Editorial Board

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

Olivier Bruyère, University of Liège, Belgium
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ORCID profile
Twitter: @olibruyere
Olivier is currently Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences and of Geriatric Rehabilitation in the Department of Rehabilitation and Sport Sciences at the University of Liège in Belgium.  He is also head of the Research Unit in Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics at this University.  Professor Bruyère is the Chief Executive Officer of the European Society on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO), President of the Belgian Ageing Muscle Society (BAMS), General Secretary of the Belgian Bone Club (BBC), member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and is a member of the Group for the Respect of Ethics and Excellence in Sciences (GREES).  He also works as expert for the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES).  His main fields of interest are prevention, rehabilitation and pharmaco-epidemiology related to geriatric or rheumatic conditions.  He is Executive Editor of “Aging Clinical and Experimental Research”, Associate Editor of “BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders” and holds positions on the editorial board of various journals.  He is author of more than 250 international scientific publications and book chapters.
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Public health, Rehabilitation, Muscle, Bone, Pharmacoepidemiology, Meta-analysis, Systematic review

Herman Van Oyen, DrPH, SCIENSANO, Belgium
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Twitter: @hvanoyen
Herman retired from his position as Scientific Director of the Directorate Epidemiology and public health at Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium. He still continues to teach Epidemiology at the University of Ghent. He first worked as a medical doctor in Haiti before going on to study public health, epidemiology and biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he completed a DrPH. His key research interests include epidemiological methods, survey methodology, health inequality and summary measures of population health. He is author of more than 200 scientific publications, books and book chapters. 
Specialisms: Epidemiological methods, Survey methodology, Summary measures of population health, Health information, Inequality

Brecht Devleesschauwer, MSc, PhD, SCIENSANO, Belgium
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ORCID Profile
Twitter: @brechtdv
Brecht is head of the Service Health information at Sciensano, and is appointed as visiting professor in Risk Analysis at Ghent University. He conducts policy-driven public health research in the domain of composite measures of population health and health inequalities. As a member of the World Health Organization Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (WHO/FERG), he contributed to the estimation of the global burden of foodborne disease. Currently, he is coordinating the Belgian National Burden of Disease Study, and chairing the European Burden of Disease Network. Brecht holds PhD degrees in Public Health and Veterinary Sciences, and MSc degrees in Biostatistics and Veterinary Medicine. He is author of more than 200 international scientific publications and book chapters.
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Public health, Burden of disease, Health inequalities, Health impact assessment


MANAGING EDITOR

Tadek Krzywania, SCIENSANO, Belgium









SECTION EDITORS

Global Nutrition

Dickson Amugsi, African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
Research website
ORCID profile
Twitter: @damugsi2002
Specialisms: Public health and nutritional epidemiologist with expertise in maternal and child health/nutrition, All forms of malnutrition, Burden/risk factors of diseases




Omid Eslami, Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Nutritional epidemiology, Diet quality, Maternal and child nutrition, Obesity, Qualitative research, Systematic reviews





Fei Luo, Central South University, China
Research website
ORCID profile
Twitter: @FeiLuo11
Specialisms: Lipids metabolism, Non-alcoholic fatty liver, Atherosclerosis, Heart disease, VLDL lipidation and transport, ​​Insulin signaling pathway, Isolated liver perfusion, Cell fractionation




Zheng Feei Ma, University of the West of England, UK
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Specialisms: Nutrition; Epidemology; Trace elements; Obesity; Non-communicable diseases






António Raposo, CBIOS (Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies), Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Food Safety, Food Security, Food Innovation, Nutrition, Public Health, Natural Food Products.






Ashish Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
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Specialisms: Social/Economic/Socioeconomic inequality/Disparity in public health outcomes (for example, nutrition, immunization, longevity, access to healthcare facilities etc.)





