100 WOMEN EXPERTS WORKING IN HEALTH SECURITY

Gender equality makes global health stronger. Join Women in Global Health and Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security in supporting equitable representation in global health security decision-making. Use this roster

Representation matters. As outbreaks and epidemics 2) miss out on the gender dimensions of health continue to remind us, women face greater risks because emergencies, including the role of women in health they are the majority of frontline health workers, are care provision, the differences in disease transmission typically the primary caregivers of the sick, and have and outcomes between the sexes, and gender-based greater socioeconomic vulnerability. Yet, few women are disparities in the way the sick seek medical care included in health security decision-making or quoted in 3) are more likely to overlook the wider consequences the media. In January 2020, just five women were invited of epidemics on reproductive, maternal and child to join the WHO Emergency Committee on COVID-19, health, such as lack of access to maternal and making up less than a quarter of the 21-member group. neonatal care, feminine hygiene products and And a recent presidential tweet showed the inaugural U.S. contraception products Coronavirus Task Force was comprised entirely of men. 4) miss out on leveraging the vast networks of women in affected countries who are part of the solution to Ratio (men:women) quoted containing the virus. in media in the past month in 3:1 response to #COVID19 Women in Global Health and Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security are working to change this disconnect between vulnerability and representation In failing to give women a seat at the decision-making in health security. This roster of expert women includes table, governments and international agencies trying to those who are working to strengthen global, regional, solve crises like COVID-19: national, and local capacities to prevent, detect, and 1) miss out on critical expertise because they aren’t respond to outbreaks. leveraging the entire global health security talent pool

1 The voices of diverse women experts add value to any global health security decision-making body, as well as to media coverage of emerging threats such as COVID-19.

OUR ROSTER OF WOMEN HEALTH SECURITY EXPERTS Operation 50/50 nominations are accepted on a REPRESENTS A DIVERSE GROUP OF TALENTED WOMEN rolling basis and this list will be regularly updated – at womeningh.org. Are you a woman working in health • Experts are drawn from all over the world, and specialize security or do you know another woman working in this in a variety of security-related global health fields space? Are you a man with female colleagues you want to • Over thirty countries are represented, from all regions of elevate? the world NOMINATE HERE: http://bit.ly/WGHSecurity • Over a quarter self-identify as Women of Color. Contact us at [email protected] with any questions.

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ALINA AKHYAR International Rescue Committee | @RonaqeQainaat Program Manager Pakistan (MoM) and now as a Team Leader GAVI’s CSOs Coalition for Health and Immunization – Pakistan (PCCHI) 1 CEO and founder of Ronaq-e-Qainatt. Through Ronaq-e-Qainaat she has been directly involved in conducting hundreds of free medical camps all over Pakistan especially in disaster stuck areas but most of all conducting various free health awareness campaigns for the under privileged community highlighting issues like importance of MnCH, hygiene, importance of RI and many other relevant themes. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (South Asian)/Pakistan. Years of experience: 11+

HEIDI ALBERT FIND Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics [email protected] | https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-albert-17373767/ Dr Heidi Albert obtained a Bachelor of Pharmacy and Pharmacology Honours degree and PhD at the University of Bath, UK, before moving into a research career in diagnostics. She has more than 20 years of experience in TB diagnostics development and implementation in low resource settings. She completed a Masters of , specializing in Health Economics, at the University of Cape Town. Heidi joined FIND in 2007 to oversee demonstration projects for rapid screening of multidrug-resistant TB in South Africa. In 2008 she moved to Uganda to establish FIND’s Diagnostics Research Laboratory based at the National TB Reference Laboratory in Kampala, and conducted studies aimed at improving and simplifying specimen processing, as well as clinical studies of new technologies, including LED fluorescence microscopy, line probe assays and Xpert MTB/RIF. From 2012-2016 she was the Principal 2 Investigator for FIND’s CDC-funded Cooperative agreement, “Building Global Capacity for Diagnostic Testing of Tuberculosis, Malaria and HIV through Laboratory Strengthening and Integration of Services under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR operating in 13 countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. She served on the Core Group of the Global Laboratory Initiative, a working group of the Stop TB Partnership from 2014-2018 and on the GLI Africa regional core group, and has been a lead contributor to multiple global and national TB diagnostic guidelines and tools. She currently leads work on Networks for Optimized Diagnosis (NODE), a data-driven network design approach to inform national strategic planning and donor investments, including development of open access software for use across multiple diseases. Expert in Covid-19 Diagnostics, Diagnostics development and implementation in low-resource settings, Diagnostic network design and optimization, Rapid screening, Phage-Based Assays, LED fluorescence microscopy, line probe assays and Xpert MTB/RIF, TB, HIV, and Laboratory set up, Laboratory strengthening, training, quality assurance and quality management systems. Identity/Nationality: UK. Years of experience: 20+

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HALEEMA ALSEREHI Saudi Center for Disease Prevention and Control

3 @Alserehi_h | [email protected] Infectious Diseases/Infection Control/Hospital epidemiologist. Identity/Nationality: Saudi Arabia Years of experience: 6

JENNYFER AMBE The GET Consortium / WCAPS | @JennyferAmbe | [email protected] 4 Expert in Global public health, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Bioethics, Biosecurity, Community Engagement in the Sahel and Lake Chad region, Gender Equity. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color/Nigeria.

ASHLEY ARABASADI Management Sciences for Health | @al_arabasadi | [email protected] Health Security Policy Advisor for Management Sciences and Health and former Chair of the Global Health Security Agenda Consortium. Global health security, policy and advocacy, stakeholder 5 engagement, civil society, social and cultural , humanitarian and emergency response, government affairs. Led the Global Health Security Agenda Consortium from 2017-2019 and during that time we successfully obtained a permanent seat for civil society and non-governmental stakeholders at the Global Health Security Agenda Steering Committee through 2024. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 15

SULZHAN BALI Health Security / World Bank | @sulzhan | [email protected] 6 Expert in Preparedness, Health Security, Global Health Governance, Gender and Epidemics, Disease Surveillance and Response Systems, Fear-based Aversion behavior, Emergency Response, Biomedical Sciences, One Health, and Public Health. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color/India. Years of Experience: 12

JULIA BARNES-WEISE Duke University / CEPI | @barnes_weise 7 Lawyer, global health policy consultant, and entrepreneur. Executive Director, Global Healthcare Innovation Alliance Accelerator at Duke University. Senior Consultant to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).

