Public Health, Well-being and Healthcare Management

Ms. Ann K. Peton established and is the Director of the National Center for the Analysis of Healthcare Data (NCAHD) located in Blacksburg, Virginia. The mission of NCAHD is to provide data mapping and analysis support of advocacy, healthcare education planning/expansion, research, and other healthcare workforce planning at the national, state and local levels using the nation’s most complete collection of physician and non-physician data, demographic, socio-economic, and political data

With over 30 years’ experience in both the public and private sectors creating unique healthcare workforce datasets and tools to share with the public.

Cleto Corposanto is Full Professor of Sociology at Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy. Previously he was Associate Professor at University of Trento. Chair of Sociology BA and MA, he is the scientific Director of Crisp - Research Center On Health Systems and Welfare Policies and. He chair moreover the Italian Academic group of sociologists of Health and medicine.

His research interests are methods and e-methods in social research, sociology of health and illness, sociology of food and nutrition, social capital and health.

Dr. Carlos Castillo-Salgado currently serves as the Special Advisor for PAHO/WHO’s Forum for Public Health in the Americas. He obtained his Master and Doctoral degrees in Public Health from the School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University; and his M.D. degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He also obtained a J.D. degree with Honorable Mention from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara. Dr. Castillo-Salgado has served in several technical positions at PAHO/WHO, including Area Manager for Health Analysis and Information Systems; Chief of the Special Program for Health Analysis and Information Systems; Program Coordinator for the Health Situation Analysis Program; and Regional Advisor in Epidemiology for the Communicable Diseases Program. He served as Professor and Research Coordinator in Primary Health and Community Medicine at the National University of Mexico, and as Visiting Associate Professor in several schools of public health in Latin America and Spain. Currently, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Epidemiology Department, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, and a Courtesy Professor at the College of Public Health, University of South Florida. Dr. Castillo-Salgado is the author of several scientific publication and articles on epidemiology and public health. His areas of expertise include measurement of health inequalities, health metrics, geographic information systems, epidemiological risk assessment and public health impact assessment. He developed and/or coordinated several graduate training programs in Epidemiology and Public Health with different academic institutions in countries of the Americas and in Spain.

Epidemiology, Public Health & Urban Health Metrics

Dr. Gilmore G. Solidum is a Professor at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (University of the city of Manila) and was former Dean of the College of Nursing and University Registrar of the same institution. Dr. Solidum is a registered nurse and a licensed professional teacher. Aside from his basic nursing education, he is a holder of a master’s degree in psychology and nursing and has a doctorate in management. Dr. Solidum is an awarded educator and researcher. His involvement goes beyond the academe as he is also active in professional development activities and community development initiatives.

Registered nurse, Dengue awareness coordinator

Dr. Alexander Birbrair is now working as a professor at Department of Pathology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He has the membership in American Heart Association, Western NC Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience and International Society for Stem Cell Research. He has more than fifteen peer reviewed papers and others are on pipeline.

Dr. Alexander Birbrair's research interest includes Stem Cell, Oncology, Therapeutics etc

Dr. Judilynn N. Solidum is Professor IV at the University of the Philippines, Manila. She is a registered Pharmacist with a BS degree on the said field. She is also a Pharmacologist and Environmental Scientist with her MS and PhD degrees respectively. She is also a holder of Professional Teaching Certification. The author has her share of editorial positions as well as publications on both national and international levels.She has also been recognized on local, national and international levels with awards related to her work as a journal peer reviewer, a translational researcher, a storybook author especially on subjects concerning dengue prevention.She is one of the Philippine scholars, ready and willing to serve for the betterment of Filipino communities.

