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International Advisory Committee
*Arranged Alphabeticaly
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Adnan A. Hyder

Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research & Innovation; Director at the Center on Commercial Determinants of Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, USA

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Amirhossein Takian

Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management & Economics; Director, Centre of Excellence for Global Health; Vice Dean, School of Public Health-Tehran University of Medical Sciences; Chief of Research, Health Equity Research Centre (HERC)- TUMS Executive Committee Member, World Health Summit (WHS)

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Ana Filipa Val-Do-Rio

Advisor to the Rectoral Team University of Coimbra, Portugal

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Andrew Morris

Health Data Research UK, Academy of Medical Sciences

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Andrea S. Winkler

Specialist Neurologist, Technical University of Munich, Professor of Global One Health at the University of Oslo, Norway; Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

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Anders Nordström

Advisor, Advocate, Activist and Former Ambassador for Global Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm School of Economics

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Angela Chaudhuri

CEO, Swasti: The Health Catalyst

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Anjali Agrawal

Vice President and Founder Member, Society for Emergency Radiology- India; Senior Consultant Radiologist, Teleradiology Solutions

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Anurag Chadha

Director, Food and Beverage Biosolutions (FBB), Novonesis

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Ashutosh Sharma

Ex. Secretary, DST and president INSA

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Baratang Miya

Founder, Girlhype Women Who Code & Women Tech Policy Hub, South Africa

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Ben Canny

Director, Medical Education at University of Adelaide

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Chang-Chuan Chan

Professor at the Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Global Health Program, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

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Christine Smith

Director at Alliance of Academic Health Centers International (AAHCI), USA

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Charles Ibingira

Professor, Makerere University College of Health Sciences

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Damalie Nakanjako

Professor of Medicine and Principal, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Uganda

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Daniela De Biase

Associate Professor, Sapienza University of Rome

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Dorothy Biberman

Senior Director of Global Engagement and Executive Initiatives at the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH), USA

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Dragan Ilic

Deputy Head (Education), Director, Teaching & Learning and Head, Medical Education Research & Quality (MERQ) unit at Monash University, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Australia

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Eugenio Gaudio

President, Fondazione Roma Sapienza; President, IHEA - Fondazione Italian Higher Education with Africa; President, Osservatorio nazionale della Formazione sanitaria specialistica - MUR; Professor, Sapienza Università di Roma

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Elena Tulupova

Senior Lecturer / Guarantee of the subject 'Migration, Ethnicity and Health', Institute of Public Health and Medical Law, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University

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Helmut Brand

Former Head of the Department of International Health – Maastricht University, The Netherlands; Former Director Prasanna School of Public Health, MAHE, Manipal, India

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Heyo K. Kroemer

CEO, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

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Jonathan B. Jaffery

Chief Health Care Officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges, USA

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Jorge Miguel Figueira

Coordinator, Universidade de Coimbra –R&D International Networks

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Kathy Baughman McLeod

Chief Executive Officer, Climate Resilience for All

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Laura Boeira

Executive Director, Latin American and the Caribbean Evidence Hub (Hub LAC)

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Laura Magaña

President & CEO at the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH), Global Network of Academic Public Health (GNAPH), USA

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Liam Smeeth

Director at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

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Lukoye Atwoli

MBS, MBChB, MMed Psych, PhD, IFAPA. The Jena and Hasanali Ajanee Endowed Chair in Medicine Deputy Director, Brain and Mind Institute. Professor and Dean, Medical College East Africa

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Madhuri Kanitkar

Lt Gen Madhuri Kanitkar (Retd), PVSM, AVSM, VSM is the Vice-Chancellor of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences

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Lwando Maki

President of the Public Health Association of South Africa; Deputy Chair of the Young World Federation of Public Health Associations; Past Deputy Chair of World Medical Association Junior Doctors Network

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Narendra Mehra

Vice-President (International Affairs), Indian National Science Academy; Honorary Emeritus Scientist of ICMR and Former Dean (Res); National Chair of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

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Peter McGrath

Coordinator, InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) (c/o UNESCO-TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy)

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Poornima Prabhakaran

Director of the Centre for Health Analytics Research and Trends (CHART) at the Trivedi School of Biosciences, Ashoka University

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Rajat Khosla

Executive Director- PMNCH, WHO, Geneva

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Ramanan Laxminarayan

President and Senior Fellow, One Health Trust

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Ramakrishna Prasad

Global Medical Director, Swasti: The Health Catalyst ; AFPI Chair, National Centre for Primary Care Research & Policy

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Rizwan Koita

Co founder & Director, Koita Foundation

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Rebecca Ivers

Head of School, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, UNSW Sydney

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Sarthak Das

Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance(APLMA)

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Shiv Kumar

Chief Mentor & Co-founder, Swasti: The Health Catalyst

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Shiv Kumar Sarin

Director of ILBS and President of the National Academy of Medical Sciences

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Siddharthan Chandran

Director, UK Dementia Research Institute

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Sirirat Suwanrit

Director of Injury Prevention Division, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

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Sonam Yangchen

Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Health Partners, Bhutan

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Shekhar Mande

Pune University, Ex. Director General, CSIR

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SN Basu

Principal Director & HOD, Obstetrics And Gynaecology, Max Super Speciality Hospital; Advisory Committee Chair, International Association for Communication in Healthcare

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Shinjini Bhatnagar

Professor, Maternal and Child Health at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI)

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Shadi Saleh

Founding Director at the Global Health Institute, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

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Sophia Zoungas

Head, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine; Academic Director, Monash University Clinical Trials Centre, Monash University

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K. Vijayraghavan

Former Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India

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Yik-Ying Teo

Vice President (Global Health), National University of Singapore, Dean, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health Singapore

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RS Sharma, Ex IAS

Ex. CEO of the National Health Authority, Government of India

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H. Vinod Bhat

Vice Chancellor, The Apollo University, India

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