Gund Postdoctoral Fellow, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, The University of Vermont

Dr. Gallegos-Riofrío is working with indigenous populations in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia to understand the well-being and mental health effects of disconnecting from traditional agroecosystems and Mother Nature as seem from the ecocentric perspective of Andean cosmovision. Considering that outmigration, agrobusiness, and increasing ecological pressures are defining the demography and landscape of the Andean region, this research aims to bring a new understanding to connections between nature and mental health among populations that are typically overlooked by research focused in urban Western societies.

PhD Student, Food Systems, Gund Institute for the Environment, The University of Vermont

Ms. Carrasco-Torrontegui is a PhD student at the Food Systems’ Graduate Program and a student fellow of the Gund Institute for the Environment. Amaya has worked at national and local levels for the government of Ecuador, with several nonprofit organizations in Ecuador, Spain, India, Australia and the U.S. She has also worked in different applied research projects and hands-on experience in farming. She collaborates in the Collaborative Crop Research Program’s (CCRP) Agroecology Support Project, which seeks to strengthen agroecological knowledge and capacities in Africa and South America.

Senior Associate Physician in Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital

Dr. Dvorin’s research focuses on the molecular pathogenesis of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.  The major goal of the Dvorin lab is to identify fundamental biological processes within the parasite life cycle. Dr. Dvorin received his undergraduate degree in Physics from Brown University. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine to pursue a combined MD/PhD in the Medical Scientist Training Program. During his graduate work, he studied the mechanisms of nuclear entry for the human immunodeficiency virus in the laboratory of Michael Malim. He completed his pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and then moved to the Children’s Hospital Boston for his fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

Distinguished Professor, VC Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Giles-Corti is currently a VC Professorial Fellow and from 2016-2020 was an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. For over two decades, Dr. Giles-Corti and a multi-disciplinary research team have been studying the impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing. Since 2014, she has a Chief Investigator on the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre, responsible for working with sectors outside of health. She led its National Liveability Study, which initiated the Australian Urban Observatory that maps and disseminates policy-relevant urban liveability indicators for Australia’s 21 largest cities available for use by local government and the community. She has published over 400 articles, book chapters and reports, and by citations, has been ranked in the top 1% of researchers in her field globally.

Executive Director & co-Founder, Women in Global Health

Dr. Dhatt is a passionate advocate for gender equality in global health and a leading voice in the movement to correct the gender imbalance in global health leadership. She is also a practicing internal medicine physician at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Dr. Dhatt is particularly committed to addressing the issues of power, privilege, and intersectionality that keep many women from global health leadership roles and to opening up spaces for the voices of these women to be heard. Determined to build a movement to transform women’s leadership opportunities in health, Dr. Dhatt co-founded Women in Global Health (WGH) in 2015. Today, WGH has nearly 24 chapters with more than 35,000 supporters in at least 90 countries, and it continues to grow. Dr. Dhatt, the Executive Director, and the global team work with a network of WGH chapters in every region to challenge power and privilege and work toward gender equity in health.

Director, Institute for Global Health – Center for Global Cardiovascular Health, Quentin D. Young Professor of Health Policy, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Medicine

Dr. Huffman is the Quentin D. Young Professor of Health Policy, tenured Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Medicine-Cardiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and Director of the Center for Global Cardiovascular Health within the Institute for Global Health at Northwestern. He has a secondary appointment as a Conjoint Associate Professor at The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Huffman is a practicing cardiologist, researcher, and teacher interested in global cardiovascular health epidemiology, clinical trials, implementation science, health systems, and policy research and training. He works across the spectrum of cardiovascular disease prevention in research on acute cardiovascular quality improvement, simplifying pharmacotherapy through fixed-dose combinations, programmatic implementation and evaluation for large-scale hypertension control, monitoring and improving the U.S. and global food and medicine supplies, and achieving tobacco endgame. 

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Taube Endowed Professor of Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Population Health, Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control and Attending Physician, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University

Dr. Maldonado is Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Maldonado attended Stanford University School of Medicine. She was a Pediatric resident and fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Maldonado then served in the Public Health Service in the Epidemiology Intelligence Service (EIS) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she was awarded the Alexander D. Langmuir Prize, named in honor of the founder of the EIS Program. Dr. Maldonado has led a number of NIH, CDC, USAID, Gates Foundation and WHO funded domestic and international pediatric vaccine studies, as well as studies in prevention and treatment of perinatal HIV infection in the US, India, Mexico and Africa.