Contributors

Anne Cust

Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Sydney

Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Sydney Professor Anne Cust is a cancer epidemiologist and researcher (NHMRC Investigator Fellow) focused on the prevention and early detection of melanoma and other skin cancers. She is Deputy Director of the Daffodil Centre - a joint venture between the University of Sydney and Cancer Council NSW, and is also a Faculty member of the Melanoma Institute Australia.

Abhishek Kumar

Lecturer in Banking and Finance, University of Southampton

Lecturer in Banking and Finance, University of Southampton Abhishek is a lecturer at Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton. He teaches on international banking and advanced time series analysis. His research interests include commodity prices and balance sheet crises in emerging economies, structural macro-econometrics, new Keynesian models and applied econometrics. Abhishek worked as Associate Fellow at CSEP (Brookings India) from 2021 to 2022 and was a visiting researcher at the University College London (UCL) from 2019 to 2020. He is currently a non-resident Associate fellow at CSEP. In the past, he has worked as a Consultant for Queen Mary Global Policy Institute, Asian Development Bank (Manila) and UNU-WIDER. He also worked as a Project Associate at the National Institute of Public finance and Policy (NIPFP), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, and National Health Service, UK. Abhishek finished his PhD at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, in 2022. He has M.Phil. degrees from IGIDR and the University of Delhi, and postgraduate and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Delhi.

Akram Mahani

Assistant Professor at Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina

Assistant Professor at Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina Dr. Akram Mahani is an Assistant Professor at Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina located on Treaty 4 Territory, and a researcher at Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit (SPHERU). Akram has wide-ranging empirical interests and background with her research spanning across multiple health policy, population health, and health services research areas. She has more than 20 years of experience in research, teaching, administration, and leadership in multi-disciplinary and applied settings across seven universities in three countries: Canada, England, and Iran. She has published in the leading peer-reviewed journals in the fields of health policy, public health, and health promotion. In 2013, Akram founded the International Journal of Health Policy and Management (known as IJHPM) and served as its inaugural editor-in-chief until late August 2021. Akram’s current research focuses on healthy sustainable cities and communities for all with a focus on health equity. She has received funding from CIHR to examine the role of cross-sectoral collaboration to improve outcomes of children and youth in vulnerable context. In a project funded by SHRF, she investigated integration of health and equity into urban design and urban planning policies and decisions. Building on this research findings and in close collaboration with multiple stakeholders and knowledge users, she is currently co-designing a large-scale research project on the impact of urban design on health outcomes with a focus on mental health. In another project funded by SHRF, Akram is investigating how municipalities work in partnership with local public health systems to enhance population health outcomes and reduce health inequalities. Akram has led another project on the formalized partnerships between municipalities and academic institutions across Canada to see how these partnerships bridge the science-policy gap.

Andrea l. DiGiorgio

Lecturer and Post Doctoral Researcher in Biological Anthropology, Princeton University

Lecturer and Post Doctoral Researcher in Biological Anthropology, Princeton University My research occurs in the spaces where humans and non-human primates interact. This includes applying wild field research to captive animals, investigating the impacts of anthropogenic changes to wild primates, and examining how social media can be inadvertently harmful to wildlife. I earned my PhD from Boston University in 2019, where I studied Biological Anthropology. My dissertation research, conducted at the Gunung Palung National Park on Borneo, applied newer foraging theories to wild orangutan dietary data to better understand what types of food resources we should focus on for conservation habitats, and to feed captive zoo and rescue orangutans. Since that time, I have worked with several orangutan rescue and rehabilitation centers, including the Orangutan Veterinary Advisory Group, and also with the Philadelphia Zoo. I am currently a lecturer at Princeton University in the Princeton Writing Program and the Department of Anthropology. I also work as a post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Erin Vogel examining the impacts of low food availability and near-annual fires on the health and diet of wild Bornean orangutans in a fire-prone peat swamp habitat. In addition, I am starting a nutritional ecology program at the Tsaobis Baboon Project in Tsaobis, Namibia. This project will investigate the impacts of climate change on diet, and the costs of motherhood on these highly social monkeys. My other work examines how well-meaning social media posts by researchers, rescue and rehab organizations, and veterinarians can be harmful to wildlife conservation. In this project, we have found that humans touching or interaction with primates, or featuring babies in YouTube videos leads to negative conservation comments such as endorsing orangutans as pets or blaming the local people for their endangerment. Our most recent publication finds that when we take pictures of ourselves handling or near our study subjects, despite adding the recommended captions explaining that we are trained researchers with proper permits, the public still is interested in owning wild primates as pets, or seeking out (often illegal) opportunities to interact with these animals themselves.

Allison Felker

Senior Researcher - MBRRACE-UK, University of Oxford

Senior Researcher - MBRRACE-UK, University of Oxford Allison works as a senior researcher for MBRRACE-UK based out of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit (NPEU) at the University of Oxford. Allison received her PhD in Reproductive Biology from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada and BSc (Hons) in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.

Abel Lorenzo-Rodríguez

PhD Doctor with international mention, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

PhD Doctor with international mention, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Doctor en Historia Medieval. Graduado en Historia, máster en Historia medieval, contratado predoctoral Xunta de Galicia, con anterioridad también becario JAE-Intro del Consejo Superior de Investiaciones Científicas. He sido contratado predoctoral Xunta de Galicia (2019-2022) desarrollando labores docentes y de investigación vinculadas a mi proyecto de tesis doctoral "Horcas y azotes. Categorías sociales y genealogía del castigo en el noroeste ibérico en la Alta Edad Media (700-1200)". En el curso 2021-2022 fui Visiting Scholar en la Faculty of History de la Universidad de Oxford. Mis principales intereses en la investigación son el análisis social del castigo corporal y la violencia en las sociedades altomedievales del noroeste hispano.