Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Jon Øyvind Odland, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Global Health at NTNU, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and a specialist in GYN/OB, environmental medicine, and epidemiology. He has worked on mother/child programs in more than 20 countries, focusing mostly on the Arctic, southern Asia, and Africa. His studies have mostly focused on the impact of the environment and infectious disease on fetal development and pregnancy outcome. He has a scientific production of ca. 200 peer-reviewed papers and is now involved in a new study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers, the healthcare system, and the general population in southern Africa.

University of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
For over 30 years, Dr. Pál Weihe has led the Department of Occupational Medicine and Public Health in the Faroe Islands and, for part of this period, as Medical Director of the Faroese Hospital System. He also is an Adjunct Professor at the University of the Faroe Islands, a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Public Health at the University of Southern Denmark. Between 2005 and 2016, Dr. Weihe served as Chair of the Faroese Board of Public Health. Dr. Weihe is deeply committed to serving his community through the provision of medical care and devotion to his work on minimizing community exposures to marine contaminants. Specifically, he has conducted the examinations of over 3000 Faroe Islanders of five prospective studies of birth cohorts exposed to marine contaminants associated with neurotoxicity, growth, and development, immunotoxicity, and endocrine disruption. He is also involved in other research areas such as reproductive toxicological studies of time to pregnancy and semen quality as well as age-related functional deficits and degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease and cardiovascular diseases, concerning lifetime exposure to methylmercury and persistent lipophilic contaminants. Dr. Weihe has published more than 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and books.

the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Professor in pediatrics at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway; senior consultant, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of North Norway (UNN), Tromsø, Norway.

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Elisabeth Darj, MD, PhD, the first professor in Global Health at NTNU, Swedish obstetrician and gynecologist, has been working in clinical, education and research settings for more than 40 decades. Her research focuses on reproductive health, mainly in low-income countries, supervising PhD, Master’s, medical, and midwifery students. Darj started a new two-year international Master’s Program in Global Health at NTNU in 2015 and was the first Director of the National Research School in Global Health for PhD students, collaborating with all major universities in Norway. Previously, Darj was the head of the clinical Dept of Obs&Gyne in Uppsala and is now visiting Professor at Uppsala University, head of the scientific committee for research and development at Dept of Obs&Gyne, St Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, authorized Medical Doctor in Norway and Sweden, member of Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and now Prof Emerita at NTNU.

The Italian Scientific Society of Hygiene, Italy
Giovanni Gabutti is professor of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine at the University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, MD, specialist in Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, and in Microbiology and Medical Virology. He has worked and still works on epidemiology and public health. His area of expertise includes epidemiology and the prevention of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. He has been involved in several RTCs on new vaccines as well as research projects promoted by the Ministry of University. He is chief of the Post-graduate School of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy and has a scientific production of approximately 170 peer-reviewed papers. Keywords: vaccine-preventable infectious diseases; epidemiology; vaccines; immunization; prevention; public health

North-Western State Medical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Valerii Chashchin has served as the Principal investigator (PI) and Co-PI for more than 30 international and all-national research projects in Public Health, Human Toxicology, Occupational, and Environmental Health, Epidemiology of communicable and non-communicable diseases, primarily in Arctic communities and other areas of ecological crisis. He has also served as the supervisor for 38 PhD students and as the designated expert of the Russian Federation in the Working Groups of the Arctic Council (AMAP and SDWG). Currently, he is the lead expert in the AC project "Biosecurity in the Arctic" (2021-2023).