The 9th International Conference on Public Health 2023

Conference Chairs & Committee

Conference Co - Chairs

Prof. Dr. Hematram
Yadav
Sr. Public Health Specialist,
Malaysia

Professor Dr. Hematram Yadav is former professor of Community Medicine Department in MAHSA University, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Prior to this appointment he was Head of Community Medicine in International Medical University and also Head of Family Health. Division in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in University Malaya (UM) and the Head of Family Health and Development Division in the Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia. He received his basic medical degree (MBBS) from University of Kerala, India and went on to do his Masters in Public Health (MPH) in University Malaya and MBA from Boston University. He has over 40 years of experience in the field of Public Health both locally and internationally. He worked as a consultant for WHO, UNICEF and In Develop (Sweden) mainly in countries in the Western Pacific Region in areas such as Primary Health Care, Maternal and Child Health Care, and Health Services Management in several countries. While in the Ministry of Health (MOH) he conducted several workshops in the area of Health and Hospital management both locally and in the Western Pacific region. He has organized several public health conferences besides he has also served in several technical committees and as Organizing Chairman of several conferences.

He has published more than 90 papers, author of several books and has presented technical papers in both local and international level. During his career in Ministry of Health he served as Chairman of the Reproductive Health Meeting organized by the Family Health Division at World Health Organization (WHO) HQ in Geneva, and also as Vice-Chairman of the Members of Interested Parties Meeting (MIP) in WHO HQ. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Malaysia (FAMM) Public Health Chapter and is on editorial boards of several journals. He has participated in several research projects and his current research interest is on maternal mortality and birth weight of infants. For his work he has received several awards locally and he is a recipient of the prestigious Hind Rattan Award from the NRI Welfare Society of India New Delhi for his work in the area of public health.

Dr. Alene H. Gelbard has over four decades of international experience advancing social and economic development. During the last 15 years, she has focused on helping businesses become more engaged in improving community well-being based on the experiences and perspectives of businesses. Results include a highly successful model for business/community organization partnership building that has produced sustainable local resources for partnership building in Indonesia. Today, a network of hundreds of businesses and community organizations in that country use the resources to increase their abilities to partner. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Social Enterprise in the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C. where she has taught business-nonprofit partnership building for the past six years.

She created ACCESS Partnerships as a successor to ACCESS Health Worldwide (ACCESS HW), a project she created and ran at the Public Health Institute (PHI) from 2004 – 2016. Her prior experience includes advising policymakers, program directors, and researchers on how to use data for effective policymaking and program development and management. Her positions include Senior Population Policy Advisor for the US Agency for International Development USAID) in Washington, DC, Senior Communications Advisor on Health, Population, and Nutrition for USAID/Indonesia, Advisor to the Ministry of Planning and Coordination in Bolivia, and Policy Analyst for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). As director of international programs at the nonprofit Population Reference Bureau (PRB), she served on U.S. delegations to several international conferences on development in the 1990s. She has lived and worked in Indonesia, Bolivia, France, Brazil, and the Philippines and worked in other countries in Asia, Latin American and Africa. She speaks French, Spanish, Portuguese, and limited Indonesian. She has a doctorate in population dynamics from the Bloomberg School of Public Health/Johns Hopkins University and a BA in French from the University of Washington.

Strengths include strategic planning, leadership, management, design thinking, coalition and network building, and oral and written communication skills, especially in multicultural and multilingual settings.

Alene H. Gelbard,
Phd

Founder and Principal, ACCESS Partnerships, Adjunct Professor of Social Enterprise, American University,
United States

Dr. Raman
Preet
Global Health and Epidemiology Unit, Umeå University,
Sweden

Raman Preet is a dental public health professional with expertise in global health based at the Dept of Epidemiology and Global Health (EpiGH) at Umeå University, Sweden, currently serving as the Research Coordinator and Equal Opportunity Officer of the Dept of EpiGH. Having gained rich experience in health consortia management and working with teams in diverse cultures and contexts is competent in international research coordination; communication & dissemination; and diplomacy. Since last 9 years has been working with many large international multidisciplinary public health research projects especially European Union-funded grants on arboviral diseases involving around 38 organisations in 20 countries, presently Co-Coordinator of an ongoing EU H2020 health research project, ZikaPLAN.

