A paediatrician by background, Emilie Macher did her first mission in the field with Médecins sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors without Borders) in 2009, in Burkina Faso and South Sudan. This was the beginning of a life-long commitment to the humanitarian work, and Global Health. First focusing on hospital paediatric care and the management of acute malnutrition, she progressively shifted towards topics related to emergency preparedness, outbreaks response, and vaccination in emergencies. Working in the medical and operations' departments of MSF Geneva between 2017 and 2020, she was involved in the diphtheria outbreak response for Ibb Governorate, Yemen, and contributed to the MSF movement's reflection and collaboration on diphtheria case management. She currently works in the COVID-19 crisis cell of the Health Department, Geneva State.

I am a Pediatrician and Pediatric infectious Disease specialist and I work as Consultant in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Manipal Hospitals, which is a tertiary care facility at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. I had completed Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from Rajiv Gandhi university of health sciences (2010) and Diplomate in National Board ( Pediatrics) from National Board of Examinations (2013). With my special interest in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, I had obtained a Fellowship in Pediatric infectious Diseases from Indian Academy of Pediatrics (2016) and also Post graduate diploma in Pediatric Infectious Diseases from University of Oxford .My main areas of interest include mycobacterial infections, enteric fever and presently since 2020, COVID -19 infection I am a Life member of Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Infectious diseases chapter of Indian Academy of Pediatrics and also a member of ESPID.

After an initial training in microbiology at the University of Reading, Professor Maiden’s graduate studies at the University of Cambridge pioneered the investigation of sugar transport proteins in Escherichia coli with sequence-based approaches. After a two-year Medical Research Council training Fellowship in Cambridge, he began his independent research career at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, where he was a group leader for nine years. Here he established a group focusing on the molecular and population biology of Neisseria meningitidis and its implications for vaccination. In 1997, after a years sabbatical in Berlin as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, he moved to a Welcome Trust Senior Fellowship at the University of Oxford, expanding the population and evolutionary aspects of his work. He was appointed Professor of Molecular Epidemiology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College in 2004. Prof. Maiden is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, the Royal College of Pathologists, and the Royal Society of Biology. He is the Microbiology Society Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecturer for 2020. At present his research group combines evolutionary, biochemical, and population genomic techniques to investigate a range of bacterial pathogens. He retains a strong commitment to developing public health applications on the basis of current research.

Peter Mallett graduated from Queens University Belfast in 2010 and is a Paediatric Registrar currently working as Clinical Fellow in Infectious Diseases in the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. He hopes to complete training in 2022 and practice as a Consultant Paediatrician with a specialist interest in Infectious Diseases and a particular interest in Medical Education. He is supervised by Dr. Paul Moriarty, consultant in RBHSC. The Paediatric ID team also includes Dr. Sharon Christie, Dr. Lynne Speirs, and Neil Dawson, as well as other medical trainees & consultants currently developing their interests and expertise across Ireland, the UK & further afield.

Abdullah is an infectious disease epidemiologist with extensive experience in Clinical Research, Public Health and data analysis. He has more than 12 years of experience, focused mostly on respiratory viruses (hospital-based surveillance), population infectious disease burden and vaccine effectiveness, antimicrobial utilization (AMU), and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance. Abdullah has experience working in Bangladesh, in collaboration with national and international stakeholders, such as US Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, the Word Health Organization, and the Government of Bangladesh. He has also worked as the lead site coordinator on a multi-country clinical trial. His current work focuses mostly on AMU and AMR surveillance in Canada. Abdullah has wealth of experience dealing with large administrative databases and data analysis. More recently, his work has focused on cost-benefit analysis of a population-based education program on antimicrobial stewardship in British Columbia, Canada.

Joanna Mańdziuk, MD, graduated in 2017 from the Medical University of Bialystok, Poland. As a student she was an active member of Oncology Scientific Club which resulted in three publications and an award received at Bialystok International Medical Congress for Young Scientists. She is currently following a pediatric residency program in Pediatric Teaching Clinical Hospital in Warsaw in the Department of Pediatrics with Clinical Assessment Unit. She is also a Ph.D. student at the Medical University of Warsaw. Her main research interests include pediatric infectious diseases. Her Ph.D. project concerns SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology in children settings. Recent publication concerning the subject: Okarska-Napierała M, Mańdziuk J, Kuchar E. SARS-CoV-2 Cluster in Nursery, Poland. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2021;27(1):317-319. doi:10.3201/eid2701.203849.

Anastasia Manoli was born in Pyrgos, Greece. Start and graduated high school in a nearby town, with distinction. She continued her studies at the medical school in Alexandroupolis, Greece, where she participated zealously in clinical and laboratory practice, in several oral presentations for student conferences, and graduated with a "very good" grade. After medical school, she started working at a regional health center and Pyrgos General Hospital for about a year, doing shifts for the surgical and internal medicine departments. For four months, she worked at a call center as a shift medical doctor. Currently, she is a pediatrics resident at Penteli children's hospital in Athens, running the first year of residency.

Ángela was born in A Coruña, a small city in the northwest of Spain. She got her medical degree in Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2009. She finished her residency in Pediatrics in Hospital 12 de Octubre a year ago, and during the last year she specialized in Infectious Diseases. She has worked as an Infectious Disease Pediatrician in Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre during 6 months, and is currently working as a junior clinical researcher in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit in Hospital Gregorio Marañón. She is doing a clinical Master in Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the same hospital.

Paolo Manzoni is Director of the Department of Paediatrics and Neonatology (ASL Biella, Italy) and Coordinator of the Italian Society of Neonatal Infectious Diseases. He is also founding member of the ReSViNET foundation. His primary research interests include paediatric and neonatal infectious diseases, fungal infections and prevention, RSV-related diseases, retinopathy of prematurity and neonatal nutrition. He has served on the Board of Directors of the European and World Associations of Perinatal Medicine. He is also external consultant for Paediatrics and Neonatology for AIFA and EMA.

I finished the Pediatrics residency at Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío (Seville, Spain) in May 2020, dedicating my last year of training to Pediatric Infectious Diseases. After that, I worked for 5 months as a Pediatric attending at the department of PID, Rheumatology, and Immunology of the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío (Seville, Spain) and I am currently working at the Institute of Biomedicine of Seville as a researcher on the project "Seroprevalence of West Nile virus infection in paediatric population and susceptibility to neuroinvasive disease".