Vegard Skirbekk is a Professor of Population and Family Health at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and a Professor at Columbia University’s Columbia Aging Center. His research focuses on understanding the links between aging, health, and worker productivity in countries undergoing demographic change globally.

Dr. Lavanya Vijayasingham is an interdisciplinary global health research professional from Malaysia. She’s just completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, where she worked on gender and health policy, programming, and research- including on the integration of sex and gender factors in COVID-19 R&D, regulation and monitoring, and in national vaccine deployment programs.

Dr. Kenneth Hartigan-Go is a medical graduate of UPCM class 1985, an internist-toxicologist by training, and served previously at the UPCM Department of Pharmacology as a professor and in the DOH and FDA as Undersecretary and Director-General respectively.  He is a fellow of the PCP, PSECP, PSCOT, FICD, FACP, FRCP Ed, and an honorary fellow of the Singapore Academy of Medicine and Singapore College of Physicians. He was the founding executive director of the Zuellig Foundation for 9 years.

Jean Munro is the Senior Manager for Gender Equality with Gavi – the Vaccine Alliance.  She supports Gavi in implementing its revised gender policy, ensuring gender equality is mainstreamed in Gavi programs, and supporting countries to develop gender-responsive and transformative immunization initiatives.  Jean has over 20 years of experience working in the area of gender equality, inclusion, and women’s rights across numerous sectors.  She has enjoyed living and working in Malawi, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Vietnam with CSOs, the UN, and the Canadian government.  She holds

Beverly Lorraine Ho is the concurrent Director of the Health Promotion Bureau and Disease Prevention and Control Bureau at the Department of Health - Philippines. As HPB Director, she leads risk communication and community engagement, and demand generation for COVID-19 vaccines. As DPCB Director, she leads the primary care integration of various health programs.