Shardul Joshi is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Briota. He has completed his master’s degree in mechanical design and has experience of almost a decade in the Medtech sector. He has worked majorly on need discovery, de-risking of technology and commercialization of MedTech products such as drug delivery devices, drug adherence monitoring for tuberculosis, technologies related to fetal growth monitoring, passive voice prosthesis and interventional devices such as esophageal stent and others.

Dr. Le Cong Thien is Deputy Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Hanoi Medical University, Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health, and Vice General Secretary of the Vietnam Psychiatric Association. Dr. Thien has experience in training and clinical psychiatry for more than 20 years. His research focuses on child psychiatry, substance abuse, psychopharmacology, and community psychiatry.

Dr. Rachana Parikh works as a mental health specialist in PATH’s India country program. She is also a consultant with the World Bank. Her work primarily focuses on developing scalable mental health interventions for low-resource settings for young people, including technology-driven interventions and promoting integration of mental health in the public health and primary health care programs in India, in partnership with national and state governments.

Brian J. Hall is a tenured Full Professor of Global Public Health and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Health Equity at NYU Shanghai, and an Associated Faculty Member in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.