Dr. Abdelghani completed his undergraduate at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon his master and doctorate at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He then joined Tulane/ department of Environmental Health Sciences as a faculty member and have been at Tulane ever since. He is a US citizen and married with two adult children. He had worked in many countries including Qatar, Haiti, Turkey, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Lebanon, and others. He is a consultant to several local, national, and international organizations. Recently he completed a mission in Haiti funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. Dr. Abdelghani’s current teaching, research, and field work focus on global Environmental Health issues with interest in developing countries. These issues include, water quality and quantity, clean air, food safety, Climate Change, management of municipal and hazardous waste, exposure to toxic and hazardous substances /ecotoxicology with emphasis on the impact on aquatic organisms, control of vectors of health importance, and solid and liquid waste disposal. He has been responsible for teaching all sections of the school core course in Environmental Health for more than 30 years. He also teaches other courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. He chaired, co-chaired and served as a member of more than 55 doctoral students. Dr. Abdelghani has developed curricula for graduate and undergraduate degree and non -degree programs in Public Health/Environmental Health Sciences. He initiated the establishment and played a major role in the development of the Undergraduate degree program in Public Health university wide. Currently, it is considered one of the most successful and attended programs in the university. It is an excellent pipeline to the master and doctorate degrees at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He served as the department chair from 1999-2005 and director of Tulane university school of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Laboratories for 22 years. During his tenure as a chair, he was responsible for 22 full time professors and 45 part time faculty at different ranks. At Tulane, Dr. Abdelghani continuous funding in research and training grants. He has more than 125 publications in the open literature and more than 60 national and international presentations. He serves on the editorial board of 5 international Journals in the field of Global Environmental Health. Dr. Abdelghani has been very successful in securing Federal and Industrial research funding. In addition, he designed and furnished Tulane University Environmental Health Laboratories. He is trained laboratory technicians on instrument operations including but not limited to, Gas Chromatography, Inductively Coupled Plasma, Liquid Chromatography etc. As part of his responsibility as full professor, Dr. Abdelghani directed these laboratories for more than 22 years. He also assisted in establishing environmental health laboratories and training programs on equipment for testing of Environmental samples in at Tulane university, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Suriname and Turkey He has implemented and /or participated in many projects addressing environmental health problems in the United States and other countries. He was closely involved in the after math of Hurricane Katrina (2005)as well as the recent Gulf of Mexico oil Spill. One of the courses Dr. Abdelghani teaches is on Environmental Sampling and Monitoring following Disasters. He also worked as the Senior Public Health Officer for ministries of health including Jordan and Abu Dhabi/ United Arab Emirates. Responsibilities all Public Health/Environmental Health issues including occupational health, biological and chemical contaminants of food, communicable diseases control, control of vectors of disease, air pollution , vaccinations, investigations of outbreaks of diseases, health education and other related responsibilities. Dr. Abdelghani participated and continues to participate in the training of Peace Corp volunteers at TSPH&TM who specialize in Environmental Health. The training focus is on water, food safety and sanitation in developing countries

Dr.RajendraD. Badgaiyan, MD, is a psychiatrist and cognitive neuroscientist. He is Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Richmond University Medical Center, and Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He received formal training in psychiatry, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, molecular imaging, and neuroimaging. He was awarded the prestigious BK Anand National Research Prize in India and Solomon Award of Harvard Medical School. His research is focused on the study of neural and neurochemical mechanisms that control human brain functions. He developed the single scan dynamic molecular imaging technique (SDMIT) to detect, map, and measure neurotransmitters released acutely in the human brain during task performance. This technique is now used in laboratories all over the world. Using this technique, he studies dopaminergic control of human cognition and behavior. He is also interested in learning the nature of dysregulated dopamine neurotransmission in psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions. His research is funded by NIMH, NINDS, VA, and various foundations. Previously he served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, SUNY Buffalo and University of Minnesota. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journal

Professor Dr. Luisa Maria Arvide Cambra, Spanish is now Professor with Chair at the University of Almería (Spain) and she was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the University of Granada from 1979 on. Forty four years of the teaching and researching experience. She is the Director of Research Group HUM113-Estudios Filológicos from Program of Research of Andalusian Government, where she has managed and directed several academic and scientific contracts and research projects, as well as a Member of European Scientific Institute (ESI) Team, Athens Institute for Education & Research (ATINER) in Greece, The Academic Genesis Platform (UAGP) in UK&Turkey and Experts of Academic Excellence Research Centre (EAERC), in Jordan; GI Social Sciences Forum (GISSF), in Malaysia; Akademica Nusa International Association of Social Sciences and Humanities, in UAE; Science Research Association (SCIREA); Academic Fora; Foundation for Social Sciences and Education Research (FSSER); etc. She is reviewer and member of the editorial board in several renowned scientific journals as well as member of the organizing, scientific & academic committees at prestigious international conferences. She is author of a many works on several aspects of the Arabic science and literature in the Middle Ages, as well as Arabic language and linguistics. She has also participated in different prestigious international scientific Conferences. She has visited a many universities and academic institutions of Europe, United States and Arab countries in order to teach and research. Among her works, we have the study and the translation to Spanish of some treatises of Kitab al-tasrif´s Al-Zahrawi, Ibn Qutayba´s texts, Maqamas of Al-Hariri, The Sicilian Questions of Ibn Sab´in, and the book on the plague by Ibn Khatima. Honors and awards -Included and enlisted in Marquis Who´s Who in the World, USA. -Included and enlisted in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century 2011. International Biographical Centre. Cambridge, UK. -Included and enlisted in Great Minds of 21st Century, American Biographical Institute. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. -Top 100 Professionals 2011. International Biographical Centre. Cambridge, UK -Woman of the Year 2011 by the American Biographical Institute. Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. -Deputy Director General for Europe of International Biographical Centre. Cambridge, UK. -Collaborator in QS World Intelligence Unit. London, UK. -International Jury Member of Ana María Agüero Melnyczuk Awards. Buenos Aires, Argentina. June 2013. -Awarded with honoring certificate by Arab Translators Association (ARTA) (Palestine), in 2021; VDGOOD Professional Association (India), in 2020; etc. Publications 15 books and over 100 articles and papers published in prestigious international journals and proceedings. Research Interest Medieval Arabic Science. History of Medicine. Humanities. Arabic Philology

r. Jun Fang graduated with a degree in medicine from Bethune Medical University (Jilin University's Faculty of Medicine) in 1995. He completed his master's degree in thoracic surgery at China Medical University in 1998 and then pursued his Ph.D. in Medicine at Kumamoto University's in 2003. From 2003 to 2005, Fang worked as a Research Associate at Duke University Medical Center in the United States. In 2005, he joined Sojo University's Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Since 2016, he has been a visiting professor at the School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University (China). For many years, he has conducted research on the EPR effect and anticancer and anti-inflammatory nanomedicine. From 2014 to 2017, he was selected as a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Pharmacology and Toxicology. He was also included in the 2023 global ranking of scholars with Lifetime Academic Influence. In the past decade, he published 130 papers, with a cumulative impact factor (IF) exceeding 700. These papers have been cited over 10,000 times in SCI-source journals, with the highest citation count for a single paper being over 4,800 times.

