Jean-François Guégan is a theoretical ecologist and ecological parasitologist interested in the ecology, evolution and policy-decisions on human zoonotic infectious diseases and their host vectors or reservoirs. He obtained his Ph.D. in parasite ecology and epidemiology in 1990 from the University of Montpellier (France), and did a post-doc in 1990-1991 at Exeter University in Great Britain. In 1991, he was hired as a junior researcher at IRD, the French Institute for Research on Sustainable Development. As a full-tenured Research Professor, with the highest rank in France, he led during 16 years a research group on Dynamics of Systems and Infectious Diseases in the joint national team called UMR MIVEGEC at Montpellier. He recently joined INRA to develop a OneHealth research approach based on his previous professional experiences. He has worked on cholera, pertussis, measles, avian flus and West Nile virus through an integrative research perspective. He is now particularly involved in research on the neglected emerging tropical disease, Buruli ulcer in Africa and southern America, being an expert for WHO, and more generally on the theoretical relationships between biodiversity, climate change and emerging infectious diseases. As part of his duties at IRD and INRA, JFG is also an adjunct Professor at Montpellier University where he is teaching a course on global environmental change and health, and a Professor at EHESP, the French School of Public Health, where he is also teaching Planetary Health and is a track leader for courses on Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, an Erasmus Mundus Excellence in European Education training from both the EHESP’s Master of Public Health and EuroPubHealth. Guégan is also a scientific adviser for the global research project oneHEALTH from the U.N.E.P. FutureEarth programme. He is responsible for the writing of up to 160 international scientific papers, 11 hard-books and up to 150 international conferences. As a former fellow of the French High Council for Public Health, he (co)-led different French national reports on Climate Change and Health, Adaptation to Climate Change, and Emerging Infectious Diseases: research actions and planning. He is responsible for organizing an annual research action Seminar, called School of Val-de-Grâce’s Seminar, on emerging infections to improve sensitization of political leaders and civil society actors on societal risks associated with these new emerging threats. He has been the PI or co-Pi of 14 national and international grants, 9 of which on the epidemiology of infectious diseases.

David Bartram (BVetMed DipM CDipAF DipECSRHM MPhil FRCVS) graduated from the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, in 1988. After three years in production animal veterinary practice, he moved into the pharmaceutical industry where he has worked, in both human and animal health sectors, for over twenty years. He is currently Director of Outcomes Research for Zoetis international operations with responsibilities for ruminants, a role which involves demonstration and communication of evidence of the economic, functional or emotional value of animal healthcare interventions from the perspective of different stakeholders. David holds professional qualifications in marketing and finance and was awarded the British Veterinary Association Chiron Award (2013) for outstanding contributions to the veterinary profession. He has published multiple original scientific papers, many with first name authorship.

Joaquin is a Lecturer in Veterinary Epidemiology at the University of Surrey. After finishing his Engineering Degree, he moved to the Vet. School at the University of Glasgow for a PhD modelling sheep and nematode interactions. He then joined the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department at Princeton University as a postdoctoral research associate, before moving to the Mathematics department at the University of Warwick, where he worked modelling control and elimination interventions for a wide range of diseases. He then started his current position at Surrey, with a focus on informing policy decision-making, enhancing understanding of diagnostics and modelling infectious disease dynamics using machine learning and other statistical tools. Currently, he collaborates with the NTD modelling consortium and is a member of the NTDhub; he works on a wide range of infectious diseases, from macro-parasites (Lymphatic filariasis, Schistosomiasis and helminths) to Viruses (Measles, FMDV), in both humans and animals.

Gianni Lo Iacono is a theoretical physicist/mathematical modeller working at the interface between mathematics physics and biology.

His initial research at Rothamsted focused on physics of turbulence, insect dispersal and then epidemiology studying evolution of pathogen in response to crop resistance. Gianni then moved to the department of veterinary medicine at the University of Cambridge focusing on the link between ecosystems and zoonotic diseases with special interest in Lassa fever and Rift Valley fever. He then spent a few years in Public Health England investigating the link between environmental changes and infectious diseases with special interest in the seasonality of water-borne and Gastrointestinal diseases.

Gianni current research interest focuses on formulating and applying mechanistic models to investigate impact of environment and societal changes on diseases, including vulnerability and resilience of countries to diseases.

