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Dr. Seble Frehywot is Professor of Global Health and Health Policy at The George Washington University (GWU). Currently, she is also the Director of Health Equity On-Line Learning for the Atlantic Philanthropy Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program and the co-founder of the IT for Health and Education System Equity (ITfHESE) Initiative. She has 27 of experience in international settings spanning many countries in Asia, Africa, and the United States, and brings in-depth knowledge of comparative health systems, health equity, communities of practice, medicine, policy, and digital education.
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I am a PhD student researching gay Traveller men and their experiences. I am interested in equality, diversity and policy making around this area.
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Dr. Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers is the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Coordinator and an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History (major) and Political Science (minor), as well as a Master of Science in Government (Comparative Politics/Political Theory) from The University of the West Indies. She earned her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of New Brunswick (Canada). Her research interests include equity, diversity, inclusion, and gender and identity politics.
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Mark Manger is Associate Professor of Political Economy and Global Affairs at the Munk School, and Director of the Global Economic Policy Lab. His work investigates on the political economy of trade and exchange rate policy. He is the author of “Investing in Protection: The Politics Preferential Trade Agreements between North and South” (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and of articles in Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, World Politics, and World Development, among others. He has been a consultant to the Governments of Japan and Canada on the economic potential and feasibility of free trade agreements, including the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement.
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Active member of the Milieux Institute’s Media History Research Center.
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Dr Praveen Balakrishnan Nair is an Associate Professor attached to Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University. He holds three post graduate qualifications in different functional areas of management and has earned his PhD in the area of environmental marketing. Prior to joining Heriot -Watt, he was with Curtin University of Technology and Swinburne University of Technology. His current research interests lies in the area of corporate social responsibility, sustainability, social entrepreneurship and urban poverty alleviation and has presented and published papers in these areas. Praveen is currently leading a research team exploring the role social entrepreneurship can play in urban poverty alleviation, in fast developing economies.
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Louise is a PhD researcher at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Her research focuses on Unarmed Civilian Protection and how nonviolent actors shape conflict knowledge production.
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I am a Political theorist and postdoctoral researcher at in the department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths College. I was formerly an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Aberystwyth University. I research citizenship, human rights and migration, and I recently started a new Volkswagen Stiftung funded project on cultural heritage and migration. I gained my doctorate at Goldsmiths College and my thesis was titled Citizenship as Method: A post-foundational approach to the problem of rightlessness. I have extensive lecturing experience at both Goldsmiths and Aberystwyth University.
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I am currently an ESRC funded PhD candidate in the International Politics department at Aberystwyth University. My main area of study is in the connection between
world order, economic structures and state formation. My PhD thesis is specifically trying to develop a modified version of world-systems theory in light of the recent emrgence of China as a major global power.
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Dr. Etzel is an internationally-known pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist. She is the founding editor of Pediatric Environmental Health, an influential book that has helped thousands of doctors to better recognize, diagnose, treat and prevent illness in children from environmental pollution. From 2009 to 2012 she led the World Health Organization’s activities to protect children from environmental hazards. She worked for 12 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she founded and directed the Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch. She conducted investigations of numerous epidemics, including outbreaks of sudden deaths in Sierra Leone due to parathion poisoning and of sudden deaths in Guatemala from paralytic shellfish poisoning. She designed and oversaw studies that identified the cause of epidemic asthma in Barcelona and New Orleans, as well as investigations of the health effects of exposure to serious air pollution in Central and Eastern Europe and Mexico City. She was sent to Kuwait immediately after the cessation of hostilities in 1991 to determine the health impact of the more than 750 oil well fires burning near Kuwait City.
Notably, Dr. Etzel performed the first study to document that children with secondhand exposure to tobacco smoke had measurable exposure to nicotine. Her pioneering work led to nationwide efforts to reduce indoor exposure to tobacco, including the ban on smoking in US airliners. She discovered the link between exposure to water-damaged, moldy homes and fatal infant pulmonary hemorrhage, for which she received the Clinical Society Award from the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association.
In 2007 the U.S. EPA honored Dr. Etzel with the Children’s Environmental Health Champion Award for outstanding leadership in protecting children from environmental health risks. She received the Distinguished Service Medal from the U.S. Public Health Service, the Don C. Mackel Memorial Award from the CDC, and the prestigious Arthur S. Flemming Award. She is a courageous leader in bringing environmental health risks to public attention and working collaboratively towards solutions. For her persistence in speaking truth to power, she is known as an “inconvenient” pediatrician.