Assistant Professor of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham Dr. Monica Aswani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research employs econometric methods to investigate how national reform initiatives relate to the quality of and disparities in healthcare. Her work has been published in Health Services Research, Journal for Healthcare Quality, and the Annual Review of Medicine. She received a perfect F31 grant score from the National Institute on Aging, which supported her dissertation paper that won the 2019 International Health Economics Association Student Prize. She has received other awards and honors, including regional finalist for the White House Fellowship, UAB Young Alumni Rising Star Award, and the American Society of Health Economists Diversity Scholarship. She earned her MSPH and DrPH from UAB School of Public Health. Previously, she has also contributed to health services research through fellowships at Johns Hopkins University and the World Health Organization. Prior to UAB, she completed her undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Project Coordinator, Centre on Conflict, Development & Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Researcher at International Research Laboratory Takuvik, Université Laval Mathieu Ardyna is a biological oceanographer interested in understanding phytoplankton dynamics in polar environments. My main research focuses on how environnemental drivers and changes are altering phytoplankton phenology, productivity and structure. In both polar regions (i.e., the Arctic and Southern oceans), climate change is drastically affecting the interplay between the atmosphere, the cryosphere and the oceans.
Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management, City St George's, University of London Professor Sodhi is a professor in operations and supply chain at the Bayes Business School. His research interests lie in supply chain management, in particular in supply chain risk and in supply chain sustainability in a variety of sectors including agriculture, airlines, chemicals, and electronics. In his co-authored book, Managing Supply Chain Risk (Springer), he includes case studies on companies as diverse as Boeing and Samsung Electronics. Prior to joining Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) in 2002, he worked in a startup in Silicon Valley and in management consulting, including at Accenture, and has worked with clients in many sectors. He is currently Senior Editor for Production and Operations Management (POM) journal. He has published in numerous academic and managerial journals, including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Harvard Business Review, and Sloan Management Review. Prof. Sodhi received his Ph.D. in management science from the UCLA Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994. Subsequently, he taught operations management at the University of Michigan, Ross Business School, where the Sloan Foundation funded his research in the trucking industry. Prof. Sodhi also had a visiting position at the Indian School of Business (ISB) as the Founding Executive Director of the Munjal Global Manufacturing Institute. He is also an elected lifelong Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society, and also Fellow of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA) and the Operational Research Society (FORS).
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Mikaela Bloomberg is a Senior Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology and Social Statistics in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health. Her research interests are in demographic and lifestyle determinants of healthy ageing, particularly cognitive ageing and dementia.
