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Dr. Ryan Howell is an Associate Professor at San Francisco State University. His research interests include the psychology of goals and how people pursue and achieve them. Dr. Howell received his PhD in Social/Personality Psychology from the University of California, Riverside in 2005.

Dr. Arpin's research focuses on the application of quantitative methods to the study of social psychological processes, including social interactions, social emotions, and health behavioral outcomes. She has conducted extensive research and published in the areas of loneliness and social determinants of health, using experimental and survey methodology. Dr. Arpin also has experience as a methodology and data analytic consultant on several large grant-funded projects, including DOD-funded intervention studies targeting well-being and social resilience among service-members.

Senior academic and policy advisor. Public and private sector consultant with remit ranging from health ministries and public organizations to insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Cross-institutional leader in research and admin roles focusing on excellence, efficiency, innovation, and community. Strategic and proactive thinker with clear vision and plan, approaching challenges with creativity and adaptability. Highly motivational manager with strong communication skills and impeccable project management track-record.   Expert scholar and educator in health economics, discrete choice experiments, research study design and observational epidemiology. Long experience setting-up and coordinating multi-disciplinary teams into delivering high quality research.

Ryan’s primary research focuses on the ethical issues surrounding artificial intelligence and digital technology. He has published numerous papers on the topic, and has presented his work at various international conferences. He is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE). Mark was previously a researcher at KTH University (Stockholm), the University of Twente (the Netherlands), and the National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland). While at Twente, he worked on an interdisciplinary  project (SHERPA), involving 11 partners from 6 European countries. This project was a European Union Horizon 2020 project (2018-2021, budget €3 million) and focused on the ethical, social and human rights implications of smart information systems (data analytics and artificial intelligence) within a European context. He has published on topics, such as the ethics of smart cities, self-driving vehicles, agricultural data analytics, social robotics, and AI. In his previous research, he has also published a 2016 monograph: Human Values, Environmental Ethics and Sustainability.

Ariel D. Kalil is the Daniel Levin Professor of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. She is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research associate at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She is also a faculty member in the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and in the College at the University of Chicago. Kalil's research lies at the intersection of child development and public policy. She is particularly interested in the effect of early childhood interventions on health and economic outcomes in adulthood. Her work has been published in leading social science journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Political Economy. Kalil earned her PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor in 1996, her MA in Social Psychology from the University of Colorado System in 1993, and her BA in Psychology and French Literature from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1991.

Eve Ekman, PhD, MSW, is a postdoctoral fellow in Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Having obtained her master’s in Social Work from UC Berkeley in 2006, she later went on to earn a doctorate in Social Welfare, Public Health and Psychology at UC Berkeley in 2014. Eve has a broad range of experience in the health and wellness field, including her current position as the Well Being Lead Health Team at Apple. Eve is also an instructor of Contemplative Science Curriculum at UC Berkeley, where she teaches and promotes the intersection of science and contemplative practices.

Norman Farb, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where he directs the Regulatory and Affective Dynamics laboratory (www.radlab.zone). He studies the psychology of well-being, focusing on mental habits, such as how we think about ourselves and interpret our emotions. He is particularly interested in why people differ in their resilience to stress, depression, and anxiety. Prof. Farb's work currently explores online training to support wellbeing, as well as neuroimaging to understand how emotional reactions predict mental health over the lifespan.

