Professor Fran Baum AO is a public health social scientist with a special interest in creating and advocating for healthy, equitable and sustainable societies. She is Director of Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, University of Adelaide.   From 2009-2021 she was a Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor and Director of the Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity at Flinders University. She received an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her public health service. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and of the Australian Health Promotion Association.  She is a past National President and Life Member of the Public Health Association of Australia. She is the immediate past co-Chair of the Global Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement – a global network of health activist (www. phmovement.org) and a member of the PHM Advisory Council. She is the author of The New Public Health (2016, Oxford University Press) and Governing for Health (2019 Oxford University Press) and co-editor of the Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health (2021). 

She has held multiple grants from the National Health & Medical Research Council and the Australia Research Council which are considering health inequities and public policy, social determinants of health and Health in All Policies.  She holds an NHMRC Investigator Fellowship (Leadership Level 3).  which provides $2.24m for a research program entitled “Restoring the Fair Go: which policies and practices are likely to reverse growing health inequities in Australia post-COVID-19”.

Professor Manolis Kogevinas is the Severo-Ochoa Scientific Director at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). He graduated at the Medical School of Athens, Greece and has PhD degrees from the University of Athens (1985) and the University of London (1989). He worked at IARC/WHO, Lyon, and was Professor of Epidemiology at the Medical School at Heraklion Crete and at the National School of Public Health in Athens. His research focuses on the evaluation of environmental and genetic factors in relation to cancer and other NCDs. He has published more than 700 indexed publications. He served in several WHO and other expert committees and was President of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE).  He is committed to public health and in the promotion of research and training in epidemiology and in translation of research findings into policy

John Milios is a Greek social scientist and Marxian economics scholar. He is Professor of Political Economy and the History of Economic Thought at the National Technical University of Athens. An author of several scholarly books, Milios is also director of the quarterly journal of economic theory Theseis.

selection of books  
Rethinking Imperialism. A Study of Capitalist Rule with D. Sotiropoulos, Pallgrave MacMillan 2009
The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System. The Prevalence of an Aleatory Encounter, Routledge 2018 

Roberto De Vogli is an Associate Professor in Global Health and Psychology of Power and Vice-Director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Padova. He is also Contract Professor in Social Epidemiology at the School of Medicine, University of Bologna. Previously, he worked as an Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan and Department of Public Health, University of California Davis. He also worked as Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London. His education includes a PhD and a Master in (Global) Public Health (minor in Public Policy) at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA.)

Prof. De Vogli worked internationally and consulted for UN agencies such as the World Health Organization and the World Bank as well as international non-governmental organizations in Guatemala, Mexico, Russia, Tanzania and Vietnam. He is a former member of the Globalization and Health Knowledge Network of the World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health, and UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College. He is a member of the Alliance for Sustainability and Prosperity (ASAP) addressing the need to reorient economies and societies around the aim of promoting sustainable wellbeing.

Prof. De Vogli is the author of numerous publications in the fields of socioeconomic determinants of health, globalization, and health and ecological economics. He has published in major peer-reviewed journals including Nature, The Lancet, British Medical Journal and Annals of Internal Medicine. Some of his manuscripts have widely been covered by mainstream media outlets including the BBC, The Guardian, The Independent, NBC and The Los Angeles Times. He is the author of a book entitled “Progress or Collapse: The Crises of Market Greed” (Routledge), a critical analysis of the multiple effects of global neoliberal policies on ecological sustainability, wellbeing, health, democracy and social equity. He is now working on a new book entitled “Forgotten Prevention: Lethal Errors and Vital Actions to Fight the Pandemic,” a topic covered in a recent Ted Talk by the same author.

Rinky-Dink Revolution: Moving Beyond Capitalism by Withholding Consent, Creative Constructions, and Creative Destructions. Daraja Press 2020

Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health. Monthly Review 2018

Medicine and Public Health at the end of Empire  Routledge 2011