Research Fellow, Health Systems and Equity, The George Institute for Global Health, India 

Dr Hari Sankar D is a qualitative research fellow at the George Institute for Global Health India. He has a Master’s in public health and a Bachelor’s degree in Ayurveda. He has worked for more than six years in health systems and operation research focusing on primary health care. He is trained in disease surveillance and later gained field experience in implementation research. His current research interest is focused on developing a monitoring framework for tracking health system performance indicators and underlying inequalities in the health system of Kerala.

Research Officer, The George Institute for Global Health, India 

Misimi Kakoti is currently working as a Research Officer (RO) at The George Institute, India. Her research interests lie in the intersection of gender, rights, and equity in health policy and systems. She has been primarily involved with the documentation work on community action in health in India with the method of Witness Seminar, piloting the 8Quity checklist tool, and the CEDAW implementation review project at TGI. She has previously worked with the Rapid Evidence Synthesis Unit at The George Institute. She also supports the Secretariat of the Health Equity Network India (HENI). Prior to this, she has worked with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and ActionAid India. 

Founder and Managing Trustee, Centre for Health and Social Justice, India 

Dr Abhijit Das is the Founder and Managing Trustee of the Centre for Health and Social Justice, a policy research and advocacy institution on health and human rights, and gender equality. Dr Abhijit is a medical doctor with 35 years of experience in grassroots work, training, research and policy advocacy in the field of public health. He is the founder member of MenEngage, a global alliance of NGOs working with men and boys on gender equality, and Co-Convenor of COPASAH (Community of Practitioners on Accountability and Social Action in Health), a global health rights and social accountability network, and member of the Advisory Group on Community Action (AGCA). He is Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington.  

Disability Rights Practitioner

Smitha Sadasivan is a social activist passionate about accessibility and inclusivity of persons with disabilities at all domains including civil political socio cultural, financial legal and administrative contexts. She is a member of the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism for UHC 2030, while also serving on the Steering Committee of the UHC 2030 initiative overall. In her native state of Tamil Nadu, she serves on the State Advisory Board for Persons with Disabilities under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Disability Rights Alliance. At the national level, she is a member of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of India and the Election Commission. Smitha has degrees in English Literature and Psychology.

Deputy Director, Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI), Vietnam

The Centre for Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI) is a Vietnamese NGO, well-known for its leading role in advocacy for marginalized populations’ access to health and fostering national networks of key populations and other community networks in Vietnam. 

In 2015, Linh joined SCDI to develop the Children and Youth program, and has led various interventions and advocacy efforts on drug harm reduction and HIV prevention for young drug users, sexual and reproductive health and rights for young women and adolescent girls, building resilience, increasing access to health and education for disenfranchised children. She also provides supervision for Harm reduction and Addiction Treatment program and the Communication and Social Mobilization team. 

Before SCDI, Linh sat in the core team laying the stepping stones for the first Global Fund supported project on HIV/AIDS led by civil society in Vietnam, facilitating capacity building of community-based organizations and key populations networks and their engagement in advocacy for enabling environment for civil society participation in the HIV response. 

Co-Chair, UHC2030 Steering Committee; President, AIDS Council of New South Wales 

Justin is co-chair of the Steering Committee of UHC2030, the international multi-stakeholder partnership for universal health coverage, and is a member of multiple WHO expert panels. At a national level, Justin is president of ACON (AIDS Council of New South Wales), Australia’s largest community organisation dedicated to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support, as well as to the health of sexuality and gender diverse people more broadly. He is Distinguished Fellow and Honorary Professorial Fellow at The George Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of New South Wales, as well as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Justin's training is in the field of pure mathematics, and he currently works as an investment analyst.

Director, Global Primary Health Care Program; Co-Director, Centre for Health Systems Science, The George Institute for Global Health

David is Director of the Global Primary Health Care Program (Better Care) and Co-Director of the Centre for Health Systems Science.

