Prof. Frikkie Booysen is a Professor of Health Economics at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and PPS Chair in Health Economics in the School of Economics and Finance. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. While his earlier work focused mainly on the economic impacts of HIV and AIDS, his current interest is in the broader field of health and development.

Prof. Jolene Skordis is Vice-Dean (International) of UCL's Faculty of Population Health Sciences, Deputy Director of UCL’s Institute for Global Health and Director of UCL’s Centre for Global Health Economics. Jolene is a Professor of Economics specialising in the economics of health and development. Her work has expanded evidence for cost-effectiveness, affordability and sustainability of complex public health interventions.  Together with colleagues and communities, she has developed new survey tools to measure poverty, capability and gender empowerment, health worker satisfaction and health worker motivation.

Prof. Paul Anand is a Research Associate in DSPI, a Professor in Economics at the Open University and Director of the Wellbeing and Human Development Project at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics. For nearly two decades he has worked on the operationalisation of the capability approach to economics, moral philosophy and international development. This has involved the development of new measures of disadvantage which are now used in clinical trials.

Prof. Lynn Ang is Pro-Director and Vice-Dean Research at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, and Professor of Early Childhood Education. Lynn’s expertise is early learning, early childhood education and international evidence-based research particularly in developing country contexts. Lynn is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences(FAcSS), a  distinguished group of social scientists globally and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA),in recognition of her sustained contributions and impact to education and academic practice in HigherEducation in the UK and internationally.

Prof. Elisabetta Aurino is a development economist working on child and adolescent development, focusing particularly on health, food security, and education in low-income settings. Elisabetta is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona. Prior to this appointment, she worked at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London.

Dr. Neha Batura is an Associate Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Health. Her research focuses on the economic evaluation of community-based health interventions; women's agency and capability; and the relationship between poverty, inequality and health in low- and middle-income countries in South and Southeast Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands.

Daniela Casale is a Professor in the School of Economics and Finance at the University of the Witwatersrand. Daniela is an applied microeconomist with over twenty years of experience in research and teaching. Her main areas of research include feminist/gender economics; labour; well-being; early child health and development; and education. She has published widely across a range of economics, development, and public health journals.

Winnie Chelagat is a health communication specialist and  co-founder of Maternal Aid for Mothers in Africa (MAMA). MAMA works with rural and marginalized communities inKenya, by equipping them with maternal and child health information and developing the skills of health workers working in these communities. MAMA takes a participatory approach by immersing itself in the community it works with to understand the challenges and develop context specific solutions with a focus in health.

Dr. Lu Gram is a leading researcher on women's and communities' empowerment in low- and middle-income countries and a specialist in collective action for health and gender equality. He is a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow and recipient of a Naughton Clifts-Matthew grant. Over his career in Global Health, Dr. Gram has lived and worked in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Ghana, Nigeria, DRC, Uganda, and Kenya.

Prof. Sally Grantham-McGregor has run many projects in low and middle income countries (LMIC) involving child nutrition and development and supervised many PhD/MSc students from LMICs. Prof Grantham-McGregor established a research group at the University of the West Indies which investigated the effects of malnutrition and deprivation on child development. The group designed low cost, feasible interventions and showed that a home visiting program in early childhood had sustained cognitive, educational, mental health and economic benefits up to 22 years of age.

Prof. Qing Gu is Director of the UCL Centre for Educational Leadership. Prof. Gu has directed many government and research council funded projects in the areas of teacher professional development, school improvement, and systemic reform and change. Some of her books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Spanish.

Dr. Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli is Associate Professor of Economics at University College London. His primary area of work is in analysis of inequalities in health and (access and utilisation of) health care and economic evaluation of health care interventions. He also has interests in injury prevention and trauma care. He is currently involved in economic analysis of trials and health policy projects in South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, South America, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, focusing on maternal and child health, child malnutrition, diabetes, TB, HIV and sexual reproductive health.

Gerard Abou Jaoude is a Research Fellow in Health Economics at University College London. His research includes efficiency analyses and priority setting, health financing, economic evaluation, child and adolescent global mental health and well-being measurement. He has worked on projects in over ten countries and his part-time PhD is applying Sen's capability approach with children and adults in Mahikeng, South Africa.

Dr. Catherine Jones is a Research Fellow at the Thomas Coram Research Unit. Her research focuses on family functioning in diverse family forms, with a particular focus on families formed using assisted reproduction and primary caregiver father families. She uses mixed methods to study parent and child outcomes.

Prof. Uma Kollamparambil a Professor in Economics and the current Head of the School of Economics and Finance (SEF), University of the Witwatersrand. She is as a Applied Micro-economist with research interest in Subject Wellbeing, Mental Health, Migration and Inequality in the South African context.

