An Ecosystem
Not An Egosystem

Founder

Memory Dog Inc

Researching how animal-assisted therapies and interventions could affect care and improve outcomes in a variety of environments and applications, in particular, the use of therapy dogs working with dementia patients and their caregivers.

United States

Neurology Specialist

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Unraveling the neural mechanisms that underlie the emergence of visual artistic creativity in frontotemporal dementia.

United States

Argentina

Assistant Professor

University of Groningen

Enhancing our understanding of brain behavior relations and applying this knowledge to improve assessment and treatment protocols for neurological conditions leading to aphasia.

Netherlands

Director

Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience

Empowering Latin American networks and researchers to fight dementia collaboratively.

Argentina

Neurologist

Conducting epidemiological research to understand better the situation of dementia patients and their caregivers in Bogota. Studying cognitive impairment in different vulnerable populations.

Colombia

Photographer

Writing books and creating exhibits on the modernist movement in Lima, Pisco, as an element of Peruvian identity; and what it is to be Peruvian.

Peru

Medical Anthropologist

Creating effective interventions tailored to the sociocultural context of patients and their caregivers, with attention to the social determinants that cause and perpetuate ill health and disease.

United States

Neuro-Psychologist

Introducing technology-based cognitive assessments and support to the Cuban population.

Cuba

Neuropsychologist

Barcelona Beta Brain Research Center

Developing strategies to increase the understanding of how risk factors render the sex-specific brain vulnerability to Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology. Developing personalized prevention programs.

Spain

Assistant Dean for Wellbeing, School of Medicine

The University of Washington

Promoting resilience, brain health and wellbeing for health care teams. Developing support for people engaging in equity work, expanding practices and competencies for distress tolerance.

United States

Biostatistician and Head of Research Projects

National Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology (Cuba)

Researching the relationship between cognitive reserve and cognitive decline by analyzing population data from high, middle and low income countries to identify mid-life risk factors for dementias. Developing a training program for caregivers.

Ireland

Lecturer of Neurology

Ain Shams University

Improving the lives of people living with cognitive impairment by providing the best clinical settings and maximizing the research outcomes to patients with dementia in Egypt.

Egypt

Geriatric Medicine Specialist, Geriatric Department

Air Force Central Hospital (Lima)

Working to develop a comprehensive care program for the management of patients with cognitive disorders and caregiver support. Developing geriatric services to optimize care of chronic diseases, such as dementia, affecting the Peruvian elderly.

Peru

Brazil

Associate Specialist

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Developing an anatomicalspecific and linguistically adapted Chinese Language Assessment in PPA (CLAP) battery for the Chinesespeaking population. Studying the impact of cultural characteristics on social cognitive functions.

United States

Geriatric Medicine Specialist

Establishing innovative ways of bringing palliative and supportive care to people with dementia and developing tangible policies or strategies that raise awareness of advanced directives.

Mexico

Assistant Professor of Speech and Language Pathology

Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre

Raising awareness in dementia in 40,000 speech and language therapists in Brazil by examining their current knowledge and awareness of dementia and communication disorders in dementia.

Brazil

Brazil

Experimental Psychologist

Pursuing the relationship between musical expertise and the development of dementia, and exploring the mechanisms underpinning this association, and music as therapy.

Ireland

Music Therapist and Owner

Wishing Well Music LLC

Using music for individual and community aims, with a particular interest in equitable access to creative wellness opportunities for people of all ages and levels of ability or experience.

United States

Nurse and Psychosocial Researcher

Exploring the role that community services such as Alzheimer cafés play in supporting social citizenship and developing a psychosocial evaluation strategy to mobilize and enhance psychosocial interventions.

Ireland

Vice Provost

California Institute of Technology

Writing a book based on the personal experiences of her father who had Alzheimer's disease.

United States

Nutritional Epidemiologist and Dietitian

Investigating the role of diet in brain aging and dementia by analyzing population data and testing scalable dietary interventions for brain health.

United Kingdom

Director, Scientific Programs and Outreach

Alzheimer's Association

Leading research programs and initiatives to accelerate the Alzheimer's Association's scientific agenda.

United States

Neurologist

Servicio Galego de Saˇde

Working for the Galician Health Service as a clinician with an interest in dementia and behavioral neurology. Aiming to improve communication between clinicians and patients, and increase patient access to nonpharmacological care and support.

