Dr. Susan Pineda Mercado is a medical doctor and public health expert with extensive experience at international, national, and local levels. Her international work includes a 15-year distinguished career at the World Health Organization, where she retired as Director of Noncommunicable Disease and Health through the Life Course Approach. She is internationally recognized for her work on tobacco control, health promotion, healthy cities, reproductive health, family planning, and strategic health communication.

A population, health, and environmental policy advocate, Ramon brings with him years of experience working in civil society organizations (CSO) engaged in social development work, and has dedicated many years to policy development, advocacy, and working with policy-makers and stakeholders on population, health, environment, and sustainable development issues. 

Dhiman Dasgupta has 25 years of experience in leadership roles across leading medical device corporates and geographies.

He is currently the Managing Director of Draeger ASEAN. Before this, he worked as Senior Director for Asia Pacific GETINGE Group Acute Care Therapies  ( Japan, China, South East Asia, India, ANZ, Korea, & Thailand markets). He also worked as Vice President of Maquet Cardiovascular. 

He has the rare combination of the following expertise: solid grassroots community work in far flung doctorless rural areas; national and international health planning and programming, a faculty of colleges of medicine and health sciences; clinical practice combining North American European medicine with Asian and Filipino traditional medicine; national health policy development, national health field operations management, private sector health business development, research management and local government health development.