Luke Connelly is Professor of Health Economics at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health. He also holds a Professorial appointment (part-time) at The University of Bologna, to which he was appointed in 2017 via the Italian “Direct Call” ([link](https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/luke.connelly/en)) process. In 2019 he was appointed as Honorary Professor at The University of Sydney. His main interests are in health economics and insurance economics and the effects of institutions (including legal constructs) on incentives and behaviour. He has also worked in other fields of applied microeconomics, including education economics and transport economics. His publications include papers in *Review of Income and Wealth*, *Health Economics*, *Journal of Health Economics*, *Journal of Risk and Insurance*, *Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance*, *Accident Analysis and Prevention*, *Journal of Law and Medicine*, *Journal of Clinical Epidemiology*, *European Journal of Health Economics*, *International Journal of Health Economics and Finance*, *Social Science and Medicine*, *Economic Papers*, *Economic Analysis and Policy*, *Journal of Transport Economics and Policy*, *Labour Economics*, *Economics and Human Biology* as well as in a range of clinical journals, including *Lancet*. Luke has served on a number of public committees including the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC), which advises the Australian Minister for Health on the safety, efficacy, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of new and extant listings on Australia's Medicare Benefits Schedule. He has extensive service on other public committees and taskforces as well as extensive teaching and consulting engagements with industry. Over his career he has been a chief investigator on research grants and contracts totalling more than $67m. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of European Journal of Health Economics and the International Journal on Environmental Research and Public Health. He is a member of the International Health Economics Association's Arrow Awards Committee, which awards an annual prize in honour of Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow for the best paper in the field. He is currently Guest Editor (with Christophe Courbage) on a Special Issue of the Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance on Insurance and Emerging Health Risks. His current research interests include health service innovations to improve the health of people with chronic kidney disease(CKD). Ongoing interests include the economics of disability and insurance, compensable injury compensation schemes, and the determinants of health. Luke enjoys and has considerable experience teaching economics and health economics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. In 2014 he was awarded the School of Economics Distinguished Teaching Award for his teaching on UQ's Master of Health Economics Program. In July 2016 and July 2019 he also taught summer schools in Health Economics and the Economics of Insurance at The University of Lucerne, Switzerland. Over the past 10 years he has been a chief investigator on grants totalling more than $70m.

Dr. Antoniou is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Lancashire. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cyprus in 2010. She also has a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from Wartburg College in 2002. Her research interests include human-computer interaction, computational creativity

Daniel Puhlman is an Assistant Professor of Family Studies at The University of Maine. He received his PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy in Child Development and Family Relations from Florida State University in 2013. Dr. Puhlman's research interests include parental divorce/separation, father-child relationships, and child and adolescent development.

Kathleen Gerson is a leading figure in the field of family sociology and social change. She has been a Collegiate Professor at New York University since 2007. She is the author of over a dozen books, most recently The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation Is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America (2010), which has been translated into eight languages. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation.

Dr. Kim's program of research aims to identify, understand, and intervene upon the dimensions of psychological well-being (sense of purpose in life, optimism) that reduce the risk of age-related conditions. <br> Around this topic, he has given invited lectures at Universities (Harvard, U. of Penn, MIT, Columbia U.), corporations (UnitedHealth Care, IDEO, AARP, Samsung), and he’s also been invited to speak at and join the working groups of national- and international-think-tanks (United Nations, OECD, Aspen Ideas Festival, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, The Task Force for Global Health, World Government Summit, National Academy of Sciences). He’s also been recognized as one of Forbe’s 30 Under 30 in Healthcare, recipient of the American Journal of Epidemiology's Paper of the Year Award, the American Psychological Association Division 20 (Aging) Early Career Achievement Award, and an Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star. His insights have been featured in the: NY Times, Atlantic, BBC News, NPR, Washington Post. His research has been cited by policy statements/guidelines formulated by the: United Nations, National Academy of Sciences, American Heart Association, the U.S. Surgeon General. Population aging is one of the most important social trends of the 21st century. In both Canada and the U.S., the # of adults aged ≥65 is projected to increase by 45%-55% in the next 15 years. As societies grapple with the rising tide of chronic conditions, healthcare costs, and long-term care costs, it is imperative to develop a science that informs a more comprehensive approach to healthy aging. Dr. Kim’s overarching goal is to substantially help improve the psychological well-being and physical health of our rapidly growing population. In pursuit of this goal, his program of research revolves around 4 interwoven questions. He studies: 1) Several dimensions of psychological well-being (sense of purpose in life, optimism) and how they relate to health outcomes. 2) The behavioral, biological, and neural mechanisms underlying the association between psychological well-being and health. 3) How an individual’s psychological well-being interacts with the surrounding environment to influence behavioral and physical health outcomes; for example, at the meso-level (dyadic dynamics in couples, neighborhood contexts, altruism/volunteering) and the macro-level (social cohesion, social and racial disparities). 4) And he partners with non-profit/healthcare companies to conduct translational research that test scalable interventions.

