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Zeliha Öcek

Zeliha Öcek is a professor of public health. She is currently affiliated with Ludwig Maximilian University, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology (IBE), Chair for Public Health and Health Services Research, where she leads and mentors multidisciplinary research and training programs on migration health. Her research focuses on health equity and the ways migration, social marginalisation, and intersecting social positions shape health and access to care. She also conducts research on primary health care, health systems, social determinants of health, disadvantaged women's health, and dental public health.

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Irem Sevik

She graduated from the Public Health residency program at Ege University and is currently working as a public health specialist at the District Health Directorate in Başkale, Van, Türkiye. She is also pursuing a master’s degree in Women’s Studies at Ege University. She completed a postgraduate course in Primary Health Care, further enhancing her expertise in community-based health approaches. As a feminist public health enthusiast, her work focuses on the intersections of health, migration, gender, and the social determinants of health. Her research interests include health inequalities, access to healthcare, interprofessional collaboration in healthcare, and curriculum development in medical education.https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Irem-Sevik-4

Mariska Slekovec

She is a final year student in the Public Health doctoral program at the University of Ljubljana. She is particularly interested in how social, stuctural, cultural and personal contexts shape wellbeing within migration contexts, particularly in the context of underrepresented migration pathways. She also has a strong interest in social determinants of health, and the health of vulnerable groups, particularly the homeless. Outside of academia, she collaborates with civil society organizations on initiatives aimed at improving the wellbeing of migrants in Slovenia.Email: m.slekovec@outlook.comhttps://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/sl/researcher/55168

Kolahta Asres

IoabKolahta is a multilingual and multicultural health researcher with a focus on global health and evidence-based public health. She has an MSc in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from University of London (LSE & LSHTM), along with a BSc in International Health Sciences from Fulda University. She has professional experience in migrants' and refugees' health across various healthcare settings, and working as a translator with Eritrean migrants and refugees. Her research interests include implementation science, health systems strengthening and bridging research, policy, and practice. Her key areas of expertise comprise health policy analysis, systematic literature review, and participatory health research.Kolahta.ioab@ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de linkedin.com/in/kolahtaioab

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Frode Eick

He is an associate professor at Lovisenberg Diaconal University College in Oslo, Norway, where he trains nurse practitioners at the master's level. He has long experience providing services to undocumented migrants and other marginalized populations. His main focus is reproductive health and migrants' access to health care related to legal status, mobility, and structural vulnerability.https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frode-Eick-2

Pia Svensson

Pia holds a PhD in Public Health from the Faculty of Medicine at Lund University (LU) and is an Associate Researcher at the Department of Social Medicine and Global Health. Her research focuses on migration, health, and rights, with particular emphasis on sexual and reproductive health, health literacy, health and risk communication, healthcare access, capacity building, and community engagement. She has been involved in several scientific projects, cross‑sector collaborations, and initiatives addressing migration health. Pia also teaches in the Master’s Programme in Public Health at LU. In addition, she is part of the coordination team for Pandemics and Alertness, a thematic collaboration platform at Lund University aimed at strengthening knowledge development and preparedness for future pandemics.”

F. Deniz Mardin

Deniz a medical doctor and completed her PhD at the Department of Public Health, Istanbul University in February 2019. She has diverse work experiences in the healthcare sector in the areas of primary health care, reproductive health, child and maternal health. She also worked on projects such as psychosocial support for migrants with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and medical support for torture survivors with the Turkish Human Rights Foundation. She then worked as instructor in the Department of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine of Koç University (Turkey) and completed a research at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the Nova University of Lisbon (Portugal) as part her PhD. Her research topics are migration, the right to health and women's health.

Melissa Nelson

Melissa is a practicing medical doctor graduated from University College London (UCL). She completed a BSc in medical sciences with anatomy, cell and developmental biology as well as a Master’s in Public health from UCL. Her research interests include: structural determinants of health (including policy), migration and inclusion health, non-communicable diseases, health behaviours and medical anthropology. She has a passion for state centralised responsibility of health protection and minimising health inequalities.

Maura Marcucci

Maura is an associate professor at the Clinical Epidemiology and Research Centre (CERC), Humanitas University & IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy, with a Part-Time appointment at the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) at McMaster University. She is an active Scientist in the Perioperative and Digital Health Research Groups at the Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, ON, and Member of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging. She is a physician (general internal medicine) with strong background and interest in the broad spectrum of health research methods. Her clinical research program focuses on perioperative care and how to predict and prevent major complications of surgery in older and medically complex patients. She has recently started her program in global health and social medicine, with an interest in migration-related health, capacity building, participatory approaches, and global development. She is an Affiliate Member of the Mary Heersink School of Global Health and Social Medicine at McMaster University.

Dilek Aslan

Dilek is a full-time professor of public health (PH) at Hacettepe University (HU), Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health (Ankara, Türkiye). She completed her MSc training at the HU Health Sciences Institute-Nutrition and Food Sciences Program in 2004.Her academic studies in PH are global health, community nutrition, ageing, and tobacco control. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, she has been involved in infodemic management issues. She is currently a member of the Technical Advisory Group on Risk Communication, Community Engagement, and Infodemic Management (RCCE-IM) in the WHO European Region (2025-2027). diaslan.dr@gmail.comhttp://linkedin.com/in/dilek-aslan-a2488547

Herfina Nababan

Herfina Nababan is a postdoctoral researcher based at the Department of Global Health, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen. Her primary interest is in strengthening the health system to achieve health equity, particularly among vulnerable populations, including those with migration histories and racialized populations. She is also interested in digital health for health system strengthening and healthy ageing. Prior to her current position, she worked in the area of Universal Health Coverage with WHO Country Office for Indonesia. She also worked with International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b) in different research projects related to health systems and policy research, as well as maternal, newborn and child health.Email: hnababan@uni-bremen.de

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Sara Yago González

Sara is a Family and Community Medicine physician, currently working as a predoctoral researcher at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain). She holds an MSc in Global Health Policy and an MSc in Tropical Medicine. She has several years of experience in clinical practice across diverse communities and settings. Her main interests include health equity, health systems (particularly primary healthcare), social determinants of health, and the intersection of migration and health.Email: sara.yago@uah.es

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Miguel Correia

Miguel has a degree in Education Sciences and a Master's in the domain of Health Citizenship from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto. Since 2019, I've been part of different evaluation committees for courses in higher education as an external evaluator for the Portuguese Higher Education Agency for Assessment and Accreditation. In 2022, I created a nationwide group in partnership with Youth for Human Rights International regarding the advocacy of human rights. I've been publishing and researching academic and professional trajectories, health citizenship, and global health. Currently, I was awarded a PhD scholarship by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology to research the relationship between Global Health, Human Migrations and DecolonialityLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miguel-correia-fpceup/ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miguel-Correia-5CV: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/4318-BD06-89E8email: miguel.correia.fpceup@gmail.com.

Joana Topa

Joana is currently a lecturer at the University of Maia, where she collaborates on the undergraduate and master's degrees in Criminology and Psychology. She is an integrated member at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (CIEG) at the University of Lisbon and an associate researcher at the Centre for Psychology at the University of Porto. Her main research interests are migration issues, gender-based violence, psychological interventions for migrants, maternal and mental health, diversity and discrimination through a feminist and decolonial lens. She is currently coordinating the MIGAP project- MigrAction in Porto and is a member of the Portuguese team of the Uni4Equity project, funded by the European Commission.Email: jtopa@umaia.pthttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0663-973X

Jorge Gato

He is an invited assistant professor and a researcher in the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences at Porto University. The focus of his research is at the nexus of clinical and social psychology, with a particular emphasis on the repercussions of discrimination on the well-being of socially marginalized groups, such as LGBTQIA+ individuals and migrants. His interests also include the development and evaluation of psychological interventions for minoritized populations. In addition to his research activities, he is a licensed psychotherapist and family therapist. He is currently serving as the President of the European Society on Family Relations. Email: jorgegato@fpce.up.pthttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6402-3680

Anna-Lena Friedl (she/her)

