Emerita Professor of Public Health, New York University, USA
Senior Technical Advisor: Community Rising Africa Network

Sally Guttmacher, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at New York University and Senior Technical Advisor, HealthRight International USA. She is also a Honorary Professor of Public Health at the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Dr. Guttmacher’s current primary research interests are in the areas of health and human rights, especially applied to reproductive health HIV prevention in marginalized populations and the health risks encountered by cross-border migrants. 

She has been the Principal Investigator of a number of research projects. She has published text books entitled: “Community-Based Health Organizations” and “Community Based Health Interventions”. Dr. Guttmacher helped to develop a certificate on Health and Human Rights with courses to be offered on line through NYU and HealthRight International in USA.

Prof. Dr. Hardisman Dasman
Professor in Medicine (Public Health and Community Medicine), Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University, Indonesia

Prof Hardisman MD, M.HID, Dr.PH is Vice Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University, Indonesia. He was a Medical Doctor from Andalas University and graduated in Master and PhD from School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He did a Short Course in Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Boston, and got fellowship from South East Asian One Health University Network (SEAOHUN) and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Thailand and Vietnam, 2017-2018 to do several studies in several Indochina countries. He is a Professor in Public Health and serve as lecturer in Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine of Andalas University since 2003.

Emerita Professor of Public Health, New York University, USA
Senior Technical Advisor: Community Rising Africa Network

Sally Guttmacher, PhD is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at New York University and Senior Technical Advisor, HealthRight International USA. She is also a Honorary Professor of Public Health at the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. Dr. Guttmacher’s current primary research interests are in the areas of health and human rights, especially applied to reproductive health HIV prevention in marginalized populations and the health risks encountered by cross-border migrants. 

She has been the Principal Investigator of a number of research projects. She has published text books entitled: “Community-Based Health Organizations” and “Community Based Health Interventions”. Dr. Guttmacher helped to develop a certificate on Health and Human Rights with courses to be offered on line through NYU and HealthRight International in USA.

Prof. Dr. Hardisman Dasman
Professor in Medicine (Public Health and Community Medicine), Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University, Indonesia

Prof Hardisman MD, M.HID, Dr.PH is Vice Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University, Indonesia. He was a Medical Doctor from Andalas University and graduated in Master and PhD from School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He did a Short Course in Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Boston, and got fellowship from South East Asian One Health University Network (SEAOHUN) and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Thailand and Vietnam, 2017-2018 to do several studies in several Indochina countries. He is a Professor in Public Health and serve as lecturer in Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine of Andalas University since 2003.

Professor (retired), University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Editor, Public Health Nursing, a Wiley publication

Prof. Kelly’s professional, research and clinical work has focused on the intersections of women’s health and public health, with an emphasis on vulnerable populations and health equity. She has been the PI on two R-01 interventions, one that focused on STIs and dating violence with Hispanic girls in the juvenile justice system and one that used principles of community-based participatory research to develop and implement a community-wide violence prevention program. Dr. Pat has worked on a series of multi-disciplinary projects, including serving as the PI on a Department of Defense funded-study using mixed methods to examine the family reintegration challenges for women in the National Guard who have been deployed to combat areas, a HRSA-funded family planning research project, and a current Co-PI of an oral health workforce policy analysis.

She has received federal, state and foundation funding to work with high-risk populations in urban community settings and have published extensively on women’s sexual and reproductive health. For the past ten years, she has worked with colleagues in Kansas City on a series of cross-sectional and intervention research projects focusing on health of women in the criminal justice system; all projects have built on previous findings and resulted in extensive dissemination.

Since her “retirement” two and a half years ago, Dr. Pat has continued to work as a consultant with my jail research team in Kansas City and with maternal health colleagues in Belgavi, India. She also serve as a volunteer medical provider in Tucson working with immigrant families arriving in the U.S.

Division of Public Health Medicine, School of Public Health and Family Medicine,
University of Cape Town,  South Africa

David is a Public Health Medicine Specialist with more than 30 years experience in Infectious Diseases particularly HIV, TB and STIs. He worked on the development of these services for the national department of health in Pretoria, South Africa from 1994. In 2001 he joined the University of Cape Town and assisted MSF with setting up the first public sector HIV and antiretroviral primary health care services in Khayelitsha, Cape Town in the early 2000 s. He has also been involved in Child Health particularly immunisation and the causes of mortality in children under 18 years of age.

Full Professor and Director, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine,
School of Public Health, Université de Montréal, Canada

Full Professor and Director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the School of Public Health, Université de Montréal, Canada. She is also a researcher in Global Health at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre, and adjunct professor at the School of Public Health of the University of the Western Cape. Her training is multidisciplinary – BSc (Biology – U Toronto), MD (McMaster), MPH (International Health – Harvard), PhD (Anthropology – McGill).

Her career in rural and cross-cultural clinical medicine, academic public health in Canada and South Africa, and research management/funding not only has sought to put into practice a critical social theory and feminist perspective, but also a commitment to cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral work aimed at transforming research, teaching and partnership paradigms for health and social equity within and between countries.

Prior to joining U Montréal in 2014, she was Professor of Public Health and founding Director of the Centre for Research in HIV and AIDS at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. There she launched and continues to lead a programme of research and post-graduate training on vulnerability, resilience, migration, diabetes and HIV and health systems in complex contexts of inequality.

From 2000-2009 she was Senior Scientific Advisor for health and leader of the health systems and Research for Health Equity suite of programmes at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). She is on several editorial and advisory boards and is regularly invited to join global expert consultations, most recently on research capacity strengthening, chronic disease, HIV and key populations, and implementation research.

Senior Lecturer (Above the Bar), Faculty of Health, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Dr Jalal Mohammed currently works as a Senior Lecturer (Above the Bar), Faculty of Health, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research focuses on strengthening health systems in low-and-middle-income countries. Specifically, Dr Mohammed is interested in improving healthcare access from a systems perspective. To this extent, his research focuses on health reforms and health leadership as a means to effect change. Dr Jalal’s strong sense of giving back to my communities links his research to Pacific health systems, Fijian health and broadly Pacific health. Dr  Jalal aims to inform policy-makers, health managers and health practitioners working in low-and-middle-income health systems on improving access to health care and health outcomes through his research.