TEAM

Dr. Tarra Penney is a population health scientist focused on the prevention of disease at the global level. She is an assistant professor of Global Food Systems and Policy Research, an investigator with the Global Strategy Lab and a member of the Dahdaleh institute for Global Health Research at York University. Working with national and international organizations, her research utilizes systems thinking and multiple methods to generate observational and evaluative evidence to understand the context and tackle some of our biggest global challenges including food insecurity, emergence of zoonoses, anti-microbial resistance and the related consequences of climate change.

Prof. Mary Wiktorowicz is a Professor of Global Health Governance and Policy, Associate Director of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, and a member of the WHO Collaborating Centre on the Global Governance of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR). She adopts a global and comparative lens to study the governance of AMR with a focus on identifying strategies to improve governance of antimicrobial stewardship. As a member of the Global One Health Network (global1HN.ca) she further assesses the global governance of deep pandemic prevention through approaches that support the prevention of zoonotic emergence including regulation of wildlife trade.

Dr. Chloe Clifford Astbury is a Research Associate with Global Food System & Policy Research in the School of Global Health at York University, investigator with the Global Strategy Lab and member of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. Chloe is interested in the transition to a healthier, fairer and more sustainable food system through integrated food system policy across food production and agriculture, processing, trade and public health. Her current work focuses on the application of systems thinking to food system policy for the prevention of both communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Dr. Shital Desai is an Assistant Professor in Interaction Design at the School of Arts, Media, Performance & Design and York Research Chair in Accessible Interaction Design at York University. She heads the CFI funded Social and Technological Systems (SaTS) lab where she and her team engages in research that addresses issues that focus on UN Sustainable Development Goals using Design Research methods, Human Centred Design, Systems Design and Speculative Design approaches. To that extent, she co-creates accessible technologies, services and governance policies for marginalised demographics and global health.

Dr. Kirsten Lee is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Global Food System & Policy Research in the School of Global Health at York University and member of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. She is funded by a CIHR Research Excellence, Diversity, and Independence Award and completed a CIHR Health System Impact Fellowship with the Public Health Agency of Canada. Her research uses systems thinking to inform policies that aim to promote healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems. She is exploring participatory co-design methods to create impactful evidence narratives across the project and inform policy and governance solutions for pandemic prevention.

Dr. Eduardo Gallo Cajiao is an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources. He comes to Fort Collins and CSU by way of the University of Washington in Seattle. His research gravitates towards understanding the governance dimensions of migratory species conservation at various scales, with a particular focus on emergence, effectiveness, agency, social-ecological fit, implementation, dynamics, and institutional complexity.

Dr. Angran Li is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU Shanghai. Before joining NYU Shanghai, he was an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Zhejiang University. Broadly defined, Angran’s research examines mechanisms through which social, spatial, and temporal contexts, independently or jointly, lead to the inequality of parental practices and educational outcomes. He explores how those relationships affect intergenerational transmission of advantages/disadvantages across social groups and national contexts from a comparative perspective.

Professor Mapatano Mala is a Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition in the Kinshasa School of Public Health (KSPH) and Director of the National Centre for the Epidemiology of Diabetes (DRC) since April 2004. He received his medical degree from the University of Kinshasa in the Republic Democratic of Congo in 1977 (DRC). From 1986-1993, he attended Tulane University (USA) where he earned a Master and PhD in Public Health.  He is a former Deputy Director of the Kinshasa School of Public Health, a former chief of Cabinet of the Ministry of Health, and a former Head of the Department of Nutrition at the KSPH. He served as member of the WHO African Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group 2016-2018. Since December 2015, he has also been nominated member of the WHO Scientific and Technical Advisory Group on Geographical Yellow Fever Risk Mapping.

Dr. Marilen Parungao-Balolong was a Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the Department of Biology and a University Scientist serving as the Associate Dean for Research and Public Service of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines Manila. She is a Diplomate of the Philippine Academy for Microbiology, trained as a microbiologist since 1993 starting in UP Los Baños and UP Manila where she obtained the degree in Doctor of Public Heath in Medical Microbiology last 2015.

We acknowledge the substantial contributions of our late and much-missed colleague, Dr. Marilen Parungao-Balolong, to the initiation of the wider project and contributions to the early stages of data collection in the Philippines.

Dr. Adrian M. Viens is the Inaugural Director of the School of Global Health and York Research Chair in Population Health Ethics and Law at York University. He has degrees in philosophy and law from the Universities of Toronto, Oxford, and London. His research specialization focuses on population health (i.e., public health and global health) ethics and law, with a particular interest in demonstrating how philosophical analysis, legal epidemiology, and regulatory theory should shape how we approach different issues within global health policy, practice, and research, such as infectious diseases, disasters and emergencies, and health promotion.

Dr. Cary Wu is an Assistant Professor of sociology at York University. His research focuses on political culture, race and ethnicity, and health inequality. His work focuses on the significance of promoting public awareness of One Health and share survey findings concerning the level and distribution of One Health awareness among the general public in China. He has published widely on these topics and often shares his research with the public via national and international TV, radio, and newspaper forums including NPR, CBC, CTV, Washington Post, Toronto Star, Maclean’s, and The Economist.

Marc Yambayamba is a PhD student in epidemiology at the University of Zurich. He completed a MD degree at the University of Kinshasa and obtained an MSc in Epidemiology jointly organized between the University of Lubumbashi School of Veterinary Medicine (DRC) and Mweka College of Wildlife Management and Tourism (Tanzania). Marc is an epidemiologist with a focus on the Global Health Security with 5 years of experience in One health training and research. His research interests lay on disease surveillance, early detection, outbreak response and antimicrobial resistance.  To strengthen his wildlife research capacities Marc did an internship at the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI) where he learned disease surveillance at the human-animal interface.