Dr Seye Abimbola
Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Honorary Fellow, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia
Dr Abimbola is a medically qualified health systems researcher from Nigeria. He is currently based at the University of Sydney in Australia, where his teaching and research focus on knowledge practices in global health, health system governance, and the adoption and scale up of health system innovations. Dr Abimbola was awarded the 2020-2022 Prince Claus Chair in Equity and Development at Utrecht University in the Netherlands for his work on justice in global health research. He is the editor in chief of BMJ Global Health.
Professor Mark A. Bellis
Director of Health Research & Innovation
Professor of Public Health & Behavioural Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Professor Bellis has established and led two WHO Collaborating Centres (in Violence Prevention, and in Investment for Health and Well-being). For over a decade, he has been the UK Focal Point to the WHO on violence and injury prevention working widely with WHO and other international agencies. Prof Bellis undertakes national and international research and development in fields including Adverse Childhood Experiences, violence prevention, health economics and commerce, health policy, alcohol, drugs, sexual health, and public health history. His work spans original research studies, systematic reviews, and policy implementation. Prof Bellis has published over 250 academic papers and over 300 applied public health reports and books. He is a registered Consultant in Public Health in the UK National Health Service and remains actively engaged in applied multi-sectoral programmes to tackle existing and emergent threats to public health.
Dr Sadiqa A.I. Kendi
MD, MPH, FAAP, CPST
Sadiqa A.I. Kendi, MD, MPH, FAAP, CPST is pediatric emergency medicine physician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center and the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She is an expert in injury prevention and health equity.
Dr Kendi graduated from the Yale School of Medicine and received her pediatrics training from the Social Pediatrics Program at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, where she spent an additional year as chief resident. She completed her fellowship training in pediatric emergency medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and her MPH training as a Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr Kendi is a certified child passenger safety technician and a member of the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention. She serves as Chair of the Equity Advisory Committee with Safe Kids Worldwide.
Ms Licypriya Kangujam
Special Envoy of The President of Timor Leste
Climate Justice Activist & Environmentalist
Licypriya is a Twelve-Years-Old Indian Climate Activist and currently works as the Special Envoy for the President of Timor Leste. She has been championing her cause since six years-old to protect, preserve and nurture our environment by fighting the climate change. She is one of the youngest climate activists globally and addressed the world leaders in the United Nations Climate Conference 2019 (COP25) in Madrid, Spain calling the world leaders to take immediate climate actions to save our planet and their future. She attended the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly 2022. She is an outspoken young leader inspiring millions of people around the World and one of the leading voices for climate change globally.
Till now, Licypriya has spoken in over 400 institutions and other platforms in over 32 countries, advocating about the threat of climate change. She has been campaigning for various environmental causes, including air pollution, climate education, and plastic waste reductions. Licypriya is also a Guinness World Record Holder 2022 for her plastic pollution campaign. Her story is being taught in the CBSE English Syllabus of Grade 3 and Grade 7 as a separate chapter called “Child Hero” in India.