Professor Animal Health Management at the Business Economics group of Wageningen University. Being raised on a dairy farm, Henk Hogeveen graduated as MSc from Wageningen Agricultural University in 1989. He wrote MSc theses on the field of Epidemiology and Animal Health Economics. From 1989 until 1994 he worked as associated researcher at the Department of Herd Health and Reproduction of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University, where he received a PhD in the field of mastitis diagnosis. After a short employment at the former Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering in Wageningen, he started as a scientific researcher in the field of herd health and management at the Applied Cattle Research Institute in Lelystad (nowadays part of the Wageningen UR Livestock Research), followed by a position as cluster manager welfare, health and milk quality at that institute. Since 2001, Henk Hogeveen is working in academia, currently as personal professor at the chair group Business Economics of Wageningen University and the Department of Farm Animal Health of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University His teaching activities are mainly directed at economics of animal health, agricultural business and veterinary business in BSc, MSc and PhD courses. His research activities are focused on the management of animal health. Within that field he has developed a special interest for the support of decisions on animal health using economics in a one health framework.

Henk Hogeveen is, amongst other memberships, member of the IDF Standing Committee Animal Health and was chairman from 2008-2012. He has more than 150 peer reviewed scientific publications in highly ranked international journals and besides that many publications in scientific proceedings and trade journals. He is a frequently asked speaker on conferences.

Afifah joined the Centre as a Research Analyst in 2017, focusing on the concept of ‘One Health’ and threats to health security that arise at the human-animal-ecosystems interface. In 2019, Afifah became a Research Associate having expanded her scope of work beyond One Health to issues of national and subnational preparedness for health security, the governance and accountability challenges to monitoring preparedness, and more recently the opportunities and challenges to achieving Universal Health Coverage in the last decade of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Prior to joining Chatham House, Afifah worked at the Centre for Global Health and Education at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, and consulted for the WHO Global Observatory on Health R&D. She previously worked at the National University Health Systems, Singapore, and has research experience in south and south-east Asia. She received her MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2016.

Bengü is an epidemiologist in Public Health England’s Emerging Infections and Zoonoses team. Initially trained in microbiology, she has extensive experience in reference, research and diagnostic microbiology. For nearly 20 years she has worked in infectious disease surveillance and epidemiology with a focus on zoonoses and emerging infections, including responding to incidents and outbreak investigations.

Dr. Convertino is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology and GSB Station for Big-Data & Cybersecurity at Hokkaido University, Sapporo (JP). He is the PI of the Nexus Group that is focused on theoretical, computational and applied biocomplexity. Additionally he is also Adjunct Professor at the Institute on the Environment, Institute for Engineering in Medicine, and the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program at the University of Minnesota Twin-Cities. He also holds an affiliation with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria. Dr. Convertino got his PhD in Biocomplexity Engineering from the University of Padova (under the auspice a joint program between Padova and Princeton University) and MSc and BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Padova.

Dr. Convertino expertise is in biocomplexity multiscale modeling focused on environmental and biological dynamics and their nexus with population patterns at multiple scales of organization. Unveiling the “language of nature’’ and its fate is Dr. Convertino’s group driving interest in a way to preserve and design ecosystem health. Dr. Convertino’s research work spans the areas of collective behavior, biomimicry, ethorobotics, deep-learning and information theoretic modeling, network inference, pattern analysis/non-linear dynamics, global uncertainty evaluation, systemic risk analysis, physiophysiology/biomedicine, computational ecology, computational epidemiology/health and toxicology, fluid dynamics and ecohydrology, geomorphology, climate change impact assessment, quantitative public policy and sustainability.

The research is sought via process- & pattern-oriented theoretical and computational models based on information and network sciences, statistical physics, as well as bioinspired technology. Models are applied to a variety of ecosystems for understanding their biological, ecological, and social function as well as for value-based ecosystem design and eco-biological engineering. Dr. Convertino’s work resulted into 75+ publications, one book in press, two patents, various quantitative based governmental policies in USA, and model deployment in industry and government. Major funding of Dr. Convertino’s group are from NSF, CDC, WHO/PAHO, MN state, 3M and Microsoft among others.

Dilys Morgan MBE has had an interesting career alternating between medical research in rural Africa and UK public health.

Dilys is currently Head of Emerging Infections and Zoonoses at Public Health England, London. She has been responsible for developing the Emerging Infections and Zoonoses portfolio of the Agency, including establishing horizon scanning activities and risk assessment processes for emerging infectious threats. Since the majority of new and emerging infections are zoonoses, she set-up the Human Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance group (HAIRS) in 2003. This multiagency, multidisciplinary group meets every month and acts as a forum to identify and discuss infections with potential for interspecies transfer.

