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.

Dr. Raul D. Santos is a researcher at the Academic Research Organization of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein. He is also an associate professor and director of the lipid clinic at the Heart Institute at the University of São Paulo Medical School Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. He is the editor-in-chief of Global Heart and a past president of the International Atherosclerosis Society.

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.

Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana is Rwanda's minister of health since November 2022. He previously served as director general of the University Teaching Hospital of Butare and the Rwanda Biomedical Centre. He holds extensive experience in infectious disease and noncommunicable diseases programs design, strategic planning and implementation science. Sabin holds a medical degree and a master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Rwanda, and a doctorate in Epidemiology from the University of Basel, Switzerland.