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Claire Horwell, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University is an interdisciplinary researcher, working across natural, social, exposure and health sciences to investigate the health hazards and impacts of various types of air pollution.
She has acted as advisor to the World Health Organization, UK Health Security Agency, and the UK Cabinet Office regarding the respiratory health hazards of volcanic ash. She is Director of the International Volcanic Health Hazard Network (www.ivhhn.org).
Judith Covey (Department of Psychology, Durham University) is a health psychologist. Her research focus is on applying behavioural and social sciences to improve and protect people’s health. Whether it’s encouraging smokers to quit or people making healthier food choices, she emphasises using evidence-based behavioural science principles to design simple and easy ways to help people to change their behaviour that promotes health and prevents disease.
Rachel Kendal is in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University. She is an interdisciplinary researcher with overlapping interests in cultural evolution, animal behaviour and primatology. Her research focus is on cultural transmission, specifically social learning and behavioural innovation, in a range of species, with a view to understanding the evolution of human culture and the potential applications to societal issues.
Sarah Nila is a bioanthropologist interested in human behaviour in different ecology. She worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College London working on how cultures influence empathy behaviour in Indonesian societies with Dr Alecia Carter (University College London) and Dr Christine Webb (Harvard University).
Chandika Shrestha is a Health Geographer interested in population health, wellbeing, gender dimensions of risk and resilience, disaster, and sustainable development. She has worked in the public health sector in Nepal for preventing diseases and promoting health.
Erwin Nugraha is a human geographer, working across urban and environmental governance research to investigate the environmental geographies and cultures towards risk with a specific interest in the Asia Pacific region. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Resilience Development Initiative (RDI).
Miranda Loh is Director of Science and Engagement at the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK. She leads the Research Team at IOM and develop research capabilities in hazardous substances exposure assessment, health and wellbeing at work, and air pollution and the built environment’s impact on human exposure and health. She has involved in several air pollution and human health studies internationally, including projects in China, India, and Kenya, with interests in personal level exposures and interventions.
Karen Galea is Head of Workplace Exposure Science in Research Division at the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK. She is actively involved in a wide variety of research projects, mainly focused on exposure assessment relating to health risks. Her workplace-based research has included inhalation, dermal and biomonitoring exposure assessment in a range of industrial sectors, exposure model validation and evaluation, historical hygiene assessment etc. Her research has also extended beyond the working environment e.g., pesticide biomonitoring in residents living near agricultural land, consumer exposure to diesel and lubricating oils, use of low-cost sensors by citizens and use of respiratory protection against volcanic ash.
Hilary Cowie is Director of Research Operations and Head of Statistics and Toxicology Section at the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK. She is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Hilary has extensive experience in the design and analysis of epidemiological morbidity and mortality studies. She has been project leader of a number of studies including a detailed statistical analysis of the relationship between exposure to inspirable dust and the presence of respiratory symptoms among UK wool textile workers, and a study of the inter-relationships of dust exposure, lung function and respiratory symptoms among workers in a variety of industries (including underground coal miners and opencast workers). Much of her work has been concerned with the investigation of exposure-response relationships, primarily among occupational population.
Will Mueller is a chartered statistician at the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK. He has over 7 years’ experience with analyses representing diverse research areas, including the effectiveness of facemasks, health impacts assessments and epidemiological analyses of air pollutants, pesticide exposure assessment in occupational settings, and benefits of urban greenspace exposure. Will assists with the development and quantitative analysis of a range of occupational and environmental health studies undertaken at the IOM.
Dicky Pelupessy is a social interventionist/action researcher/reflective practitioner. His research interest is in basic psychological and social psychological processes.
He is a Director of the Crisis Centre, Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia and Lecturer in the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia.
Hastin Melur Maharti is a master graduate of Social Intervention, Applied Psychology, Universitas Indonesia. Her research and interest topics are volunteerism, children and group interventions, and social emotional learning. She is a researcher in the Laboratory of Social Intervention and Crisis in the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Indonesia.
Djoko Suroso is Professor in the School of Architecture Planning and Policy Development, at ITB. He is an interdisciplinary researcher, working across environmental engineering, social science, and spatial planning to investigate the hazards and impacts of climate change and offer mitigation and adaptation strategies of climate change.
Asep Sofyan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Engineering, at ITB. His research interest is air pollution, air quality monitoring and modelling to investigate the health-related impacts of air pollution.
Muhammad Iqbal serves as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Engineering Physics, ITB. He is an instrumentation engineer who is enthusiastic about environmental sensors technology and the development of IoT-based online and real-time environmental quality monitoring instruments. Recently, he has been a professional consultant to the Directorate General of Environmental Pollution and Degradation Control, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia, to assess and evaluate the environmental pollution monitoring systems.
Saut Sagala is a Researcher and Senior Lecturer at ITB and has been a professional consultant for more than 16 years on interdisciplinary studies including disaster management, migration, climate change, environmental issues, tourism, social network, and policy.
Meghnath Dhimal works as a Chief/Senior Research Officer at the Nepal Health Research Council, Government of Nepal, and an Associate Academician at the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology. He is the Founder Coordinator of the Young Scientists Forum Nepal. A primary focus of his research is on the nexus between environmental risk factors, including climate change and associated health outcomes. He has more than 20 years of research, teaching and policy formulation experience, especially in the field of environmental health, climate change and health, non-communicable diseases, neglected tropical diseases, global health and the Sustainable Development Goals. Dr. Dhimal also serves as a member of WHO South East Asia region expert group on environmental determents of health and climate change, member of Wellcome Trust’s technical advisory committee on health effects of heat interventions and is Editor of several international peer reviewed journals.
Umesh Raj Aryal is a public health expert and Biostatistician at Nepal Health Research Council, Nepal. He has more than 17 years of experience in public health research especially on tobacco control, policy review and situation analysis. He is also teaching Biostatistics and Research methodology to graduate and undergraduate students in Nepal. Besides these experiences, he has been involved in data management and analysis in different national and international projects.
Kusum Shahi is a Health researcher and has been involve in Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) for multidisciplinary research including Nutrition, communicable diseases, geriatric health. She has wider experience in community health and development. Having the MPH degree with Health Promotion and Education (HPE) specialization, she is interested in intervention research.
Rabindra Bhandari is an enthusiastic public health professional. He has pursued Master’s Degree in Public Health and has a special interest in environmental health and infectious disease research. He has experience of teaching health management, epidemiology and environmental health as a lecturer in Diploma level and Bachelor level colleges. He has currently been working in Nepal Health Research Council as a Research Officer.
Fiona McDonald is an Associate Professor at the QUT Law School at Queensland University of Technology. Fiona is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University, Canada, and a Senior Research Fellow at the New Zealand Centre for Public Law at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Prior to her appointment Fiona was a research associate at the Health Law Institute at Dalhousie University, Canada and a legal advisor to New Zealand’s Health and Disability Commissioner. Her research focuses on legal and ethical issues in relation to the governance of health systems.
Anna Nekaris is a Professor in Anthropology and Primate Conservation and is the University Lead for Public Engagement of Research, Oxford Brookes University. She is the Subject Lead for MSc Primate Conservation and MRes Primatology and Conservation. She is also Director of the Development Office's Slow Loris Fund, through which she directs the Little Fireface Project. She is also Convenor of the Nocturnal Primate Research Group and member of the Ecology and Evolution Research Group and the Centre for Functional Genomics.