She is also an honorary Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Maria Grazia Dente is currently a senior researcher at the Center for Global Health of the Italian National Institute for Public Health. She is a public health expert and experienced project manager, has specific expertise in the fields of international cooperation, preparedness, surveillance and control of infectious diseases and cross-border health threats, migrant health. She has relevant experience in working with large scientific networks including the multi-institutions and multi-financed projects EpiSouth and EpiSouth Plus (27 EU and non-EU country partners) for which she has been the coordinator since its institution in 2006. Since 2014, she is key expert for public health aspects of arbovirus infections of the European One Health Project MediLabSecure that involves 22 countries of the Mediterranean, Middle East, Balkan and Sahelian Regions.  In the framework of MediLabSecure, she has lead several studies and activities aimed at reinforcing One Health approach for the surveillance and risk assessment of arbovirus infections.  In addition, Dr Dente has specific technical knowledge on migrant health due to her participation in several international Projects such as the EC PROMOVAX (Promote vaccination among migrant population), ECDC EURO MoMiH (Monitoring Migrant Health) and a specific know-how on the health policy implications of research outputs.

Gilberto Montibeller is a Full Professor of Management Science and the Associate Dean for Enterprise at Loughborough University. He joined Loughborough in 2015 after spending a decade as a tenured faculty in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics. He has a BSc in Electrical Engineering (UFSC), MSc in Engineering Economic Analysis (UFSC) and PhD in Engineering Economic Analysis (UFSC/Univ. of Strathclyde).

Prof Montibeller is an expert on strategic risk and decision analysis. His main areas of application are global health prioritisations and health risk management, having led projects for the World Health Organization, Pan-American Health Organization, UK Department for Environment, Health and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK Department of Health, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), USAID, among others.

Prof. Montibeller is Associate Editor of the Informs Decision Analysis journal and has served as area editor of the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. He has published widely in top journals in decision sciences. The quality of his research has been recognised by best publications awards from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (Informs), the Society for Risk Analysis, and the International Society on Multi-Criteria Decision Making.

He has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Southern California, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria), and CNRS Lamsade at Paris Dauphine University (France). He is a visiting professor at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil).

Currently Defra’s policy advisor for Equine, Pets and New and Emerging diseases, science and risk. I am also responsible for animal health input into horizon scanning across the government agencies and departments for the UK as well as the biosecurity programme in Defra and for the cross government international natural hazard forward look. I am a member of the UK Veterinary Risk Group and the Public Health England-led Human-Animal Interface Risk Surveillance group as well as the EFSA Animal Health and Welfare Panel and EFSA’s AHAW Network.

I hold a BSc (Hons) and PhD in parasitology from Imperial College, London, UK; I spent ten years in academia in the UK including field work in Colombia and a secondment in Australia, studying neglected tropical diseases, then several years working for international health NGOs (on human health issues, such as malaria and school children’s health). In 2007 I joined Defra, and became part of the outbreak response teams for avian influenza, foot and mouth disease and bluetongue. In 2008 I joined the international trade team in Defra and then head of international disease monitoring and risk assessment in the Animal and Plant Health Agency, Defra, UK in 2010. I am involved in international training in risk assessment for disease outbreaks and food safety for EU programmes (BTSF, TAIEX, Accession programmes) as well as other international programmes and a regular member of working groups for EFSA, the European Commission on the new Animal Health Regulations and FAO on emerging animal health issues.

Francesca is a public health veterinarian working as a teaching fellow at the University of Surrey. After graduating from the University of Turin, she became involved with public health at an international level, collaborating with charities (WVS, Vets Without Borders) and academia in various countries. She then further specialized during a residency in veterinary public health and preventive medicine at the University of Minnesota, where she also gained her Masters in Public Health and became board certified by the American College of veterinary Preventive Medicine. Here she collaborated with Zoetis on the implementation of the use of a Quality of Life measure for dogs in veterinary practice, which she is continuing at the University of Surrey.

Since 2013 I am a Professor of philosophy at Wageningen University. My group works on  practical philosophy in relation to key themes of Wageningen University: health, food, nature, animals, environment. The university’s mission is to explore the potential of nature to improve quality of life – which as such is a great source for philosophical and ethical questions: What is quality of life? Whose quality of life? How do we balance promoting human interests and preservation of nature? What are our obligations to future generations?

