Kanchan Dua

Dr. Kanchan Dua has over 13 years of experience in the healthcare sector. She has done her bachelor’s degree in dental surgery and post-graduation in health and hospital administration. She is a Green Belt, Six Sigma and has certifications for JCI and NABH Implementation in hospitals. She also holds Certificate in Operational planning guidelines and country preparedness and treatment facility design for COVID 19 from WHO.

Shardul Joshi

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.

Thien Le Cong

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.

Rachana Parikh

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.

Mikiko Kanda

Dr. Mikiko Kanda is a Technical Lead for the Healthy Ageing Unit, Division of Healthy Environments and Populations in the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WHO-WPRO) since March 2023.

Working with internal and external stakeholders, she is leading technical support and advocacy to promote health and social system transformation and early action to the Member States in the region in addressing the needs of an ageing population.

Si Thu Win Tin

Dr. Si is the Team Leader for NCD prevention and control program in the Pacific Community (SPC), the intergovernmental organisation that provides technical support for the development in the Pacific region. He is a medical doctor (MBBS) with MPH and PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia. In his current role, he provides leadership and technical oversight of SPC’s NCD program support for 22 Pacific Island countries.