Dr. Otmar Kloiber is the Secretary General of the World Medical Association since 2005. Working in international medicine for three decades, he has focussed on medical ethics, health policy, government affairs, relationships with patients and professional organizations, manufacturers, and other stakeholders.

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Laith has recently been recognized as one of USA's Top 20 Dynamic CEOs of 2022 by The CEO Publication and his organization Spartan Service Corp. has recently won a Management Consulting Award from Wealth & Finance Magazine in the UK as the Best Global Recruitment & Headhunting Services Company 2022.

Much of his success is due to his integration of DE&I infused services which support Women in the Workforce, Economic Empowerment, Neurodiverse & Disability Recruitment. 

Laith owes much of his accomplishments to his team, his well-rounded business acumen and exposure to Multinationals & Local Family Businesses. 

Having served over 20 industries, from FinTech to Consumer Goods, Laith has culminated enough knowledge of the global Professional Economic landscape to apply solutions in creative ways for his clients and his communities.

Iris Blom is a 27-year-old Ph.D. candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine researching how to make health systems more sustainable and resilient in the context of climate change. She is a medical doctor from the Netherlands with a Master's Degree in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China as a Schwarzman Scholar. She has attended the COP25, COP26 and the first-ever UN Youth Climate Summit to advocate for planetary health. She is the first next-generation representative on the Steering Committee of the Planetary Health Alliance. Currently, she represents 1.3 million medical students to the World Health Organization and works to ensure the meaningful engagement of youth voices at the highest level of global health decision-making as the Liaison Officer to the World Health Organization of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations. Iris has helped set up and is part of the Steering Committee of the new WHO Youth Council.

Al Ameen Ajlouni is the business development and training manager at Jordan Paramedic Society. He is also a board member as a vice president. Al Ameen is a PhD student in business administration and have a master’s degree in E- Business. He is always looking to and working on introducing innovation, creativity and empowering to young people and to those who are interested in the health safety and training. He also was part of introducing the First Aid Instructor ( FAI ) program in Jordan that helped empowering and introducing new opportunities to the young specially in the medical field. Al Ameen believes that empowering the young is the key to advancing our Jordanian society.

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Dr. Dayaprasad Kulkarni has nearly two decades of experience in creating innovative solutions to healthcare problems for populations underserved by capitalist healthcare systems. He is the founder and director of Aarogya Seva: Global Health Volunteer Alliance, a transnational, not-for-profit, micro-volunteering platform that provides marginalized individuals and communities across 15 countries with access to local, sustainable, quality and comprehensive healthcare for low or no cost. He recently returned from Ukraine where AarogyaSeva is doing significant humanitarian work with refugee and displaced populations.

He is a founding trustee of Sunbird Trust which helps bring peace to Northeast India through education, a founding trustee of Ayang trust which addresses educational, healthcare and livelihood challenges. He has advised several startups to rethink public health problems through technology solutions.Among these health-tech initiatives are Taal, India’s first low-cost digital stethoscope; Tech4Health, an open innovation micro-volunteering platform, Sushruta Med-Tech Incubator and Enabler, MyCliniCare which provides digital breast cancer screening at the doorstep; HeartWare, a handheld EKG device; WellBeeing Integrative Medicine clinic; and 3D Usher, a 3D designing and manufacturing service. Under his mentorship, over 2000 pre-med and medical students, doctors, healthcare professionals, innovators and entrepreneurs across Indian and American universities have experienced connected humanitarianism and participated in healthcare volunteerism and developed humanitarian healthcare technologies. Some of the current/ongoing student projects include: a low-cost bone drill, a portable dialysis machine, a suicide prevention app, a mobile-based national cancer registry, a telepathology app, a supply chain management system for humanitarian outreach, 3D printed prosthetics, as well as on-demand and on-site 3D printed medical consumables.

Dr. Raj Shankar Ghosh is a physician with public health training. Over the past 30 years, Dr Ghosh has worked in multiple organizations that include non-governmental organizations (Bhoruka Charitable Trust, Bhorugram, Churu, Rajasthan); State Health Services (West Bengal State Health Service); multinational organizations (World Health Organization- National Polio Surveillance Project; PATH; and Institute for OneWorld Health) and global donor agency (Bill &

Melinda Gates Foundation). Dr Ghosh’s work has primarily been around three broad portfolios – management and delivery of infectious diseases control programs (Polio; Japanese Encephalitis; Visceral Leishmaniasis; Rota virus diarrhea and Pneumonia); delivering Primary health care and Public Health Program Policy- Advocacy and Communication.

