Dr. Geetha is a senior researcher with a Doctorate in Allied Health Sciences (Microbiology) and 17yrs of research experience in Genomics, molecular biology, microbiology, proteomics, bioinformatics, immunology, Sales & Marketing, and Administration. She was a guest researcher at CDC, Atlanta, USA, Dr. Moon Nahm lab, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA, and Dr. David Aanensen lab, cGPS, Wellcome Sanger Institute. She has fifteen publications in peer-reviewed journals to her credit and has presented her research as oral/poster presentations in international conferences like ECCMID, ESPID, ISPPD, Gulf Thoracic, and WSPID. She was associated with multicenter, population, and laboratory-based surveillance studies in India. She was actively involved in the implementation of ISO15189:2012 and ARS 1651:2018 standards at CRL, KIMS. She has undergone training in Quality management systems - ISO9001:2015, ISO15189:2012 IA &QMS, ARS 1651:2018, GCLP, and HACCP. She is currently working as Associate Professor at Central Research Laboratory, Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India.

Monica is an epidemiologist and microbiologist working in pneumococcal vaccine research at Murdoch Children's Research Institute (Australia). She has a particular interest in vaccine impact evaluation, optimizing vaccine schedules, and the impact COVID-19 has had on respiratory infections and disease.

Jeremy is a specialist physician and infectious diseases specialist, and the head of infectious diseases at Helen Joseph Hospital and Wits University. He also completed a fellowship in transplant infectious diseases at the University of North Carolina. He has published research in the fields of COVID, tuberculosis, nontuberculous mycobacteria, HIV and cryptococcal meningitis.

John Njuma Libwea is a researcher and Senior Epidemiologist at Cameroon’s Public Health Emergency Operation Centre in Yaounde. He is an alumnus of the International Doctoral Programme in Epidemiology from the University of Tampere, Finland since 2014. He has worked with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Cameroon’s Expanded Immunization Programme and the Research Centre for HIV/AIDS and Tropical diseases, Yaounde, Cameroon. His research interests are on the Epidemiology of priority diseases in resource-low settings, Vaccines, Antimicrobial resistance and stewardship. He is one of the principal investigator on PCV13 effect studies on under-five mortality, pneumococcal carriage and otitis media among children under-five years old in Cameroon. He has also conducted collaborative studies with both local and international partners including the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, THL and Pfizer. He has received the Young Investigator Award and Research grants from the International Society of Infectious Diseases, the University of Tampere and Pfizer. Further, he has also obtained competences on Infectious Disease Epidemiology (via the University of Tampere in collaboration with the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) in 2013, Vaccinology (via the University of Johannesburg, South Africa in collaboration with the Indian Advanced Vaccinology course (INDVAC) in 2016), Cancer Epidemiology via the Danish Cancer Registry in 2018 and Incident Management System via the One Health platform Cameroon, in 2020.