Lawrence Gostin

Lawrence O. Gostin is University Professor, Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. Prof. Gostin holds international professorial appointments at Oxford University, University of Witwatersrand, (South Africa), and Melbourne University. He is also the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law & Human Rights.

Kaushik Basu

Former Chief Economist of the World Bank and India. Professor of Economics and Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at the Department of Economics and SC Johnson Graduate

Nicole Hassoun

Nicole Hassoun is a professor at Binghamton University and heads the Global Health Impact project intended to extend access to medicines to the global poor. Her research interests are in social and political philosophy, global justice, global health, and applied ethics.

Esther Chirwa

Dr Esther Chirwa-Mkandawire has an MSc in vaccinology and drug development. She is currently working with the Ministry of Health, Expanded Program on Immunisation as a vaccine safety officer. She is also a member of the National COVID-19 vaccine taskforce which is responsible for COVID-19 vaccine rollout and implementation.

Pedro Villarreal

Dr. Pedro Villarreal has his law degree, PhD and Masters degree. He currently is working as a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for comparative public law and international law. His main fields of research include Health Law, Public International Law, and Comparative Public Law.

Dr. Anders Herlitz

During the academic years 2016-2019, Dr. Anders Herlitz is Visiting Scientist at the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also Research Fellow at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, Sweden.

Amanda Banda

At Wemos, Amanda is a global health advocate in the East and Southern African region. She focuses on the programmes Human Resources for Health and Finance for Health. Amanda is also co-chair of the Health Workers For All Coalition.

Caesar Atuire

Dr Caesar Atuire joined the University of Ghana in January 2014 as Lecturer. He began his university education in Civil Engineering at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (London).

Iwao Hirose

I have been working at McGill since 2007. Before that, I was employed at University College, Oxford (2003-6), Harvard University (2006-7), and Melbourne University (2007-9, part time). The area of my research is moral philosophy. More specifically, I work on axiology and its applications to public policy. In 2014, I published three monographs: Moral Aggregation (Oxford University Press); Egalitarianism(Routledge); and The Ethics of Health Care Rationing (co-authored with Greg Bognar, Routledge). I am about to complete two edited volumes: The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory (Oxford University Press) with Jonas Olson; and Weighing and Reasoning (Oxford University Press) with my McGill colleague, Andrew Reisner.

Abha Saxena

Dr. Abha Saxena is currently an independent bioethics advisor with a special interest in global health ethics. Her areas of interest are in the ethics of infectious disease outbreaks, health systems research, healthy ageing, adolescent health care, human challenge studies, and new technologies. Dr. Abha Saxena transitioned from the World Health Organization (WHO, Geneva) in May 2018, where she had worked for more than seventeen years in global health and research ethics, ten of them in leadership positions.

Marc Fleurbaey

Marc Fleurbaey is Robert E. Kuenne Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, and Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values. He has been an economist at INSEE (Paris), a professor of economics at the Universities of Cergy-Pontoise and Pau (France), and a research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris.

Jennifer E. Miller

Jennifer E. Miller, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in Yale School of Medicine; Director of the Good Pharma Scorecard (an index that ranks pharmaceutical companies on their bioethical performance); and Founder of the nonprofit Bioethics International. Her research focuses on the ethics of the pharmaceutical industry, specifically developing and using metrics to enhance accountability and social responsibility around how clinical trials are designed, conducted, and disseminated, and the accessibility of new medicines and vaccines.

Karrar Karrar

Karrar Karrar has his Masters degree in Pharmacy, Clinical, Hospital and Managed Care Pharmacy, and International Health Policy and Economics. He is currently working at Save the Children as the Pharmaceutical Health Lead, and served previously as the Access to Medicines Advisor.

Brook Baker

Professor Baker teaches a Global HIV/AIDS Policy seminar, disability discrimination law, negotiations and an analytical skills workshop. His recent scholarship has focused intellectual property and access to medicines and intensifying the legal, economic and policy response to the global HIV/AIDS pandemics.