Members

Currently serving as Professor and Head, Department of Community Medicine, Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore., Dr. Sudhir is also a community health physician having served at integrated positive preventive care clinic for PLHIV patients in Davangere as well as FSW clinic, MSM clinic and Orphan and vulnerable child care clinic. He is also currently involved in providing primary and secondary health care services at Ammunje outreach clinic, Jeppu Urban health centre and Bajpe rural hospital of Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore, India. He is also the National trainer on vaccine and cold chain (T-VaCC) course and National effective vaccine management (EVM) assessor and facilitator for National cold chain vaccine management resource centre, National institute of health and family welfare, Government of India with EVM assessment experience in more than 10 states of India. He is the Member Secretary of Association of public health technologists and Senior instructor for the Emergency care life support (ECLS) course of JeevRaksha, RGUHS involved in training doctors in handling medical emergencies in primary health care. He was actively involved in COVID-19 control activities in Dakshina Kannada district, being a member of COVID-19 surveillance, Rapid response team, Vaccine AEFI and Death audit committee. He also has special interests in research ethics and occupational health.

Dr. Han is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Texas A&M School of Public Health. His research interests include Spatial Epidemiology; GIS & Spatial Analysis Methods; Environmental Health/Exposure Science; Environmental Justice & Health Disparities Healthcare Access; and Population Studies/Spatial Demography.

Dr. Hariharan is a Professor of Economics, Finance, and Quantitative Analysis at Kennesaw State University, and his research interests include leadership in education, innovative program development, strategic partnerships, research and teaching expertise in individual behavior toward health and personal finance, and international business and economics of technology.

Dr. Huang is an assistant professor at the University of Memphis. Xiaolei obtained his PhD in Information Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder. During his PhD, he was a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University. He did several internships in both academia and industry. He obtained his MSc and BEng degrees from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Central China Normal University, respectively.

His research is in natural language processing and machine learning, with applications in public health. For example, he has developed surveillance models to understand vaccination and mental health issues via social media and built diagnosis systems for alcoholism. His current research interest is in domain adaptation, user modeling, and cross-lingual transfer learning.

Florence Hudson is executive director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University, and founder and CEO of FDHint, LLC, a global advanced technology and diversity and inclusion consulting firm. She is a former IBM vice president and chief technology officer, Internet2 senior vice president and chief innovation officer, special advisor for the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, and aerospace engineer at Grumman and NASA. She chairs the global IEEE/UL P2933 working group on Clinical IoT Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS – Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security, and has published books on TIPPSS. She serves on boards for Princeton University, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Stony Brook University, Blockchain in Healthcare Today, and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. She has a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, and executive business education from Harvard and Columbia universities.