Dr. Ghosh is currently Senior Advisor, Vaccine Delivery at the India office of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, he was the Regional Director for the Japanese Encephalitis Project of PATH supporting governments in 13 countries in South Asia and Western Pacific Region of World Health Organization. Before, joining PATH, Dr Ghosh was Regional Director for South Asia at the Institute for OneWorld Health supporting WHO-SEARO endemic countries in introducing safe and affordable treatments for Neglected Tropical

Diseases like Visceral Leishmaniasis. Prior to that, Dr Ghosh worked in the National Polio Surveillance Project of India as Regional Coordinator for the Southeast region of NPSP India. Before joining NPSP India, Dr Ghosh was a Medical Officer at Alipurduar Block1 Primary health Center in West Bengal.

Over the past two decades, Dr. Ghosh has been member of several vaccine policy and working groups constituted by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. He has multiple papers published in national and International journals and has recently authored a book with anecdotes from his public health journey in India. The book is titled, “Public Health Musings and Anecdotes” and is available for download at https://lovingvaccines.co.in/.

Dr. Ghosh was awarded honorary fellowship by Indian Public Health Association in 2013 in recognition of his work in public health in India and South Asia.

Dr Seita is a strategic thinker with extensive skills and experience on health systems management and partnership in global health. Dr Seita is an effective advocate for the vulnerable and marginalized people under the humanitarian setting. Since 2010, Dr Seita works as the director of health of UNRWA, managing comprehensive primary health care deliveries to 5.7 million Palestine refugees in five different locations, namely Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank. This is a massive operation management in humanitarian settings with 3000 health staff in 141 health institutions and an annual budget of USD 150 million. Dr Seita leads the health reform of UNRWA. He started the introduction of family medicine approach (branded as “family health team (FHT)”) to effectively respond to the emergence of non-communicable disease (NCD) and modernize UNRWA’s decades-old primary health care with the electronic medical records in all UNRWA health centers. During the covid-19 pandemic, Dr Seita lead the UNRWA-wide responses for 5.7 million Palestine refugees and 30,000 UNRWA staff. Dr Seita works effectively with host governments to ensure the access to diagnostic and treatment for covid-19. This has resulted in the full inclusion of Palestine refugees in the national vaccination programmes of host countries without any discrimination. Moreover, Dr Seita managed the continuation of lifesaving primary health care. It is remarkable that all the 141 health centers of UNRWA never stopped their health services. This includes the care for 300,000 NCD patients who received medications from UNRWA, for example. Dr Seita also took innovations 19 including introduction of telemedicine and smartphone app for MCH and NCD care. All these activities are done through partnerships. It’s not only with UN agencies like WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, IOM and UNHCR. It’s with host governments (Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria), civil societies, and private sectors. For host governments, the full inclusion of all Palestine refugees in their national covid-19 vaccination plans is a recent example. Dr Seita is a strong advocate for the vulnerable people. In UNRWA, he always stays with Palestine Refugees, and took advocacy works. For example, every year, he coordinated a joint event with the Lancet, IFMSA and other civil society to address health and social problem for Palestine refugees, with good audience. Dr Seita promotes research activities. In UNRWA, he managed to publish numerous articles in peer-review journals like the Lancet and BMJ, in collaboration with renowned universities and other partners. He facilitated to grant approval from DFID as well. From 2000 to 2010, Dr Seita was the coordinator for TB, AIDS, and malaria at WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office. He was the regional focal point for GFATM, and effectively led countries’ work with GFATM grants. His experience was extensive as the region included fragile and complex emergency countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. He received numerous international awards for his work in tuberculosis including Princess Chichibu Memorial TB Award for Global Contribution in 2014, and Takemi Life Science Award in 2017. He studied medicine at Kochi medical school in Japan. He was the research fellow for Takemi Programme of International Health at Harvard School of Public Health (2003-2004).

Baroness (Caroline) Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords from 1985 to 2005. She was Founder Chancellor of Bournemouth University; Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University from 2006-2013 and is an Hon. Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing. She was a founder Trustee of MERLIN [Medical Emergency Relief International] and is Founder and President of HART [Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust]. Her humanitarian work takes her to conflict and post-conflict zones, including the Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh, Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, Uganda, Syria, the Shan and Chin regions of Burma. Previously, she visited communities suffering from conflict in Indonesia, helping to establish the International Islamic Christian Organisation for Reconciliation and Reconstruction (IICORR) with late former President Abdurrhaman Wahid. She has visited North Korea to promote Parliamentary initiatives and medical programmes. Caroline Cox has been honoured with the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland; the Wilberforce Award; the International Mother Teresa Award from the All India Christian Council; the Mkhitar Gosh Medal conferred by the President of the Republic of Armenia; and the anniversary medal presented by Lech Walesa. She has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Honorary Doctorates by universities in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Russian Federation and Armenia.