ADIA BENTON Northwestern University | @Ethnography911 8 American cultural and medical anthropologist. Militarization and Securitization During West Africa’s Outbreak. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color

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NAHID BHADELIA Boston University SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

9 @BhadeliaMD | [email protected] Infectious diseases physician and the medical director of Special Pathogens Unit at Boston University School of Medicine. Identity/Nationality: Woman of color. Years of Experience: 10

PAURVI BHATT Medtronic Foundation | @PaurviBhatt | [email protected] 10 Expert in Health Policy and Financing, with experience in public-private partnerships, HIV/AIDS and non- communicable diseases. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (South Asia). Years of experience: 30

CATHARINA BOEHME FIND Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics @BoehmeCatharina | [email protected] Dr Catharina Boehme has been CEO of FIND since 2013, previously holding positions as Chief Medical Officer and head of the organization’s tuberculosis (TB) programme. She has been responsible for the clinical evaluation of new tools for the diagnosis of TB, malaria and neglected diseases, as well as activities to enhance access to critical diagnostics, including laboratory strengthening, in-country validation, and implementation. Catharina has managed R&D projects for several new point-of-care technologies and molecular diagnostic approaches. She is a member of the WHO Strategic Advisory 11 Group of Experts on In Vitro Diagnostics (SAGE IVD), as well as sitting on several other WHO/UN boards. She is also a Lancet Commissioner for TB and Precision Global Health, and Co-chair of the New Diagnostics Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership. Prior to joining FIND, Catharina worked as programme coordinator for the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Munich, Germany, and established a TB research unit at Mbeya Medical Research Program in Tanzania. She holds a Doctor of Medicine degree in Internal Medicine (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany) and diplomas in Public Health (Charite, Berlin, Germany) and in Management & Leadership (University of Heidelberg, Germany). Expert in Covid-19 Diagnostics, Diagnostics, Point-of-Care Diagnostics, Molecular Diagnostics, Laboratory Strengthening, Diagnostics R&D, Country Implementation, and TB, Malaria, Neglected Diseases. Identity/Nationality: German. Years of Experience: 17+

SYLVIE BRIAND WHO | @SCBriand Formerly head of head of the Global Programme (GIP) during the H1N1 2009 pandemic. Joined WHO in 2001 initially working as a medical officer in the Globalask T Force on Cholera Control. 12 Working experience in WHO has mainly been oriented towards alert and response to epidemic prone disease including deadly viral haemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola Marburg disease. Director of Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness at World Health Organization. She is in the leading technical team for WHO in Covid19 response. MD, PhD, Dr. Identity/Nationality: Switzerland. Years of experience: 20+

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MUGE CEVIK Infection and Global Health Research, University of St Andrews @mugecevik | [email protected] Clinician-scientist working at the School of Medicine, University of St Andrews. Dr Cevik is now specialising in infectious diseases and medical virology in Scotland. She is also a doctoral researcher 13 and is working on an international clinical trial on shortening treatment for drug-sensitive and resistant tuberculosis. She is a co-investigator and lecturer on an ERASMUS funded Infectious Diseases European and African Learning Programme. Expert in HIV, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, tropical infections, Tuberculosis. Identity/Nationality: UK. Years of Experience: 9

BETH CAMERON NTI | @BethCameron_DC Vice President, Global Biological Policy and Programs at NTI. She previously served as the Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense on the White House National Security Council (NSC) 14 staff, where she was instrumental in developing and launching the Global Health Security Agenda and addressed homeland and national security threats surrounding biosecurity and biosafety, biodefense, emerging infectious disease threats, biological select agents and toxins, dual-use research, and bioterrorism. PHD and BS. Identity/Nationality: USA

GAIL CARSON International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC) @gail_carson | [email protected] 15 Expert in outbreak preparedness and response. Currently the Vice Chair of GOARN. In 2017, Gail established GOARN Research. During her infectious diseases training she had opportunities to work with the WHO on viral haemorrhagic fevers, SARS and H5N1. Identity/Nationality: UK.

WINNIE CHEPKEMOI MUTAI Infection and Global Health Research, University of St Andrews @mutaimemo | [email protected] Winnie’s passion for fostering women in leadership roles in Africa led her to participate in a six-month 16 pilot program of the Commonwealth Women’s Mentorship Scheme in 2017. She was also a delegate to the East African Youth Summit in 2017 and attended the Commonwealth Women’s Forum in London in 2018. She has her Master’s in research and Public Policy with a thesis focus on free maternal health care policy. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Development Studies. International Development Youth Expert with an interest in Policy Development Human Development Program. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color/Kenyan. Years of Experience: 3.5

MONICA CHIU PAHO 17 Currently a Specialist in Epidemic, Alert, and Response at PAHO. Experienced Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the international affairs industry. Strong professional skilled in Health Communication, , Prevention, Health Promotion, and Social Determinants Of Health. Identity/Nationality: Chile. Years of experience: 24

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PAM DAS

18 Lancet | @pam_das Senior Executive Director at the Lancet. Years of experience: 9

SARA DAVIES School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Australia; Gender Peace and Security Centre, Monash University, Australia. @DaviesSaraE | [email protected] 19 Dr Sara Davies is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and Professor at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Australia. Expert in Conflict prevention, global health governance, international relations, international refugee law, political science, women peace and security. Identity/Nationality: Australia. Years of Experience: 15

LAETITA DIATEZUA Booz Allen Hamilton | @letidiate Research Assistant at the Center for Global Health Science and Security where her main areas of work include health systems strengthening, at the facility and policy levels, to bolster overall infectious 20 disease surveillance and detection. Also serves as a Global Health Corps Fellow/Research and Knowledge Management Officer implementing MNCH, and Adolescent SRH initiatives in the Rakai and Kyotera Districts of Uganda. Expert in antimicrobial resistance, infectious disease surveillance & outbreak response, neglected tropical diseases, health services delivery to internally/externally displaced persons. Years of experience: 5+

