Dr. Nassiri is hematologist with a fellowship training in Clinical Pharmacology and expertise in Infectious Diseases/Tropical Medicine. He is currently Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology, and, Family and Community Medicine, lecturer in Global Health, Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. He has served as director of the MSU Institute of International Health and as a former Associate Dean of Global Health. He currently works on global health issues, particularly, antibiotic resistance and viruses without borders. He has made significant contributions in various fields of medical sciences including clinical investigation, health education, and academic medicine. Based on his extensive experience and expertise in chronic infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS and diseases of the tropics, he had previously developed clinical research programs in Brazil, South Africa, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. He had served as editorial board member for the journal of HIV and AIDS Review. He is currently on editorial board member for AIDS Patient Care and STDs. Prof. Nassiri has delivered seminar presentations on Tropical Medicine, HIV/AIDS, Antibiotic Resistance, deadly viral epidemics and Global Health in numerous national and international conferences and workshops. He is internationally recognized for his work in the areas of building effective international partnerships particularly in global health, community health, clinical care capacity building, clinical workshops, and technical assistance mechanisms. He is the founder of Michigan State University Osteopathic and Primary Health Clinic in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. He has developed academic and research partnership programs with Federal University of Para Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belem, Brazil. His research interests are clinical pharmacology of anti-infective agents, deadly viral epidemics including SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19), antibiotic resistance, prevention and control of infectious diseases, tropical diseases, community health, global health, and community-based public health interventions. In collaboration with his Brazilian colleagues, he conducts research in the eastern Brazilian Amazon population on incidence and prevalence of HIV, TB, Hepatitis C, HPV, and antimicrobial resistance.
Divocha Valentinain 1967 shegraduated from I. I. Mechnikov OdessaState University, Faculty of Biology (Department of Virology). In 1973 continued herpostgraduate study ate OdessaInstitute of Virologyand Epidemiology (specialty virology).In 1974 she was awarded her candidate degree with the thesis"Interaction ofCoxsackie Bviruseswith sensitivecell culturesand theirantigenicrelationships." In 2009 she was awarded her doctoral degree with the thesis entitled"Biological basis antiproteinasetherapyof influenza". Under her leadershipperformed a doctoraland twomaster's theses. Scientificexperienceis 35 years.I have more than190 scientific publications,3monographs, textbook "Virology" (2012), 10 patents, 3 innovations. I am currently workingas the head ofthe Laboratory of ExperimentalandClinical Pathology for UkrainianResearch Instituteof Transport Medicine, is the supervisor ofthe nineresearch programsin virologyand biochemistry.
Dr Sivakumar Joghi Thatha Gowder received his academic training and carried out his research in institutions of high academic ranking in India and United States [University of Madras -Chennai, India; All India Institute of Medical Sciences -New Delhi, India; UT Southwestern Medical Center -Dallas, TX, US; LSH Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA, US and University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, US]. Sivakumar served as a faculty member at the medical / health sciences universities in United States, Caribbean and Saudi Arabia. Currently, he is working as a faculty member of Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam; consultant for many concerns in foreign nations; director of pharma and education management agencies; and brand ambassador of a corporate sector in India. Sivakumar won prizes and awards in different levels of his academic career. He developed his own methods and techniques relevant to his research disciplines and also in the area of education and published several journal articles and book chapters; and edited and authored several books [Cell Interaction, Toxicity & Drug Testing, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, etc. - European publications]. Currently, he serves as an author and editor of books; editorial member and reviewer for journals; advisory board member of international organizations and external examiner of doctoral thesis work for international universities. He has been elected as a fellow of prestigious international scientific organizations [Fellow - American College of Nutrition (US), Fellow – Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), Fellow-International Society of Biotechnology (India) etc]. Sivakumar has also served as an invited speaker and chairperson for International Conferences.
Medical and cosmopolitan professional specialised in infectious diseases, internal medicine covering various therapeutic axes, certified in Immunology and Pediatric, MBA vaccinology and years of clinical practise contributing to bring innovative science and diplomacy for global health. Lived multi-country medical “field “experience in Southeast Asia (India in particular), West/Central/East Europe. Speaking French, English, Russian, Italian, Czech, Slovak with notion of Mandarin. Over 15 years of experience in pharmaceutical research and development for European and USA companies (Director of R&D for new delivery platforms focused on children and elderly) for various therapeutic areas for adults and children including neurodegenerative diseases, infectious diseases and tropical diseases, metabolic diseases and orphan indications. Active member of French immunology society (SFI) administrative board and several international academic societies (focus on innovation of R&D reflecting immunology and genetic variability, role of immunologic approach for treatment and diagnostic, tackle problem of resistance for antimicrobials, antimalarial, antivirals etc). Member of advisory Health concern (India) and think tank group in order to attract attention to role of immunology, personalised and preventive medicine and accurate diagnostic and global cooperation in this area. Years of expertise to work globally within Europe, USA but recently more focused on BRICS - Asia (India in Particular) as a Medical advisor bringing new innovative concepts alive and getting them endorsed.
Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised and graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, a General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication and received an award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress in 1998. Since 1997, she has been presenting her work worldwide, working with the approach and treatment of all diseases of all systems of the human body in a holistic way, with treatment guided through the teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hippocrates.
Elena Dmitrieva is the director of the Health and Development Foundation, an NGO that develops and implements health communication and health system improvement projects in Russia. Dr. Dmitrieva also serves as the head of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Russia. Dr. Dmitrieva is an expert in public health programs, with an emphasis on reproductive health, drug and HIV/AIDS prevention, and youth risk behavior. The Health and Development Foundation’s most recently introduced program, TEXT4BABY, provides expectant and new mothers with important information about their health and the health of their baby, communicated via text message. Dr. Dmitrieva has been instrumental in both the implementation of the program and its publicity. In 2013, Dr. Dmitrieva and the Health and Development Foundation received a grant from Eurasia Foundation to collaborate with an American partner on “mHealth,” public health campaigns implemented over mobile devices. Dr. Dmitrieva also serves as co-chair of the U.S.-Russia Social Expertise Exchange’s Public Health Working Group, whose current project focuses on the health of migrants in both the United States and Russia. Dr. Dmitrieva holds a Doctorate of Science (2004), Candidate of Sciences (1996), and Diploma of Honor (1993) in Sociology from Lomonosov Moscow State University (LMSU). She currently teaches sociology of health and health communication at LMSU.
Dr Jacques Choucair is an Infectious diseases specialist in Hotel Dieu de France teaching hospital in Beyrouth. He got in October 1999 his Infectious Diseases diploma, Saint-Joseph University, Faculty of Medecine, Beyrouth Then he did a 2 years fellowship from October 1998 till October 2000 at Bichat Claude Bernard hospital affiliated to University of Paris VII faculty of Medicine and bacteriology at Broussais hospital affiliated to University of Paris V, faculty of Pharmacy. Since December 2018, he is the head of division of the Infectious diseases department at Hôtel Dieu de France de Beyrouth teaching hospital. He also got a Medical Teaching diploma from the University of Montreal in Canada in 2003. He published more than 20 articles and is a reviewer in international journals. His main topics of interest are bacterial resistance and the proper use of antibiotics. He is a member of the scientific committee of the Lebanese Society of Infectious Diseases, a member in the Arab association for the proper use of antibiotics, a member of the international Society of Infectious Diseases, a member of the infection control committee at the Hotel Dieu de France teaching Hospital, member of ESCMID and a MCU at the Saint Joseph University, school of Medicine.
A practicing physician in the field of healthcare in the state of Kerala in India for the last 30 years and very much interested in basic research. My interest is spread across the fever, inflammation and back pain. I am a writer. I already printed and published nine books on these subjects. I wrote hundreds of articles in various magazines. After scientific studies, we have developed 8000 affirmative cross checking questions. It can explain all queries related to fever
Deanna Mulvihill has her expertise in evaluation and passion in improving the health and wellbeing. Her open and contextual evaluation model based on responsive constructivists creates new pathways for improving healthcare. She has built this model after years of experience in research, evaluation, teaching and administration both in hospital and education institutions. The foundation is based on fourth generation evaluation (Guba& Lincoln, 1989) which is a methodology that utilizes the previous generations of evaluation: measurement, description and judgment. It allows for value-pluralism. This approach is responsive to all stakeholders and has a different way of focusing
Goutam Kumar Acherjya is working as a junior consultant of Medicine in the Upazila Health Complex, Bagherpara, Jashore, Bangladesh. He has obtained his MBBS degree from Sher-E-Bangla Medical College & Hospital under University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2003 and completed Fellowship (FCPS) in internal medicine in 2011 from Bangladesh College of Physician and Surgeon (BCPS), Bangladesh. He has completed Fellowship training under Emeritus Prof. AV Srinivashan in AVS Clinic and Prof. MR Sivakumar in GLB Hospital and Acute Stroke Centre in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He has achieved his Life Membership from Bangladesh Society of Medicine and Bangladesh Medical Association. He has gained his membership from American College of Physician in 2016. He has experience to organize a number of CME, Symposium and Scientific Seminars in the regional, national and international levels. He has delivered several presentations in the prestigious national and international conferences. Recently he has won the Bangladesh Society of Medicine Research Grant Award 2018. One of his abstract has been selected among the top fifty abstracts in the ACP early carrier abstract competition in 2018. He has delivered both oral and poster presentations in the 34th World Congress of Internal Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa in 2018. He has 11 national and international publications and several interesting case reports. Some of his articles are on the way to publish in some eminent national and international journals. He has experience to consult at different levels of Bangladesh Health Sectors. Now he is practicing to consult his private patients in Modern Hospital & Diagnostic Centre, Jashore, Bangladesh. He used to consult both indoor and outdoor patients in his working place. As a researcher his areas of interest are Diabetes, Effect of Metabolic disorders on Central Nervous System and Gerentology.