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Naja Hulvej Rod

University of Copenhagen

Topic: Public health and complexity: concepts and methods

Prof Rod is a Professor of Epidemiology whose research deals with large public health challenges including sleep, health inequality, and early life adversity and it is focused on causal inference, complexity, and life course mechanisms.

Kai Chen

Yale School of Public Health

Topic: Climate change: what should all epidemiologists be thinking about?

Dr. Chen is an environmental epidemiologist whose research focuses on the intersection of climate change, air pollution, and human health. His work involves applying multidisciplinary approaches to investigate the impacts of climate change on human health.

Amrish Baidjoe

Médecins Sans Frontières, Luxembourg

Topic: Role of epidemiology in public health emergencies

Dr Baidjoe is a field epidemiologist and microbiologist whose work focuses on bridging field operations with partner institutes to fortify the fundament of evidence to improving decisions. His work also focuses on advancing data analytics for humanitarian emergencies.

Salim Abdool Karim

Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Topic: What has epidemiology learned from modern pandemics: COVID and HIV

Prof Abdool Karim is a clinical infectious diseases epidemiologist whose research interests are in HIV prevention, treatment of HIV-TB co-infection, as well as the epidemiology and prevention of Covid-19.

Karen Canfell

The Daffodil Centre, Cancer Council NSW/ University of Sydney

Topic: The role of epidemiology in cervical cancer elimination

Prof Canfell is a cancer epidemiologist whose research harnesses epidemiological insights integrated into a multidisciplinary program of work including predictive modelling, linked data analysis, clinical trials, stakeholder engagement and implementation science.

Charles Agyemang

Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam

Topic: Global obesity and cardiometabolic disease: epidemiological insights

Prof Agyemang is a Professor of Global Migration, Ethnicity and Health whose research is focused on ethnic inequalities in health and non-communicable diseases in LMICs and the relationship between epigenetics and cardiovascular diseases.