Dengue awareness coordinator, Pharmacologist, Environmental Scientist

Tinghong Yang, MD, Prof and Director of Social Medicine at Zhejiang University, China. Dr. Yang is a member of the expert group of National Association on Tobacco Control, and an external faculty affiliate of Injury Control Research, West Virginal University, U.S. He also was a advisor for the World Health Organization in delivering policy and program on tobacco control to health professions students, and served as an expert in updating management of CRDs in the WHO Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of NCDs 2013-2020. His primary academic focus is health behavior, and research interests are in tobacco control, mental stress, and obesity .The Series of projects of “tobacco control advocacy capacity” covered all provinces in China, including more than 80 cities. In recent years he published more than 50 international papers. Several papers were cited by WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, and other official documents. Core information of “Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS) in Tobacco Control in China “was released by the United Nations.

Health behavior, mental stress, and tobacco control

Dr. Feldman is a Professor of Anthropology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York near Rochester, New York, and former President of the Society for Medical Anthropology-an international organization with over 1,300 members. He is the former Chair of his current Department, and has served as Professor, Academic Director, and Institute Director at Nova Southeastern University near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, President of D.A. Feldman & Associates, Inc.-an HIV/AIDS social research organization, Research Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine and faculty member of the MPH. Program and founding Executive Director of the AIDS Center of Queens County-the AIDS service organization for the borough of Queens in New York City. As a leader in AIDS and anthropology, and more broadly medical anthropology, he was the first anthropologist to develop as Principal Investigator a research study on HIV/AIDS in the United States in 1982-among gay men in New York City. He also was the first anthropologist to do a research study on AIDS in Africa in 1985-among hospitalized persons with AIDS in Rwanda. He started the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group in 1986, which had rapidly grown under his leadership. In 1987, he led the formation of an AIDS service organization in the face of strong, and sometimes violent, community opposition. In 1988, he influenced AIDS policy in Bangladesh after meeting with government officials and the media. That same year, he founded the American Anthropological Association Task Force on AIDS. He has also conducted AIDS social/behavioral research in Zambia, Senegal, Uganda, Hungary, and Florida. His published books include The Social Dimensions of AIDS: Method and Theory (1986), Culture and AIDS (1990), Global AIDS Policy (1994), The AIDS Crisis A Documentary History (1998), AIDS, Culture, and Africa (2008), Ethnicity and Health Care Delivery: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (2009), and AIDS, Culture, and Gay Men (2010), as well as 79 other papers, posters, and articles. He has served as an expert witness on HIV/AIDS for eight law firms. Dr. Feldman has served as elected Treasurer and member of the Membership Committee of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, member of committees for the Institute of Medicine, elected member of the Nominations Committee of the American Anthropological Association, and elected board member of the Society for Medical Anthropology. He served as the Chair of the Friends of the Society for Applied Anthropology Committee. He is the recipient of the Solon T. Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology (1996), and the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology (2008). He served as the Chair of the SMA Career Achievement Award Committee (2014).

AIDS social research, Anthropology, Public Health & Epidemiology

Professor Titus is the Associate Director of the Hood Center for Children and Families. Her research focuses on two intersecting areas: 1) cancer etiology, with a special interest in melanoma and women's cancers, and 2) the impact of prenatal and early life exposures on adult health outcomes, including cancer. Specific areas of study include the intergenerational transmission of epigenetic alterations related to adult health outcomes. Dr. Titus is a Principal Investigator of the National Cancer Institute's DES (Diethylstilbestrol) Combined Cohort Follow-up Study, which assesses the impact of this prenatal exposure on adult health outcomes, including cancer, and leads the NCI-sponsored multi-center study of DES outcomes in the children of women who were exposed prenatally to this drug. She works closely with Dr. Madeline Dalton on studies of childhood obesity and collaborates with Dr. Joann Elmore on a study aimed at improving the diagnosis of melanocytic lesions.

cancer etiology, with a special interest in melanoma and women's cancers, and 2) the impact of prenatal and early life exposures on adult health outcomes, including cancer

