Advisory Board and Editors Health Policy
Veerasathpurush Allareddy
Dr. Veerasathpurush Allareddy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Orthodontics at College of Dentistry - The University of Iowa.
Davide Chicco
Davide Chicco is a scientific researcher at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD. from Politecnico di Milano in 2014, and his MSc. in Computer Science from the University of Genoa, Italy in 2010. From September 2018 to January 2020 he was a researcher at the University Health Network (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Davide Chicco's research centres on biomedical informatics and machine learning.
Katherine Compitus
Katherine Compitus is a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work as well as Chair of the Practice Curriculum Area and Director of the School’s Animal-Assisted Interventions post-masters program. She is a Colombian-American doctor of clinical social work, licensed bilingual clinical social worker, and biopsychologist. Her research focuses on trauma studies, specifically within the human-animal bond, with a focus on the disproportionate systemic oppression of people of color. This includes an examination of multiple aspects of society, including social policy, mental health services, crisis intervention and the social determinants of health. Dr. Compitus is the author of the Zooeyia blog on PsychologyToday.com where she discusses crisis intervention in the human-animal bond and she is the author of The Human-Animal Bond and Clinical Social Work Practice (Springer, 2021).
Dr. Compitus has worked extensively in clinical social work and is passionate about promoting health equity for people of color. She worked for several years in the psychiatric emergency room of Garnet Hospital, has provided bilingual family therapy in a school setting through Andrus, and was a social work manager at Montefiore Medical Group in the Bronx, where she co-managed 60 social workers at 23 sites. She is trained in multiple modalities including Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, CBT and DBT and is a Certified Hypnotherapist and Certified Family Trauma Therapist. Dr. Compitus is the founder and chairman of Surrey Hills Sanctuary, a non-profit organization providing veterinary social work services in New York State. Her work with animals includes providing animal-assisted therapy to adolescent and adult trauma survivors, as well as fundraising for people with pets who are in crisis. She also designed the curriculum and currently teaches NYU Silver’s Human-Animal Bond course, which includes a thorough examination of the dehumanization of people of color by oppressive institutions.
Dr. Compitus earned both her DSW and MSW from New York University. She also holds an MSEd and an MA in Biopsychology. Dr. Compitus has been an educator, working with children and families in the NYC area, for over 20 years. She previously taught elementary and early childhood education courses at CUNY BMCC and was an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University and Fordham University.
Stanisław H. Czyż
Stanisław Czyż is Associate Professor within the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at the Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences in Poland. He is Associate Professor (Incubator of Kinanthropology Research) at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia; and Extraordinary Associate Professor within the Physical Activity, Sport, and Recreation focus group at North-West University, South Africa.
Maha El Tantawi
Professor of Dental Public Health in Alexandria University, Egypt.
Li Li
Dr. Li Li (David) is a general physician in Guangzhou First People’s Hospital and is actively involved in the educational affairs on both the departmental and hospital level. Dr. Li received his MD degree from Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He later went to Hong Kong and received his MPhil and PhD degree from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He is the first one to have been certified by SSH as a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) in Mainland China. In 2020, Dr. Li was the first one in China to be invited to become a member of the 4th cohort of SSH Academy Fellow (FSSH).
Dr. Li is one of the most active SP educators in Central and Southern part of China and has provided opportunities for different educational programs to engage SPs as part of their educational system. He works closely with organizations such as the National Medical Examination Center (NMEC) to promote the engagement of simulation approaches and SPs into the National Medical Licensure Examinations in China.
Dr. Li also serves as the Secretary-General of Committee for Healthcare Simulation, Wu Jieping Medical Foundation, the leading Non-Profit Organization in the medical community in China.
Alyson Norman
Lecturer in Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Plymouth. My areas of research include appearance psychology with special reference to disfigurement research, cognitive behavioural therapy and acquired brain injuries. I am also involved in medical research with specific expertise in systematic reviewing.
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.
Yuriy L Orlov
Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2016). Professor at the Digital Health Center, I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia. Affiliated with Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow (RUDN). Previously had work at Genome Institute of Singapore (2006-2011).
Main science interests are sequencing data analysis, bioinformatics, e-health and biomedical applications.
Other organizational and editorial work: Program Committee member of BGRS\SB (Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure \Systems Biology) conferences series (1998-2024).
Abhijit P Pakhare
Associate Professor of Community & Family Medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal. Involved in public health and health system research. Completed an extramural project funded by Indian Council of Medical Research on nutritional status of tribal adolescents. Currently working on community based interventions for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk factor reduction strategies.
Napoleón Pérez-Farinós
Dr. Napoleón Pérez-Farinós MD PhD, is a Professor at the Universidad de Málaga.
He is also Specialist In Preventive Medicine and Public Health and Master in Public Health.
Dr. Pérez-Farinós has worked as an Epidemiologist with communicable and non-communicable diseases, and recently as an expert in cardiovascular diseases prevention and childhood obesity prevention.
Michael Simon
Associate Professor, Institute of Nursing Science, Department of Public Health, University of Basel.