Sally’s work as a humanitarian has been well documented, especially in Bosnia where she became

known as the ‘Angel of Mostar’ while rescuing sick and injured children from across the front lines.

Amidst the carnage and the chaos of numerous wars, she has managed to negotiate ceasefires in areas where others have failed and is credited with saving hundreds of lives.

Following a mission to help victims of ISIS in Northern Iraq, Sally worked with developers and a team of paediatric experts to create a paediatric telemedicine programme called Save a Child www.saveachild.uk The mobile app combines paediatric expertise with digital technology and is helping doctors to treat sick and injured children in besieged and remote areas across the globe.

Nazneen has an MSc in Health Policy Planning & Financing from the London School of Economics and a Diploma from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She originally graduated as a medical doctor before completing her MPH from the National Institute of Preventive & Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Dhaka University. She has experienced Leadership Fellowships from Goodenough in the UK, and Uppsala University in Sweden; also from the Asian Health Institute, Japan.

Nazneen is currently engaged as Technical Advisor, FETP B (Field Epidemiological Training program Bangladesh) at IEDCR, program supported by GHD/MPHNET & CDC Atlanta. She is also Founder & Managing Director VAALO avant-garde Ltd and also Adjunct Faculty (Asst. Prof.) at the department of Public Health at North South University Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Nazneen has more than 30 years’ experience in Public health and development, also held senior roles in other development organisations, such as, national Technical Coordinator , IEDCR, CDC Atlanta, Bloomberg Philanthropy, Data Impact program, Country Director in Oxford Policy Management (OPM Bangladesh), Executive Director , HIV/AIDS & STD Alliance Bangladesh, also in Bangladesh Women’s Health Coalition(BWHC) as DED and Director Program, and as Head of Health in Friendship Intl, and as Program Manager role in Terre des Hommes Netherlands at their Bangladesh operation

Nazneen's key areas of expertise are in: organizational development leadership & innovative project management; identifying growth opportunities & change management in institutional development; leading strategic process & policy formulation, including program planning, health care & health system strengthening, innovation & research in Public health, and social development. Her passion and future interest of work focus around the Human resource development in education & social development, in alignment with: SRHR, poverty, social disparity, gender & human rights, and bioethics embracing the arena of global public health & development.

Nazneen is widely published and engaged in national policy process also recognised for her work in promoting women’s leadership and value attention Humane resource development.

Goodness Ogeyi Odey is a public health practitioner, passionate about Health Equity, evidence-base generation through research, Gender Equality and Sustainable Development. 

In 2021, she worked as a policy advocacy associate with International Youth Alliance for Family Planning (IYAFP) - consulting on the Sustaining Evidence Driven Advocacy (SEDA) Project in Cross River State (CRS), Nigeria where the first ever CRS Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Youth-friendly focused policy was developed. Her commitment to promoting SRHR especially for young people led to her winning the prestigious International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) Trailblazer Award, which is named in recognition of the important leadership and innovation youth bring to family planning and SRHR. More recently got the prestigious 2022 Diana Award, which is the highest accolade a young person can achieve for social action and a legacy of Princess Diana, in recognition of her outstanding contributions towards the achievement of health equity in Africa.

Goodness has a budding career in global health, and as an early career researcher, she supports the work Global Health Focus does through research writing, leadership and mentoring women to actively be part of proffering evidence base that translates to sustainable development in our communities and globe.

Eng. Laith Zamer opens the line of communication between clients, customers, and businesses to get projects done. With over 3 years in both NGOs and private sectors, Laith has experience in business development, marketing, operations management, strategic implementation, and company collaboration. Laith has managed projects at Hult Prize Foundation, STEAM Center and the Royal Academy of Engineering, also he was a speaker at the United nations, Amman and Vietnam regional events. Currently he is working between Amman and Riyadh for new projects! Laith is a youth activist who always aim to aware a generation for a better opportunities.

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Mohammed Salman is an agriculturist and community development practitioner with over seven years' experience in organic agriculture, volunteering, community service, and advocacy in the non-profit sector. He holds a bachelor's degree in Agriculture from Kwara State University, a Mini-M.B.A. in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, an alumni of London School of Insurance and a trained/certified organic agriculture consultant by ECOCERT France. 

Over the past five years, Mohammed has advocated for zero hunger and participated in a range of programs around policy advocacy and community outreach. As the founder of the Feeding Nigeria (www.feedingnigeria.org), he has partnered with key stakeholders to serve over 250,000+ meals to Nigerians in need, provide over 3,200 households with relief materials in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and support a 12% decrease in the rate of waterborne disease through the Feeding Nigeria Water Facility. 