Dr. Mihail Lucian Birsa is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. In 2003 he was selected as a member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, working with Professor Henning Hopf in TU Braunschweig - Germany. Since then numerous return fellowships were granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has more than 125 publications in peer-review journals and published +45 books/book chapters (John Wiley & Sons, Thieme etc). Also, is editorial board member in more than 50 journals such as Applied Sciences, Arkivoc, BioChem, Edelweiss Chemical Science Journal, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design, Journal of Fine Chemical Engineering, Modern Approaches in Drug Designing, Pharmaceutical Toxicology

Aziza Menouni is an international consultant and researcher with extensive experience in academic, research, and development projects. Holding a Master's degree in Biotechnology and a post-graduate certificate in One Health from Duke University, she brings a unique interdisciplinary approach to her work. Her doctoral research at KU Leuven (Belgium) focuses on the intersection of environmental sciences, health, and epigenetics, specifically examining the impacts of pollutants (pesticides, flame retardants, heavy metals, etc.) on vulnerable populations such as workers, women, and children. With her team, Aziza has presented at numerous international conferences and published the findings in indexed journals, demonstrating her commitment to advancing knowledge in toxicology. Her work also extends to promoting sustainable development and well-being at work, underscoring her dedication to making a global impact through science and policy. Today, Aziza is an accomplished African woman in STEM with a strong willingness to positively impact her community and enhance the quality of research and higher education in Africa.

Jacob Golenser. Academic degrees: B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D. in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Academic appointments: Bar-Ilan University, Israel; The Hadassah Medical College, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv University, Israel; University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Catholic University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Research Institute for Diseases in a Tropical Environment, Durban, South Africa; University of Sydney, Australia. Short term periods: Angola, Cameroon, England, Germany, Senegal, USA, Zanzibar. Current affiliation: HU (Prof. emeritus). Editorial services, Various grants (most recent- DFG). Immunological, diagnostics and pharmacological aspects of malaria, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and neosporosis. Main interest: malaria. About 140 papers in these subjects. Pioneering research: The genome of Plasmodium falciparum, DNA methylation in plasmodia, Imaging of plasmodia in cerebral malaria, Experimental proof for the advantage of G6PD deficiency in protecting malaria patients, Treatment of neosporosis. Teaching: immunology, pathology, parasitology. advantage of G6PD deficiency in protecting malaria patients, Treatment of neosporosis. Teaching: immunology, pathology, parasitology.

Aziza Menouni is an international consultant and researcher with extensive experience in academic, research, and development projects. Holding a Master's degree in Biotechnology and a post-graduate certificate in One Health from Duke University, she brings a unique interdisciplinary approach to her work. Her doctoral research at KU Leuven (Belgium) focuses on the intersection of environmental sciences, health, and epigenetics, specifically examining the impacts of pollutants (pesticides, flame retardants, heavy metals, etc.) on vulnerable populations such as workers, women, and children. With her team, Aziza has presented at numerous international conferences and published the findings in indexed journals, demonstrating her commitment to advancing knowledge in toxicology. Her work also extends to promoting sustainable development and well-being at work, underscoring her dedication to making a global impact through science and policy. Today, Aziza is an accomplished African woman in STEM with a strong willingness to positively impact her community and enhance the quality of research and higher education in Africa.

Yoshihito TAKAHASHI, PhD is a full professor of the Department of Commercial Science at Senshu University, since April 2012. Previously, He was an associate professor at Senshu since April 2008 to March 2012, an associate professor of the School of Project Design at Miyagi University since April 2006 to March 2008, and an associate professor at Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care Waseda University, a research institute established to make contributions to medical engineering, medical science, and life science, since April 2005 to March 2006. From April 1990 to March 2005, he was engaged in Business Strategy and Product Promotion at Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and Asia. Specialties: corporate strategy, competitive intelligence, pharmaceutical industry, business in Japan

My name is Dr. Miressa Belay Oljira is an accomplished professional with expertise in forensic medicine and toxicology. Since 2020, I have been serving as an Assistant Professor and Department Head of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology at St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In addition to this role as a GBV expert, I have been dedicated for the last 4 years by educating and training future forensic specialists in the field. As a department head, I oversees the administration and development of the department, ensuring the delivery of high-quality education and research in forensic medicine and toxicology. So far my work is instrumental in advancing the understanding and application of forensic science in Ethiopia and beyond.