Dr. Jennifer Gardy, IDM

Dr. Jennifer Gardy is the Deputy Director, Surveillance, Data and Epidemiology at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her research focused on the use of genomics as a tool to understand pathogen transmission and incorporated techniques drawn from genomics, bioinformatics, modelling, information visualization, and the social sciences. In addition to her science work, Jennifer is also an award-winning science communicator, hosting many episodes of science documentary television, including The Nature of Things and Daily Planet, as well as authoring two science books for children.

Dr. Sandip Mandal, JSIPL

Dr. Sandip Mandal is Senior Advisor for Data Analytics and Mathematical Modelling at John Snow India in New Delhi, as well as Adjunct Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Bombay. He also works with the Modelling, Planning and Policy Analysis team at Avenir Health in the United States on various TB modeling projects.

Dr. Roop Kumari, WHO

Dr. Roop Kumari is a Technical  Officer for Malaria & VBD at the World Health Organization (WHO) country Office, India. She completed her M.S. on "Biology & Control of Disease Vectors" from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, U.K. and Ph D on malaria from Malaria Research Center, ICMR, India. She provides comprehensive support to the Ministry of Health for malaria elimination and the prevention and control of other vector-borne diseases. She played a key role in facilitating the development of the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination and  strengthening malaria surveillance & QA of malaria microscope. In May 2023, she received a national award for her exceptional contribution to malaria elimination in India. 

Dr. Rimi Chakrabarti, ICEMR

Dr. Rimi Chakrabarti is a Research Scientist and Assistant Director (India) of South Asia International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research (ICEMR) at University of Washington. Rimi has been working on malaria for 15 years now since her PhD days in IIT Bombay. Her research interests are in malaria epidemiology, drug resistance and disease modelling. 

Dr. Tanzin Dikid, NCDC

Dr. Tanzin Dikid is currently a Joint Director at National Centre for Disease Control and coordinates Govt. of India’s flagship training in Field Epidemiology  the India Epidemic Intelligence Service training. She is also the head of the NCDC’s Centre for Medical Entomology and Vector Management. She has been part of central

government teams for various public health responses across India particularly for outbreak prone diseases, emerging infections including COVID 19. She has also contributed to several scientific journals, government reports and steering committees on communicable diseases, public health preparedness and response.

Mr. Lars Kamber, Swiss TPH

Mr. Lars Kamber is a PhD candidate at Swiss TPH modelling malaria and opisthorchiasis. He has a background in epidemiology, medicine and economics. 

Dr. Thiery Masserey, Swiss TPH

Dr. Thiery Masserey is a senior scientific collaborator at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. He recently defended his Ph.D. (last month). His thesis focused on using mathematical modelling to assess the factors driving the establishment and spread of Plasmodium falciparum parasites resistant to malaria therapeutics, including treatment, chemoprevention, and vaccines. His work aims to identify how to better develop and deploy interventions to delay the evolution of resistance and extend the lifespan of interventions. Thiery holds a bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's in Epidemiology.

Dr. P. Jambulingam , ICMR - VCRC

Dr. P. Jambulingaman is an Expert member of the data safety monitoring Committee (DSMC), Deworm3 Project, Natural History Museum, London, UK; Chairman, Institutional Human Ethics Committee, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth, Puducherry, India and an Expert member of Project Review Committee (vector biology and control), ICMR, New Delhi. He is the former Director of ICMR- VCRC, Puducherry and former ICMR Chair, Dept. of Health Research, MoHFW, New Delhi. He received his PhD in Medical Entomology in 1990 from Madras University. He was awarded the WHO Fellowship for training on Malaria and other Tropical Diseases training in Malaria Training Centre, Thailand in 1993. For nearly 25 years, he was mainly involved in the field research on malaria. Subsequently, he worked on other vector borne diseases also such as lymphatic filariasis and dengue. He served as a WHO Temporary Advisor/Coordinator in various Working Groups/Expert Committees/International and Regional Workshops and Training programmes on vector borne Diseases/Integrated Vector management sponsored by WHO. He published more than 180 research articles. Some of the research outcomes in the field of lymphatic filariasis formed the evidence base for policy decisions at the National Level.