He is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney and works clinically as a GP in Sydney. David joined the Institute in 2006 and leads the Better care program at the Institute. This program focusses on SDG 3 - especially SDGs 3.4 and 3.8. The goal is to overcome the challenges of delivering affordable, high-quality health services and programs to communities across the globe. It is underpinned by health systems science, a dynamic and emerging discipline that includes health services research, health policy and systems research and implementation science. David has published extensively in areas related to health systems research and leads several grants testing innovative strategies to improve access to high-quality primary health care with a particular focus on under-served populations. He was the 2015-2016 Australian Harkness Fellow in Healthcare policy, based at Harvard School of Public Health where he conducted a national study of the changes to health care delivery systems associated with President Obama's reforms. He has been a board member with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners National Faculty of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and sits on several government, non-government and research advisory committees. He was the elected co-chair of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases committee for hypertension control from 2012 to 2015.

Prof. Geetam Tiwari is an international authority on transportation planning and safety, who serves as MoUD Chair Professor for Transport Planning at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She has extensive research experience in dealing with transportation issues of special relevance to low-income countries, including development of safer and more efficient bus systems and road designs, with a particular focus on traffic and transport planning related to pedestrians, bicycles, and bus systems. With degrees from the University of Roorkee (BA, architecture) and the University of Illinois, Chicago (MA, urban planning and policy; Ph.D., transport planning and policy), Prof. Tiwari has served as Adlerbertska Guest Professor for sustainable urban transport at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (2007–2010).

Dr. Mathew Varghese is a graduate and a post-graduate in orthopedic surgery from Maulana Azad Medical College at the University of Delhi. He is an expert on injury control, epidemiology of injuries, pre-hospital care and emergency care of trauma patients. Dr. Varghese is the co-author of the book 'When someone has hurt' a first aid guide that has been translated into five languages and 'Prehospital Trauma Cam Systems’ published by the WHO. He is also an associate faculty at the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme, a WHO collaborating center at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Dr. Aminur Rahman is a renowned child drowning prevention expert. He is a Director at the International Drowning Research Centre-Bangladesh (IDRC-B), which is part of the Centre for Injury Prevention and Research, Bangladesh (CIPRB). After graduating in medicine from Dhaka University in 1986, Dr. Rahman completed his Diploma in Community Medicine in 1991 from Dhaka University. He completed Masters in Medical Education in 1997 from Dundee University, UK. In 2010 he completed his PhD from the Public Health Science Department of Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Assoc. Prof. Kavi Bhalla works in the Department of Public Health Sciences of the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago, and Affiliated Faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy. His research aims to develop transport systems that are safe, sustainable and equitable, with a central focus on road safety in low- and middle-income countries. His recent work has focused on the development of analytical tools for improving estimates of the incidence of injuries in information-poor settings using available data sources. Assoc. Prof. Bhalla co-led the injury expert group of the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Project. He is formally trained as a mechanical engineer and his PhD (Cornell, 2001) thesis research focused on the mechanics of material failure, which he later applied to the study of injury biomechanics and vehicle crashworthiness. He is broadly interested in the design of products, environments, and systems that are safe and have positive health impacts

Prof. Julie Mytton is a Professor of Child Health at the University of the West of England, Bristol. She is co-lead for Training and Capacity Building, supporting the development of understanding, using and producing evidence of local researchers and practitioners. Prof. Mytton is co-Director for the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Nepal Injury Research and UWE Director for the Centre for Academic Child Health. Her research interests are in injury prevention and global health.

Dr. Margie Peden currently holds academic positions at Imperial College London and the University of New South Wales and an honourary position at Johns Hopkins University. She is Head of Global Injury at The George Institute for Global Health and Co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Injury Prevention. Dr Peden’s academic interests include identifying and evaluating appropriate interventions to prevent child injuries in low-income settings and implementing frameworks to improve nurses’ efficacy in emergency and accident units. She is particularly interested in using participatory methodologies to develop good practices for the most vulnerable in society. While road injuries are the biggest issue, Dr Peden's work also canvases other significant problems of drowning, burns and falls, and identifies interventions that could save lives. Her research looks at what works, specifically in developing countries.

Dr. Joanne Adrienne Vincenten leads the Child Injury Prevention Health Programme at UNICEF and brings on decades of experience for child and adolescent injury prevention, particularly across road safety and drowning

Professor Rebecca Ivers is head of the School of Population Health, UNSW. Recognised for her expertise in studying injury, trauma care and falls prevention, Professor Ivers designs and leads large observational studies and randomised trials focusing on injury prevention and trauma care in Australia and in low- and middle-income countries in Asia.