Rolando Leiva is a Ph.D. student in Economics since December 2019.  He holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Costa Rica, and an MSc in Econometrics and Statistics from the University of Paris 1-Sorbonne. Prior to joining UCL, he worked at the Paris School of Economics as part of the Health Economics Chair, being involved in projects on the evaluation of health-related programs.  His research interests are Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, Time Use Research and Policy Evaluation.

Prof. Ruth Motlalepule Mampane is Associate Professor and Head of Educational Psychology Department at the University of Pretoria. Ruth's scholarly contributions are centred on the influences of context and developmental processes on academic resilience, adolescent and family resilience against multiple adversities that South African families are exposed to. Her research highlight family resilience in resource-constrained context of South African townships and cultural influences to family resilience.

Dr. Motlalepule Nathane-Taulela is a Lecturer in the department of Social Work Faculty of Humanities – University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She has been in academia for fifteen years and is involved in several research collaborations on father absence, African perspective of fathering, gender based violence and femicide in South African and decolonizing social work curriculum. Her research focus is on knowledge systems of African families and how families are constituted and the multiple ways in which parenting unfolds in African families.

Dr. Adeola Oyenubi is a senior lecturer at the School of Economics and Finance. He teaches advanced mathematical Economics to postgraduate students. Adeola's research interest is in health economics. He is particularly interested in the use of novel approaches (e.g. causal machine learning) in providing a better and nuanced understanding of economic problems.

Tom Palmer is a Research Associate at the Centre for Global Health Economics. He joined UCL from the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in 2018. Tom is currently involved in economic analysis of trials in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on maternal and child health and early childhood development. His part-time PhD looks at the role parental beliefs play in early childhood development in rural Jharkhand and Odisha, India.

Dr. Laetitia Petersen is a social worker and lecturer; dedicated to serving the needs of the people of South Africa. She believes that our families’ health is important to foster healthy societies. Research interests include Social Development, Social Determinants of Health, Transformation, Wellbeing and the first 1000 days.

Dr. Laura Rossouw is a  senior research fellow at the School of Economics and Finance, Wits.H er research focuses on health behaviours and choices, specifically those related to maternal, sexual, and reproductive health, and non-communicable diseases. Her PhD research focused on developing and implementing interventions to promote maternal and infant health in South Africa, aimed at informing policy. More recently, her research has shifted to exploring the economic questions around Menstrual Hygiene Management and Health.

Dr. Milagros A Ruiz is a Senior Research Fellow in Epidemiology at University College London. She is a life course social epidemiologist, having obtained degrees in social and cultural anthropology followed by life course and social epidemiology. Milagros conducts cross-country research that aims to understand how social determinants across the life course influence health across different populations and cultural contexts, primarily in older adults.

Dr. Cristina Santos is a Lecturer in Economics at the Open University. Her research interests and publications span the areas of gender, intrahousehold inequalities, domestic violence, happiness, and the capabilities approach. She has designed, implemented, and evaluated programmes in education and health, and supported the design and analysis of surveys in several Sub-Saharan African countries. She is currently conducting research on mixed methods and on the capabilities approach.

Ibrah Seninde is a PhD candidate at Wits University, specializing in the economic evaluation of multi-sectoral public health programs. He currently holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests are mainly; economic evaluation in health, multi-sectoral public health programs, family health, health equity, health policy and analysis.

Dr. Daisy Singla is a clinical psychologist by training and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.  In July, she also became the first womenmind scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.  To date, Dr. Singla has led or contributed to large clinical trials focused on improving child growth, health and development, as well as reducing maternal depression worldwide.  She has collaborated with global mental health leaders and local NGOs in rural Uganda, Kenya, Bangladesh, Nepal, India and Pakistan.

Dr. Peter Waiswa is an Associate Professor of Health Policy Planning and Management at Makerere University College of Health Sciences and a visiting researcher at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. He is a member of Uganda’s National Immunisation Technical Advisory Group (NITAG), the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts (STAGE) for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition. He started and leads the Makerere University Maternal Newborn and Child Health Centre of Excellence and the INDEPTH Network Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Research Group.

Prof. Sharon Wolf is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how family and school environments affect early childhood development. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Psychology with a concentration in Quantitative Analysis from New York University.

Prof. Edwin Wouters is a professor in medical sociology at the Centre for Population, Family & Health of and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He has expertise in (1) the social aspects (especially family dynamics) in chronic care (HIV/TB/diabetes/hypertension), (2) health systems research and (3) mental health care.