Ms Deena Alasfoor
Directorate of Training and Education
Ministry of Health
Oman
Health programme management, food legislations, surveillance in primary health care
Dr Beverley-Ann Biggs
Head, International and Immigrant Health Group
Department of Medicine
University of Melbourne
Australia
Micronutrients supplementation, clinical infectious diseases
Dr Norma Campbell
Professor
Departments of Medicine
Community Health Sciences and Physiology and Pharmacology
University of Calgary
Canada
Physiology and pharmacology, hypertension prevention and control
Dr Mary Chea
Deputy Manager of National Nutrition Programme
National Maternal and Child Health Centre
Ministry of Health
Cambodia
Programme implementation, midwifery
Dr Maria Elena del Socorro Jefferds
Behavioural Scientist, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
United States of America
Behaviour science, programme evaluation
Dr Luz Maria De-Regil
Director, Research and Evaluation and Chief Technical Adviser
Micronutrient Initiative
Canada
Epidemiology, systematic reviews, programme implementation
Dr Heba El Laithy
Professor of Statistics and Head of Statistical
Departments at Faculty of Economics
Cairo University
Egypt
Statistics, economics
Dr Rafael Flores-Ayala
Team lead, International Micronutrient Malnutrition Prevention and Control Programme
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
United States of America
Nutrition and human capital formation, nutrition and growth, impact of micronutrient interventions
Professor Davina Ghersi
Senior Principal Research Scientist
National Health and Medical Research Council
Australia
Policy-making, systematic reviews, evidence
Professor Malik Goonewardene
Senior Professor and Head of Department
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
University of Ruhuna
Sri Lanka
Obstetrics and gynaecology, clinical practice
Dr Rukhsana Haider
Chairperson
Training and Assistance for Health and Nutrition Foundation
Bangladesh
Breastfeeding, capacity-building on counselling and nutrition
Dr Junsheng Huo
Professor
National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety
Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention
China
Food fortification, food science and technology, standards and legislation
Dr Janet C King
Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
United States of America
Micronutrients, maternal and child nutrition, dietary requirements
Dr Patrick Wilfried Kolsteren
Head of Laboratory
Department of Food Safety and Food Quality
Ghent University
Belgium
Public health, food safety, laboratory methods
Dr Marzia Lazzerini
Director
Department of Paediatrics and Unit of Research on Health Services and International Health
Institute for Maternal and Child Health
Italy
Paediatrics, malnutrition, infectious diseases, methods
Dr Guansheng Ma
Professor, Deputy Director
National Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
China
Food safety, public health, programme management
Professor Malcolm E Molyneux
Senior Scientist
Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme
Malawi
Malaria, international tropical diseases research and practice
Dr Mahdi Ramsan Mohamed
Chief of Party
RTI International
United Republic of Tanzania
Malaria
Dr Lynnette Neufeld
Director, Monitoring, Learning and Research
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Switzerland
Micronutrients, programmes, epidemiology
Professor Orish Ebere Orisakwe
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Port Harcourt
Nigeria
Pharmacology, food safety, toxicology
Dr Mical Paul
Associate Professor
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Israel
Infectious diseases, HIV
Engineer Wisam Qarqash
Jordan Health Communication Partnership
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jordan
Design, implementation and evaluation of health communications and programmes
Professor Dalip Ragoobirsingh
Professor Dalip Ragoobirsingh
Director, Diabetes Education Programme
University of West Indies
Jamaica
Diabetes
Dr Daniel J Raiten
Program Officer
Office of Prevention Research and International Programs
Center for Research for Mothers and Children
United States of America
Micronutrients, programmes, infant feeding
Dr Héctor Bourges Rodríguez
Director, Nutrition
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran
Mexico
Nutritional biochemistry and metabolism research, food programmes, policy, and regulations
Professor HPS Sachdev
Senior Consultant Paediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology
Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research
India
Paediatrics, systematic reviews
Ms Rusidah Selamat
Deputy Director (Operations) of Nutrition Division
Ministry of Health
Malaysia
Public health nutrition
Dr Rebecca Joyce Stoltzfus
Professor and Director
Program in International Nutrition, Program in Global Health
Division of Nutritional Sciences
Cornell University
United States of America
International nutrition and public health, iron and vitamin A nutrition, programme research
Dr Kalid Asrat Tasew
Consultant Paediatrician
St Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College
Ethiopia
Paediatrics
Dr Carol Tom
Regional Food Fortification Advisor
A2Z Project
East, Central and Southern African Health Community
United Republic of Tanzania
Food fortification technical regulations and standards, policy harmonization
Dr Igor Veljkovik
Health and Nutrition Officer
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Office in Skopje
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Programme implementation
Dr Maged Younes
Independent international expert on global public health
Italy
Food safety, public health, programme management