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KATE DODSON United Nations Foundation @katesdodson | [email protected] Kate Dodson is the Vice President for Global Health at the United Nations Foundation. In this role, Kate works to ensure that the UN Foundation is delivering on its commitments to address the health-related Sustainable Development Goals, and builds synergies with UN agencies and other key multilateral partners. In its global health work, the UN Foundation worked to support UN agencies and partners that deliver vital health services to people around the world, including campaigns to vaccinate children against , polio, and other diseases, family planning services, and millions of anti-malaria bed nets. Increasingly, we focus on supporting the work of the World Health Organization and others to prepare for , tackle antimicrobial resistance, and strengthen global systems to provide Universal Health Coverage, to ensure we reach the most vulnerable. Previously, Kate spent several years 21 as the UN Foundation’s Director of Global Health, and has also served as Executive Director of Program Integration, focused on cross-department and cross-issue collaboration. Kate joined the UN Foundation in 2004 and spent her first five years in the sustainable development program in various positions, focused at the intersection of poverty reduction and environmental stewardship. Ms. Dodson has served on numerous advisory bodies for UN-related multi-partner initiatives. She is currently vice-chair of the board of the Global Health Council, co-facilitator of the World Health Organization-Civil Society Task Team, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine’s Forum on Public-Private Partnerships in Global Health. She was previously co-chair of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) for four years. She has also held positions at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and has traveled, worked and studied in several countries. She has a master’s degree with distinction from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a bachelor’s degree with departmental honors from Bates College in Maine. Expert in Health systems strengthening and financing, coalition building, sustainable development and multilateral cooperation. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 18

LUISA ENRIA University of Bath @luisaenria Lecturer at University of Bath. Prior to joining Bath, was a Research Fellow with the London School 22 of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) based in Kambia, Northern Sierra Leone, carrying out ethnographic research during and after the Ebola outbreak studying community experiences and perceptions of the epidemic and biomedical interventions. Expert in Social science/anthropology of outbreaks, politics of outbreak response, West Africa. Identity/Nationality: UK. Years of experience: 10

NGOZI ERONDU Chatham House @udnore | [email protected] Ngozi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Chatham House Centre for Global Health Security and a Senior Public Health Advisor at Public Health England. She was a 2017 Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow. Ngozi has 10 years experience in epidemiology and program evaluation. Several of those years spent 23 doing fieldwork on the surveillance of various epidemic prone or vaccine preventable diseases: She worked in Kenya on poliomyelitis, Saudi Arabia on H1N1, Chad on meningococcal meningitis, and Guinea on Ebola Virus Disease. Ngozi is very interested in finding where the ‘weak links’ are in our global health system and finding out what does it takes to strengthen them. She coordinated a DFID-funded study to increase the use of data for malaria decision-making in 14 high-burden malaria countries in sub-Saharan Africa. She also worked with the WHO on developing a costing tool for the International Health Regulations (2005) and with several countries to evaluate their disease surveillance systems. Expert in Epidemiology, Research and Global health Security. Identity/Nationality: USA/Nigeria/Women of Color. Years of experience: 10

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MARY-MARGARET FILL Tennessee Department of Health | @MMFill Medical epidemiologist, board certified in internal medicine and pediatrics, with experience in applied 24 epidemiology, communicable disease surveillance and outbreak investigations at a large state health department. Expert in Applied epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, primary care, biosafety and biosecurity, emergency preparedness. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 5+

JULIE FISCHER Elizabeth R. Griffin Program, Georgetown University @Julie_E_Fischer | [email protected] Chair the Global Health Security Agenda Consortium, a voluntary alliance of non-governmental institutions committed to making the world safe and secure from infectious disease threats. 25 Dr. Fischer is a former Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Science & Technology Fellow. Expert in Laboratory capacity-building, public health preparedness, international health regulations/ GHSA implementation, biosecurity and biosafety, multisectoral coordination for disease detection and response, viral pathogenesis. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of Experience: 15

GABRIELLE FITZGERALD Panorama Global @FitzGab | [email protected] Gabrielle Fitzgerald is the founder and CEO of Panorama, an action tank dedicated to achieving ambitious goals and solving the world’s toughest problems. A global leader who believes innovative approaches and catalytic coalitions can solve the most challenging issues, Gabrielle leads diverse and dynamic teams and collaborates with partners to spark global change. Prior to founding Panorama, she directed the $100 million Ebola Program at the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, investing in creative approaches to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Gabrielle previously served as the director of Global Program Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leading the team that advanced policy and advocacy agendas for the organization’s global issues. In 2014, she won the Gold Medallion award from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Communication Programs for her leadership on malaria. Her focus has always been on designing and driving strategies that measurably impact people, organizations, and countries. Earlier in her career, Gabrielle led the public affairs 26 strategy for HIV/AIDS at the United States Agency for International Development and served as the communications director for the U.S. Committee for Refugees. She also served as a speechwriter for President Clinton at The White House. Drawing on her extensive experience in outbreak preparedness, Gabrielle and her team at Panorama have most recently been involved in efforts related to the COVID-19 outbreak. These efforts include advocacy and communications, resource mobilization, and developing a technology platform to support the global Coronavirus response. Gabrielle is the chair of the board of the Washington Global Health Alliance and serves on numerous advisory committees and panels. She holds a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts from American University in Washington, DC. Throughout her career, Gabrielle has worked at some of the world’s leading global health institutions providing strategic counsel and communications, doing advocacy, mobilizing resources, managing risk, and maximizing impact through collective efforts. Her experience working across sectors – including government, private sector, non-profits, philanthropy, and global health organizations – and issue areas has provided her with a unique perspective to understand the world’s most pressing problems. As a change maker and convener, she uses her networks to develop innovative approaches and catalytic coalitions that find solutions and fill gaps. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of Experience: 20+

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INGRID GERCAMA Anthrologica | @AnthroVision 27 Ingrid Gercama is a journalist and anthropologist based out of Freetown, Sierra Leone. She has reported from Liberia during the Ebola outbreak, worked in the Middle East on the Syria and Palestinian crisis and won the EU Lorenzo Natali Media Prize in 2015. Her work has appeared in Volkskrant, IRIN, NPR’s Goat and Soda, VICE and across Dutch national media.

MONICA H. GREEN Independent Scholar | @monicaMedHist Monica H. Green is a historian of pre-modern medicine and Global Health. Her recent work focuses on 28 the history of the world’s leading infectious diseases. Specifically, she combines the perspectives of genetics and bioarchaeology with the written historical record to establish the origins and proliferation of diseases including plague, leprosy, and tuberculosis. She is currently working on The Black Death: A Global History. Identity/Nationality: American / USA. Years of experience: 30+ years

ROOJIN HABIBI Global Strategy Lab and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada @roojinh | [email protected] An international consultant, lawyer and research fellow specialized in global health law, governance 29 and justice. She has worked as an advocate for the right to health of marginalized and left behind communities at the local and international level through civil society and intergovernmental organizations including the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the Canadian Medical Association, the Namibian Legal Assistance Centre and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). JD, MS and Fluent in English, French and Farsi. Identity/Nationality: Women of Color, Canada/Iran/Switzerland. Years of experience: 8

RANA HAJJEH WHO EMRO | @dr_ranaEmro 30 Director of Programme Management in WHO EMRO. Coordinated MERS response at CDC. Infectious disease specialist. MD. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color/Lebanon.

