David Brett-Major, MD MPH, is an Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases physician. He has worked at home, in South America, Africa, and Asia as a clinician, educator, researcher, and in health emergency risk management. He has been part of filovirus emergency response in Guinea, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Uganda; and, worked in health security policy and management on issues such as research in emergencies, Dual Use Research of Concern, high consequence pathogens including pandemic influenza, and all hazards preparedness. He was part of global alert and response coordination against Ebola virus disease, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, and avian influenza A(H7N9). As a clinical scientist and medical epidemiologist, his research interests focus on risk, how it may be identified, characterized, and managed from patient- and community-centered vantages, particularly related to emerging infectious diseases.

Dr. Feng-jen (Jean) Tsai is the Director and a professor of the Global Health and Health Security program, Taipei Medical University. She is also an adjunct professor of the Graduate Institute of Health and Biotechnology Law at Taipei Medical University. Her research specializations are in the fields of global health policy and law, trade and health, and occupational health. As a scholar trained both in law and public health, Jean applies both quantitative and qualitative approaches to answer questions in global health. Prior to entering academia, Jean worked as a lawyer in Taiwan.

Ximena Garzon-Villalba is an experienced professional in Public Health, appointed as Minister of Health of Ecuador from May 2021 to July 2022. She was member of the International Vaccine Institute Board of Trustees in 2022. Currently, she is Dean of Public Health at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, and member of The World Bank Pandemic Fund Technical Advisory Panel. Dr. Garzon-Villalba is member of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Board of Directors.

Dr. Garzon-Villalba obtained her Medical Degree at Universidad Central del Ecuador, she holds PhD in Public Health with a concentration in Occupational Health, and a Post-doctorate in Occupational Health Research and Occupational Epidemiology, both from University of South Florida. Dr. Garzon-Villalba has been professor for undergraduate and graduate programs in several Ecuadorian and U.S. Universities. Her research work focusses on Occupational Heat Stress, Health Systems Management, Environmental Health and One Health, published in several indexed journals. She was awarded the National Order “For Merit” in the Rank of Grand Cross for leading the “Plan Fenix” a comprehensive response to the COVID-19 pandemic and for the design and implementation of the emblematic “9/100 Vaccination Plan” which reached 9 million fully vaccinated people (more than 50% of the population) before the 100th day of its beginning. Dr. Garzon-Villalba also headed up the development of the “Plan Decenal de Salud del Ecuador”, a holistic, interdisciplinary and intersectoral plan designed to improve the public health of her country under the One Health approach.

A/Prof Carmen Huckel Schneider is Deputy Director at the Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data at the University of Sydney where she is also lead of the Health Systems and Governance theme. She holds positions as Senior Adviser at the Sax Institute; and Honorary Senior Fellow at the George Institute. A/Prof Huckel Schneider’s areas of expertise are the application of systems approaches for the analysis of health policy (financing, systems, institutions, services and technologies); health system governance and operational models; knowledge translation and exchange; and global health policy and governance.

Professor Siobhan Mor is an interdisciplinary researcher and epidemiologist with a dual background in veterinary medicine and public health. Her research intersects with the areas of global health security and tropical medicine, often (but not exclusively) from a One Health perspective.

A Fellow of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM), Prof Mor has held academic appointments at Tufts University School of Medicine in the US (Assistant Professor, 2009-2011), The University of Sydney School of Veterinary Medicine in Australia (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, 2012-2018) and the University of Liverpool Institute for Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences in the UK (Reader, 2018-2024; Professor, 2025 to present). She holds a joint appointment with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and was based full-time in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 2018 to 2024. She is now based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Prof Mor leads the Global Health Research Group on Zoonotic Causes of Acute Febrile Illness which aims to create a step change in the way fever is diagnosed and managed in children in sub-Saharan Africa. She is a recognised leader in advancing One Health approaches, focusing on capacity building and translating theoretical frameworks into practical applications, particularly within the African context. Her operational expertise and contributions over the last 15 years include serving as: global health advisor for the RESPOND project (part of USAID’s Emerging Pandemic Threats program) which aimed to strengthen capacity for response to emerging diseases in disease “hotspots”; Research Lead for the Ethiopia hub of the HORN project which aimed to strengthen capacity for One Health research in the Horn of Africa region; as ILRI-PI for the HEAL project which aims to strengthen human-animal-rangeland health service delivery in pastoralist areas of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia; and country coordinator for Ethiopia and Somalia for the COHESA project which aims to increase uptake and adoption of One Health solutions in eastern and southern Africa.

Dr. Stephanie Petzing is a Senior Advisor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences’ Center for Global Health Engagement and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Partnerships. She is completed a Ph.D. and two years of postdoctoral work in Emerging Infectious Diseases focused on the entry mechanisms of Nipah virus and Hendra virus, and was subsequently awarded an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowship. She served at the Department of Defense in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs as a global health and scientific advisor assisting in the coordination of the Global Health Security Agenda for the Department of Defense. Her duties included leading engagements related to global biological security as a whole, including eliminating biological weapons, improving biosafety and biosecurity in research labs, and establishing and enhancing biosurveillance capacity in partner countries. Dr. Petzing’s extensive expertise covers bacteriology, parasitology, pathology, statistics, immunology, and virology with a focus on military health and biodefense, as well as extensive high level interagency and policy work in the Global Health, Force Health Protection, Global Health Engagement, and Threat Reduction arenas. Since 2016, Dr. Petzing has worked to improve cross sectoral awareness of the contributions of the defense and security sector to global health security.

Pedro A. Villarreal is a Research Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. His research focus is on international and comparative law and issues of human health, as well as its intersections with international economic law. He has spoken as external expert at the German Parliament on reforms at the World Health Organization. Pedro received his PhD in Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His book, Pandemics and Law: A Global Governance Perspective (published in 2019 in Spanish) was awarded the Prize for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in Law and Social Sciences. He is a member of the International Law Association´s Global Health Law Committee, the Coordinating Committee of the European Society of International Law´s Interest Group on International Health Law, the Global Health Law Consortium, and the German Alliance for Global Health Research.

Dr. Siyan Yi is an epidemiologist and implementation research scientist with a PhD in Community and Global Health from the University of Tokyo. He is an Associate Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, where he leads the NUS Cambodia Program, and serves as Technical Advisor to Cambodia’s Ministry of Health and member of its National Council of Science, Technology, and Innovation. He is also the Founding Director of the KHANA Center for Population Health Research in Cambodia and Adjunct Professor at Touro University California. Dr. Yi’s pioneering work in implementation research focuses on HIV, tuberculosis, and maternal and child health among vulnerable populations in Southeast Asia. He has led several large-scale intervention studies and actively contributes to global health technical working groups.

Dr. Jomana Musmar is a global policy expert and results-driven leader with extensive experience across the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Defense (DoD), and Agriculture (USDA). She is the Founder of Advisors of Global Health (AGH) and Co-Founder and CEO of the Antimicrobial Strategic Coalition (ASC), advancing cross-sector collaboration on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and One Health policy.

Formerly the Executive Director of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB), she led national coordination among 600+ experts and shaped U.S. and global AMR strategies. At HHS, she served as Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives, guiding major infectious disease and vaccine policy efforts, including the COVID-19 response.

Dr. Musmar is a Leadership Council Member at NIAMRRE, serves on global AMR committees including with the National Academies of Sciences, and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. She holds a Ph.D. in Biodefense and International Security (George Mason University) and a Master’s in Biomedical Science Policy (Georgetown University).

Fluent in English and Arabic, she is a recognized thought leader and speaker on AMR, One Health, and national health security.