Prof. Adewuya is a professor of public mental health at Lagos State University College of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Psychiatry of both the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and the West African College of Physicians.

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Norwich University. My research and teaching interests are in feminist economics, health, public policy, and economic pedagogy. My current research focuses on violence against women and girls, including public space sexual harassment and intimate partner violence. My research emphasizes that such violence not only constrains a person’s capability for life and bodily health but can also result in other significant unfreedoms including deprivation of the capability for economic well-being. Recent publications on these topics have appeared in the journal *Feminist Economics*, the *Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan*, and *The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics*.   I earned my M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Utah and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. I also hold a Higher Education Teaching Specialist (HETS) designation and am committed to implementing more effective, research-backed practices in her classrooms and encouraging diversity in economics education more broadly. I have published on the necessity of plurality and innovation in economics education, with articles on teaching appearing in *The International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education*, *The Review of Political Economy,* and the *Journal of Economics Education*. At Norwich University, I teach Health Economics and Policy, Public Finance, Economics of Race and Gender in the 20th Century, Principles of Microeconomics, and The Structure and Operation of the World Economy.

Dr. Kleio Koutra is an Associate Professor of Social Work and specializes in Public Health. She serves as Vice Academic Coordinator of the International Relations Office of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU), Director of the Social Applied Research and Social Work lab, and a member of the MiStory International group. She has a degree in Social Work, an MPH in Public, and a Ph.D. in Social Medicine from the Department of Medicine, University of Crete. She has worked on more than 15 funded EU projects on children protection,  immigrant health, professionals’ social work skills and competencies. Dr Koutra teaches at the undergraduate program of Social Work, Community Development, Social planning and Needs Assessment, Resilience and Global transformation, and at the graduate level Gender, Health and Social Work. Her main research interests are public health and health promotion, social capital, gender-based violence, and trauma recovery, NSSI and post-traumatic stress. Dr. Koutra has presented in numerous international and national conferences and has published over 25 papers in  peer-reviewed journals

Professor Sinead McGilloway is Professor of Family and Community Mental Health and Founder Director of the *Centre for Mental Health and Community Research* in the Maynooth University Dept of Psychology and Social Sciences Institute ([www.cmhcr.eu](http://www.cmhcr.eu/)). She is a Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Scientist with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and an Associate Fellow of the BPS. She has extensive experience in undertaking engaged policy- and practice-relevant research with a focus on child and adult mental health and well-being (incl. vulnerable/ marginalised groups), early intervention/prevention and service evaluation. She has won significant research funding to date, is widely published and has won a number of awards, including the Lionel Hersov Memorial (Team) Award by the (UK) Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (2022), an Irish Research Council Research Ally prize (2022) and Maynooth University Faculty of Social Sciences Research Achievement Award 2021.

My aim is to understand and improve youth mental health in the digital age. Currently, I am employed as a Senior Lecturer /Associate Professor at the University of York (UK), where I lead on Impact and Knowledge Exchange Lead strategy for the Department of Education. As an experienced research leader, I have strong expertise conducting qualitative and quantitative sensitive topic research with young people, including co-production. My research focuses on sociocultural influences on youth mental health, covering pressing issues such as body image, online help-seeking, and harassment. I regularly contribute my expertise to media (e.g., The Truth About... BBC) and provide consultation to industry/policy makers.

Adolescent development, parent-adolescent relationships, adolescent brain development, adolescent decision-making