Previously, Mohammed volunteered as a field officer with African Women's Entrepreneurship Program, where he advanced the participation of women entrepreneurs in good agricultural practices (GAP) by 35%. He was also invited by the Nigerian National Volunteer Service to participate in the drafting and review of the National Policy and Action Plans on Inclusive Volunteerism for Nigerian Youth. He has received accolades including 2019 Most Outstanding Youth Leader in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in Nigeria, 2020 Youth Humanitarian by EliteVibe Award, 2021 President Bill Clinton Global Initiative Commitment Maker, 2021 Kwara State University Alumni Outstanding Award of Excellence and a 2022 Mandela Washington Fellow at the great University of Nebraska Lincoln in the United State of America.

Israa Al-Rawashdeh is an assistant professor and the head of the department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Mutah University in Al-Karak, Jordan. She got the Medical degree from the Mutah University (2010), Masters of Public health Management and Leadership and PhD of Public Health degrees from the University of Sheffield in UK (2013, 2017). She is a researcher in Public health and health policy. She is involved in teaching health related curricula for undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Dr Saad is LSHTM public health master's graduate and activist. He is an international trainer, TEDx speaker, Diana award winner, One Young World ambassador, UNESCO young researcher, WHO infodemic manager, Clinton global initiative fellow, Gates foundation's Goalkeeper, and Chevening scholar. He had leadership positions representing youth in 56 global meetings. He organized 35 campaigns, and events both in-person and online. He also occupied leadership positions for 3 years in the international federation of medical students associations IFMSA and led global campaigns and coordinated the global medical students' COVID-19 response collaborating with WHO, UNFPA, UNESCO, UNICEF, and other stakeholders. He works now as AYICC North Africa Coordinator

Dr.Abbadi is currently working as a scientist at Schain Research, and as a research assistant at the Aging Research Centre (ARC) at Karolinska Institutet. He is a medical doctor, and he has a Master's in Public Health Epidemiology from Karolinska Institutet. He has previously worked in tobacco control at World Health Organization - Jordan Country Office, as a regional coordinator at Framework Convention Alliance, a public health consultant at King Hussein Cancer Center, and a project officer at Global Research, Education and Advocacy for Community Health (REACH) Project. His current project at ARC aims to assess the validity and feasibility of the Health Assessment Tool (HAT) for geriatric age group in primary healthcare.His interest areas are clinical epidemiology, urological epidemiology, decolonizing global health, tobacco control and learning about advanced statistical methods.

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Owner and expert Biostatistician at Medical Agency for Research and Statistics CEO and co-founder of Clinical Research Key ( CRK-CRO) Postgraduate studies in epidemiology and biostatistics

Ahmad H. Al-Nawafleh, (PhD, MPA, CI, RN), associate Professor of health systems and nursing management at Mutah University in Jordan. Business oriented and high caliber health professional. He established and follow up for his family a five-star accommodation and desert camp also a Plant Nursery. He became a nurse in 1992 after working in tourism. currently supports the WHO as a consultant for noncommunicable diseases integration into primary health care. During 2019 -2021 he finished a consultation for WHO to measure and improve PHC in Jordan. Also during 2021 finished a consultation for American University in Cairo to integrate social determinants of health into health information systems. Previously, after earning his BSN degree, he became a critical care nurse specializing in coronary care. He had worked with clients of all ages in various hospitals, emergency care facilities, clinics, medical wards, and private practice. Whether in the role of staff nurse, supervisor, director, consultant, or teacher, his nursing practice of care focuses on the individuals and groups health.

After earning clinical instructors diploma he started training and teaching nurses in the service and teaching students in the community college system. Ahmad became an assistant professor at the University of Mutah, Faculty of Nursing, where he taught for 6 years in the undergraduate and graduate programs of nursing, women and child health and public health management. Then Promoted to associate professor since 2015. His nursing research has focused on nursing management, health policy, public health, patient safety, decision making, primary health services and staffing issues. He had presented on these topics at numerous conferences. His abiding passion continues to focus on the recognition and amelioration of staffing and policies, wherever it exists. He currently lives in Mutah, Jordan, where he works as academic and writes about health, leadership, policy, and nursing.

Alumnus of the University of Jordan (MD) and the University of Manchester (MSc). Member of the Royal College of Physicians UK. Currently an oncology specialist registrar based in the UK. Co-founder of Span Health (recently acquired) and Jawabmed.com.

Salameh Alarood/ Al Habashneh is a medical doctor who graduated from the University of Jordan, he is currently working with the Jordan Paramedic Society (JPS).

He is an IFMSA-Jo alumni and was the president for the term 2018/2019.

Dr. ALAROOD is a trainer and instructor, he is a TNT, ToT, TNHRT, IPET and TMET trainer in IFMSA, peer educator and focal point in Y-PEER and a first aid instructor with JPS TrainingCenter.