Professor, Socio-Cultural Study of Sport, Health and Medicine, York University, Canada Parissa Safai is a Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science in the Faculty of Health at York University. Her research interests focus on the critical socio-cultural study of sport at the intersection of risk, health and healthcare including the social determinants of athletes’ health. Her interests also centre on sport and social inequality with focused attention paid to the impact of gender, socio-economic, and ethnocultural inequities on accessible physical activity for all. She is currently serving as Special Advisor to the President for Academic Continuity Planning and COVID-19 Response.
Hon Professor of Neuropsychology, Cardiff University Prof Halligan's research covers a range of disciplinary fields and methods, including clinical neuropsychology, behavioural neurology, cognitive neuroscience, health psychology and social science. At Oxford he was a research fellow in the Department of Clinical Neurology and later MRC Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology before moving to Cardiff’s School of Psychology as a Distinguished Research Professor in 2000. While at Cardiff University, he was responsible for establishing Cardiff’s University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), and played a key role in establishing Wales Research and Diagnostic Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Centre (PETIC), Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (WICN), the UnumProvident Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research, the Cardiff Cognitive Neuroscience International Seminar Series, the School of Psychology’s MindArt project, the Haydn Ellis Distinguished Lecture Series and the Cardiff University Interdisciplinary Research Institutes.
James S. Sherman Professor of Government, Hamilton College Philip Klinkner is an expert on American politics, including parties and elections, race relations, Congress and the presidency. He is the former director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center. Klinkner has written extensively on a variety of topics related to American politics. His books include The Losing Parties: Out-Party National Committees, 1956-1993 and Midterm: The 1994 Elections in Perspective. His book The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America (with Rogers Smith) received the 2000 Horace Mann Bond Book Award from Harvard University’s Afro-American Studies Department and W.E.B DuBois Institute. He received his doctorate from Yale University.
Clinical Professor, Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia Perry Kendall was the Provincial Health Officer for BC from 1999-2018, a recipient of the Order of Canada (2019), the Order of BC (2005), and the Legacy Premier’s Award (2015), and inductee into the BC Public Service Hall of Excellence (2015). Dr. Kendall is also a clinical professor in the faculty of medicine, school of population and public health at the University of British Columbia and adjunct faculty in the school of social and health policy at the University of Victoria.
Professor of Philosophy, California Polytechnic State University Patrick Lin, PhD, is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at Cal Poly, where he is a philosophy professor. He also serves on the US National Space Council’s Users’ Advisory Group (UAG) and is affiliated with Stanford Law School, Czech Academy of Sciences, World Economic Forum, Aurelia Institute, For All Moonkind, AIAA, and others. Previous affiliations include Stanford Engineering, US Naval Academy, Dartmouth, Univ. of Iceland (Fulbright specialist), Center for a New American Security, New America Foundation, UNIDIR, 100 Year Study on AI, and more. Prof. Lin is well published in technology ethics, incl. cyber, space development, AI, robotics, military systems, bioengineering, materials science, and more. More details here: https://philosophy.calpoly.edu/faculty/patrick-lin