As a voice for the inclusion and implementation of global health across disciplines and professions, Dr. Raman interacts with various health professional groups and teaches global health to medical, dental and public health students at Umeå University. She lectures nationally and internationally various topics especially project coordination, sustainable development goals in global health, gender perspective, and systems thinking approach to planning and management in public health.

With a bachelor’s degree in Dentistry (1998, India), MSc in Dental Public Health (2004, London) and Master in Public Health (2009, Sweden) Dr Raman has more than 15 years of teaching and 20 years of working experience in provision of dental care, public health and global health. As a member of the Swedish Society of Medicine’s Committee on Global Health supports various efforts in medical education. She served as an invited expert of the TDR (UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases) for contributing in the creation of a toolkit for incorporating gender analysis into research on infectious diseases. She features as a global health professional in the ‘Women in Global Health’ Sweden Chapter and is recognised as distinguished alumnus by her home institution in India.

Mr. Isanka P. Gamage
Conference Convener
Mr. Isanka P. Gamage

Hotline:
+94 71 558 9870 | +94 77 737 9779

Phone: +94 11 204 4485

Email: isanka.gamage@tiikmedu.com

Ms. Natashya Kodithuwakku
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Natashya Kodithuwakku

Hotline:
+94 76 573 3737

Phone: +94 11 7992 022

Email: info@publichealthconference.co

Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee consists of the experts in the field from many different countries in the world. The Committee Members evaluate your abstracts and provide insights to improve those further. According to the final decision given by them, you would be able to process further tasks for participating the conference.

Scientific Committee Members

Prof. Dr. Tonny Loho
Prof. Dr. Tonny Loho

Krida Wacana Christian University, Indonesia

Dr. Yosephin Sri Sutant
Dr. Yosephin Sri Sutant

Krida Wacana Christian University, Indonesia

Dr. Santosh Kumar Mishra
Dr. Santosh Kumar Mishra

S. N. D. T. Women’s University, India

Dr. Amaranath Karunanayake
Dr. Amaranath Karunanayake

University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka

Dr. Subash Chandra Sonkar
Dr. Subash Chandra Sonkar

Maulana Azad Medical College, India

Dr. Amirah Ellyza Wahdi
Dr. Amirah Ellyza Wahdi

Center for Reproductive Health Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Assoc. Prof. Sujata Choudhury
Assoc. Prof. Sujata Choudhury

University of Science and Technology (USTM), Meghalaya, India

Dr. Jalam Singh Rathore
Dr. Jalam Singh Rathore

Department of Medical, Health & Family Welfare, Govt of Rajasthan, India

Dr. Satish Kumar
Dr. Satish
Kumar
District Programme Officer for National Vector borne Diseases, India
Dr. Carolina Monsalve-Castro
Dr. Carolina Monsalve-Castro
Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga,
Colombia
Dr. Fazidah Aguslina Siregar
Dr. Fazidah Aguslina Siregar

North Sumatera University, Indonesia

Dr. Luh Seri Ani M.kes
Dr. Luh Seri Ani M.kes
Universitas Udayana,
Indonesia
Dr. Joseph Odhiambo Onyango
Dr. Joseph Odhiambo Onyango

Strathmore University, Kenya

Dr. Verónica Fuentes Cáceres
Dr. Verónica Fuentes Cáceres
Universidad de Chile,
Chile
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sameena Ahmad
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sameena Ahmad

Department of community medicine,
Aligarh Muslim University

Dr. Nanuli Ninashvili
Dr. Nanuli Ninashvili

Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia

Dr Amutha Ramada
Dr Amutha Ramada

Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr. Adam Dawria
Dr. Adam Dawria

King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Quek Kia Fatt
Dr. Quek Kia Fatt

Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia

Dr. Hans Natanael
Dr. Hans Natanael


Dr. Narendra Babu Shivanagere Nagojappa
Dr. Narendra Babu Shivanagere Nagojappa
Dr. Hans Natanael

Universitas Kristen Maranatha Bandung, Indonesia

Dr. Meram Azzani
MARA University of Technology,
Malaysia
Dr. Narendra Babu Shivanagere Nagojappa

Taylor’s University, Malaysia

Dr. Junita Maja Pertiwi

Sam Ratulangi University, Indonesia

Dr. Sapna S. Patil
Dr Sapna S. Patil
Senior Lecturer and Discipline coordinator, Public health School of Medicine, FHMS Taylor’s University, Malaysia
Dr. Ameya Ashok Hasamnis
Dr. Ameya Ashok Hasamnis

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