Advisory Board and Editors Global Health
Richard J Maude
Professor Maude is Head of Epidemiology at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand and Associate Professor in Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA. He has worked at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit since 2007.
Nicky McCreesh
Dr McCreesh is an Assistant Professor in Infectious Disease Modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
She is interested in understanding Mtb transmission patterns, and in how contact data can be used to develop a better understanding of potential M.tb. transmission sites, and to inform intervention strategies. She also works on the calibration and analysis of complex individual-based stochastic models, and is involved with a project to develop a history matching and model emulation R package.
Previous research includes HIV and schistosomiasis modelling, and work on respondent-driven sampling.
Giuseppe Messina
Giuseppe Messina is a Associate Professor within Department of Human Sciences and Promotion of the Quality of Life at the San Raffaele University of Rome, Italy.
Mohd Helmy Mokhtar
Mohd Helmy Mokhtar is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, UKM. He received a BSc. (Biological Sciences) in 2011 from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu and a PhD (Physiology) from the University of Malaya in 2016. He is currently Head of the PhD programme for the Faculty of Medicine, UKM. His research interest is in the field of reproductive physiology, which focuses on the female reproductive system. His current research projects include studying testosterone effects on endometrial receptivity and the roles of honey in post-menopausal symptoms and PCOS. He also serves as Honorary Secretary for the Malaysian Society of Pharmacology and Physiology.
Martial Ndeffo
Dr. Martial Ndeffo is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Texas A&M School of Public Health. His research uses transdisciplinary modeling approaches to address public health challenges for a wide range of infectious diseases.
Corey Nislow
Corey Nislow's laboratory develops and uses cutting edge tools to address this central question: how can we understand the biological commonalities in all of the life sciences; from embryonic development, to the spread of infectious diseases to better ways to treat cancer. Each of these disciplines can be explained in the context of competition, interaction and evolution. His lab studies the interface between genes and the environment using parallel genome-wide screens, high throughput cell-based assays and next generation sequencing. Most recently, he and his scientific partner, Dr. Guri Giaever, are exploring how laboratory experiments can co-opt evolutionary processes to understand drug action. He enjoys teaching all aspects of biotechnology, genomics and drug discovery. He got his PhD from the University of Colorado, worked at several Biotechnology companies and was at Stanford and University of Toronto before joining UBC in 2013. He has published 161 papers and run 19 marathons.
Matias Noll
Dr. Noll is Associate Professor of Public Health and Sport Sciences at the Instituto Federal Goiano. Since 2020, Dr. Noll is the coordinator from the Master Program in Professional and Technological Education in this Institute. Moreover, he is Visiting researcher from the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Dr. Noll received his Ph.D. in Health Sciences from the Medical School, Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil. To date, he has published over 120 peer-reviewed research papers, some of which are in high impact journals, e.g.: Scientific Reports, Clinical Nutrition, Anatomical Sciences Education, Science Communication, Obesity Reviews, etc.
Dr. Noll is a Section Editor for PLOS ONE and reviewer for more than 25 international Journals. He is the coordinator from the Child and Adolescent Health Research Group (GPSaCA) (website: http://www.gpsaca.com.br) and is supervisor to more than 15 students, from undergraduate to doctorate levels.
Reviewing interests: basic and translational science, public health, back pain, exercise, clinical findings and medical trials, in relation to personalized medicine
Emmanuel Nene Odjidja
Emmanuel Nene Odjidja is an epidemiologist and public health consultant. He obtained his MSc degree in Global Health from the Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh and is currently interested in control of infectious diseases during pregnancy and understanding the linkages between diet-induced inflammation and the onset of cardiometabolic risks and diseases.
Audrey R Odom John
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The primary research goals of our lab are to understand the biological functions of specific metabolic pathways in the malaria parasite--that is, to understand what the parasite needs to make, and why it needs to make it.
Sonia MR Oliveira
Doctor Sonia Oliveira holds a Licenciatura in Biology (pre-Bologna) and a Master in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Aveiro, where she also specialized in medicinal plants, toxicology, murine models, and spermatogenesis. In 2011 she moved to Australia to work in Reproductive Biological Sciences. She later explored the nerve-cancer connection in Cancer, namely in female cancers, and completed her Ph.D. in Human Physiology ( with a significant component in Medical Biochemistry and Neurophysiology) from the University of Newcastle (Australia) in 2018. She then worked with biomimetic systems and nanotechnology in diabetes and stem cells. She explored multiple methods for primary and secondary cell culture, always with a keen interest in histopathology, cell biology, and rare disorders. Participated in >40 event(s). (Co-)Supervised MSc dissertation(s) and final projects for course completion of LSc/BSc. And works mostly in the area(s) of Natural sciences with emphasis on Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Neurosciences, Cancer, Reproduction, Toxicology, Biotechnology, and Stem cells. Also has collaborations in Microbiology, Biomaterials, and Communication and Information technologies.
Bijaya Padhi
Bijaya K Padhi PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in Environmental Health Sciences. He completed his post-doctoral training from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He earned his MPH degree in Health Promotion and Health Behavior from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA. He has over 14 years of experience in public health teaching, research and community services.
Dr Padhi has a special interest in looking at large scale health problems through the lenses of a socio-behavioral scientist. He use mixed method research approach to understand how human health, at both the individual and population level, is impacted by socio-environmental factors. His work broadly concentrates in various domains of public health, more specifically: air pollution and health, water sanitation and hygiene, and food safety. Dr Padhi has achieved several awards and fellowships during his academic career a few of them are; World Social Science Fellow (UNESCO), Young Investigator Award (YIA) of Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health, Fellow of International Congress on Environmental Research (FICER), Junior Scientist of the year 2009 from National Environmental Science Academy (NESA) India, Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR-India, D.S Kothari Post-doctoral Fellowship from UGC, India.
Dr Padhi is also actively involved in academic communities. He is a reviewer of high-impact journals, and a member of several important academic societies including the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME). As an academic editor, he contributed to over 50 solicited editorial contributions via collaboration with numerous outstanding scholars around the world.
Research Interest: Health Promotion; Environmental Health; Spatial Epidemiology; Life Course Epidemiology; One Health
Thiago Parente
Scientist in Public Health at the Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC, Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Scientific coordinator of the Institutional Bioinformatics Platform. CNPq Level 2 Research Productivity Scholar (Genetics). Permanent professor at the Graduate program on Systems and Computational Biology IOC, Fiocruz. Graduated in Biological Sciences - Genetics major - from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2006), with a Master's degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from the IOC (2008) and PhD in Biophysics from UFRJ (2012). Through high performance technologies for DNA sequencing and computational data analysis, I investigate the effects of pollution on fauna, using fish as model organisms, and their responses and genetic adaptations to pollutants, especially those involved in the xenobiotic biotransformation system.