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Dr Sarah-Jane Fenton is a Lecturer in Mental Health Policy at the University of Birmingham Institute for Mental Health (IMH). The IMH is an interdisciplinary research centre with a specific youth mental health focus that will deliver high quality internationally relevant research to inform and impact upon public policy and practice and improve the care and outcomes for people experiencing problems with their mental health. Sarah-Jane has particular expertise in youth, adolescence, mental health, health policy, realist and qualitative research.
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Spanning a range of private, academic and non-profit sector roles, Ingrida has worked with government agencies, judiciary, law enforcement, private sector and NGOs to counter corruption, increase integrity in public and private sectors, and improve approaches to irregular migration. She continues to lecture at the University of Cambridge, Centre for Development Studies. She is currently researching potential risks to community cohesion between refugees and host communities in Central Europe as well as proportionality of regulation of cross-border private philanthropic flows.
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Rosie Collington is a PhD candidate at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). She is a Coordinator of the Economics of Innovation Working Group with the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Young Scholars Initiative. She has also worked on a freelance basis with a number of think tanks and advocacy groups, and has written for public audiences in The Guardian, The New Statesman, openDemocracy and elsewhere. Political economist and writer, exploring public sector reform, outsourcing, climate governance, and the political economy of the state.
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Anthropologist (PhD) and psychologist, Master degree in international cooperation and development. Working as a consultant and researcher on social and cultural policies, monitoring and evaluation for UNESCO and other international organizations.
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Curt Hagquist is Guest Professor of Public Health at the Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His areas of expertise include adolescent mental health, social epidemiology, Rasch measurement and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people’s mental health. As the chair of the international methodology development group of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study, he collaborates with researchers across Europe. Hagquist is a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 in the WHO European Region.
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Dr Diego Galego is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Puebla campus. He is also a research member of the Public Governance Institute (IO-KU Leuven, Belgium), the Portuguese Political Science Association (APCP) and the International Public Policy Association (IPPA). Diego is a doctor in Social Science from KU Leuven, Belgium and Public Policies from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He specialises in uncovering the impact of social movements on policymaking. Check his new book “Queering Public Policy”.
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Dr. Givens is a faculty-level instructor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. He has over a decade of experience working in HIV Planning and community engagement in one of the largest and most diverse health jurisdictions in the United States. He's an author on several national and international publications addressing HIV and health policy and health disparities often associated with HIV risk. He has led statewide engagement efforts and provided TA to impacted communities in multiple states, supporting the publication of several Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plans.
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Mary Murphy is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, with research interests in ecosocial welfare, gender, care and social security, globalisation and welfare states, and power and civil society. She co-edited The Irish Welfare state in the 21st Century Challenges and Changes (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2016) and authored forthcoming Creating an Ecosocial Future (Policy Press, May 2023). An active advocate for social justice and gender equality, she was appointed to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (2013-217) and is now a member of the Council of State.
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Assistant Professor Sara Baumann is a global health, mixed methods researcher with primary research interests in 1) participatory, arts-based, and visual research methods, 2) women’s and adolescent reproductive health, and 3) mental health. She has over 13 years of experience conducting research and programming in health and development in South Asia, with a current focus on Nepal. Her research agenda embraces community-engaged methods and developing evidence-based approaches for improving social determinants of health.
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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Epidemiology Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. I hold a PhD from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I received training in demographic and spatial analysis and qualitative methods. I have a background in environmental vulnerability and migration topics and currently investigate how climate change-related environmental factors influence health exposure risks.