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.

Dr. Monica Nolan (MBBS, MPH, EIS ’99) grew up in Victoria, obtained her medical degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia and worked in Victoria and the Northern Territory in Australia. While serving remote indigenous communities in Arnhem Land she saw the need to address structural determinants of poor health and wellbeing and was inspired to change curse and pursue a public heath career.

Dr. Jadej Thammatacharee is the Deputy Secretary-General of the National Health Security Office (NHSO) in Thailand.  NHSO is an independent organization of the Ministry of Public Health responsible for the Universal Health Coverage Scheme (UCS) for 75% of the Thai population.

Alison has led WaterAid Australia’s strategy, policy, research, and programming on the intersection of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) with human health since 2013. She supports health-related research, programming, and policy work in the Southeast Asia and Pacific regions and contributes to WaterAid’s global policy and advocacy. Her main areas of focus are WASH in healthcare facilities, maternal and newborn health, quality universal health coverage, nutrition, and antimicrobial resistance.

Mr. Jeremy Lim is Associate Professor and Co-Director for Global Health in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore. Mr. Lim leads the initiatives in health systems strengthening and universal health coverage. He brings diverse and unique perspectives having spent substantial time in public and private healthcare across Asia as well as in policy advisory with Singapore's Ministry of Health, the World Bank and the World Health Organization.