SARA HERSEY World Bank / Resolve to Save Lives 31 linkedin.com/in/sara-hersey-24a6b263 Senior technical officer at Resolve to Save lives. Formerly Ebola response and support at CDC. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 15

KELLY HILLS Rogue Bioethics | @rocza 32 Formerly a software test engineer who went back to school for bioethics, she utilizes her expertise in both fields to consult on emerging ethical issues in novel technologies, including self-driving vehicles and other forms of impending robotic doom, synthetic biology, conflicts of interest, and biosecurity. Identity/Nationality: USA

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JAMECHIA HOYLE Next Generation / Global Health /Security Network @jamechiahoyle / @nextgenghs 33 Coordinator Next Generation Global Health Security Network. Experienced public health leader with expertise in global health security, infectious disease epidemiology and emergency management seeking new opportunities. Global thinker with the ability to understand the complex relationships between all facets of public health. Identity/Nationality: USA

GIOVANNA JARAMILLO GUTIERREZ World Health Organization [email protected] 34 Currently a Consultant Data Scientist at Eticas Research and Consulting. Epidemiologist, Data scientist, life-long learner, driven by the ethical use of AI to solve business challenges related to the UN SDGs. Member of AI for health group (ITU-WHO), Allwomen.tech and Women Tech Makers communities. Expert in Epidemiology and Molecular Biology Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (Latino/Hispanic), Belgium/Colombia. Years of experience: 12

BONNIE JENKINS WCAPS | @Jenkinsbd | [email protected] 35 Founder, Chair of WCAPS and ambassador. Nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Veterinary Science. Expert in Biosecurity, Biological Weapons Convention, Global Health Security Agenda and Infectious Disease. Identity/Nationality: Women of Color (African descent), USA. Years of experience: 20

OLGA JENKINS Harvard University Global Health Institute | @olga_02138 Senior fellow at HGHI. Previously at the World Bank, where she was responsible for coordinating the World Bank Group’s operational response to avian and pandemic flu threats and, together with the UN 36 and others, for monitoring the overall global response since 2006. ead World Bank author of the joint UN-World Bank progress reports and presented on the global response to five ministerial conferences. She oversaw the World Bank’s contributions to the global program, which provided $4 billion to developing countries. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 35+

REBECCA KATZ Georgetown University @RebeccaKatz5 Dr. Rebecca Katz is a Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University. Since 2007, much of her work has been on the domestic and global 37 implementation of the International Health Regulations. Since 2004, Dr. Katz has been a consultant to the Department of State, working on issues related to the Biological Weapons Convention, pandemic influenza and disease surveillance. Expert in Global health security, international health regulations, pandemic preparedness, deliberate biological events, Health diplomacy, and innovative financing for health. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 20

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CASSANDRA KELLY-CIRINO FIND Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassandra-kelly-cirino-ba989b19/ Dr Cassandra Kelly-Cirino joined FIND in May 2017 and is currently Director of Emerging Threats. She has over 20 years of experience working in Canadian and US public health and private sector settings. Cassandra began her career at the Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory working on emerging infectious diseases, including bacteria, viruses and prions. In her 10-year tenure at the Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Cassandra served as the Deputy Director of the Biodefense Laboratory, a heavily regulated and accredited laboratory. During this time Cassandra also completed a PhD in Immunology and Infectious Diseases and developed vaccine and passive 38 immunotherapeutic candidates for anthrax infections. She engaged national and international stakeholders in the development of public health policy for infectious diseases with a focus on emergency response and preparedness, developed novel diagnostic assays for multiple pathogens, and served as a development partner for commercial companies developing novel tools to combat infectious diseases. Most recently, Cassandra served as Vice President, Infectious Diseases with DNA Genotek, a Canadian company known for its sample stabilization and collection technologies. In this role Cassandra was responsible for multiple initiatives to bring simple collection and stabilization solutions to the global public health and outbreak response fields, including a Tuberculosis product designed specifically for low and middle income countries. Expert in Covid-19 Diagnostics, Diagnostics, Novel Diagnostic Assay Development, Emerging Threats, Emergency Preparedness, Bio-defense, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Bacteria, Viruses and Prions, Immunology, vaccines, passive immunotherapeutic candidates, anthrax, and Public health policy for infectious diseases. Identity/Nationality: Canada. Years of experience: 40

FAHMIDA KHAN UNAIDS [email protected] linkedin.com/in/fahmida-khan-29032519/?originalSubdomain=pk 39 Community Support Advisor- UNAIDS Country Office for Pakistan and Afghanistan. Expert on gender, human rights, resource mobilization, policy analysis, programme planning, implementation, management & and evaluation for social sector issues. Expert in rights based legislations, programme development & management, subject expertise on disasters (both natural and human made), gender, violence against women and girls, peace, conflict, complex emergencies, health and HIV and AIDS Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color/Pakistan & Afghanistan. Years of experience: 18

MISHAL KHAN LSHTM | @DrMishalK Social epidemiologist with expertise in quantitative and qualitative health policy and systems research to improve infectious disease control programmes in South and Southeast Asia. 40 Leads research on engagement with informal, for-profit healthcare providers; gender differences in access to health services; tuberculosis control; antimicrobial resistance; One Health; investments in research and development; strengthening human resources for health; and the policy process in low and middle-income countries. Expert in health systems and policy, infectious disease policy, health inequalities, social and structural determinants of health, gender, impact evaluation. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color. Years of experience: 6+

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ILONA KICKBUSCH Political Scientist / Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) Graduate Institute Global Health Centre Advisory Board @llonakickbusch | [email protected] 41 Known throughout the world for her expertise and is a sought-after senior adviser and keynote speaker. She has a strong commitment to the empowerment of women. She is the founding director and chair of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Expert in Health determinants, Health emergencies, Health impact assessment, Health literacy. Prof/PhD. Identity/Nationality: Germany. Years of experience: 40

OUTI KUIVASNIEMI Finland Ministry of Social Affairs & Health @outikuivasniemi 42 Deputy to Director of international Affairs, at the International Affairs Unit, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Deputy to Director of international Affairs, Responsible for coordination of global health and social policy. Special focus on WHO, Governance and financing, SCRC, POST 2015 Advocacy to the Chairman of the Steering Group. Identity/Nationality: Finland. Years of experience: 20+