Spain

Psychiatrist - PhD Student, Neuroscience Group of Antioquia

Working to determine factors related to onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

Colombia

Head of Business Change

Ecompass Northern Ireland (Health & Social Care Board)

Leading business change in a health and social care system initiative that introduces a digital, integrated care record to Northern Ireland, improving patient safety and population health outcomes.

United Kingdom

Writer, Artist, Anthropologist

Practicing a blend of creative writing, comics, art and anthropology. Believing in the power of the arts for social change. Offering ways to heal from and to end global challenges of dehumanisation, dementia, racism, and genocide.

United States

Research Psychologist

Researching the relationship between hearing loss and the development of dementia through neurocognitive assessment of older adults with hearing loss.

Ireland

United Kingdom

Neuroscientist

Developing and using computerized cognitive training programs as an intervention for people with cognitive impairment and for the prevention of cognitive decline in the aging population.

Turkey

Associate Neurologist

Dokuz Eylul University

Developing an electroencephalography model to monitor the electrical activity of the brain for diagnosis and differentiation of dementia, and investigating clinicopathological correlation.

Turkey

Co-founder

Creative Aging International

Developing new project prototypes, infused with art and creativity, backed by solid evidence and responding to need and local circumstance to help reduce the fear of age and its related illnesses among elders.

Ireland

Assistant Professor

California State University

Developing community-based approaches to research design, problem solving, and creative teaching and learning around aging and brain health in rural and immigrant communities in California.

United States

Intellectual Disability Researcher

Developing an intervention program using online cognitive training with adults with Down syndrome to examine the effects on levels of executive function. Identifying early biomarkers of dementia for people with Down syndrome.

Ireland

Founder

Dementia Focus

Delivering bespoke consultancy in service reform and training solutions to dementia service providers and innovators who seek to provide personalized care and support for people living with dementia.

Ireland

Assistant Professor

Sorbonne UniversitÚ

Designing, testing and validating new prototypes monitoring cognitive disorders; studying patterns of disability, clinical evolution, and unmet care needs; analyzing socioeconomics datasets.

France

Neurologist

Studying the effects of late-life literacy acquisition as a dementia prevention tool through improving memory and increasing connections between brain areas.

Brazil

Behavioural and Sleep Neurologist, Sleep and Memory Center

Neurological Institute of Athens

Elucidating brain rhythm patterns of dementia syndromes across the sleepwake cycle, with the goal of improving diagnosis, prognosis and treatment response, and promoting dementia health.

Greece

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Sociology

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Examining the influence of cultures and ethics of neoliberalism on the provision of non-beneficial, high-intensity, life-sustaining treatments near the end of life in older adults with dementia in the US and UK.

United States

President and Founder

Ibasho

Creating socially integrated communities that value elders through Ibasho (a not-for-profit organization) and consulting in the design of communities and cities.

United States

Global Health Policy Lecturer

University of Edinburgh

Improving understanding of the impact of health and social care system design on patterns of care and spending for those with dementia and their families/ caregivers. Aiming to reduce the devastating financial toll of dementia.

United Kingdom

Academic Geriatrician

Advancing perioperative research and care. Contributing to the global literature on cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in early Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

United Kingdom

India

Writer and Demetia Advocate

Vovž Nilva

Exploring positive ways to communicate dementia with empathy and compassion in different settings, from books to social networks, to connect different generations.

Brazil

Principal Architect

DDS Architects Ltd

Designing inclusive environments to support the health and wellbeing of people with dementia.

United Kingdom

Multimedia Editor

Atlantic Institute

Hearing from a wide range of people working in the dementia space, her podcast series, Dementia is Global, aims to raise global awareness about brain health to change attitudes and policies.

Ireland

Ireland

Nigeria

Associate Professor of Professional Practice & Director of Movement Lab, Barnard College

Colombia University

Facilitating art initiatives focused on understanding one another's humanity. Curating dance, education and film events aimed at removing stigmas around age and race.

United States

Senior Researcher, Dept of Geriatric Medicine

Radboud University Medical Center

Understanding and improving strategies to promote physical and cognitive functioning and prevent functional decline, falls, fear of falling and dementia.

Netherlands

Managing Director

DDS Architects Ltd

Translating research and inclusive building design principles into everyday use to ensure they are accessible to people living with cognitive and/or sensory impairments.