Nazia Mumtaz obtained her PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences and is Assistant Professor at Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University, Islamabad Pakistan. She has been teaching and supervising researches since 2012 for MS Speech Language Pathology, MS Hearing Sciences. She is an Associate Editor for International Journal for Rehabilitation Sciences, and Reviewer for “Journal of Riphah College of Rehabilitation Sciences”. She is a Consultant SLP at Al Nafees Medical (600 bed) Hospital, Islamabad, Member of WFNR and Analyst in national newspapers. She has obtained Fellowship in Clinical and Research Neurorehabilitation, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine from Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 2016, South Korea. She has also completed her Certification from World Federation for Neurorehabilitation in Neurological Rehabilitation, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 2015, Korea. Among the prominent courses, she attended London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Public Health Planning course for Hearing Impairment, 2015 and Practical Medical Writing, by J Patrick Barron Adjunct Professor, 2016 at SNUH, Seoul. Her academic qualifications include MS/MPhil in Speech Pathology. She remained as HOD for Speech Language Therapy at Al Nafees Hospital and Member Technical Advisory Group for National Neonatal Hearing Screening Program, Ministry of Health Services and Regulations, Government of Pakistan. She has been involved in Clinical Practice since 2004. She was a Keynote Speaker in several international conferences with the latest presentation in 2018

Pathology, Rehabilitation

Rami Saadeh is an Assistant Professor in Jordan University of Science and Technology in Jordan. He earned his Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) from Jordan, MSPH from Tulane University in Louisiana, US and PhD in Environmental Health and Epidemiology from Indiana University, US, and has a specialty in Dental Public Health from the University of Texas Health at San Antonio, Texas, US. He worked as a Dentist in small villages and Palestinians’ refugee camps in Jordan, taught Public Health courses for years in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the US, and worked as the State Oral Health Epidemiologist in West Virginia. His research focuses on children and disadvantaged populations. His passion is to support equity in healthcare, and he is eager to see low socioeconomic populations gain equitable access to health care

Environmental Health and Epidemiology

Michel-Henri Delcroix is a PhD student in Biology and Health at the Doctoral School of Limoges. He is an author and co-author of 10 books in Gynecology-Obstetric. He has written several articles on Smoking and Pregnancy.

Gynecology-Obstetric

Bernhard Mann has completed his MA (Social Science) in Erlangen-Nuernberg, his PhD (Social Gerontology) in Kassel and his MPH (Public Health) at the Medical University of Hannover. He was Adjunct Professor and Full Professor of Health and Social Management at Universities and Universities of Applied Sciences in Germany. His scientific interest is the psycho-social structure of the quality of life. He got international experiences in India, Japan, Mexico, Israel, Great Britain, France etc..especially in the context with basic education by Mahatma Gandhi.

Social Gerontology, Public Health

Dr Stoxen is a International Best Selling Author. He is the president of Team Doctors, Treatment and Training Center Chicago, one of the most recognized treatment centers in the world. He is a much sought-after speaker giving over 1000 live presentations and has lectured at over 70 medical conferences to over 50,000 doctors in more than 20 countries. He’s been asked to be the keynote speaker to specifically lecture on his human spring approach to thoracic outlet syndrome and other medical conditions. After his groundbreaking lecture on the Integrated Spring-Mass Model at the World Congress of Sports and Exercise Medicine he was presented with an Honorary Fellowship Award by a member of the royal family, the Sultan of Pahang, for his distinguished research and contributions to the advancement of Sports and Exercise Medicine on an International level.

Healthcare

Thomas is a Doctor of Physical Therapy in California, USA

Healthcare and Woundcare

MS. SUCHI is an experienced International Pre School Principal/Manager who picked up Laughter exercises from many coaches around the world. She then designed ‘Laughter Therapy' which is being used  in many places such as hospitals and Senior Activity Centres. She provides individual and group therapy in educational and home settings. A former Manager / Trainer is now engages in building social awareness about Holistic approach for recovery. Be it Depression, Anxiety caused by physical or emotional pain, Death in the family and the harm the unhappiness brings to people, families and communities. Her aim is to encourage people to seek help early and get on the path to recovery. Her works has been featured in local press, TV and Radio and has been an invited speaker at various community clubs and educational  Institutions.  She has also been awarded by MINDS and various community clubs  in recognition of her social work.

Mental Health