Professor and Head of School of Dentistry, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences Professor Leung is Professor of Dentistry and foundation Head of the School of Dentistry at RCSI, University of Medicine and Health Sciences. Professor Leung leads the School of Dentistry in advancing plans to launch a Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) programme in 2025, to become the first community-based undergraduate dentistry degree in Ireland. Professor Leung served as Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry RCSI between 2020-2023, and was RCSI Vice Chancellor's Strategic Advisor in Dentistry between 2023-2024. He was Professor of Dental Education, Head of Continuing Professional Development and Programme Director of the Restorative Dental Practice Masters at University College London (UCL) Eastman Dental Institute, having successfully supervised over 100 Masters' Dissertations. Professor Leung qualified in Dentistry (BDS) from Dundee University. He holds an MA from King’s College London, an LLM from Cardiff University, and a PhD from Portsmouth University. He has also gained Fellowship in General Dental Surgery from RCSI; Fellowships in Dental Surgery from RCS England and RCPS Glasgow; Fellowship of the College of General Dentistry, and Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. He has achieved international distinction including receipt of the Association for Dental Education (ADEE) Excellence in Dental Education Mature Career Award – one of the highest international accolades in dental education.
Professor and Program Head, HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney Professor Andrew Grulich is a medical epidemiologist and Public Health Physician. He is head of the HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia. He is a past president of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine and is a Governing Council member of the International AIDS Society. His research group investigates the transmission and prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections in homosexual men, with a focus on the prevention of human papillomavirus-related disease.
Head of Policy Engagement, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford and Fellow in Environmental Change, Reuben College, University of Oxford, University of Oxford Dr Anupama Sen is an energy economist who has published extensively on electricity sector restructuring and reform in the context of the energy transition in non-OECD Asia, the transition to renewables in resource-rich economies in the Middle East and North Africa, energy pricing reforms, and the impact of the energy transition on international energy markets. She has a strong interest in the socio-economic implications of the energy transition, its implications for energy consumers, producers and governments, and in the circular economy in relation to energy. Anupama holds a BA(Hons) in Economics from the University of Mumbai, MSc from the London School of Economics and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Anupama is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society, and has previously been a Junior Research Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, Hunter College Dr. Alex Moulton earned his PhD in Geography from Clark University, with a MS in Geography from East Carolina University and a BSc in Geography and Geology from the University of the West Indies, Mona. His research examines Black geographical epistemologies and history, ecological justice, community resource governance, landscape legacies of colonization, and political ecology of environmental change. Working at the intersection of critical social science, the environmental humanities, and physical geography, his research draws on a range of methodologies and epistemologies. Prior to Hunter College, Dr. Moulton was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with previous teaching appointments at Middle Tennessee State University and the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University Dr Alana Gall is a proud Truwulway woman, a Pakana (Tasmanian Aboriginal) from the north-east coast of Lutruwita (Tasmania, Australia). Dr Gall is passionate about Indigenous peoples' holistic health and wellbeing, globally. She believes that the wellbeing and identity of Indigenous peoples are strongly centred around strong connections to Country/land, culture, spirituality and each other. Dr Gall is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, in the National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, at Southern Cross University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at both the University of Queensland and Menzies School of Health Research. She is Vice Chair of the World Federation of Public Health Associations, Indigenous Working Group, and the Vice President (First Nations) at the Public Health Association of Australia. Dr Gall is also the Indigenous Traditional Medicines representative in the TCIH Coordination Council for the TCIH Coalition of The People's Declaration for Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Healthcare. At Southern Cross University, Dr Gall leads a research program that centres around First Nations Australians Traditional Medicines, with the aims of protecting and preserving these medicines for future generations, and improving accessibility for all First Nations communities across Australia. Dr Gall has over a decade of experience in research, research translation, community engagement, health education and a background in Nutritional Medicine. She has an extensive and broad knowledge in First Nations health and wellbeing; First Nations Traditional Medicines; qualitative, Indigenous and decolonising methodologies and methods (including co-design methods/methodology); PROMs/PREMs measure development, and; systematic, comprehensive and policy reviews. Dr Gall pioneered the use of individual yarns with a think-aloud component, called the ‘think-aloud yarn’, and co-developed the Key Principles to Co-Design with First Nations peoples, which have informed the development of Cancer Australia's Australian Cancer Plan and will underpin its implementation (p.29, Cancer Australia Annual Report 2022-23).