MARTA LADO Partners in Health Infectious disease specialist and the chief medical officer of Partners In Health in Sierra Leone. 43 Formerly she was the infectious disease coordinator at King’s Sierra Leone Partnership and King’s centre for Global Health, King’s College, UK. Expert in infectious diseases, tropic medicine, public health Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (Hispanic/Latino). Years of experience: 10

KRYSTLE LAI Evoke KYNE @Krystle.Lai

44 Social behavior change and Public health practitioner with over twelve years’ experience consulting and working directly for international NGOs, including ACF, MSF and Save the Children, as well as WHO and UN agencies, including UNFPA, in humanitarian, post-conflict and development settings. I specialise in qualitative research, social and behaviour change approaches and methodologies, and risk communications. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color/Malaysia. Years of experience: 13

SHELLEY LEES London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @Shelleylees

45 Associate professor in Anthropology of gender, violence, and HIV. Main focus of her research is exploring gender, violence, and epidemic diseases. Her theoretical area focuses on the intersections between feminist anthropology and biopolitics. Expert in Child health, Clinical Trials, Maternal Health, Risk, Sexual health, Social and structural determinants of health, vaccines, ethics, gender, ethnography, qualitative methods, violence. Identity/Nationality: UK. Years of experience: 20

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YASMIN LISSON Victorian Department of Health and Human Services

46 @yaslisson Project Officer, sexually transmissible infections at Department of Health and Human services in Melbourne, Australia. Identity/Nationality: Australia. Years of experience: 9

JOANNE LIU Former MSF 47 Canadian Pediatric Emergency medicine physician, associate professor of medicine at University of Montreal, professor of clinical medicine at McGill University, and the former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color/Canada. Years of experience: 24

STEPHANIE LIZOTTE Global Biodefense | @GlobalBioD 48 Director at Global Biodefense and Executive Editor at CBRNE Central. She is also the owner of Stemar Media Group LLC. Expert in infectious diseases, life-sciences, emergency management, counterterrorism, homeland security, public safety. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 20

NICOLETTE LOUISSAINT Healthcare Ready | @DrNLouissaint Executive Director of Healthcare Ready. Leads organizational initiatives to meet the most pressing patient needs before, during and after natural disasters, disease outbreaks and catastrophic events. 49 Coordinates with health and emergency management across the public and private sectors to ensure communities are prepared and able to bounce back following disasters. Prior to joining Healthcare Ready, Nicolette was the Senior Advisor to the State Department’s Special Coordinator for Ebola during the height of the Ebola Epidemic of 2014. Expert in healthcare supply chain, public health emergency management, pharmacology, and infectious disease response. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (African descent). Years of experience: 10+

NICOLE LURIE Consultant, CEPI 50 Strategic advisor to the CEO at CEPI. Former assistant secretary for preparedness and response (ASPR) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 35

MAIA MAJUMDER Harvard | @maiamajumder 51 Member of the ladder-rank faculty at the Computational Health Informatics Program. While at Tufts, Maia was a field research with the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), where she worked with clinic patients (and their data) to learn how to better tell their stories. PhD. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color / USA, Bangladesh. Years of experience: 11

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MONICA MALTA University of Toronto | @MonicaMalta7 Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She has been engaged in public health intervention 52 research with a focus on the study of social and structural factors influencing the adoption of health- promoting behaviors related to mental health and HIV prevention/care since 2000. MPH, PhD. Expert in evaluating role and impact of environmental-structural factors related to mental health and HIV outcomes among marginalized groups. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (Latina/Hispanic), Canada. Years of experience: 20

REBECCA MARTIN CDC | @DrMartinCDC | [email protected] Director of the Center for Global Health (CGH) at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr Martin has worked both domestically and internationally in immunization, HIV, and health 53 system strengthening and now leads CDC’s global efforts to protect and improve health globally through science, policy, partnership, and evidence-based public health action. Expert in Infectious disease surveillance, laboratory strengthening, and building public health workforce capacity to detect and respond to public health emergencies. Vaccine-preventable diseases - prevention and response. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 23+

AMANDA MCCLELLAND Resolve to Save Lives | @amandamcclella2 Senior Vice President, Prevent Epidemics at Resolve to save lives where she provides strategic 54 leadership to the new 5-year initiative aimed at saving 100 million lives. Formerly International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies as a Team leader in Global Health Security & Risk Management. MBA. Identity/Nationality: Australia/USA. Years of experience: 16

MATSHIDISO MOETI WHO AFRO | @moetiTshidi | [email protected] First woman to be elected as the Regional Director WHO AFRO. Led Ebola response in West Africa and DRC. Medical Doctor and Public Health Expert, nationally and internationally. 55 Honorary Fellowship in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana. A committed champion for women in leadership in global health, the recognition of women’s contribution to health and caring, especially during disease outbreak as well as the rights for adolescents to access quality and user-friendly health services. M.B., M.S, MPH, MSc. Identity/Nationality: Women of Color (African descent), Botswana. Years of experience: 40

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SUERIE MOON Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva @sueriemoon | [email protected] Research Director and Co-Chair of the Forum on Global Governance for Health at the Harvard Global Health Institute. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer on Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she teaches a course on global 56 governance and health. She also co-directs the Project on Innovation and Access to Technologies for Sustainable Development, Sustainability Science Program, at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Previously she was at Médecins Sans Frontières international campaign for access to essential medicines. MPA, PhD. Expert in Global governance of outbreaks, innovation and access to medicines (and other health technologies, including countermeasures). Identity/Nationality: Women of Color (East Asian)/USA. Years of experience: 21

KATIE MOORE Anthrologica | [email protected] Leads Anthrologica’s work on maternal and child health, sexual health and reproductive rights and has a long-term research interest in FGM. Katie has contributed to a diverse range of Anthrologica projects, 57 and led our substantial study on childhood disability in Malaysia for UNICEF. Expert in Sexual and reproductive health applied anthropology/social science. Qualitative research and social science in humanitarian action, participatory action methods, community engagement and visual methodologies. MSc, Certified birth and post-natal doula and breastfeeding counsellor. Identity/Nationality: France/Ireland. Years of experience: 12