Jinyu Sun, Nanjing Medical University, China
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Specialisms: Cardiovascular diseases, Digital health, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Cardio-Oncology, Public health, Obesity, Metabolic syndrome





Sumathi Swaminathan, St John’s Research Institute, India
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Specialisms: Nutritional epidemiology, Public health, Maternal and child malnutrition, Dietary assessment and physical activity







Health Information Systems

Robertas Damaševičius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
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Specialisms: Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning, Machine learning, Heuristic optimization
 





Jinming Han, Capital Medical University, China
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Neurology, Immunology, Cohort
 





Neville Calleja, University of Malta, Malta

Romana Haneef, Santé Publique France, France

Luís Velez Lapão, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Chee Wei Tan, City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong

Damir Ivanković, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands


Health Services Research

Naseer Abbas Khan, University of Sargodha, Pakistan
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Specialisms: Organizational Behaviour, Performance Management, Leadership, Information System methods, Health leadership, Public management, Health information system, Health services research
 





Williams Agyemang-Duah, Queen's University, Canada
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Specialisms: Population ageing, Public health, Healthcare services, Informal caregiving, Qualitative research, Quantitative research, Mixed methods research, Human-environment interactions





Bayu Begashaw Bekele, Mizan Tepi University, Ethiopia
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Oncology (breast cancer)






Jongwha Chang, Texas A&M University, USA
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Specialisms: Quantitative health service research, Health outcomes, Healthcare management, Health care cost analysis, Comparative effectiveness analysis, Health disparity





Periklis Charalampous, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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Specialisms: Burden of disease, Years of life lost methods, Systematic review,  Natural disasters, Public Health






Andrea Cioffi, University of Foggia, Italy
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Specialisms: Health policies, Bioethics, Legal medicine, Social determinants of health, Health equity, Human rights, Mental health, Reproductive medicine, Forensic psychiatry, Forensic gynaecology
 





Johanna de Almeida Mello, KU Leuven, Belgium
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Specialisms: Health economics, Geriatrics, Gerontology, Nursing, Health assessments, Mixed methods






Hung Chak Ho, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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Specialisms: Urban health; Oopulation health; Community health; Spatial epidemiology; Health action plans






Ehimario Igumbor, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Nigeria
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ORCID profile
Twitter: @Ehimario
Specialisms: Epidemiological estimations and modelling,  Burden of disease analyses, Strategic health information generation and use, Cohort studies, Health surveys




Abdosaleh Jafari, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Health economic evaluation research, Systematic review






Sun Jung Kim, Soonchunhyang University, Republic of Korea
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Evidence-based health policy analysis, Health services research, Health disparity, Healthcare access and outcomes, Healthcare administration, Global health
 




Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, ESIC Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, India
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Evidence synthesis, Health economics, Artificial intelligence in Public Health
 





Munjae Lee, Ajou University School of Medicine, Republic of Korea
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Healthcare Management, Health Services Research, Digital Health, Medical Device Industry, Health Policy





Zhong Li, Nanjing Medical University, China
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Rural health, Mental health, Ageing






Roy Marzo, Management and Science University, Malaysia
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Health Promotion, Research methodology, Communicable and non-Communicable diseases, Environmental health, Global sustainable development, Health and social services, Nutrition, Ageing and quality of life, Social and behavioural health, Healthcare management, Strategic management, Health services management, Health leadership management, Quality management, Medical education



Sylvester Okeke, University of New South Wales, Australia
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Twitter: @SirReubenOkeke
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Social aspects of infectious diseases, Health education and promotion, Young people and health, Sexual and reproductive health, Emerging infectious diseases, Blood-borne viruses and STIs, Health equity, Global public health, Migrant health
 



Sivasankar Palaniappan, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
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Specialisms: Environmental Microbiology, Microbiome, Antimicrobial Studies, Bio-remediation, Methanotrophy, Actinobacteria, Metagenomics, Environmental Omics, Metatranscriptomics





Jay Pan, Sichuan University, China
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Health policy, Health economics, Health services research






