( Co-ordinator of South Asian Public Health Forum)

Dr. Jawad is currently working on a child survival project in Mozambique. Before this he worked as a faculty member at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He also worked for Stanford University as a Research Associate in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and Geographic Medicine. He has also worked as a consultant for different organizations and governments. 

 He did his Masters in Public Health (Epidemiology Dept and International Health Program) at the University of Washington. He was a Fellow of Emerging Infectious Diseases there. As a TA he worked for a year on the Graduate Certificate Program for the CDC Field Assignees and for a year he worked as a Teaching Assistant for classes on International Health and Research Methods for Developing Countries. He also worked as an Intern at the World Health Organization in Geneva in Emerging Infections Division.

He writes for different newspapers and journals. His recent Op-Ed was published by the Los Angeles Times and was reproduced by different US newspapers and UN wire services.

He did his basic medical education in Pakistan from Allama Iqbal Medical College, and MCPS from College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was a Franklin Adams Scholar for a year in the Bristol University, UK in the department of Epidemiology.

Stephen Bezruchka has spent many years working in Nepal, setting up a community health program in a remote area in the west, training Nepali doctors in a remote district hospital, and most recently, working with Nepali surgeons to improve surgical care in remote hospitals by hands-on teaching of medical officers posted there. He has also consulted, and traveled widely throughout the country. He is interested in determinants of health of populations in both rich and poor countries, and in the effects of medical care on population health. In the USA, he works as an emergency physician in Seattle. He teaches courses in qualitative research, population health, and comparative health systems in the Department of Health Services at the University of Washington.

Dr. Bryant has been one of the foremost leaders in international public health for the past 3 decades. He has served the world of clinical medicine, public health and international bioethics throughout his long and stellar career. Dr. Bryant was one of the first US citizens to be funded for international public health in the developing world; served the United States government; led a top academic center in public health in the US; and developed a world-class community-based teaching and research program in South Asia.

He is recognized as an authority in several aspects of the field of public health and serves as the honorary President of the Council for International Organization of Medical Sciences (CIOMS), which has put forth 2 leading international ethical guidelines in research this decade. His contribution to the field of bioethics, and especially the implementation of health care and research ethics, is a source of inspiration. His knowledge of international settings, both in the South and other parts of the world, have contributed to the understanding and implications of international work in public health in this country. As the a former Dean of the School of Public Health at Columbia University, Professor Emeritus of the Agha Khan University in Pakistan, representative to the WHO World Health Assembly for decades, and President of CIOMS he is already in touch with the global community of ethicists, philosophers and health professionals.

Oscar Gish is a faculty member at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine of the University of Washington.  He has been teaching in the International Health Program in the Department of Health Services of the School for the last 10 years.

Prof. Gish was educated in Europe in the 1960s in economics and the social sciences. He has been active since then in many countries of Africa, Asia,the Americas and the Middle East,including longer periods in Tanzania,Ethiopia and Indonesia. He has engaged in health sector research and been a consultant in almost all the countries of South Asia.  

In addition to the University of Washington,he has taught at the Universities of Sussex (U.K.) and Michigan,and been a consultant and staff member of the World Health Organization. He has published widely on issues of health planning and health economics,and health and other social issues in development.

Dr. Hyder is a faculty member of the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to being an Assistant Scientist with the Division of Community Health & Health Systems, he is the Associate Director of the Doctoral program in International Health and joint-faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bioethics Institute. Dr. Hyder serves as a Long Term Consultant to the Global Forum for Health Research and a consultant to the World Health Organization and Council on Health Research for Development in Geneva. He has also been a consultant to the World Bank, the Aga Khan Foundation, the US Department of Health & Human Services and other international organizations. Dr. Hyder has published and worked for several years on issues related to health systems development in developing countries. His current research and teaching interests include, burden of disease method, decision making and resource allocation in health, Injury prevention and control in developing countries, Biomedical and international health research ethics. His work has a South Asian and African focus at the present time with national capacity development as a prominent feature in most of the work.

Dr. Hyder obtained his MPH and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins and his MD from the Aga Khan University in Pakistan. He holds adjunct faculty titles in institutions in Pakistan.

Dr. Gregory Pappas is Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health/Surgeon  General, David Satcher in the Department of Health and Human Services.  Dr. Pappas works in a number of areas including disparities in health and  global health ( HIV/AIDS, other infectious diseases, and health information systems development).  Previous to his current position Dr. Pappas directed the Office of International and Refugee Health, Department of Health and Human Services.   Dr. Pappas received his M.D. and Ph.D. (Anthropology) from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.  After doing his clinical training, he came to Washington DC, first in a fellowship in Epidemiology, then continuing as a scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics/CDC.  Dr. Pappas is author of numerous articles, including  his work in the New England Journal of Medicine “The increasing disparity in mortality between socioeconomic groups in the United States” and his book with Cornell, The Magic City: unemployment in a working class community. Most recently he has published a book with the government of Pakistan, “Health Profile of the Pakistani People” which is based on a national health examination survey of 18,000 people.  Dr. Pappas is on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management.  Dr. Pappas is Chair    of the Science Board of the American Public Health Association and Member of the Executive Board of APHA.

Associate faculty, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health (Project Officer, Baltimore AIDS Project;  Project Coordinator, South Asia Infectious Disease Network) -Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health Services Academies, Pakistan -Co-President, Cyberdocs -Honorary Adviser (Bioinformatics), Indian Council for Medical Research -North American Liaison, International AIDS Conference 2000 (www.aids2000.com) -Co-Chair, International Health Geographics Conference 2000 (www.jhsph.edu/ihgc)

"Dr. Geoffrey Tabin graduated from Yale in 1978, received his M.A. from Oxford (on a Marshall
Scholarship), and his M.D. from Harvard in 1985. He completed his residency at Brown University and corneal fellowship at Melbourne University. He directed the Golchha Eye Hospital in Biratnagar, Nepal and
is now codirector of Himalayan Cataract Project (Nepal), as well as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont.
Dr. Tabin is also a distinguished mountaineer, being the 4th person to reach the highest point on all 7 continents. He scaled Mt. Everest in 1988."

Professor
Department of Epidemiology and International Health
University of Alabama

Sten Vermund is an infectious disease epidemiologist with experience in tropical parasitic diseases, sexually transmitted infections, and in virus-neoplasia interactions. His current research activities include: clinical epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Alabama, HIV in adolescents, human papillomavirus and cervical disease, correlates of protective immunity in HIV exposure or disease progression, HIV in developing countries, Pneumocystis carinii molecular epidemiology, infectious etiologies of early pre-term birth, and the ecology of oral microbial flora.

He is on the Executive Committees of the UAB Center for AIDS Research and Center for Social Medicine and STDs and also holds an appointment in the Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he heads the Epidemiology Interest Group. Furthermore, he represents the School of Public Health on the University's Research Advisory Committee.

He teaches EPI 601- Vaccinology, EPI 681/781- Special Topics in Epidemiology Research: Advanced Topics in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Epidemiologic Methods and Practical Aspects in the conduct of Clincal Trials. Dr. Vermund is also Director of Division of Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine.