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Ans Irfan, MD, EdD, DrPH, MPH, MRPL (he/him; they/them) is a multidisciplinary global public health expert with over a decade and a half of experience as a health equity strategist both domestically and globally. As a pracademic, he has worked across cultures, continents, and countries, including Pakistan, China, and the United States, since the early 2000s. As of 2017, he has been serving as a faculty member and researcher at George Washington University. He also serves as the founding director of the Climate & Health Equity Practice Fellowship. He is a fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars program. He also serves in various roles with major national and international organizations, including the American Public Health Association, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science, and the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth. Some of his recent roles include serving on the advisory board with the American Public Health Association’s Center for Climate, Health & Equity; APHA Governing Council; Subject Matter Expert (systems-thinking approach to climate justice) with the Environmental Protection Agency and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; and the founding director of Center for Social Impact & Leadership with the DC Public Health Association. He has previously served as a fellow with the prestigious Christine Mirzayan Science Policy Fellowship at the National Academy of Sciences, the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Fellowship, and a founding member and Policy Director with the DrPH Coalition, Inc.
As a critical public health scholar, he combines multiple disciplines — including global health; environmental and occupational health; health policy; migrant health; climate change; sociocultural anthropology; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI); organizational change management; program development, management, and evaluation; and implementation sciences — through a mixed-methods approach to provide innovative interdisciplinary public policy and programmatic solutions geared towards ameliorating social and health inequities. Select recent projects include: COVID-19 & Black transit workers health; farmworkers health equity; global health implications of US foreign policy; the intersection of religion and public health; traffic wardens and climate adaptation in Pakistan; evaluation of physicians’ training on climate change and health; and social equity implications of climate innovation at the intersection of technology and climate entrepreneurship.
He is currently based at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, where he explores the complex intersection of religious moral philosophy, social ethics, and public health policies, focusing on conceptualizing religion as a structural determinant of health and its implications for public health and climate action. In addition, he is also an inducted member of Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs’ Circle. He can be contacted at ansirfan@gwu.edu. Twitter: @PHScientist
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I am a social scientist specialising in two main fields:
(i) Public administration: Governance and delivery of public services; Public procurement and partnering; Citizen participation, user voice and complaints; Application of Cultural Theory as policy theory
(ii) Co-operatives and mutuals: Incentivising human co-operation; Co-operative business model; Co-operative governance; Member participation and loyalty; Co-operative networks; Public-Co-operative Partnerships (PCPs)
I have conducted research activities in US/Canada, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia, as well as the UK.
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Rokia Raslan is the Bartlett’s Vice-Dean for Innovation & Enterprise, & Associate Professor in Building Performance Simulation at UCL Institute of Environmental Design & Engineering (UCL IEDE). She specialises in the development of computational models to support the formulation/assessment of future-fit retrofit strategies & policy analysis for domestic sector decarbonisation & energy transition with a focus on Hard to Decarbonise homes. Within these areas, Raslan has worked on & directed research for the British Council on Climate resilience of MSMEs in Egypt, Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Energy Technologies Institute, Institute for Sustainability, the Greater London Authority & the Oman Electricity Authority. Recent projects include domestic sector retrofit analysis for the UK Sixth Carbon Budget, assessing the Energiesprong retrofit scheme & best practice in deploying solid-wall insulation in UK homes. Raslan is author of over 90 papers, book chapters & reports. She is a Visiting Professor at BAU, Secretary of the International Building Performance Simulation Association-England (IBPSA-England), a Board Member of the CIBSE Building Energy Simulation & Future Homes Groups, UK Green Deal Advisory Group & the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency Energy in Buildings & Communities programme (IEA-EBC).
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Public Policy and Management- innovation, sustainable local and economic development
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Tracey Price is a qualitative researcher based at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Research expertise in policing, prosecution and public health interventions for people who use drugs. Tracey works collaboratively as part of a substance use research team whose work focuses on substance use, homelessness and the impact of structural inequalities. Alongside her research background, Tracey also holds a position where she provides consultancy and evaluation concerning therapeutic approaches to providing care for young people who have experienced relationship breakdown, loss and complex trauma.
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I work on disaster interventions and humanitarian aid in different countries, and with different types of disasters. I head the Disaster Interventions and Humanitarian Aid programme at the University of Stirling, in Stirling, Scotland, the UK. I am a sociologist and social/community work practitioner and keen to meet up with others sharing these interests in policy, practice and research.
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Enza Lissandrello is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University with a background in urban planning and public policy, human geography and socio-technical transition studies. Her work examines urban and regional planning under contemporary trends of reflexive modernization, participation, deliberation, conflicts and issues of representation. She has taught and published on the roles of the planners and policy actors in planning with sustainable aims and though deliberative forms. She has led various empirical projects on cross-border governance in Italy, France and Switzerland (the Mont-Blanc area), the planning of sustainable transitions in The Netherlands (Amsterdam and Waterdunen) and on the role of planners as catalysts of change in Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway and Sweden). She has also engaged in research on gamification as a mediation strategy between citizens and policy managers in several EU cities (Amsterdam, Ghent, Helsinki, Fundao, Palermo, Barcelona) for the transformation of urban mobility values. Her main research interests are on the practice and the theory of planning, urban governance and participation, deliberation and power, performative studies, sustainable transitions, interpretive methods of policy analysis and planning, critical approaches to smart citizenships and urban living labs.
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I am a sociologist, writing and teaching in the broad areas of Global Inequality, Neoliberalism's impact on Human Society and Culture, Diaspora and Transnational Issues in North America, Gender and Caste Based Inequalities, and Postcolonial Societies and Cultures. I have more than twelve years of experience in academic research and teaching. Prior to joining academia, I spent five years working as an applied social researcher in different parts of South Asia, namely India and Bangladesh.
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My preliminary research focuses on pollutants detection, removal, biodegradation, wastewater treatment, and other frontier areas of environmental biotechnology. The findings of my research work were published in more than 20 national and international journals of high repute. I am also associated with the member of various national and international professional bodies and reviewer of prestigious journals including Wiley and Bentham publications. Also, I have delivered more than fifty conference/seminar presentations at different national and international platforms in different capacities and received many awards and accolades; some of which include young scientists and the best presentation award.
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I am an Associate Professor of Intellectual and Cultural History at Aalborg University in Denmark, where I head the Language and International Studies programs. I have authored the books "13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights: Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics" (2017) and "Rights under Trial, Rights Reflections: 13 Further Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights" (2020), as well as a range of other books and articles on human rights, culture, and international politics. Seeing students and outreach as the focal point of my work, recent projects include a policy point-counterpoint with students in International Social Science Review (2021) on "Should Political Representation in a Nation-State be Reserved only for Citizens, or Should it Encompass all Residents Regardless of Status within a National Polity?"