Jim Stimpson, Drexel University, USA
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Health policy, Health services research, Medical sociology, Immigrant health, Cancer screening, Motor vehicle crashes
 




Karan Varshney, Monash University, Australia
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Qualitative research, Systematic review, Scoping review, Infectious disease, Antimicrobial resistance, COVID-19, HIV, Co-infection, Suicide, Racism, Medical education, Genocide, Tuberculosis





Grant Wyper, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Research website
ORCID profile
Twitter: @GMAWyper
Specialisms: Burden of disease, Summary measure of population health, Health inequalities, Life expectancy, Epidemiology, Data linkage




Ali Nawaz Khan, Hubei Engineering University, China

João Vasco Santos, University of Porto, Portugal

Nader Ghotbi, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan 


Maternal and Child Health

Manfred Accrombessi, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
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Specialisms: Infectious tropical diseases, Neglected tropical diseases, Emerging diseases, Epidemiology






Ambrose Akinlo, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Public health, Demography, Sexual and reproductive health
 





Tilahun Birhan, University of Gondar, Ethiopia
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Specialisms: Statistical methods in Public Health
 






Giulia Dallagiacoma, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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Specialisms: Public Health, Vaccinations, Vaccine hesitancy, RSV, Respiratory syncytial virus, Global health






Thomas Druetz, University of Montreal, Canada
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Impact evaluation, Health services research, Access to healthcare, Effects of conflicts on population health, Malaria
 




Yitagesu Habtu, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
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Twitter: @HabtuYitagesu
Specialisms: Public Health, Epidemiology, Cervical Cancer, Adolescent sexual health, Maternal and child health, Non-communicable diseases, Health behaviour and promotion, Infectious diseases (Malaria, Tuberculosis), Health services, Occupational and environmental health
 



Sevil Hakimi, Ege University, Turkey
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Specialisms: Maternal health, Quality of care, Maternal health services, Maternal mortality and severe morbidity, Newborn care, Preterm newborn care, Epidemiologic studies
 




Henok Kebede, Resolve to Save Lives, Ethiopia
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Specialisms: Family planning,  Prevention of mother to child HIV transmission, Epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable disease, Surveillance data analysis/system evaluation, Implementation research
 





Bruno Masquelier, UCLouvain, Belgium
Research website
ORCID profile 
Twitter: @BrunoMasquelier
Specialisms: Demography, Child mortality, Youth, Causes of death, Vital registration, Demographic and health surveys, Population projections




Sonia Minooee, James Cook University, Australia
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Reproductive health, Obstetrics, Midwifery, Labour and delivery, Childbirth, Prenatal and postpartum care, Traumatic birth, Systematic review, Scoping review, Cross-sectional and cohort studies, Qualitative methodologies




Ramesh Poluru, The INCLEN Trust International, India
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Specialisms: Demography, Statistics, Epidemiology, Public health and surveillance (Reproductive and child health including STIs, HIV/AIDS), Nutrition, Impact assessment, Vaccine safety, Quantitative and qualitative methods and analysis




Rajesh Sharma, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Chronic disease epidemiology, Cancer epidemiology, Health economics, Public health
 





Chandrashekhar Sreeramareddy, International Medical University, Malaysia
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ORCID profile 
Specialisms: Global public health






Marie Delnord, SCIENSANO, Belgium

Shiyam Sunder, Aga Khan University, Pakistan

Peter Macharia, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium

Anam Shahil Feroz, University of Toronto, Canada


Methodology

Boni Alé, Holo Global Health Research Institute, Kenya 
Research website
ORCID profile
Twitter: @DrAleBoni
Specialisms: Statistical methods, Epidemiological methods, Clinical data science, Longitudinal data analysis, Survival analysis, Systematic reviews, Meta-analysis, Implementation science, Cardiovascular diseases research, Cerebro-vascular diseases research, Diabetes research, Digital health, AI in medicine, Chronic respiratory diseases research, Global health research
 