LUNDI ANNE OMAM NGO BIBAA Reach Out Cameroon @LundiAnne1 | [email protected] Ngo Bibaa Lundi-Anne Omam is a Global Health expert with 12 years of experience developing, managing and coordinating health interventions in hard-to-reach, post conflict and conflict-affected communities. She is a Chevening Alumni from the Queen Mary University of London where she holds a Master’s degree in Global health systems, Theory and Policy. She is also an Alumni of the National N.G.O Program on Humanitarian Leadership offered by the Concern Worldwide and Harvard 58 Humanitarian Initiative. Lundi-Anne is currently the Assistant Executive Director of Reach Out Cameroon where she actively leads the design and implementation of humanitarian programs, capacity building, advocacy, policy formulation, monitoring and evaluating humanitarian health programs. Lundi Anne currently coordinates and supervises the implementation of 6 emergency response programs to over 300,000 internally displaced persons living in conflict-affected areas of Cameroon. She also serves as co-lead to the Health Cluster in the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon. Within the last 8 months, she has led response to contain outbreaks of cholera, measles, monkey pox and is now co- leading the health cluster to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak in Cameroon particularly in the conflict affected regions of the country. Expert in Primary Health Care and Civil Society advocacy. Identity/Nationality: Women of Color/Cameroon. Years of experience: 12

FLAVIOUR NHAWU International Rescue Committee | [email protected] A public health advocate who is working with women living in the district of Bonthe, Sierra Leone, to 59 create better systems for pregnant women. The efforts of her team has reduced the maternal mortality rate by half in the region by improving the emergency transportation systems. Expert in Nursing, maternal health, IPC, programme management,emergency response. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (African Descent), Sierra Leone. Years of experience: 13

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JENNIFER NUZZO Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Health Security @jenniferNuzzo | [email protected]

60 Director of the Outbreak Observatory at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Health Security. Also a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering and the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Expert in Global health security with a focus on outbreak detection and response. DrPH, SM, BM. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 20

DAWN O-CONNELL CEPI | linkedin.com/in/dawn-o-connell/ Head/Director of the US Office for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). 61 Strategic and effective leader with experience solving complex problems and managing people, projects and processes--including high profile global health and humanitarian responses--across a large organization. Formerly a senior counselor and Deputy chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 23

OLUBUNMI OJO Formerly at Nigeria CDC @olubunmi_ojo | [email protected] 62 Experienced Public Health Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the Health, Wellness & Fitness industry. Skilled in Epidemiology, Vaccines, Prevention, Health Promotion, and Global Health. Strong healthcare services professional with a M.Sc focused in Microbiology from University of Lagos. Surveillance, International Health Regulations. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (African Descent)/Nigeria. Years of experience: 24

EBERE OKEREKE Public Health England | @DrEmeruemJnr | [email protected] Ebere is a public health physician with 28 years experience of practice in many countries, and expertise in epidemiology, health protection, communicable disease control, infection prevention & control, and zoonoses. She is currently a Lead Consultant in Global Public Health, PHE IHR Strengthening 63 Programme at Public Health England. Ebere is currently leading the development & implementation of the PHE programme to strengthen capacity in low & middle income countries to comply with the International Health Regulations. Previously as a Global Health strategist, she worked to build the partnership between PHE & International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Kenya. Expert in Public Health, Communicable Disease Control, Global Health Security, Health system strengthening, epidemiology, zoonoses, emerging infections, TB, strategy development, capacity building. Identity/Nationality: Women of Color (African Descent)/ England & Nigeria. Years of experience: 20+

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RAHWA OSMAN Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute. @Rahwaoo

64 Postdoctoral Scientist: Human Immunology Project Consortium at the Center for Global Infectious Disease Research, Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Passionate about finding solutions to global health disparity, exploring disease intervention tools including vaccines in low-resource and underserved areas, and challenges leading to low vaccine uptake. Previously she was a fellow at the University of Saskatchewn. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color / Canada. Years of experience: 10+

ISABEL OTT

65 Yale University | @isabelott Anthropologist at the Paul Turner Lab at Yale University. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 5

LOYCE PACE Global Health Council | @globalgamechngr | [email protected] Loyce is an outspoken advocate on global health issues from AIDS to Zika. As President and Executive Director of Global Health Council, she regularly speaks with policymakers and practitioners about 66 the value and importance of investing in these priorities. Her efforts are grounded in evidence and experience across a range of regions and stakeholders around the world, including major international organizations, corporations, and academic institutions as well as critical local actors. Ultimately, Loyce shines a light on global health programs and progress so world leaders take action and have real impact. Expert in infectious disease, chronic disease, health policy, health systems and health funding. Identity/Nationality: USA/Women of Color. Years of experience: 20+

HEATHER PAGANO MSF | @H_Pagano Advisor on conflict and humanitarianism, analysis department at MSF. She focuses on advocacy, 67 analysis and MSF positioning in conflict settings, including violations of international humanitarian law, attacks on health facilities and staff, protection of civilians, and reflection on the evolution of the aid system and MSF’s role within it. Years of experience: 12

ALISON PAREDES

68 PAHO | linkedin.com/in/alison-paredes-8abb6452 Specialist in Epidemics, Alert and Response at the Pan American Health Organization. Identity/Nationality: Bolivia. Years of experience: 11

AMY ELIZABETH PARRY The Australian National University | [email protected] International public health field epidemiologist with experience in both acute and protracted 69 humanitarian response settings. She is a graduate of the Australian field epidemiology training programme (MAE,) and has worked in Cambodia on supporting the government to implement and integrate their modified field epidemiology training. GradDipPH, MPhil App Epi. Identity/Nationality: Australia Years of experience: 13

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ALEXANDRA PHELAN Georgetown University @alexandraphelan | [email protected] A member of the Center for Global Health Science and Security and a Faculty Research Instructor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University. She also holds an appointment 70 as Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She works on legal and policy issues related to infectious diseases, with a particular focus on emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks and international law. She has worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and Gavi: the vaccine alliance. SJD, LLM, LLB. Expertise in international law and global health policy, international health regulations, pathogen and data sharing, human rights in emerging infectious disease outbreaks, global health and climate change. Identity/Nationality: Australia/USA.

