Dr. Lilian Bachuba is a Medical Specialist with experience in Pediatrics and child health practice, Dr. Lilian completed her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at International Medical and Technological University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania(2010). She received her Master of Medicine in Pediatrics and Child Health from Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences(MUHAS)(2018). In her professional career she received several awards by attending several short courses which include; The Advanced Epidemiology Course by Africa Academy for Public Health with Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health and MUHAS(2016), and the online Course of Research and Proposal Writing in the Sciences by INASP Moodle(2020). Also she attended several conferences on Medical Sciences, the one concerning Infectious diseases includes The Tubeculosis Research Conference in Dar es Salaam(2016) by The Fogarty Tuberculosis Research Institute Dartmouth-Boston University with MUHAS. She has interest in Pediatric Gastroenterology Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Ananda Bandyopadhyay is a medical epidemiologist with experience in global health, infectious disease epidemiology and vaccine research. Ananda grew up in Kolkata, India and completed his medical graduation from Calcutta National Medical College & Hospital (2005) with a gold medal and several honors certificates. He received his Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Global Health from Harvard School of Public Health (2010). In his professional career spanning more than 15 years, Ananda has worked in diverse settings and has contributed to disease control initiatives across the globe. He worked as a Surveillance Medical Officer with National Polio Surveillance Project, WHO and contributed to India’s polio elimination effort and measles surveillance initiatives. Based out of Seattle, United States, Ananda in his current role as a Deputy Director at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation coordinates global research to facilitate polio eradication. His work on clinical development of novel vaccines and polio endgame vaccination schedules has been impactful in global policy formulation and has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals. Ananda is associated with advanced degree programs in public health and vaccinology in several globally renowned teaching venues as a guest faculty.

Dr. Barton is Associate Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at University of Texas in San Antonio. She completed her Infectious Diseases training at University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas in 2003, and her tropical medicine training at the Gorgas Institute (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia) in Lima, Peru in 2012. She directed the pediatric HIV program at UT Southwestern, before serving as Chief Medical Officer for the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative. She has worked in Laos, Rwanda, South Africa, and Haiti, and has trained physicians working in several other African countries. She is a clinician and educator, with a particular interest in global health education.

As a pediatrician, with special interest in infectious disease epidemiology and public health, Dr. Bassat has attempted to combine his clinical work with biomedical research in those diseases that most affect the poor and vulnerable. His main area of interest has been the prevention and treatment of malaria in childhood, with a particular focus on understanding the clinical overlap of malaria and other common pediatric conditions. His research has also covered the new paradigm of malaria eradication, with a particular interest in evaluating the role of drugs in elimination strategies. He has also conducted work on the description of the epidemiology and etiology of respiratory infections (viral and bacterial), diarrheal diseases, and neonatal infections (with particular interest in the role of Group B streptococcus) in places such as Mozambique, Morocco or Bhutan. Currently, his main interests are related to the validation and implementation of Minimally Invasive Autopsy (MIA) tools for the post-mortem investigation of Causes of death in the developing world. He is also very interested in the validation and evaluation of technological devices for Global health purposes, and in particular on the evaluation of a new non-invasive approach for the diagnosis of meningitis. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Bassat has been involved in different studies and trials to better understand the use of preventive and therapeutic strategies for COVID-19, as well as the particularities of SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease in children. He has advised the Spanish Government on topics related to Pediatric COVID-19.

A/Prof Frank Beard is Associate Director at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance in Sydney, Australia, where he heads up the vaccine preventable disease surveillance, vaccine coverage, program evaluation and social science teams, and Associate Professor at The University of Sydney School of Public Health. Dr Beard is a public health physician whose main research interests are in the epidemiology of vaccine preventable disease, vaccine coverage analysis and immunisation program evaluation.

Graduated in Medicine Master in Pediatrics and Science In the Federal University of São Paulo (1988), and Ph.D. in Pediatrics and Science Applied to Pediatrics by the Federal University of São Paulo (1994). Currently full professor of pediatrics at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo, and head of the Pediatric Infectology sector of the -Santa Casa de Misericórdia of São Paulo and Hospital Emilio Ribas. Main Interest on the following topics: bacterial resistance, respiratory infection, vaccines, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumonia infections Researcher of the CNPQ level 2 since 2014.

I am a clinician researcher with the University of Oxford, based at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya. My research group addresses aetiology, clinical features and risks for mortality of serious infections in infants and children; mechanistic studies including microbiology, antimicrobial resistance, immunology, metabolomics and proteomics; and clinical trials, including early pharmacokinetics and safety trials, and large international multicentre phase III trials on antimicrobial and nutritional interventions in vulnerable paediatric populations. I advise the WHO and chair several external clinical trial DSMBs. I am the Founder and co-Director of the Childhood Acute Illness & Nutrition (CHAIN) Network of partners in Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Burkina Faso), South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh), UK, USA, Canada and The Netherlands. The CHAIN Network is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. We aim to better understand infectious, immune, metabolic, nutritional, health systems and social pathways to childhood mortality to identify actionable interventions through an epidemiological cohort, systems biology analysis pipeline, social science platform and a multicentre clinical trials platform. www.chainnetwork.org www.kemri-wellcome.org https://www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/team/james-berkley