Jérôme Antoine, Sciensano, Belgium
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Addiction treatment, Public health, Substance use disorder
 





Finaba Berete, SCIENSANO, Belgium
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Twitter: @FinabaBerete
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Public health, Data linkages, Epidemiological methods, Survey methodology, Chronic disease epidemiology, Determinants of use of health care, Health survey research





Sarah Cuschieri, University of Malta, Malta
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ORCID profile
Twitter: @sarah_cuschieri
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Non-communicable diseases, Research methods
 




Omid Fakheran, Medical University of Graz, Austria
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Dental public health, qualitative studies, Mixed-method studies, Quality of life, Person-centered care, patient-reported outcomes, community health, Social prescribing





Orazio Valerio Giannico, Local Health Authority of Taranto, Italy
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Statistics, Public health, Methodology, Environmental health, Environmental epidemiology, Climate change, Urban health, Green spaces and health, Health impact assessment, Geostatistics, Remote sensing, Satellite data




Vanessa Gorasso, Sciensano, Belgium
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Public health, Burden of disease, Comparative risk assessment, Health impact assessment





Farzan Madadizadeh, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Statistical methodology, Study design, Ampling techniques, Statistical tests and assumptions, Interpretation of statistical models, Form of graph and tables, Research methodology, Scientific writing of paper, Epidemiology, Public health




Georgios Markozannes, University of Ioannina, Greece
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Specialisms: Research methodology, Evidence synthesis
 






Raphael Mendonça Guimarães, FIOCRUZ - National School of Public Health, Brazil
Research website
ORCID profile
Twitter: @rapha_mg
Specialisms: Demography, Epidemiology, Public policy, Social inequalities, and poverty, with an emphasis on mortality, levels, and trends; Epidemiological transition and health transition; Causes of death and its changes over long periods; Inequality in the population's morbidity and mortality; Cancer mortality and morbidity; Life expectancy and longevity
 

Frank Osei, University of Twente, Netherlands
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Spatial statistics, GeoHealth, Spatial epidemiology, Spatial biostatistics, Disease mapping, Bayesian disease modelling, Bayesian disease mapping
 




Atsuhiko Ota, Fujita Health University, Japan
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Public health, Occupational health, Health promotion, Health policy, Stress, Mental health, Social factors





Handan Wand, University of New South Wales, Australia
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Population-level evaluations, Population attributable risk, geospatial models





Monal Yuwanati, Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, Chennai, India
Research website
ORCID profile
Twitter: @oblivionpath
Specialisms: Oral oncology, Premalignancy, Oral microbiology, Quality of life
 




Valentina Baccolini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Germain Honvo, University of Liège, Belgium

Romeo Patini, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Italy


Physical Activity

Bruno Bizzozero Peroni, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Diet, Nutrition, Physical activity, Exercise, Lifestyle behaviors, Mental health, Depression, Cardiovascular diseases, Fitness, Systematic review, Meta-analysis, Network meta-analysis, Cohort studies, Cross-sectional studies




Catherine Capio, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Research website
ORCID profile
Twitter: @catherinecapio
Specialisms: Implementation Science, Physical activity, Motor competence, Rehabilitation, Children, Older adults, Disability




Felipe Cureau, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil
Research website
ORCID profile
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Physical activity, Sedentary behaviour, Movement behaviours, Noncommunicable disease, Children and adolescents health
 




Robby De Pauw, SCIENSANO, Belgium
Research website
ORCID profile
Twitter: @RobbyDePauw
Specialisms: Epidemiology, Musculoskeletal disorders, Non-Communicable diseases, Burden of disease





Razak Gyasi, African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya
Research website
ORCID profile
Twitter: @rgyasi1
Specialisms: Physical activity and healthy aging, Aging epidemiology, Geriatric nutrition, Anorexia of aging, Sleep and muscle health, and Socio-environmental gerontology




Yun-Ju Lai, Puli Branch of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Obesity, Metabolic syndrome, Diabetes, Epidemiology
 