United Kingdom

Ireland

Jordan

Geriatric Medicine Consultant and Senior Lecturer

Ain Shams University Hospital

Working to use modern technology and software platforms for early detection and diagnosis of dementia. Co Founder of Ain Shams Cognitive Training Lab.

Egypt

Music Educator and Performer

Producing a radio program with high-profile musicians and clinical scientists about aging and the creative process, showing how brains benefit from musical engagement. Also developing a musical curriculum for adult day health.

United States

Arts Director

Socialinai meno projektai

Implementing local and international arts projects that aim for social change.

Lithuania

Neurologist

Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Researching and leading a multidisciplinary clinic to improve the diagnosis and clinical care of people living with frontotemporal dementia and their families.

Spain

Israel

Neuroscientist

Developing computational biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and developing a responsible strategy to implement this technology and utilize machine intelligence for disease prevention.

United States

Senior Research Fellow

University of Technology Sydney

Applying a broad range of health economic methods towards ensuring more efficiency, cost-effectiveness and supportive care needs for priority populations.

Ireland

Assistant Professor, Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Investigating the legal and ethical challenges associated with the individual and social burden associated with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias through public policy initiatives.

United States

Science Writer

Developing and implementing an online monthly lecture series and a US support group for patients with posterior cortical atrophy and their caregivers.

United States

Music Specialist

Developing engagement in accessible participative music as a resource for social inclusion, building communicative partnerships, and community integration across the lifespan.

United Kingdom

Chair, Applied Intercultural Arts Research, Graduate Interdisciplinary Program

University of Arizona

Promoting models of dementia education through music, filmmaking and service-learning. Building bridges between ethnomusicology and the health sciences.

United States

Neurologist

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Investigating non-motor manifestations of synucleinopathies, including cognitive, sleep and autonomic disturbances to be used as biomarkers for this specific group of diseases.

United States

Emergency Medicine Specialist

Improving the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of stroke. Developing multi-center studies and programs to diminish stroke risk factors, and work to identify populations at high risk of stroke.

Mexico

Spain

Social Health Scientist & Social Worker, Global Brain Health Institute

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Working primarily on research of palliative care in older people, specifically regarding communication about the end of life.

Belgium

Cognitive Neurologist

National Institute of Neurology (Cuba)

Researching admixture, ethnicity and health-social disparities in dementia. Developing a program in Cuba to train health care providers and educate the community about aging, mental health and dementia.

United States

Neuro-psychiatrist

Hospital Clinica Biblica

Developing mental health strategies for successful aging and leading efforts to understand and optimize treatments for people living with dementia

Costa Rica

Monologuist, Filmmaker and Video Host

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Connecting brain science with social justice by hosting, writing, and producing the video series, Citizen Brain, and by creating a theatrical monologue about empathy and democracy.

United States

Ireland

Co-founder and Artistic Director

Re-Live

Exploring the health and wellbeing benefits of participating in arts in health practice for people living with dementia and their families.

United Kingdom

Public Health Physician and Epidemiologist

Developing and testing mobile phone messaging through clinical trials to support treatment adherence in adults with high blood pressure and diabetes in primary care settings.

South Africa

Neurologist

Making brain health practical and relevant. Promoting an understanding of traditional and cultural practices which promote brain health.

South Africa

Clinical Psychologist

Evaluating whether cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTi) is an effective treatment intervention in patients with mild cognitive impairment and their caregivers.

Greece

Assistant Professor, Division of Geriatrics & Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Developing mixed-methods evidence and interventions to address palliative care needs of people with dementia, prion disease, and other serious illnesses through clinical interventions, systems of care, or equitable policy supporting quality of life.

United States

Founder and Director

Your Brain Health Matters

Developing innovative brain health and memory programs and services. Implementing population health approaches for individuals and carers, aimed at dementia risk prevention.

United States

Ecuador

Researcher, Laboratory of Environmental Air Pollution

University of Sao Paulo

Investigating urban and environmental health to understand the effects of air pollution on neurodegenerative diseases.

Brazil

Research Associate

Newcastle University

Leading efforts to build inclusive communities through co-producing research with people living with dementia and developing social entrepreneurial ventures to connect and support dementia-focused leaders.

United Kingdom

Assistant Professor, San Francisco School of Nursing

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Evaluating existing and developing new models of hospice and palliative care for older adults with dementia and their caregivers.

