Postdoctoral research fellow, Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, University of Adelaide My main research interests are the social, political and economic determinants of health and health equity. A particular interest is the growing recognition of the commercial determinants of health, or the systems, practices and pathways through which commercial actors drive health and equity. I have contributed to setting a research agenda on the health impacts of transnational corporations and have conducted health impact assessments of individual corporations spanning fast food, extractives, and alcohol industries in Australia and Southern Africa. I helped to convene a Citizen's Jury to provide recommendations to government for improved regulation of the fast-food sector. I am currently employed (part-time) on the NHMRC Investigator Grant 'Restoring the Fair Go: which policies and practices are likely to reverse growing health inequities post Covid-19?' I lead the the privatisation theme which investigates the health impacts from privatisation and outsourcing of public sector roles to the private sector, including to large global consultancy and accounting firms. My educational qualifications are BA Hons, BSW, MPub Pol, PhD.
Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Adelaide My undergraduate degree was broad-based, including subjects from the Agriculture and Science Faculties, with majors in Entomology and Botany. In Honours, I studied systematics and population variation in Banksia oblongifolia (Proteaceae) and my PhD studied the evolution and ecology of the net-veined petaloid monocots growing in the rainforests at Springbrook, SE Qld.
Professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Senior Pediatrician, Örebro University Hospital., Karolinska Institutet Jonas F Ludvigsson is a pediatrician and pediatric gastroenterologist at Örebro University Hospital. He has a professorship at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) and is adjunct professor at Columbia University, US. Ludvigsson's research emanates from a long-standing expertise in Swedish healthcare registers. He has so far written about 600 papers, often concerning celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, vaccinations, and pregnancy outcomes. Many of his publications are of high societal importance. He has written extensively on COVID-19, but also on the health of Ukrainian children. He was the lead author of a recent government report on hormonal treatment in young people with gender dysphoria. Ludvigsson was the president of the Swedish Society of Epidemiology (2011-14) and chaired the Swedish Society of Pediatrics (2014-16). He is currently Scientific secretary of the Swedish Society of Medicine. In his spare time he coaches a soccer team of 9-10-year old boys.
Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Janet Echelman is an artist who creates experiential sculpture at the scale of buildings that transform with wind and light. The art shifts from being an object you look at, to something you can get lost in. Her work defies categorization as it intersects across disciplinary boundaries, from fine art, architecture, and urban design, to material science, computer science, and structural and aeronautical engineering. Using unlikely materials from fishnet to atomized water particles, Echelman combines ancient craft with original computational design software to create artworks that have become focal points for urban life on four continents. Recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Harvard Loeb Fellowship, Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellowship, and Fulbright Lectureship, Echelman was named an Architectural Digest Innovator for “changing the very essence of urban spaces.” Her TED talk “Taking Imagination Seriously” has been translated into 35 languages with more than two million views. Oprah ranked Echelman’s work #1 on her List of 50 Things That Make You Say Wow!, and she recently received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in Visual Arts, honoring “the greatest innovators in America today.” Her permanent commissions have transformed urban environments worldwide, and include Bending Arc at the newly renovated Pier in St. Petersburg, FL (2020), mist sculpture Pulse (2018) in front of Philadelphia City Hall, Dream Catcher (2017) on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, CA, Impatient Optimist (2015) at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Every Beating Second (2011) at San Francisco International Airport, Her Secret Is Patience (2009) in downtown Phoenix, and She Changes (2005) in Porto, Portugal.
Historiador. Profesor agregado en los Estudios de Artes y Humanidades y director del Máster Universitario de Historia del Mundo Contemporáneo, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Jaume Claret Miranda es profesor agregado en los Estudios de Artes y Humanidades de la UOC, y director de su Máster Universitario de Historia del Mundo Contemporáneo. Se licenció en Ciencias de la Comunicación (UAB, 1996) y en Humanidades (UPF, 1998), y es doctor en Historia (UPF, 2004). Su tesis doctoral se centró en la historia de las universidades y en las políticas universitarias españolas durante la Segunda República y el primer franquismo. Posteriormente, se publicó como "El atroz desmoche" (Crítica, 2006), y desde entonces se ha convertido en una obra de referencia. Sus campos de investigación son la historia política, cultural e intelectual española y catalana (épocas moderna y contemporánea) y actualmente es investigador principal del proyecto "Regiocat. El regionalismo en Cataluña durante el régimen franquista: discursos y prácticas" (dentro del grupo de investigación Identicat). Es autor de diversos artículos, capítulos y libros sobre historia contemporánea. Entre estos últimos, los más recientes son "Pasqual Maragall: pensamiento y acción" (RBA, 2018), "Ganar la guerra, perder la paz" (Crítica, 2019) y "Breve historia de las brigadas internacionales" (La Catarata, 2022). Es miembro del consejo editorial de revistas académicas ("Rubrica Contemporanea" y "Recerques"), asesor de las editoriales Eumo y Crítica, y ejerce como crítico de ensayo para el suplemento literario del diario "Ara" y de la edición catalana de "El País" y para la revista "Política & Prosa".
Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco The Hollenbach Lab specializes in analysis of the extremely polymorphic human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) immunogenetic systems. In addition to their critical role in transplantation, over 100 infectious, autoimmune and pharmacological disease phenotypes and cancers are associated with genetic variation of HLA and KIR, which also have functional interaction with one another. Our work spans the population genetics, evolutionary history, and influence on human health of these complex genomic regions, with particular emphasis on their role in neurological disease.
