I am a third-year PhD student from the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York. Prior to joining SPSW as a PhD student, I obtained my MSc in Social Policy (Research) from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2017 and BA in Labour and Social Security from Renmin University of China in 2016. I also worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Population and Development Policy Studies which is based at Fudan University, and worked as an intern at Development Research Centre of the State Council, China. Based on my study and working experiences, I have developed an interest in pensions and old-age poverty, as well as the interactions between family and the state.

Professor of Health Economics at Lancaster University. Interested in equity, inequalities, gender issues, and economic evaluation of technologies, policies, and programmes. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/health-and-medicine/about-us/people/ceu-mateus

Dr Johanna Koehler is Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance in the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interests include sustainable water services and net-zero energy transitions. She investigates how risks and responsibilities can be re-conceptualised and re-allocated in pluralist governance arrangements between the state, market, and communities. To date, she has focused on the interplay of water risks and institutional change as well as new professional water service delivery models emerging across sub-Saharan Africa. Theoretically, her work advances institutional theory of risk; methodologically, she uses qualitative and quantitative methods, including experiments, to understand social and institutional behaviours with regard to environmental governance, working with governments, the private sector, and end users. Johanna is also Honorary Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. She is co-founder of a business model for maintaining drinking water infrastructure in marginalised areas of Kenya, FundiFix Ltd., which serves over 80,000 people with reliable water services. Her research on sharing water-related risks between the public and private sectors and communities was taken up in Kenya’s Water Act 2016. The model has since been scaled up by UNICEF in Bangladesh and is part of the wider Uptime consortium of service providers maintaining rural water infrastructure across Africa.

I am a physician epidemiologist and an Assistant professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. My research interests focus on syndemics of infectious diseases like HIV, hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections. My research aims to evaluate the determinants of syndemics, extend the syndemic framework to non-communicable diseases and cancers, and design and evaluate prevention strategies to address syndemics. My other areas of interest include the development and application of methods for analysis of big data, global health, and spatial epidemiologic methods and their application to public health practice. In addition to the above, I have worked internationally in academia and the development sector (World Health Organization and UNICEF).