Anna-Lena is a social and cultural anthropologist and works as a research associate at the Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research (Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.Her research focuses on promoting intersectional health equity through participatory approaches, especially in the field of urban health.She is experienced in audiovisual and multimodal research methods.Email: anna-lena.friedl@ibe.med..uni-muenchen.dehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-lena-friedl/

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Sonja Novak-Zezula

Sonja is ‎Managing Director of the Center for Health and Migration (www.c-hm.com) and Executive Partner of ‎Trummer & Novak-Zezula OG. Her research focus is on health and migration with a special focus on ‎vulnerable migrant groups and quality development of health services and public health systems. She has ‎a long-standing experience as project manager responsible for operative realization and implementation ‎in transnational and national projects. Sonja is coordinating the “Migration Governance and Health” project and coordinates the Online Course “Health and Migration”, both aiming at contributing to capacity building and knowledge generation in the East and Horn of Africa region. Sonja is experienced in developing and facilitating trainings on topics around culturalcompetence, intercultural health care, and diversity management. She lectures at various universities for applied ‎studies as well as in vocational training organisations and also works as mediator in organizational ‎settings and with intercultural teams.sonja.novak-zezula@c-hm.com

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Itzel Eguiluz

Itzel is a researcher and educator specializing at the intersection of migration, global health, and human rights. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal on Migration and Health and contributes to international research design via the CLACSO Working Group on South-South Migrations and the GAMyS technical group. Based in Spain, she is a faculty member at Nebrija University and CEA CAPA.Eguiluz’s extensive professional background includes high-level consultancies with UNHCR and Partners in Health, alongside dedicated advocacy for gender equity through Women in Global Health (Mexico and Spain). Academically, she holds a PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UNAM (2020–2022). Reflecting her broader expertise in human development, she also served as the 2025 Conference Co-Chair for the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA). Her current research focuses on Migration, Global Health and Emerging Adulthood.

Ivana Nikolić

Ivana is a PhD candidate in International Law at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law in Serbia. Her PhD research is on the Right to Family Reunification in the EU and Serbia. Her main research interests are international migration law, gender equality and feminist analysis of international law. She has researched and written on reproductive rights, gender equality in EU labour law and environmental law. She has a Bachelor's in Law and a Master's in European Integration from the same University. Contact - ivananikolicPF@protonmail.com

Ozlem Koseoglu Ornek

Özlem is a public health nurse and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Witten/Herdecke in Germany. Her research focuses on HIV, occupational health such as precarious employment, mental health, migrants, women and child workers. Other research interests include older people's health, the fundamentals of care and school health. She has a particular interest in mixed methods research.

Mandy Geise

Mandy is an anthropologist of health and the environment. She has been working on various topics related to global and environmental health in Latin America and Europe, including infectious diseases and AMR, humanitarian aid, migration, diabetes, food, pollution and climate change. In her work Mandy has focused on participatory and co-creation methods and the use of knowledge and tools by the people affected, especially those in vulnerable positions. She has been involved in several multidisciplinary projects to promote social science methods in health policy and practice, including for UNICEF and ECDC. Currently, she works as a postdoc at the International Institute of Social Studies on community initiatives to assess and address pollution and other factors of environmental degradation.https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandy-geise/

Silvia Wojczewski

She is a Social anthropologist interested in the topics migration, gender and primary health-care as well as international migration of health and care workers, with a special focus on qualitative and participatory research methods and a feminist intersectional framework. Currently she works as Postdoc at the Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Silvia-Wojczewski

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Azher Hameed Qamar

He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Social Work, Lund University in Sweden. Currently, he is a researcher in the COFUND Postdoctoral Fellowship Program “Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship” at Münster University in Germany. His research focuses on social resilience, migration, and diasporic citizenship, employing a qualitative participatory approach that explores the lived experiences of migrants, as well as the perspectives of social workers and others engaged with migrant communities. His research interests include social resilience, migrant lived experiences, diasporic citizenship, and sustainable well-being—encompassing both well-being and the evolving concept of "well-becoming." As a multi-method qualitative researcher and methodologist, he utilizes a variety of approaches to gain deeper insights into complex issues within migration studies.https://www.uni-muenster.de/COFUND-MDC/fellows_guests/dr_azher_hameed_qamar/index.html