United States

Neurologist

Analyzing large, populationbased cohort studies to generate a global perspective on dementia risk factors in the general population in two different continents.

France

Associate Professor, Department of Health and Communication

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Promoting the social inclusion of older adults living with aphasia and raising awareness of health professionals to the power of art in improving communication and the quality of life.

Brazil

Psychologist and Epidemiologist

Developing strategies to address the caregiver-stress and burden-related stigma among caregivers of patients with early onset dementia caused by the e280a mutation in Antioquia.

Colombia

Colombia

Assistant Professor, Neuropsychologist

University of Botswana

Leading efforts to improve dementia diagnosis by translating, culturally adapting and validating tablet-based and paper-based cognitive and functional assessments for the Botswana population.

Botswana

Academic Health Services Researcher

Investigating how older people with complex needs access health care and the implications for designing an integrated health care system.

Ireland

Brazil

Geriatric and Internal Medicine Specialist

Improving prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies for older adults living with HIV and HIVassociated neurocognitive disorder, as well as promoting dementia awareness and early diagnosis in Mexico.

Mexico

United States

Neuropsychologist

Hospital Santa Marcelina

Developing strategies to evaluate cognition in low education populations. Working on the development of screening tools for cognitive impairment to identify cognitive decline in individuals with low schooling.

Brazil

Ecuador

Psychiatrist and Professor at Medicine School

West Hill Institute

Part of 10/66 Dementia Research Group, carrying out population-based research into dementia in low income and middle income countries, focusing on frontotemporal dementias research and neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia.

Mexico

Neurologist

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Addressing the fact that many diseases like dementia are ignored by society and the authorities, and a lack of epidemiological data on dementia in Peru.

Peru

Lithuania

Cognitive Neurologist

Researching cognitive impairment and biomarkers in the continuum of sporadic Alzheimer's disease and in Down syndrome to provide insights into the biological and epidemiological contributors to Alzheimer's disease.

Spain

Epidemiologist

French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development

Developing new aging and brain health research in sub-Saharan Africa to better understand the burden of dementia and raise awareness. Encouraging initiatives that support caregivers and train health care professionals.

France

President and CEO

Community Coalition

Building a multi-racial organizing model that increases the ability of Black and Brown residents to win policy change, resource redistribution and neighborhood improvements.

United States

South Africa

Principal

Black Futures Lab

Building the movement for Black lives by engaging in narrative change efforts and direct action organizing.

United States

United States

United States

Lecturer

University of Cape Town

Lecturing in sociology at the University of the Cape Town where her thesis was on the construction of gendered identities of women who work in the mines.

South Africa

South Africa

Advisor

Betsy Hodges LLC

Building a framework based on compassion through which white people effectively work with one another on whiteness and racism, then scale up to have systemic impact.

United States

Founding Director

Creative Academy

Promoting African bow music, as well as arts, crafts, dance, poetry, creative writing and other creative activities to build a progressive heritage movement.

South Africa

Independent Researcher

Tricontinental Institute for Social Research

Contributing to local and international debates on social justice issues. Co-founded the Alternative Energy Popular Education Programme.

South Africa

Dialogue Practitioner

Democracy Works Foundation

Creating sustainable models for social justice work and cross-sectoral collaboration, and facilitating dialogues focused on race, social justice and transformation.

South Africa

Community Investor and Advisor

Creating and supporting equitable growth opportunities for people of color (with a special interest in the African diaspora) through philanthropy, arts and culture, community initiatives, racial justice, and civic participation.

United States

Social Responsibility and Funding Officer

AFDA, The School of Creative Economies

Developing community projects and funding to assist talented people from disadvantaged communities to access education in the creative industries, and helping in grassroots training and economic development in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

South Africa

Associate Director for Advocacy, Center for Antiracist Research

Boston University

Collaborating with young people for a more just, humane world. Exploring the histories of racialization and resistance, and the ways that race is constructed and contested.

United States

National Coordinator

Rural Democracy Trust

Leading organizational campaigns for land rights, mining-affected communities and livelihoods in South Africa.

South Africa

South Africa

Founder

Axl Impact Studios

Advancing efforts to diversify funding pipelines, realign workplace cultures, drive impactful innovation and create inclusive economies.