My research and teaching cover a very broad area in applied philosophy and ethics, including animal ethics and business ethics, but the primary focus is public health. Together with Angus Dawson (University of Sydney) I initiated public health ethics as a new area of studies in moral philosophy. We are founding Editors-in-Chief of Public Health Ethics, a journal published by Oxford University Press. The journal is now the centre of a flourishing interdisciplinary scientific field.

My view on practical philosophy is to build bridges between theoretical analysis and practical moral problems in professional areas or public policy. This has resulted in in-depth analyses of problems in public health, such as: how far should professionals go in promoting health of citizens; what responsibilities do citizens have to take precautions against infection; and how should governments allocate scarce medical resources during an influenza pandemic. These are questions about health that go far beyond a medical-professional perspective; they concern responsibilities of all societal actors to contribute to health and quality of life.

My philosophical approach to practical societal issues is also the key in various consultative roles, for example for the World Health Organization. Since 2005, I have been member of the Health Council of the Netherlands and contributed to more than 20 advisory reports for the Minister of Health, including reports on collective vaccination, screening, preconception counselling, special policies for high-risk groups, and expert reports on Q-Fever and Mexican Flu.

Dr Kathryn Callaghan graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Microbiology and Microbial Genetics at the University of Dundee. Following her Doctorate Degree studying the taxonomy of Clostridium botulinum (at the University of Reading), she worked at a number of Government departments before joining Defra in 2017. Kathryn works in Defra’s Chief Scientific Adviser’s Office, leading a team coordinating international science partnerships for Defra’s labs and agencies, and supporting a more joined up One Health approach to Defra’s international science offer to deliver better outcomes for plant, animal, human and environmental health.

Elizabeth Mumford is a senior public health veterinarian committed to taking a One Health approach to improve global health. She has been working on technical and policy aspects of infectious diseases at the human-animal-environment interface for over 25 years in the USA, in Europe, and internationally. As a zoonotic influenza epidemiologist, she helped to shape the early international multisectoral conversations that brought the importance of working across sectors and disciplines to the policy forefront, and since then she has continued to engage as a recognized One Health leader globally. From the One Health Country Operations team at WHO Geneva, Dr. Mumford partners across sectors in development and implementation of standard mechanisms, tools, and processes to support multisectoral, One Health collaboration at the national level. Most recently, she conceived and constructed an international initiative to develop and implement standard guidance and practical operational tools to address zoonotic diseases and other health threats at the human-animal-environment interface in countries.

Mart de Jong is a Professor at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands. Mart’s areas of expertise include population biology of infections, mathematical biology and statistical methods and he has a keen research interest in modelling and quantifying transmission of infectious agents and the effect of interventions on that. His current research interests include host heterogeneity (including multi-host systems and host genetics) and the role of the environmental phase of infectious agents during transmission. Mart teaches Modelling Biological Systems BSc Biology and Managing Infections and Diseases in Animal Populations MSc Animal Science.

Natalia Cernicchiaro is an assistant professor of veterinary epidemiology and the associate director of research for the Center for Outcomes Research and Epidemiology (CORE) at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University. She has a DVM degree from the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Uruguay, MS in Epidemiology from the University of Minnesota, and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Guelph.

Dr. Cernicchiaro’s group focuses on the application of epidemiological concepts and techniques to design and implement research studies, as well as to analyze and interpret veterinary and public health-related data. In her research, Dr. Cernicchiaro integrates the use of core epidemiological, including multi-level and risk assessment models, and economic approaches to analyze operational datasets on animal health and performance as a way to enhance the practical understanding of animal health problems. Other research interests include the application of knowledge synthesis and translation techniques as tools to help practitioners, producers and other stakeholders making evidence-based decisions. Our research topics vary from food safety issues, emerging and transboundary diseases, animal health and animal production, to questions concerning the human and animal interface.

As associate director of research for CORE, Dr. Cernicchiaro works closely with academic, government and industry groups by providing expertise in statistical analysis of observational and experimental research data as it applies to health, production, performance and economic outcomes, as well as teaching and training of veterinary and other health-related professionals on principles for population data and other statistical and epidemiological concepts.

Steve Wyllie is the Veterinary Head of One Health in the UK’s Animal and Plant Health Agency.  After 10 years in general practice he joined the APHA nearly 30 years ago as a field vet.  Since then he played a leading role in upscaling the BSE controls in the 1990s, and in running biosecurity and disposal operations during the major Foot and Mouth outbreak in 2001.  For the last 12 years he has been involved in controls on zoonotic diseases and other public health hazards, integrating the science, the policy advice and operational management of incidents.  He is Deputy Chair of the HAIRS group.