Health Experts

Professor Helen Dawes

Professor of Movement Science and Director for the Centre for Movement, Occupational and Rehabilitation SciencesOxford Brookes University

Her expertise is in human movement and optimising performance of the body - through understanding the mechanisms of movement.

Youyou Tao, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics, College of Business AdministrationLoyola Marymount University

Dr. Frances Westley

JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation, University of WaterlooSocial Innovation Generation

Putting the SOCIAL in change is the JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation at SiG@Waterloo, which builds capacity for social innovation

Evelyn Watts

Associate ProfessorLouisiana State University

Dr. Watts’s work focuses on seafood safety, quality, and processing

Michael von Fricken

Associate Professor | DirectorUniversity of Florida

Michael von Fricken focuses on vector-borne disease surveillance, control, and pathogen discovery.

Carmel Majidi

ProfessorCarnegie Mellon University

Carmel Majidi’s mission is to discover materials and methods that allow robots and machines to behave like soft biological organisms.

Alexandra Noël

Associate Professor and Director of Inhalation LaboratoryLouisiana State University

Dr. Noël's research focuses on the production and characterization of aerosols, as well as inhalation and developmental toxicology.

Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux

Chair on Truth and ReconciliationLakehead University

Dr. Wesley-Esquimaux's research addresses unresolved intergenerational trauma and grief primarily within the Canadian Indigenous community.

F. Wayne Vaught, Ph.D.

Interim PresidentUtah Valley University

Vaught is an expert in medical ethics and academic administration

Leigh E. Rich

Professor of Health AdministrationGeorgia Southern University

Leigh Rich is an expert in bioethics, biotechnology, health communication, and gender and the media.