Epidemiology And Public Health

Mahasweta Mitra is a skilled public health researcher with seven years of clinical and epidemiological research experience in countries such as India, Israel, and the United States. She currently works at Acumen, LLC, a leading research and consulting firm where she manages several analytical and technical projects in biologics effectiveness and safety surveillance of vaccines, in collaboration with the Food and Drug Administration and other data partners. Her mission is to apply her epidemiological and health policy expertise to generate impact in the evolving global health landscape. Prior to joining Acumen, she was a student at the University of Michigan School of Public Health where she built a strong foundation in mixed-methods methods research in evaluating social determinants of health. She independently led a mixed-methods study assessing the social determinants of health of obesity among adolescents in Israel in collaboration with the Israel Ministry of Health, the qualitative findings of which were presented at the 2018 Michigan Public Health Forum.

Olga Sribna belong to National Scientific Centre “M.D. Strazhesko Institute of Cardiology” MAS of Ukraine.

Lilian Tzivian has her expertise in the epidemiology of stress, well-being, and age-related processes. Investigating these processes, she worked on different fields of studies, such as environmental epidemiology, social epidemiology and public health. Her current research interests are related to age-associated personal changes and worsening of working condition of medical personal in Latvia with specific focus on nurses. In addition, professional burning of nurses is on the scope of her scientific interests, as this process cannot be separated from aging and years of experience. Lilian tries to assess using epidemiological methods of studies the main factors related to premature loss of work force in medicine, which is known as one of the main problems of contemporary health care.

The speaker Johanna Simin is currently a PhD student at the Center of Translational Microbiome Research (CTMR), Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet (KI) Stockholm Sweden. She has received her academic training both in Finland and Sweden, and she has her background in biomedicine, her expertise in clinical epidemiology and passion for women’s health. Her research projects are in the field of cancer- and pharmacoepidemiology, based on large nationwide population based study designs, linking data between multiple high quality Swedish health registries such as the Swedish Prescribed Drug Registry, Patient Registry, Cancer Registry and Causes of Death Registry.

Laszlo Pecze has completed his PhD in Epidemiology at the age of 25 from University of Szeged, Hungary. He works as Computational Scientist at Philip Morris International in Neuchatel, Switzerland. He is responsible for computational analysis and statistical programming related to population health impact modelling. He has published five papers in eminent journals in the field of mathematical biology.

Baridalyne Nongkynrih, trained in public health and currently working as a faculty in  Community Medicine  All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi India since 2003. My area of interest is  Non Communicable Diseases and health systems. I have  worked extensively in the area of primary health care in NCDs with the WHO and Ministry of Health Government of India. Currently since 2017,  I am also involved in the  sample registration system of India and verbal autopsy based  cause of death assignment under the Office of the Registrar General of India where we are developing a system for cause of death estimation for the country.

Dr. Muhammad Hassam Rehm, was born and raised in Pakistan. After completion of MBBS in 2007, he worked in Lahore (Pakistan) as Medical Officer and later on moved to Australia for my Post-graduate studies in Master in Health Management (MHM) from Public Health Department University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. In 2012, he started his career as a Lecturer in Community Medicine/ Public Health department of Sahiwal Medical College, Sahiwal. Since 2015, He is working as Assistant Professor of Community Medicine/ Public Health Department in the same institute.