Jinlei Nie, Macao Polytechnic University Macao SAR, China
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ORCID profile
Twitter: @Dr_Ray_Nie
Specialisms: Exercise Physiology, Sports Cardiology





Antonino Patti, University of Palermo, Italy
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ORCID profile
Specialisms: Physical activity, Exercise, Balance, Posture, Fitness, Prevention
 





Cindy Sit, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China 


Editorial Board
Archie Alexander, MD, University of Houston, USA
Janis Baird, FFPH, PhD, DRCOG, DCH, MB, BCh, University of Southampton, UK
Masoud Behzadifar, PhD, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Abate Bekele Belachew, MSc, Arba Minch University, Ethiopia 
Pankaj Bhardwaj, MD, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Jodhpur, India
Brigitte AB Essers, PhD, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Netherlands
Vanessa Gorasso, PhD, Sciensano (Belgium), Belgium
Eero A Haapala, PhD, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Nicholas Harvey, MA, MB, BChir, MRCP, PhD, University of Southampton, UK
Fabrice Jotterand, PhD, MA, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Shyamal Koley, PhD, Guru Nanak Dev University, India
Kewal Krishan, PhD, Panjab University, India
Syed Esam Mahmood, MD, Integral Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, India
Daniel Pinto, PhD, Marquette University, USA
Walter GW Ricciardi, MD, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS, Italy
Jean-Marie Robine, PhD, INSERM, France/EPHE, France
Manish M Tiwari, MBBS, PhD, MPH, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Caroline Trumpff, PhD, Columbia University, USA
Viviane Van Casteren, MD, SCIENSANO, Belgium
Stephan Van den Broucke, PhD, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Hans van Oers, PhD, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Stefanie Vandevijvere, DrPH, SCIENSANO, Belgium
Tomas Vega Alonso, MD, MPH, PhD, Regional Health Department of Castilla y León, Spain
Marieke Verschuuren, MD, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Netherlands


Trusted Reviewers
Mary Ani-Amponsah, PhD, University of Ghana, Ghana
Margot Balcaen, PhD, Belgian Early Warning System Drugs, Belgium
Mahashweta Chakrabarty, PhD, Banaras Hindu University, India
Nan Chen, PhD, University of Alberta, Canada
Paige Davies, PhD, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Yinghui Duan, PhD, AbbVie Inc., USA
Boya Guo, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, USA
Matthew Chibunna Igwe, PhD, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria
Denny Mathew John, PhD, Saveetha Medical College and Hospital, Chennai, India
Liyong Lu, PhD, Shandong University, China
Iracema Lua, PhD, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Sunny Mannava, PhD, University of Hyderabad, India
Gabriella Meltzer, PhD, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, USA
Sayan Mitra, PhD, The University of Sydney, Australia
Stephanie Navarro, PhD, University of Southern California, USA
Elizabeth Obekpa, PhD, The University of Texas Health Science Center, USA
Nagila Oenning, PhD, Petrobras, Brazil
Million Phiri, PhD, University of Zambia, Zambia
Adhish Sethi, PhD, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Pratik Shingru, PhD, Boston University, USA
Md Abu Bakkar Siddik, PhD, Nanjing University, China
Rafaela Soares Rech, PhD, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil
Raneen Raed Sweity, MD, Al-Quds University, Israel
Gebiyaw Wudie Tsegaye, PhD, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
Florida Uzoaru, PhD, Saint Louis University, USA
Kristin Van De Griend, PhD, Idaho State University, USA
Marie Vermote, PhD, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Nidhi Wali, PhD, Western Sydney University, Australia
Kamil J. Wrona, PhD, Bielefeld University, Germany
Jin Yan, PhD, Soochow University, China
Jemal Ayalew Yimam, PhD, Wollo University, Ethiopia
Weijun Yu, PhD, Georgetown University Global Health Institute, USA
Yuslina Zakaria, PhD, Universiti Teknologi MARA(UiTM), Malaysia