Professor of Soil Microbial Ecology, University of British Columbia BSc (Hons) Microbiology (Sheffield,UK) 1982 PhD Microbial Ecology (Sheffield, UK) 1988 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Saskatchewan 1988-90 Senior Researcher, MicroBioRhizogen Corp., Saskatoon 1990-93 Principle Scientific Officer, Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland 1993-2003 Canada Research Chair in Soil Microbial Ecology, UBC, Canada 2003-13 Professor of Soil Microbial Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Faculty of Land & Food Systems, UBC 2008-present 110 peer-reviewed publications
Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center Dr Shukri Mohamed is a public health specialist with experience in global health epidemiology. She has over 15 years’ experience in research, project planning and management, and has four years of clinical pharmacy practice experience. She also has strong skills in proposal writing, project management, project implementation, data quality assurance, data analysis and scientific writing. Dr Mohamed has authored over 65 peer reviewed publications. She attained PhD from the University of Warwick, a Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from the University Of Maryland School Of Pharmacy. Her areas of interest include include non-communicable disease prevention and control with an emphasis on cardiovascular disease, health systems research and translating research to policy and action. Dr Mohamed has served on a number of expert/technical working group such as the technical working group on non-communicable diseases prevention policies and the Kenya Cancer Research track group. Dr. Mohamed also successfully coordinated the first ever special issue on data from WHO STEPS survey for Kenya.
Acting Director: Institute for Pan-African Thought & Conversation, University of Johannesburg Zondi earned his BA Honours and Postgrad Diploma from the then University of Durban-Westville and his MPhil and DPhil from the University of Cambridge, UK. His research careers spans the now defunct Africa Institute of South Africa, the Institute for Global Dialogue, and the University of Pretoria. He is currently with the Department of Politics at the University of Johannesburg where he is acting director of Institute of Pan-African Thought &Conversation as well as acting co-director of Institute for Global African Affairs (jointly hosted with the University of West Indies). Zondi is on the National Planning Commission, while he is also the chair of the SA Brics Think. His research interests relate to the decolonisation of power, of being and of knowledge
Associate Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan Su'ad Abdul Khabeer is a scholar-artist-activist originally from Brooklyn, NY. She is the curator of Umi's Archive, a multimedia project documenting Black and Muslim histories and co-founder of Sapelo Square, a digital media and education collective on Black Muslim in the US. Su’ad’s first book, Muslim Cool: Race, Religion and Hip Hop in the United States, is a field defining study on Islam and hip hop that examines how intersecting ideas of Muslimness and Blackness challenge and reproduce the meanings of race in the United States. Su’ad’s written scholarly work on Islam and hip hop is accompanied by her performance-based work including her one woman solo show, Sampled: Beats of Muslim Life. In 2018, Su’ad was profiled as one of 25 influential American Muslims by CNN and and received the Soros Equality Fellowship in 2019. She has written broadly for outlets including: The Root, the Washington Post, Vice and Ebony Magazine, and has appeared on Al Jazeera English. Su’ad received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Princeton University, is a graduate from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and completed the Islamic Studies diploma program of the Institute at Abu Nour University (Damascus). Su’ad is currently an associate professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.
Perron Institute Research Chair in Palliative Care, The University of Western Australia Professor Samar Aoun is 2023 WA Australian of the Year and Perron Institute Research Chair in Palliative Care at The University of Western Australia and Perron Institute. She is a global leader in the fields of Public Health Palliative Care and Compassionate Communities research and has influenced rapid system change and informed practice and policy at national and international levels.
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine, Wayne State University Dr. Hassan is Associate Vice-President at Wayne State University (WSU), a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine. She has founded and led all research, program administration, staffing and budget allocation for multiple Women’s Health initiatives and centers throughout WSU and in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health including: the WSU Office of Women’s Health (2019), WSU COVID-19 in Pregnancy State of Michigan Collaborative, Make Your Date, an implementation science program to reduce preterm birth, the leading cause of infant mortality (2014), The WSU Perinatal Initiative (2012) and NIH’s Center for Advanced Obstetrical Care and Research (2007). In addition, Sonia has extensive policy experience including currently serving as co-chair of the State of Michigan’s Maternal Infant Health and Equity Collaborative and has several roles supporting access of medical care to
