Associate Director of Cancer Care Equity, Yale Cancer Center, Yale University Dr. Battaglia is a primary care clinician-investigator internationally recognized for her collaborative, innovative approaches to addressing health disparities among women historically marginalized. She has led the development of foundational infrastructure to support community-engaged methods in translational science. Her own research focuses on engaging with community to increase access to care for at-risk women, including ground-breaking work on the role of oncology patient navigators. Through her participation on several National Cancer Institute cooperative groups, she contributed to the 2012 Commission on Cancer Accreditation Standard requiring navigation services in cancer centers. As founding chair of the National Navigation Roundtable, she partners across sectors for sustainable navigation workforce.
Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast Tony is a Research Fellow, based in the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests span health and consumer psychology and include food choice, behaviour change, and nutrition. He has experience in both qualitative and quantitative techniques to understand psychological aspects such as attitudes and behaviour. Tony is currently working on the Protein-I project, an island of Ireland project, which aims to maximise sustainable plant protein production in a traceable and transparent fashion, with a focus on grains and legumes. The project is funded by The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA, NI) and Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM, ROI).
Research Manager, University of the Witwatersrand Thokozile is the research manager at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at Wits University. Using her master's degree in political theory, she has worked in climate justice, development cooperation, public finance focusing on health financing and gender-responsive budgeting, national, subnational and parliamentary governance, transparency and accountability. Over the years, she has served as programme manager for the Heinrich Boell Foundation, deputy director at the Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC), coordinator of the Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum (BEMF) and an organiser for the People's Health Movement South Africa (PHM-SA). She also worked at the International Budget Partnership (IBP) as a programme officer for the IBP's Zambia partnership initiative. She was a trainer/technical assistance provider in the IBP's training programme. Her love for activism deepened when she worked at the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) at Rhodes University. Her other full-time job is parenting an extraordinary rebel girl and writing poetry while plotting a feminist revolution.
Visiting Lecturer in Economics, Wellesley College I am a development economist currently teaching in the Economics Department at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, United States. Before my current roles, I served as a visiting assistant professor at Northeastern University (2022–2024) and as a senior researcher at the Policy Studies Institute in Ethiopia. My research primarily focuses on development economics, labor economics, and political economy. I am passionate about exploring the economic factors that drive societal progress and developing policies to enhance well-being and improve labor markets for gainful employment.
PhD Candidate in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham Tyler is a 2nd year PhD candidate in Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham. Tyler's research focuses on political communication in the late Roman Republic (1st century BC), applying the sociological concept of role theory to the letters of the Roman statesman and orator Cicero. More generally, Tyler is interested in Roman social history and political self-presentation/propaganda, as well as the relationship between ancient ideas of rhetoric and self-presentation and their counterparts in modern politics and media.