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Ana San-Bento

She is a physician, Specialist in Public Health, currently working in the Local Health Unit of Leiria Region (Portugal) as Health Authority and Deputee Director of Primary Health Care Services of this region. Migration is a major interest for her, as it encloses specific challenges for health access (individually) and public health risks (collectively), that require a multidisciplinary and whole-of-society approach. Furthermore, Ana has vast experience and training in epidemiological surveillance, health planning and emergency preparedness, including a multidisciplinary Master Degree in Infectious Diseases and One Health (IDOH) set in Tours, Barcelona and Edinburgh. https://pt.linkedin.com/in/anasanbento

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Sylvia Agbih

Sylvia (Dr. phil.) is a research fellow at the Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society (IEHHS) at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg. Her research focuses on ethical issues in medicine and healthcare, with a particular emphasis on migration and health, the structural determinants of health inequalities, vulnerability and racism. She completed her doctoral thesis on ‘Asylum as a form of life and a place to live? A critical-ethical examination of the situation and health in asylum’ at Bielefeld University. Methodologically, she combines philosophical-ethical analysis with social science perspectives. Sylvia loves teaching and researching with creative and participative methods. She has completed a training in scenic role play for nursing and health care profession education.

Ursula Trummer

Ursula, Sociologist, Political Scientist, and Public Health expert, is Head of the Center for Health and Migration, Vienna. Her work focuses on health and migration, socio-economic determinants, life-course health, and vulnerable health care settings. She has led interdisciplinary projects on health, migration, and social inclusion at local and global levels, with a methodological emphasis on participatory knowledge production and implementation. She has contributed to building a community of health and migration experts across the East and Horn of Africa Region and Global South–North cooperation. She is member of the Lancet Commission on climate change and migration. She acts as independent expert to the European Commission (DG SANTE, DG Research), consultant to IOM and WHO, and member of the European Science Foundation’s College of Expert Reviewers. She is serving on the steering committee of the Section on Migrant and Minority Health in European Public Health Association, Co-Chair of the Global Migration Health and Development Research Initiative, and Co-author of the Amsterdam Declaration on Migrant-Friendly Hospitals.Publications at Publications - c-hm

Alexandra Oliveira

Alexandra Oliveira is an associate professor and member of the research Center for Psychology at the University of Porto. Her research interests are gender, sexuality, public health, non-normativity, and justice, and she has been particularly dedicated to studying sex work. She completed her PhD in Psychology in 2008 at the University of Porto with ethnographic research on street sex work. She has been conducting investigations on the sex industry and has published three books, several articles, and book chapters. She won three honourable mentions in three awards for her academic work. She is also interested in intervention focusing on health education and harm reduction for/with sex workers.Email: oliveira@fpce.up.pthttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8453-1719

Simon Fern

Simon is a PhD candidate at Rice University working on the health, wellness, and medical experiences of immigrants in Spain. His work has focused on experiences with sexual and reproductive healthcare, migrant motherhood, and processes of bordering and violence in the medical encounter. He is interested in unpacking the categories, histories, technologies, and epistemic practices which bound understandings of migrant health. He previously completed an MA in Migration Studies at Copenhagen University.

M. Murat Civaner

He is a professor of medical ethics and history of medicine at Uludag University School of Medicine in Bursa, Turkey. He has a PhD degree in ‘Medical Ethics and History of Medicine’ (Ankara University, 2006), and a PhD degree in “Public Health’ (Dokuz Eylul University, 1999). He is teaching medical ethics and the history of medicine to medical students, master’s and PhD students, and research ethics to future researchers. His areas of interest include: Big data, artificial intelligence, and medicine; Healthcare workers' relationships with the medical industry; Effects of healthcare policies on professional values and right to health; Inequities in health, right to health and right to healthcare.Email: mcivaner@gmail.comhttps://deontoloji.uludag.edu.tr/kadro/civaner/civaner_eng.htmhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/M-Murat-Civaner?ev=hdr_xprf

