Chair: Peter Sammonds
Peter Sammonds is the Director of the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and has been Professor of Geophysics at UCL since 2001. In addition he is an NERC-ESRC Strategic Advisor for Increasing Resilience to Natural Hazards.

Rapporteur and Panellist: Ilan Kelman
Ilan Kelman is a Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at UCL and Professor II at the University of Agder in Norway. His research focuses on disaster and health intersections, including climate change, especially for islands and the polar regions.

Joanna Raven
Joanna Raven is a public health researcher and midwife, and is a lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on human resources for health, health systems and gender in a range of contexts in Africa and Asia, including fragile and conflict affected settings. She works on the ReBUILD research programme consortium funded by the UK Department for International Development, which focuses on research for building pro-poor health systems during the recovery from conflict.

Patty Kostkova
Patty is the Principal Research Associate in IRDR, UCL focusing on global digital health in LMIC and data systems for preparedness and response to disease outbreaks and emergencies. She was appointed Fellow at the ISI Foundation in Italy in 2014 and also worked for WHO, ECDC and Foundation Merieux. Patty serves as an advisor at the ECDC Knowledge Management Working Group, she established and chairs the International Digital Health conference series and is a EiC of Frontiers Digital Health journal.

Ellie Cosgrave
Ellie Cosgrave is Lecturer in Urban Innovation within STEaPP's City Leadership Laboratory. She was previously a Research Associate on the EPSRC funded Liveable Cities Programme; an ambitious five-year programme of research to develop realistic and radical engineering solutions for achieving low carbon, resource secure UK cities in a way that maximises wellbeing. Dr Cosgrave's work explores transformative approaches to policy making and governance of cities. She undertook her Engineering Doctorate at the University of Bristol, sponsored by the Smart Cities team at Arup.

Chair: Graham Hart
Professor Graham J Hart is Professor of Sexual Health
& HIV Research and Dean of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences at UCL. A medical sociologist, his research interests include sexual risk behaviour and the
prevention of HIV and STIs, combining structural, behavioural and biomedical approaches to prevention. His major contributions are to health policies nationally and
internationally. Graham is currently Chair of the MRC/DfID African Research Leader Scheme Panel, the MRC Public Health Intervention Development (PHIND) panel and the Academy of Medical Sciences Health of the Public Springboard scheme. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2010 and voted by the Fellowship onto its Council in 2013.

Rapporteur: Daniel Strachan
Daniel Strachan is a Senior Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at University College London’s Institute for Global Health. His main research focus is on community health worker motivation within government led integrated community case management of childhood disease programs in Uganda and Mozambique. Previously Daniel’s research explored the coping approaches utilised by middle aged men following a cancer diagnosis in Australia. Daniel lectures, tutors and supervises undergraduate and graduate students with a particular focus on maternal and child health, the health workforce and health related behaviours.

Jennie Gamlin
Jennie Gamlin is Senior Research Fellow and medical anthropologist based in the Institute of Global Health since 2004. Positioned within the field of critical medical anthropology she takes a structural violence approach to exploring health from a gender perspective, and her current research interests include violence and masculinities in Latin America, maternal health and gender inequalities with indigenous communities and obstetric violence. She has lived and worked in Mexico for extended periods between 1995 and 2016 and is an honorary investigator at CIESAS anthropology research institute in Mexico City.

Matt Maycock
Matthew is currently doing research at the Scottish Prison Service College, focusing on developing academic processes and supporting the development of a diploma that represents a significant change in the way that future Prison Officers will be trained in Scotland. Matthew was previously undertaking post-doctoral research at Social and Public Health Scientist Unit at the Glasgow University in the Settings and Organisations Team. Matthew’s research focused on masculinity and health in prisons, with a particular focus on the adaption of a health promotion intervention delivered in a number of secure institutions in Scotland.

Chair: Gary Darmstadt
Dr. Gary Darmstadt is the Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health at Stanford University, School of Medicine. Previously Dr. Darmstadt was Senior Fellow in the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), where he led a cross-foundation initiative on Women, Girls and Gender, assessing how addressing gender inequalities and empowering women and girls leads to improved gender equality as well as improved health and development outcomes.

Rapporteur: Sarah Hawkes
Sarah Hawkes is a medical doctor with a degree in sociology and a PhD in epidemiology. She is Professor of Global Public Health at University College London where she leads a research theme analysing the use of evidence in policy processes, particularly in relation to gender and health, and sexual health. She has lived and worked for much of the past 20 years in Asia, where she has gathered evidence, built capacity and helped develop policy for programmes focusing on gender, sexual health and human rights. She works closely with national governments, research organisations, WHO and UNFPA in Asia and the Middle East.

Jan Beagle
Ms Beagle is a diplomat from New Zealand and an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. She currently serves as the Deputy Executive Director of UNAIDS. She has more than 30 years of experience in diplomatic, political, strategic, management and intergovernmental and interagency affairs. With focus across the development, health, gender, human rights, peace and security and humanitarian spheres, Ms Beagle has consistently worked across sectors, promoting interlinkages for joined up strategic action. Ms Beagle is a leading advocate within the UN system for gender equality and gender parity. At UNAIDS she has spearheaded the development and implementation of a Gender Action Plan which serves as an accountability platform to provide concrete measures to increase gender parity in UNAIDS, while forming the basis from which to strengthen organizational culture towards gender equality for all staff. She was one of the early appointed International Gender Champions--a leadership network that brings together senior female and male decision makers to break down gender barriers.

Geeta Misra
Geetanjali Misra is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of CREA. Geeta has worked at the activist, grant-making, and policy levels on issues of sexuality, reproductive health, gender, human rights, and violence against women. Before joining CREA, she was Program Officer Sexuality and Reproductive Health for the Ford Foundation in New Delhi and supported non-governmental organisations in India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka working on sexual and reproductive health and rights. She also co-founded SAKHI for South Asian Women in New York in 1989, a non-profit organisation in New York, committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin. Geeta is the Board Member of Reproductive Health Matters (UK); and Member of the Advisory Board of FHI360 (US). She was President of the Board of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) from 2006–2008.She writes on issues of sexuality, gender, and rights, and has co-edited Sexuality, Gender, and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia.

Wendy Harcourt
Dr Wendy Harcourt is Associate Professor in Critical Development and Feminist Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague. Dr Wendy Harcourt joined ISS in November 2011 after 23 years working at the Society for International Development, Rome as Editor of the journal Development and Director of Programmes. At ISS she is leader of the Research Programme civic in innovation research initiative She has edited 12 books – her monograph: 'Body Politics in Development: Critical Debates in Gender and Development' published by Zed Books in 2009, received the 2010 Feminist Women Studies Association Book Prize. She is series editor of Palgrave Gender, Development and Social Change and Routledge Gender and Sexuality in Development.

Maryse Simonet
Maryse Simonet Camara is a health policy and systems expert. As a French doctor, she first volunteered in health development projects mostly in West Africa. Fellowship awards supported her 1993 MPH, then her 2003 MSc, at Harvard School of public health, intertwining academic work with field assignments in Africa. From 2005 to 2015, as "Public Health Medical Inspector" in the French MoH, she worked on domestic and international mental health policies, prior to being seconded to the EC Development and Cooperation Directorate, unit B4 (health, education, culture) by the French MoFA in January 2016. She is currently coordinating DEVCO health system strengthening approaches with respect to the integration of health security in UHC as well as the implementation of the EC gender action plan II for her Unit.