Dr. Priyanka Naidu is a global surgery fellow at Operation Smile, a medical doctor, and an aspiring pediatric reconstructive surgeon from Cape Town, South Africa.

Dr. PV Narayanan works as a reconstructive surgeon at the Jubilee Mission Hospital in India, training under Dr. HS Adenalla, and with the Charles Pinto Centre. He treats all aspects of cleft lip and palate, including primary and secondary surgeries, with a special interest in cleft rhinoplasty. He qualified as a general surgeon from JIPMER Pondicherry in 1992. He then trained in the U.K. and received specialized training in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Royal Preston Hospital. His center is a partner with Smile Train and he serves on Smile Train’s Indian Medical Advisory Council.

Dr. Rasa Izadnegahdar leads the maternal, newborn, child nutrition and health portfolio within the gender equality division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He previously led the treatment initiative of the pneumonia, enteric and diarrheal diseases program strategy teams. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation in 2013, Rasa was based in Zambia where he oversaw the case enrolment component of a large pneumonia etiology study as well as several other projects assessing approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of common childhood illnesses. He has worked for several nongovernmental organizations focused on improving the delivery of care to children in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Cambodia. Rasa is a pediatrician and public health professional by training. He continues to engage with trainees at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Regina Rabinovich is the ExxonMobil malaria scholar in residence at Harvard University, director of the Malaria Elimination Initiative at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, and chair of the Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance. She has over 25 years of experience in global health with a focus on product development, introduction, and scale-up of tools and strategies.

Dr. Renzo Guinto is an associate professor and lead of the planetary health initiative at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute in Singapore. An adviser to the Philippine Climate Change Commission and the World Health Organization, he works on various climate-health issues, such as climate impacts on mental health and climate-induced migration, among others. He obtained his Doctor of Public Health from Harvard University.

Dr. Riya Sawhney is a Ph.D. student at McGill University in Canada, currently undertaking the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change (PGSSC) at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Rohini Haar is an emergency medicine physician and researcher in Berkeley, California studying the impacts of attacks on health in conflict.

Rohit Ramchandani is founder and principal at Antara Global Health Advisors, a Canadian consultancy that provides technical global health expertise and evidence-based public health and management advise to organizations around the world. He is public health advisor and principal investigator at ColaLife, a globally renowned initiative focused on improving access to essential medicines by leveraging the Coca-Cola supply chain.

Dr. Roopa Dhatt is the executive director of Women in Global Health, the founder of Heroines of Health and one of the coordinators of the 100-organization-strong Alliance for Gender Equality and Universal Health Coverage.

Dr. Rudaba Khondker is the country director of the Global Alliance of Improved Nutrition in Bangladesh, where she works with a variety of public and private sector partners to improve nutrition outcomes for the most vulnerable people. She is a medical doctor with expertise in child health and with 15 years’ experience of working in leadership and advisory roles in humanitarian, post-conflict, and development contexts in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.