Reham Belidi

Reham is public health researcher specializing in clinical epidemiology, with a focus on predictive modeling, cancer epidemiology, data-driven disease prevention. She holds a Master's in Medical Sciences (Public Health) from Lund University, where her thesis explored interactions between BMI, reproductive factors, and postmenopausal breast cancer risk.Her research spans international collaborations on migrant health and mixed-methods projects with the Swedish Red Cross, addressing social determinants of health. She works at the intersection of research and practice in digital health and scientific communication, translating complex evidence into actionable strategies.Reham is committed to advancing nuanced global health perspectives, including critical research on violence against women in the Middle East. Her overarching goal is to contribute to precision public health through equity-oriented research.ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Reham-Belidi

Uršula Lipovec Čebron

Uršula is a professor at the University of Ljubljana, where she lectures courses of anthropology of migration and medical anthropology. In her scientific work she deals with health aspects of migration, focusing on the different barriers migrants face in accessing healthcare. She is an author, editor or co-editor of many scientific publications on migrants’ health and intercultural communication. She was a leader and researcher in different national and international scientific projects (e.g. WHOLE, WebWise, SH-CAPAC, ERIM, Sonar-Cities), including Sonar-Global project where she collaborated in an extensive COVID-19 vulnerability assessment. Her latest research explores "border deaths" and the agency of the deceased on the Balkan route, contributing to decolonial and critical epistemologies within the field.Ursula.CebronLipovec@ff.uni-lj.sihttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ursula-Lipovec-Cebron-2?ev=hdr_xprf

Sevgi Arabulan

Sevgi is dentist who obtained her PhD in Pedodontics from Ege University in Türkiye. Her doctoral research focused on access to oral healthcare for children during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is currently working as a researcher at the Department of Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology at the University Hospital Regensburg, Germany. Prior to her current position, she worked as a pediatric dentist in various healthcare settings and was also involved in voluntary dental care for children with special needs. She is currently contributing to research in dental traumatology as a member of 3DenTect project, funded by EU.E-mail: sevgi.arabulan@ukr.deResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailablehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sevgi-Arabulan?ev=hdr_xprf

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Benedetta Lana

Benedetta is a social science researcher and Research Engineer based at Institut Pasteur Paris in the Anthropology and Ecology of Disease Emergence Unit. She has a background in Human Rights, Humanitarian Action and Migration and her research focuses on different aspects of access to health for vulnerable publics, especially people on the move. She is currently a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Sociology at Université Paris Cité, with a research project on health vulnerabilities for migrant communities in transit on the Balkan Route. She has additionally worked on Planetary Health, Covid-19 and vulnerability, infodemics and vaccine hesitancy.

Ummahan Yücel

Ummahan completed her undergraduate, postgraduate and doctorate education in the field of midwifery at Ege University in Türkiye. She also completed her second doctorate education in the Faculty of Medicine, Public Health Doctorate programme. Her research interests focus on women's health, reproductive health, the reproductive health of migrant women and primary health care. She also works specifically on the history of midwifery. She is currently working as an Associate Professor at Ege University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Midwifery.Contact details: ummahan.yucel@ege.edu.tr

Leonie Bernhard

Leonie Bernhard is an occupational therapist and a Masterstudent on the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. She has worked in patient care and public health related research. Her research focus lies mainly in community health promotion, planetary health and public health policy with special interest in health and environmental equity as well as qualitative and participatory research.

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Roxanne Keynejad

Roxanne is a Clinical Academic Psychiatrist who researches the social determinants of women’s mental health in global context, with a focus on gender-based violence. She has research and educational collaborations with colleagues in Ethiopia, Somaliland and the European region, and is interested in decolonial global mental health research, changing health needs shaped by migration, and complex interventions. You can find recordings of her webinars on YouTube. You can find her on LinkedIn or at King’s College London.”

