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

Community nutrition

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 publications 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

Cleto Corposanto is a Full Professor of Sociology at Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy. Previously he was an Associate Professor at the 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 chairs 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. Bob Bernstein is a Medical Epidemiologist (a “Disease Detective”), Public Health and Preventive Medicine thought leader, and seasoned Monitoring & Evaluation team leader with more than 30 years of experience in leading monitoring, evaluating, and improving Health, Population, and Nutrition policies, programs, and practices through Health Services Research (HSR) and Health Impact Assessments, managing public-private partnerships, and providing classroom-based and on-the-job field-based training on behalf of CDC, USAID, U.N. agencies (WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank and ADB), NGOs (Medecins Sand Frontieres), and private sector organizations (Singapore Health Services, Wyeth and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals) for developing country ministries of health in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Senegal, and Cote d’Ivoire. He has substantial experience in strengthening institutional and human resources for Public Health work, including Emergency & Disaster Preparedness & Response, and more than eight years of direct practice in HIV/AIDS-related epidemiology and policy with USAID globally and with WHO/WPRO in Asia. He served as the US CDC Resident Advisor for Indonesia and KSA Field Epidemiology Training Programs and led teams of medical experts building capacity within their Ministries of Health for investigating and solving complicated public health issues. Dr. Bernstein is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Global Health at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and Adjunct Professor of Global Health at the University of South Florida College of Public Health. He is the father of 11-year-old triplets and he is fluent in the languages of Indonesia and Malaysia.

Epidemiology, Public Health

David Wroth is a Director for Underwriters Laboratories Inc., identifying opportunities to address safety issues across the globe. In this capacity, he analyzes data from disparate sources and provides a framework for the analysis and prioritization of solutions to improve safe living and working environments for people. His latest initiative is the UL Safety IndexTM, an algorithm seeking to quantify global safety using publically available data. David received a Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from Purdue University and a Masters of Business Administration from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Epidemiology, Public Health

Dr. Young graduated from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a Master and Doctor of Public Health, with a specialization in Epidemiology and Social Medicine. He also took a Master’s degree in Sociology from Pennsylvania State University where he studied demography, biostatistics, and quantitative research methods as a doctoral candidate. His research focuses on the distribution of air toxic exposure, neighborhood health effects, and vulnerability to chronic disease and health care disparities. He holds positions as Executive Vice President for Health Policy at Cooper University Health Care and Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, where he is Director of the Center for Injury Epidemiology and Social Medicine.

Differential exposure, Population vulnerability; Socioeconomic deprivation; Townsend index, Neighborhood health effects; Social epidemiology.

Maha Bouzid is currently a Senior Research Associate at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia. Her broad research interests are bacterial and parasitic zoonotic diseases. Her primary interests are molecular biology, epidemiology, and pathogenesis of waterborne parasites, namely, Cryptosporidium and Giardia. She has a master’s in microbiology and a Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology awarded from the University of East Anglia, investigating mechanisms of virulence in Cryptosporidium species using genomic data. Her research interests have recently expanded to account for the effect of climate change, mainly on vector-borne and waterborne diseases.

Her broad research interests are bacterial and parasitic zoonotic diseases. Her primary interests are the molecular biology, epidemiology, and pathogenesis of waterborne parasites, namely, Cryptosporidium and Giardia

Jean Caron, Ph.D., studies the mental health of populations, focusing primarily on: the epidemiology of mental disorders and suicide the assessment of mental health services the validation of psychometric instruments His initial collaboration with the Douglas Mental Health University Institute was in 1993 when he was a professor in the Department of Human and Social Development the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. He joined the Psychosocial Research Division in 1998 and subsequently became an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University. He currently leads the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Team in Social and Psychiatric Epidemiology. He is also an associate researcher at the Institut de Santé publique of the Université de Montréal and the Instituto de Saude Colletiva of the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil.His recent studies have identified determinants of psychological distress and quality of life among different populations: the general population, low-income populations, and populations with mental health problems. He has focused particularly on social support as a protective factor in mental health. Jean Caron’s research has received national and international recognition. He was a visiting scientist at the Mental Health Institute of the Andalusian Ministry of Health and a visiting professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Seville, in Spain. He is a consultant in social and psychiatric epidemiology to the Public Health Agency of Canada, Statistics Canada, the Quebec Department of Public Health, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Epidemiology