Professor Hans Kromhout is an occupational hygiene and epidemiology specialist, based at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Professor Kromhout’s work has covered the health effects of chemical and physical (EMF) agents in the workplace and general environment. He has been the (co-)PI of large international studies in among others the asphalt industry, rubber manufacturing industry, industrial minerals industry, health sector and agriculture and community based studies on cancer, respiratory diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and reproductive health effects.

Dr Nick Brown is a paediatrician and epidemiologist. His initial training was in the UK in general paediatrics, but for the last 25 years he has had a parallel career in academic international child health. Nick has lived and worked in Sudan, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, India and Pakistan largely as an epidemiologist. He has a long affiliation with the Aga Khan University in Karachi where he teaches epidemiology, biostatistics and research methodology and is involved in studies in child pneumonia, rheumatic heart disease, thalassaemia and early child development.  Nick is currently based in Sweden with a clinical position in Gävle and academic affiliation with the International Centre for Maternal and Child Health at Uppsala University.

Dr Ruth Malone, Professor and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, is internationally known for her research on the tobacco industry. She has published studies examining the tobacco industry’s targeting of marginalized groups through both product advertising and corporate activities. Currently, she is studying the tobacco industry’s ‘corporate social responsibility’ initiatives and their implications for public health policy. She has served as an expert consultant to the CDC, the US Department of Justice, and the World Health Organization. 

Anna Maria Geretti, MD, PhD, FRCPath, is Professor of Virology & Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Infection & Global Health of the University of Liverpool, and Honorary Consultant at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. She trained in Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK and has a special interest in HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C infection. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, reviews and book-chapters, runs capacity building programmes for resource-limited countries and enthusiastically shares her expertise to train doctors and scientists.