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I am (PhD) a university lecturer in Public Health Nutrition at the University of Helsinki. I have been coordinating data collections in Sub-Saharan Africa, namely Kenya. My area of expertise are dietary assessment methods particularly in resource poor settings. I have been pursuing epidemiological research in various populations with focus on associations between diet and obesity. My main main area of interest is nutrition transition in different food systems in low- and lower middle-income countries.
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Jin Seo Cho is a professor at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He develops quantitative methods for research on economic issues such as income inequality and its relation to other economic variables. He holds a PhD in Economics.
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Dr. Odessa Gonzalez Benson is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and Detroit School of Urban Studies. Her areas of research are refugee resettlement, grassroots organizations, participatory practice, state-civil society relations and critical policy studies.
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Dixon Sookraj, Ph.D. (Ohio State)
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia (UBC) - 17 years
International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) - Member and former Board Member
Canadian Association for Social Work Education - Past President
Loakimidis, V. & Sookraj D. (2020). Global Standards for Social Work Education and Training -Prepared for the IASSW and International Federation of Social Workers
President's Taskforce on Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence, UBC, 2022). Committee Chair.
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Candice Carr Kelman is a social-ecological scientist who studies knowledge partnerships for actionable science, and collaborative governance of sustainability issues. She is faculty in the School of Sustainability at ASU and affiliated with the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, where she is leading a project on demand-driven science by conservation professionals. She teaches yoga and also classes on sustainability policy, governance, international development and advanced methods for sustainability problem solving.
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I am a behavioral scientist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. My research applies mixed-methods to examine substance use, sexual and reproductive health, and violence among women and youth involved or impacted by the carceral system. I currently serve as a Principal Investigator (PI) on several NIH and foundation funded research studies in this vein.
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Dr Razieh Zandieh is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Urban Design and Planning at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include healthy urban planning & design, sustainability, social & spatial inequalities, & age-friendly city.
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Angelique Day, PhD, MSW is an associate professor in the school of social and an adjunct faculty in the Evans School of Public policy and governance, University of Washington-Seattle, USA. Her research expertise is focused in the field of child welfare, with a focus on Indian Child Welfare, kinship care, foster parent recruitment and retention, and aging out youth. Her practice experience is in the political social work arena, specifically as a lobbyist and former legislative aid who has practiced at both the state and federal levels.
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Dr Anna Viden is a Swedish-American International Affairs scholar and Historian focused on the Middle East. She has 25+ years’ experience in research, writing and public speaking and has previously held academic positions as Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague. Since 2019 Dr Viden is an Associate Research Fellow at the MENA program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm Sweden. Dr Viden obtained a PhD in History at Sciences Po, Paris, France and an MA in Geopolitics at IFG, Paris.
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Janna Goebel is an assistant professor of sustainability education in the College of Global Futures, School of Sustainability and a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. She graduated with a PhD in educational policy and evaluation from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU in 2020. As a Global Development Research Scholar, and with the support of First Solar and the United States Agency for International Development, Goebel completed her dissertation research based on her time on family-owned coffee plantations in Southeastern Brazil.