Yadeta Eshetu

GudinaEshetu is a PhD candidate in Public Health (Experimental and Preventive Medicine) at the Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, University of Szeged, Hungary. His doctoral research focuses on Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) from a One Health perspective, integrating human, animal, and environmental health approaches. He holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Tsinghua University Bejing, China and a Master of Veterinary Public Health (MVPH) from Haramaya University Hramaya, Ethiopia. He serves as an Assistant Professor at Gambella University and has attended a Migrant Health Research Project Course in Munich. His research interest focuses on One Health to infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance within the broader framework of Planetary Health, epidemiology, and health systems strengthening.Email: gudina.eshetu@yahoo.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/eshetu-gudina-yadeta-a886a7122/

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Hiwot Abera

Hiwot is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Hawassa University, Ethiopia. In 2022, she received her PhD in Public Health from a joint program of the University of Bergen, Norway, and Hawassa University, Ethiopia. In her PhD, she studied demography and health service utilisation in rural primary healthcare settings. She has worked on maternal and reproductive health issues and is currently working on non-communicable disease projects. Addresslinkedin.com/in/hiwot-abera-areru-310204141

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Olalekan Taoreed

KazeemOlalekan is a Clinical Psychologist and researcher at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria with over a decade progressive professional experience in research and practice. His research interest include digital mental health intervention, violence prevention, adverse childhood experience, HIV/AIDS, Substance use, suicide behavior, depression, anxiety, psychosis and post traumatic stress disorder. He is an Executive Director of Dendrite Psychological and Behavior Laboratory. He is a member of several professional organizations including European Public Health Association (EUPHA), Nigerian Association of Clinical Psychology (NACP), American Psychology Association and Society for AIDS in Africa, the panel of experts, Violence and Injury Prevention, World Health Organization (WHO). email: taolek2003@yahoo.com

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Jeyasree Rameshanand

is a public health student currently doing her Masters at the Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich in Germany. She has worked in different areas with regards to public health and briefly as a volunteering translator during the Pandemic at the Jugendamt in Hamburg for translating minors with migratory background. Her core areas include infectious epidemiology, geospatial analysis and climate change research on health. She gained experience and is expanding her research interests in women's health, gender-based violence, intimate partner violence and migrant studies with a focus on effects of climate change on health.

Sewhareg Belay

Sewhareg is an Assistant Professor of Public Health at Hawassa University. She earned her PhD in Public Health from the joint program of University of Bergen, Norway and Hawassa University, where her dissertation focused on intimate partner violence (IPV) and depression among pregnant women in Ethiopia. With over 10 years of experience in public health research with a special focus on reproductive health, demography and mental health has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics such as IPV, depression, and global health.Email: betigsew@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9465-8940

Ilknur Dolu

İlknur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Nursing at Bartın University. She completed her PhD in Public Health Nursing at Istanbul University- Cerrahpasa in 2017. Her research focuses on transitional care for older adults, circadian rhythms, and digital health technologies for immigrant populations. She recently completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the UK focused on culturally safe transitional care for immigrant older adults.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0958-8395

Marija Brujić

Marija finished her MSc studies in visual anthropology (University of Oxford) and received her PhD in ethnology and anthropology (University of Belgrade). In addition to this, she was also a visiting scholar at the University of Graz and at the University of Amsterdam. Currently, she teaches Anthropology of Migration and Anthropology of Material Culture at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy. Marija has also conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the Serbian diaspora in Austria, Slovenia, and the Netherlands. Currently, she is interested in socio-cultural understanding of vaccination and is doing research among Serbian migrants on childhood and Covid-19 vaccination. marija.brujic@f.bg.ac.rshttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8004-6399https://rs.linkedin.com/in/marija-brujić-8353561a3

Ilana Chertok

She is a Professor at Ohio University with a research focus in maternal-infant health and women's health, particularly among immigrant populations.

Maria Bakola

She is a General Practitioner/Family Physician currently working in Greece. She was trained in the art of the pre-hospital management of patients at the EMS base in Thessaloniki-Greece, as well as the management of patients in the emergency medicine setting in NY- USA. Her research interests include empirical assessment of the literature. Also she is interested in e-health, mobile health, migration, as well as international collaboration for the improvement of public health and global health through the implementation of new initiatives.

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