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Curt Hagquist is Guest Professor of Public Health at the Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His areas of expertise include adolescent mental health, social epidemiology, Rasch measurement and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people’s mental health. As the chair of the international methodology development group of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study, he collaborates with researchers across Europe. Hagquist is a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on the mental health impacts of COVID-19 in the WHO European Region.
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Dr Diego Galego is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Puebla campus. He is also a research member of the Public Governance Institute (IO-KU Leuven, Belgium), the Portuguese Political Science Association (APCP) and the International Public Policy Association (IPPA). Diego is a doctor in Social Science from KU Leuven, Belgium and Public Policies from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He specialises in uncovering the impact of social movements on policymaking. Check his new book “Queering Public Policy”.
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Dr. Givens is a faculty-level instructor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. He has over a decade of experience working in HIV Planning and community engagement in one of the largest and most diverse health jurisdictions in the United States. He's an author on several national and international publications addressing HIV and health policy and health disparities often associated with HIV risk. He has led statewide engagement efforts and provided TA to impacted communities in multiple states, supporting the publication of several Integrated HIV Prevention and Care Plans.
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Mary Murphy is Professor in the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, with research interests in ecosocial welfare, gender, care and social security, globalisation and welfare states, and power and civil society. She co-edited The Irish Welfare state in the 21st Century Challenges and Changes (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2016) and authored forthcoming Creating an Ecosocial Future (Policy Press, May 2023). An active advocate for social justice and gender equality, she was appointed to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (2013-217) and is now a member of the Council of State.
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences and a Director of the Centre for Social Policy and Social Entrepreneurship at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. As a town planner by training, I have been teaching and researching housing and urban policy issues in East Asia, particularly Hong Kong and South Korea. My current research interests focus on affordable housing policy, housing and well-being, and housing in the ageing society.
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I have been working as a research assistant at Hacettepe University Social Work Department for 6 years. I completed my undergraduate and graduate education in social work discipline at the same university. In my master's thesis, I worked with children who were exposed to violence in their football infrastructure. I am currently in the doctoral program and I am writing my doctoral thesis on female athletes. My fields of work include violence against children, attachment, gender, sports and social work, sports social work, and poverty.
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Assistant Professor Sara Baumann is a global health, mixed methods researcher with primary research interests in 1) participatory, arts-based, and visual research methods, 2) women’s and adolescent reproductive health, and 3) mental health. She has over 13 years of experience conducting research and programming in health and development in South Asia, with a current focus on Nepal. Her research agenda embraces community-engaged methods and developing evidence-based approaches for improving social determinants of health.
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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Epidemiology Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. I hold a PhD from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I received training in demographic and spatial analysis and qualitative methods. I have a background in environmental vulnerability and migration topics and currently investigate how climate change-related environmental factors influence health exposure risks.
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Bulelani Jili is a Meta Research Ph.D. Fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include ICT Development, Africa-China relations, Cybersecurity, National Security, Algorithmic Decision-Making, Post-Colonial Thought, and Privacy Law. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School, a Non-residential Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Cybersecurity Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Scholar-in-residence at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Visiting Fellow at Hong Kong University Law, and Research Associate at Oxford University.
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Marina Cino Pagliarello is Associate Lecturer in Public Policy at the UCL Department of Political Science; Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science; and Research Associate at LSE Consulting where she leads projects and evaluation studies on education. She has worked as education policy researcher and specialist with national/international organisations and governments for over 20 years, with a track record in the delivery of international education projects and in expanding strategic relationships with academic institutions