LERATO ANNA PITSO South African Civil Aviation Currently Qualitative Consultant at Thootse Research. She is an experienced Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the market research industry. Skilled in Strategic Brand Positioning, 71 Market Research, Interviewing, Consumer Behavior, and Qualitative Research. Most exciting projects were a combination of market exploration (capturing the sounds and images of the community before interviews); ethnographic interviews and co-creation with some of the interesting respondents. Done a few such projects in South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (African Descent), South Africa. Years of experience: 5+

SASKIA POPESCU HonorHealth Healthcare System @SaskiaPopscu | [email protected]

72 Current Senior Infection Preventionist and HonorHealth and managing editor of The Pandora Report at George Mason University. Infectious disease epidemiologist and infection preventionist with a strong background in project management, translation of complex issues into frontline applications, and enhancing healthcare bio-preparedness. Passionate about healthcare bio-preparedness, antimicrobial resistance, and driving change across sectors in global health security. PhD, MPH, MA, CIC. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 11

ANGELA RASMUSSEN Columbia University | @angie_rasmussen | [email protected] A virologist studying host responses to infection by combining classical virology with modern systems 73 biology approaches. Her research objectives are to identify host response signatures predictive of infection severity or disease outcome and host pathways to target drug development or repurposing. She is particularly interested in viruses that are highly pathogenic, newly emergent or likely to emerge because of climate change, land development, or ecological disruption Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 16

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CAROLYN REYNOLDS Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) @creynoldsdc | [email protected] Carolyn Reynolds is a non-resident senior associate with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center. She is an expert advisor to the CSIS Commission on Global Health Security as well as an array of global 74 health policy issue. She was previously vice president for policy and advocacy at PATH. Carolyn is an executive leader and manager of multinational teams with more than 25 years in experience driving transformational change in global development, health and US foreign policy. Expert in strategic communications, external relations, advocacy and public policy, issue campaigns, civil society capacity-building, public-private partnerships, coalitions and change management. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 20+

EMMA RICHARDSON McMaster University Senior Research Associate, at Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Public Health at McMaster University. Dr. Richardson is currently involved in research 75 about access to family planning for young, married women in rural, indigenous Guatemala. She previously worked as a programme manager at the United Nations Population Fund in Honduras, supporting the development of the national youth policy, and in Guatemala managing adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health programs. She also worked in Nicaragua at the United Nations World Food Programme, MEDA (a Canadian NGO) and the World Bank. MSc, PhD. Identity/Nationality: Canada. Years of experience: 20

CAITLIN RIVERS John Hopkins University | @cmyeaton Dr. Rivers is a Senior Associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Assistant Professor 76 in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. Her research focuses on improving public health preparedness and response through computational epidemiology, outbreak science, open data, and biosecurity. MPH, PhD. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 7

HANA ROHAN LSHTM | @no_palindrome Assistant Professor in Social Science for the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, LSHTM. She is deployable in the event of an outbreak emergency. Hana obtained her PhD from LSHTM in 2010, 77 studying access to HIV services in the UK for Zimbabwean women with insecure immigration status. Hana has a longstanding interest in the health of vulnerable populations and in infectious disease, and since completing her PhD, has worked on a number of health and governance research projects for NGOs in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and Cambodia. MSc, PhD. Expert in operational research, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology, social sciences. Identity/Nationality: UK. Years of experience: 10+

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LAUREN SAUER John Hopkins University Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine. Lauren Sauer is the director of Operations with the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR). She is also a research associate 78 in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a doctoral candidate in health and public policy in the Johns Hopkins Department of Health Policy and Management, where she studies quality of aid in response to disasters and the effects of disasters on health care infrastructure. BS, MS. Expert in disaster impact assessments, volunteerism in disasters, quality of aid in disaster response, hospital surge capacity. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 15

CHRISTINA SCADUTO Harvard School of Public Health | [email protected] Currently a Research Fellow at Deloitte. Christina is a global public health professional with years of international development experience. Specializing in data management, visualization, and monitoring 79 and evaluation. Passionate about promoting a culture of data use and learning for evidence-based strategic decision making and organizational development. Experience supporting over 20 countries spanning from Africa, South America, to Asia. Expert in Data Analytics, Infectious Disease, Monitoring and Evaluation. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color/USA. Years of experience: 10

ROCIO SCHMUNIS

80 World Bank Public Health Specialist at the World Bank. Identity/Nationality: Peru. Years of experience: 12

PÄIVI SILLANAUKEE Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Finland @PSillanaukee | [email protected] 81 Social and Health Care Management, Member/ Chair of Global Health Security Agenda Steering Group, Co-Chair of Alliance for Health Security. WHO EB Vice Chair since 5/2018. Expert in data, digital and new technology R&D&I. Identity/Nationality: Finland. Years of experience: 20

MARIÂNGELA BATISTA GALVÃO SIMÃO WHO | @mariangelasimao WHO Assistant Director General for Access to Medicines and Health Products. Former Director of 82 Community Support, Social Justice and Inclusion at UNAIDS. In addition to her work at UNAIDS, she brings more than 30 years of experience working in the Brazilian public health system and has played an active role in enhancing access and decentralizing health services in the country. Identity/Nationality: Brazil. Years of experience: 30+

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JULIA SMITH Simon Fraser University | @juliaheather 83 Research Associate in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University with expertise in gender and infectious disease outbreaks. Her research focuses on global health policy, determinants of health and human rights-based approaches to health. Identity/Nationality: Canada. Years of experience: 10+

TARA SMITH Kent State University | @aetiology Professor at Kent State University College of Public Health. She previously spent 9 years in the 84 Department of Epidemiology at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, where she directed the College’s Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and attained the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. PhD, Post Doc Fellow. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 9

DEVI SRIDHAR University of Edinburgh | @devisridhar Professor at the University of Edinburgh where she holds a Personal Chair in Global Public Health. She is the Founding Director of the Global Health Governance Programme and holds a Wellcome Trust 85 Investigator Award. Devi is the author of two books—”Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?” (OUP, 2017) and “The Battle against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance and the World Bank” (OUP, 2007)—and has published her work in Nature, Science, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet and the British Medical Journal. MPhil, DPhil. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color, UK.

