responsibility for managing its programmes for building scientific capacity in developing countries. In 2013 he was transferred to his current role as Coordinator of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). Under the umbrella of IAP, some 150 national, regional and global member academies work together to support the vital role of science in seeking evidence-based solutions to the world’s most challenging problems.

Global

South Africa

South Africa

I work in a multidisciplinary research unit which focuses on priority setting in public health. We engage with the public and use evidence, ethics and values as well as economic evaluation to inform our policy proposals and analysis. Our particular interests are equity, fiscal and policy levers for health promotion, exposing the commercial determinants of health, and meaningful public engagement to deliberate around these policies.

Colombia

German

Ph.D. researcher in international development and international law in Germany. I hold a master’s degree in international humanitarian law and is specialized in human rights issues in the MENA region and Europe. I'm the founder of Visto international, which aims to promote concepts and practices of sustainable development and human rights across the Middle East and North Africa and its diaspora communities, especially in Europe.