Dr Stephanie Williams

Dr Stephanie Williams was appointed as Australia’s Ambassador for Regional Health Security in March 2020. As Ambassador, Dr Williams supports the advancement of Australia’s interests in the Indo-Pacific by fostering linkages between Australia’s world-class public health and medical research experts and partners in the region. In addition, she guides the implementation of the Health Security […]

Dr Nicolas Wentzensen

Dr. Wentzensen is Senior Investigator, and Deputy Chief of the Clinical Genetics Branch and Head of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), at the National Cancer Institute. He earned his MD and PhD at the University of Heidelberg and a Master of Epidemiology from the University of Mainz. […]

Associate Professor (Dr) Elick Ashwin Narayan

Elick Narayan, MBBS, MMED is the technical officer in-charge for cancer control at the World Health Organization’s Office for the Western Pacific, Philippines. He is a medical oncologist, having over 5 years of experience in serving cancer patients. He earned his Master of Medicine in Medical Oncology at Zhengzhou University, PR China. Previous positions include […]

Dr Margaret Tarere Lehi

Margaret Tarere Lehi is an Obstetrician Gynaecologist working at Vila Central Hospital, Vanuatu. I graduated from Fiji National University in 2019. I love working with women, covering Preventative and Curative health for them and their children. Apart from my clinical duties at the Hospital, I worked with the Ministry of Health as a Program Facilitator […]

Tania Cernuschi

Tania leads WHO work on immunization agenda, policy, strategy, markets, and financing. She has twenty year  experience working on political economy of health, focusing on access to health technologies and designing and managing related programmes with Gavi, UNDESA, the Italian Government, UNICEF and NGOs. Tania is a development economist and public health specialist by training […]

Azadeh Baghaki

Azadeh Baghaki is a New Zealand pharmacist, MPH and accredited partnership broker with over 18 years of professional experience spanning across public, private and UN health sectors. She is a global health and access specialist who has worked across Africa, Asia and the Pacific developing strategies and multisectoral partnerships and leading high-performing teams with a […]

Professor Ashrafun Nessa

Professor Ashrafunnessa, Chairman, Department of Gynaecological Oncology, graduated from Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh, received training from home and abroad, obtained Membership and Fellowship from RCOG from Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists.  Dr Ashrafunnessa obtained PhD from University of Dhaka, in 2004.   She is ‘Focal point’ of “Cervical and Breast Cancer Screening Programme” of Government […]

Dr Stephen Lambert

National Centre for Immunisation Surveillance and Research Communicable Diseases Branch, Queensland Stephen Lambert is a public health physician and medical epidemiologist who works part-time in Queensland Health and the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance. Stephen’s work and research is focussed on the prevention of preventable infections through the use of vaccines and other […]

Professor Deborah Watson-Jones

Deborah Watson-Jones is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & International Health in the Clinical Research Department of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). She has been based in Tanzania since 1995. Her research interests include the epidemiology and prevention of HPV and related infections, HPV and Ebola vaccines and COVID-19 research in Tanzania, […]

Professor Fanghui Zhao

Prof Fanghui Zhao is Director at the Dept. of Cancer Epidemiology, National Cancer Center. She has worked at NCI/NIH, USA during 2013-2014 and at IARC/WHO as a Senior Visiting Scientist during 2015-2016. In 2019, she received the appointment as Professor Extraordinary at Department of Global Health, the African Cancer Institute, Stellenbosch University. She has carried […]