Kavita is a Chartered Accountant. She is a public policy and financial services professional with over two decades of experience spanning policy advocacy and program management in water resources management, public health, financial inclusion and financial services. She is the Finance Lead for the UP Accelerator Program and also manages the Secretariat of the Maharashtra Water Multi-Stakeholder Platform of the 2030 WRG, World Bank, towards creating the wider political economy conditions and momentum for change in water reform.

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. 

Dr. Suherman is the Chairperson of Health Promoting Hospitals, Indonesi and a Member of the Asia Advisory Council Health Care Without Harm, Southeast Asia. 

Dr. Suherman is a Professional Doctor with a Master of Health who is currently working with the Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) Asia Advisory Council’s Global Green Healthier Hospitals (GGHH).

Dr. Cabral served as Secretary of the Department of Health in the Philippines. Before her appointment as Secretary of Health, she was previously the Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

Dr. Cabral, a cardiologist, and clinical pharmacologist graduated from medical school at the University of the Philippines. She extended her medical and pharmacological training at the U.P. Philippine General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Joslin Clinic in Boston, Massachusetts.

Prof. Tan Sri Dr. Jemilah Mahmood is the Executive Director, Sunway Center for Planetary Health, Sunway University, Malaysia.

Dr. Glenn Paraso is the Executive Director and CEO, Mary Johnston Hospital, Philippines.

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.