Public Health and Nutrition

Mustafa Younis is an internationally recognized scholar at Jackson State University, Mississippi, USA. Dr. Younis served as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Research of Healthcare Financial Management. Dr. Younis has authored and published over 200 articles, abstracts and presentations in refereed journals and meetings, and has presented at national and international conferences. Dr. Younis’ coauthored articles appeared in leading journals such as “Nature”, “the Lancet” and “JAMA” and European Journal of Health Economics.Dr. Younis has administrative experience as Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Florida International University (FL, USA), where he led the accreditation efforts for the Healthcare Management Program.

Global Health, Health Economics & Finance

Rose is a cross-cultural mindfulness expert, child-specialist, educator, and Founder of Ivy Child International. Rose was born and raised in New York to parents who immigrated from Kerala, India. Rose’s parents were deeply devoted to mindfulness practice. Rose’s interests in music and the arts developed from a young age and led her to creating multiple modalities to address and educate groups on health issues. Beginning as a teenager serving slum dwellers in India, to teaching art and music to street children in rural villages, to now working within systems to build mindfulness across cities and organizations. Rose found her passion in education and social change. Her research interests range from applied positive psychology, the study of human flourishing, and mindfulness-based learning with children/youth to systems of education and care with a special focus on cross-cultural competencies.

public health

Hardinsyah MS PhD. Born in Pekanbaru, Riau – Indonesia. Gained a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition from the Faculty of Agriculture, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB University); Master”s degree in Community Nutrition at IPB University and PhD in Nutrition Science at the Medical School of the University of Queensland, Australia. Attending various training in Indonesia and abroad in the field Directorship, Leadership, Information Technology, Data and Policy Analysis on Food and Nutrition, Food Safety and Agribusiness, Food Security, Nutrients Requirement, Micronutrient Control Program, Nutritional Dietary Quality and Food Fortification, Nutrition Education and Counselling, Clinical Research Management, Applied Nutrition, Obesity Management, Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition Care Process and Dietetics.

Global Health and Epidemiology

Hematram Yadav is a former professor of the Community Medicine Department at MAHSA University, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Prior to this appointment, he was Head of Community Medicine in International Medical University and also Head of Family Health. Division in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in University Malaya (UM) and the Head of Family Health and Development Division in the Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia. He received his basic medical degree (MBBS) from the University of Kerala, India and went on to do his Masters in Public Health (MPH) at University Malaya and MBA from Boston University. He has over 40 years of experience in the field of Public Health both locally and internationally. He worked as a consultant for WHO, UNICEF and In Develop (Sweden) mainly in countries in the Western Pacific Region in areas such as Primary Health Care, Maternal and Child Health Care, and Health Services Management in several countries. While in the Ministry of Health (MOH) he conducted several workshops in the area of Health and Hospital management both locally and in the Western Pacific region. He has organized several public health conferences besides he has also served in several technical committees and as Organizing Chairman of several conferences.

Public Health Specialist

Raman Preet is a dental public health professional with expertise in global health-based at the Dept of Epidemiology and Global Health (EpiGH) at Umeå University, Sweden, currently serving as the Research Coordinator and Equal Opportunity Officer of the Dept of EpiGH. Having gained rich experience in health consortia management and working with teams in diverse cultures and contexts is competent in international research coordination; communication & dissemination; and diplomacy. For last 9 years has been working with many large international multidisciplinary public health research projects especially European Union-funded grants on arboviral diseases involving around 38 organisations in 20 countries, presently Co-Coordinator of an ongoing EU H2020 health research project, ZikaPLAN.

Epidemiology and Global Health

Raul Zamora-Ros is graduated in both Nutrition and Food Science and also obtained a master on Statistics and Epidemiology. He earned his PhD in Nutrition from the University of Barcelona in 2008. He did his PostDoc on Nutritional Epidemiology at the IDIBELL, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the University of Cambridge, before joining his current position as pricipal investigator at the Unit of Nutrition and Cancer (IDIBELL) since February 2016. He is interested in whether dietary factors, particularly polyphenols and polyphenol-rich foods, are causally associated with the development of chronic diseases. He has published over 80 peer-review articles and above 10 book chapters in his area.

Community nutrition

Kim Roberts is Chief Executive of the UK national charity, HENRY. For the last 10 years HENRY has been transforming traditional approaches to obesity prevention, working in partnership with public health departments and academic partners across the UK to develop and test research-based practical interventions to tackle child obesity in the preschool years. Thomas Willis is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Services Research, specialising in behaviour change to improve health and health care. Neil Howlett is a Research Fellow in physical activity and behaviour change, who specialises in the design, implementation, and evaluation of behaviour change interventions.

Health and Community Nutrition

Meradin has worked and studied in the NHS for over 30 years and is now one of the most experienced Directors of Public Health in Local Government. She is driven by a passion for good quality care and compassion for others; these are principles which she has applied throughout her career as a nurse, midwife and as a nurse practitioner in general practice, followed by 15 years in public health. She established national training schemes and protocols at all levels. She is now using all this experience as the new Vice President of the UK’s Faculty of Public Health responsible for Standards.

Public Health

Ira Richards is a toxicologist, working as a professor in Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health and an Associate Professor in Department of Internal Medicine College of Medicine at University of South Florida. He worked as Board of Director, American Heart Association, Florida Affiliate. He has written a book "Principles and Practice of Toxicology in Public Health".

Toxicology, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pathobiology

Jacova is Associate Professor of Psychology at Pacific University, and Adjunct Faculty at the University of British Columbia Division of Neurology. She has internationally recognized research expertise in characterizing early clinical, cognitive and neuroimaging manifestations of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Frontotemporal Dementia and Vascular Cognitive Impairment. She is one of the lead authors on the novel diagnostic framework for AD proposed by the International Working Group (known as the IWG or Dubois criteria). She has contributed conceptually to defining the diagnostic entities of prodromal and preclinical AD. Dr. Jacova has also contributed to designing and implementing randomized controlled trials of pharmacological and behavioral interventions in older adults with and without cognitive impairment. She has authored or co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles, and several book chapters/books on topics of cognition, aging, and dementia.

Neurology, Cognition, Aging, Dementia