CLAIRE STANDLEY Georgetown University @clairejstandley | [email protected] Assistant Research Professor within the Center for Global Health Science and Security, with a primary faculty appointment in the Department of International Health at Georgetown University. Her research 86 focuses on the analysis of health systems strengthening and international capacity building for public health, with an emphasis on prevention and control of infectious diseases in both humans and animals, as well as public health emergency preparedness and response. MSc, PhD. Expert in Global Health Security Policy and Implementation, Neglected tropical diseases control (schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminths), malaria policy and advocacy, one health (interface between human, animal, and environmental health) with focus on zoonotic diseases. Identity/Nationality: Germany/USA. Years of experience: 13

YOKYU ESTEL TANTE Safe Blood For Africa Foundation (SBFA) | [email protected] 87 Blood safety Mentor with Safe Blood for Africa Foundation, providing technical assistance and preparing the staff of the Yaounde Central Hospital Blood Bank for Step 1 certification. Expert in Quality Assurance and Blood Safety. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (African Descent), Cameroon. Years of experience: 9

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MEAGHAN THUMATH University of Oxford; WHO; UBC @meaghanthumath

88 Trudeau Scholar at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Evidence Based Intervention. Her research interests include substance misuse, gender and health equity. As a clinical nurse specialist Meaghan has provided technical assistance to international organizations such as UNAIDS, the World Bank, and UNDP supporting health systems strengthening in Central Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, West Africa, Eastern Europe and North Africa. Identity/Nationality: UK. Years of experience: 12

KATE TULENKO Corvus Health | @ktulenko | [email protected] 89 CEO of Corvus Health, a global health workforce services firm. Work in Health workforce: planning, training, mobilizing, compensating, retaining, supporting, protecting during West Africa’s Ebola Response for USAID through Capacity Plus. MD, MPH, MPhil, FAAP. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 24

MARIA VAN KERKHOVE WHO | @mvankerkhove A member of the WHO Task Force for MERS-CoV. Her work involves providing WHO with epidemiologic 90 and statistical support for the analysis and interpretation of MERS-CoV data for risk assessments, web- based summaries and communications; the development of epidemiologic and serologic investigation protocols for MERS-CoV; and other publications on topics related MERS-CoV. PhD. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 10+

DEISY VENTURA

91 Faculty of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo | @Deisy_Ventura Faculty of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo. Identity/Nationality: Brazil.

MAIKE VOSS German Institute for International and Security Affairs @maike_voss | [email protected] 92 Project Lead for Global Health: challenges and opportunities to achieve the health-related SDGs at German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Also a lecturer of Global Health at Universitat Bielefeld. Expertise: Global health governance, concepts of health security, pandemic preparedness and prevention. Identity/Nationality: Germany. Years of experience: 5

SINEAD WALSH European Union | @SWalshEU 93 Co-Author of Getting to Zero: A Doctor and A Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline. European Union Ambassador to South Sudan. Previously served as Deputy Director of the Department of Foreign affairs and Trade in Ireland. Identity/Nationality: Ireland. Years of experience: 14

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CHADIA WANNOUS Health Security Consultant @chadiawannous Dr. Wannous is a public health professional with over twenty years of experience in health emergencies preparedness and response and risk reduction, with focus on meeting the needs and improving the lives of vulnerable groups and women and girls and strengthen the resilience of communities and systems. Dr. Wannous is the Vice President of Women in Global Health-Sweden Chapter. Dr. Wannous coordinated 94 the implementation of the health components of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Science and Technology Partnership and Advisory Group at the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2017). She served as the Senior Policy Advisor to the UN Special Envoy on Ebola response in West Africa (2014-2015) and to the UN System Influenza Coordination (2011-2015) leading strategic planning and technical support to countries’ preparedness and response interventions and building strategic partnerships, liaison and coordination with multiple stakeholders. Dr. Wannous also managed the initiative ‘Toward a Safer World (TASW)- Capturing and Applying the Lessons of Pandemic Preparedness’ (2011-to date). Identity/Nationality: Syria, Sweden. Years of experience: 25

CRYSTAL WATSON Centre for Health Security | @C_R_Watson Dr. Watson is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School 95 of Public Health. Her policy research focuses on public health risk assessment, crisis and risk-based decision making, public health and healthcare preparedness and response, biodefense, and emerging infectious disease preparedness and response. She also conducts research on the funding and management of biodefense and health security in the US federal government. MPH, DrPH. Expert in Risk assessment, public health and healthcare preparedness, federal biodefense funding. Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 16

CLARE WENHAM London School of Economics & Political Science @clarewenham | [email protected] Assistant Professor of Global Health Policy at Department of Health policy at London School of Economics and Political Sciences. She is the Director of the MSc in Global Health Policy and sits on the 96 steering committee of the LSE Global Health Initiative. Dr Wenham’s work mostly falls in the cross-over between global health and international relations focusing on global health security and global health governance. In particular, her recent research has concentrated on Zika, Ebola, and more broadly, on the governance structures of the global health landscape and global disease control. PhD. Expert in Politics of health emergencies, global health security, women/gender in global health security, outbreak governance/response, Zika, Ebola, Security/Securitization. Identity/Nationality: UK. Years of experience: 10

JAMILA WHITE Mercy Corps 97 Senior Africa Representative and Deputy Team Lead/Senior Manager for Hurricane Dorian Response at Mercy Corps. Previously she was the co-chair of the Youth Professional Network at Society for International development. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (African Descent)/USA. Years of experience: 12

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NINIOLA WILLIAMS DRASA Health trust Managing Director at DRASA Health Trust. Prior to leading DRASA, Niniola worked with Management 98 Sciences for Health (MSH), a global health organization operating in over 50 countries with a focus on priority health issues such as HIV & AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. She is a Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) Class of 2018 honoree, Avance Media 100 Most Influential Young Nigerians 2018 honoree, TEDx speaker, and an Acumen West Africa Fellow. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (African Descent), Nigeria. Years of experience: 10

TAYLOR WINKLEMAN Next Generation Global Health Security Network, LMI, Georgetown University School of Medicine | @T_Winkleman / @nextgenghs | [email protected] Currently works as a consultant for health security and humanitarian outreach issues and as adjunct professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Previously served as a Legislative Assistant in the office of Senator Edward J. Markey, primarily working on foreign relations, military and veterans’ 99 issues, science and space issues, and global health issues. She also contributed to agriculture, animal rights, and veterinary issues within the context of our office’s work. She paid particular attention to humanitarian crises, international development, human rights, the outer space treaty, and global health issues such as cholera, malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. Expert in One health, global health security, international policy, veterinary medicine, infectious disease, CWMD. DVM/PhD, MPH Identity/Nationality: USA. Years of experience: 10

JUAN ZHANG Peking Union Medical College & China Academy of Medical Science Currently serves as an Associate Professor of the Department of Behavioral Science and Health Communication at the School of Public Health, Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) & China Academy 100 of Medical Science (CAMS). She conducts research on risk factors of noncommunicable disease (NCD), such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, nutrition, physical activity, using policy, socio-ecological, and behavioral approaches. She also serves as technical advisor for RESOLVE to save lives led by Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Identity/Nationality: Woman of Color (East Asian), China.

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We would like to express special thanks to everyone who helped with the creation of this list Katie Gorham, Lilly Khorsand, Laura Jung, Kim van Daalen and Leith Greenslade. Design: Marie Prevot. Last Updated 10 July 2020. Contact us at: [email protected].

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