Dr. Caitlin Bever, BMGF

Dr. Caitlin Bever is a principal Scientist/senior Research Manager at the  Institute for Disease Modeling at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Dr. Daksha Shah, BMC

Dr. Daksha Shah is the Executive Health Officer, BMC. She has over 28 years of experience at BMC. She has played a pivotal role in developing a Comprehensive TB-free Mumbai Plan. She played an instrumental role in creating awareness for NCDs and starting screening for Hypertension and Diabetes in the community. She was a member of the Lancet Task force on Covid-19 for India.She has undertaken several research projects such as Serosurveillance, Vaccine trial, Use of Artificial Intelligence in COVID-19 care.

Dr. Surabhi Pandey, PHFI

Dr Surabhi Pandey is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Public Health Delhi (IIPHD). She is a mathematical modeller with basic training in applied mathematics and comes with a decade and half of experience spanning over research in the area of mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, teaching and administrative responsibilities. Her research talk on Malaria in an international conference held in Germany, was highlighted in the newsletter of Society for Mathematical Biology(2013). Currently, she chairs the PhD program committee (Public Health and Clinical Research, affiliated to AcSIR) and is determined to build an eco-system for multidisciplinary research in public health and data science.

Dr. Mehrunnisa Raje, NIV-Pune

Dr. Mehrunnisa Raje currently serves as a state entomologist and has effectively monitored Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP), National Centre for Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme (NCVBDC) and National Program for Climate Change and Human Health (NPCCHH) of Government of India in Maharashtra.  She has experience of monitoring Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya, Zika virus and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) outbreaks for the State of Maharashtra. She is involved in the Planning and implementation of special strategies for malaria sensitive districts in the state by providing micro-action plan, human resources, logistics and budget with focused monitoring and regular assessment of performance as a step towards Malaria Elimination target by 2030. 

Dr. Nilam Somalkar, NCVBDC, Odisha

Dr. Nilam Somalkar is the Regional Director, Regional Office for Health and Family Welfare, Bhubaneswar. He has more than 15 years of working in public health sector. He has participated as a member of Joint Monitoring Mission (JMM) of Malaria, Filaria and Leprosy in the state of Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Odisha. He has been a member of core team in National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2023-27 for Malaria

in India

Dr. Ipsita Pal Bhowmick, ICMR - NERMRC

Dr. ipsita Pal Bhowmick is a scientist in Indian Council of Medical Research, North East, Regional Medical Research Centre, Dibrugarh, India. Her research interests are malaria, other vector borne diseases and public health system. She conducts several projects in different parts of North-East India where she assesses the overall malaria situation in different Tribal communities dwelling mostly in the hilly forested terrains. The study covers all the epidemiological, entomological, ecological, meteorological and socio-behavioural aspects. She designs and imparts targeted and customized interventions based on these studies. 

Prof. Siuli Mukhopadhyay, IIT Bombay

Prof. Siuli Mukhopadhyay is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at IIT Bombay and an associated faculty member of the  Koita Center for Digital Health  at IIT Bombay. She is currently leading the National Disease Modelling Consortium (NDMC) anchored at IIT Bombay. Her research interests are in theoretical and applied statistics, biostatistics,  disease modelling and health informatics. With her PhD and post-doctoral students she is currently working on infectious disease modelling, particularly for measles and rotavirus. Her research team is also focusing on optimal designs for geospatial and multivariate response experiments, spatio-temporal models, and analysis of missing and skewed data.

Prof. Harish Phuleria, IIT Bombay

Dr. Harish C. Phuleria is an associate professor with ~20 years of experience on environmental monitoring, exposure modeling and environmental health assessment. His primary area of research is directed at assessing the short- and long-term exposures to different environmental stressors such as air pollution and road traffic noise. His specific interest lies in characterizing new exposures e.g. to ultrafine particles, to brown and black carbon and to chemical constituents in aerosols of different source origin, in particular to traffic exhaust in urban areas. One of his newly developed research foci is to examine the impact of socio-economic, environmental and climatic factors on vector borne diseases, in particular on malaria. He is currently leading the malaria research group at NDMC, IIT Bombay. 

Prof. Usha Ananthakumar, IIT Bombay

Dr Usha Ananthakumar is a Professor in the area of Decision Sciences & Quantitative Methods at Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay.  She is also an associated faculty member of the Koita Centre for Digital Health at IIT Bombay. She is the Co-PI of the Malaria group of the National Disease Modeling Consortium (NDMC) anchored at IIT Bombay. Her areas of research include Applied Statistics, Classification under imbalance, Statistical learning and Disease modelling.