United States

Associate Vice Chancellor & Professor of Law

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Working to advance an intersectional approach to racial justice. Also creating and sustaining inclusive, equitable learning environments.

United States

Global Ambassador for Education Programs and Research Assistant

Incarceration Nations Network

Creating new narratives of those formerly incarcerated while using education as the integral tool to help empower marginalized communities worldwide.

United States

Director

GenderCC Southern Africa-Women for Climate Justice

Working at the forefront for gender equality, women's rights and global climate justice and economic transformation.

South Africa

Filmmaker & Educator

University of the Witwatersrand

Creating visual stories that imagine a world free of discrimination.

South Africa

United States

Director, Racial Equity Anchor Collaborative

UnidosUS

Leading groundbreaking collaborations with national civil rights and racial justice organizations to foster increased civic participation by people of color in elections and the Census 2020 count.

United States

Founder

Southern Soul Wellness

Facilitating mediation for group conflicts, convening healers to support the wellness of frontline organizers and those most impacted by trauma and oppression.

United States

United States

United States

National Director

Journey for Justice Alliance

Building power in Black communities for over 25 years. Using community organizing to win equity in public education.

United States

Lecturer

University of Pretoria

Teaching critical race theory to deliver graduates who are historically and politically literate and engaged with inequality and injustice.

South Africa

Director & Co-Creator

Coloured Mentality

Driving social transformation through Coloured Mentality, a community media platform that has become a unique interactive storytelling space for the colored community.

South Africa

Director for Interfaith Communities

Community Health Councils, Los Angeles

Developing & deploying strategies in sacred resistance and reimagination to deconstruct and dismantle schemes, systems and structures that violate the humanity and dignity of BIPOC to achieve a more just and equitable world.

United States

United States

South Africa

South Africa

United States

Executive Director

amandla.mobi

Harnessing the power of low-income Black women for collective action through amandla.mobi, a mobile phone civic engagement tool.

South Africa

Founder & Director

LN Advisors

Working to see social justice embedded and normalized in business, academic and religious spaces.

South Africa

President

The Precendential Group

Improving the services and leadership capacity of organizations working towards criminal justice reform. Hosting a podcast, Decarcerated, which highlights resilience, redemption and success of formerly incarcerated people.

United States

Co-Director

Southerners On New Ground

Building the leadership capacity of the LGBTQ community in the South through direct action efforts and dynamic campaigns.

United States

Executive Director, My Brother's Keeper Alliance

Obama Foundation

Leading the Obama Foundation's efforts to scale the My Brother's Keeper initiative and align efforts focused on boys and men of color; creating pathways of opportunity from cradle to college, career and beyond.

United States

South Africa

Executive Director, Commhnity Empowerment & Opportunity

Mayor's Office of the City of Philadelphia

Spearheading initiatives to support low-income people and communities.

United States

Composer-in-residence

Johannesburg International Mozart Festival

Using storytelling and music to transcend the barriers erected by apartheid between diverse communities.

South Africa

Water Resources Manager and Aquatic Ecologist

Working on how water monitoring tools can be indigenized to incorporate practical linguistic tools and local cultures.

South Africa

President & CEO

Sastela

Creating new narratives to invoke soul consciousness as a tool for shaping private and public sector leadership in Africa. Imagining new political economic paradigms for ending racial injustice globally.

South Africa

United States

Coach, Facilitator, Storyteller

Obenewa Amponsah & Associates

Advancing racial and gender equity through training and workshops to help organizations become more diverse and inclusive spaces in which everyone can thrive; supporting individuals/ teams through coaching, management, and leadership development.

South Africa

South Africa

President

Color of Change

Developing an infrastructure of a strategic, powerful Black response to the needs and injustices of the Black community. Developing campaigns to change the rules in employment, the economy, voting, criminal justice, news and entertainment.

United States

Managing Attorney

Community Legal Services of Philadelphia

Addressing racial inequity in community redevelopment, preservation of affordable housing and disinvestment from neighborhoods.

United States

Vice President of Community Relations

Axon

Driving the strategic and day- to-day operational leadership related to racial equity and inclusion internally as well as in Axon's products, services and community engagement.

United States

Founder and Executive Director

Equity And Transformation (EAT)

Organizing civil rights activism and leading Equity and Transformation (EAT), a nonprofit organization that won the first recreational cannabis policy to include reparations for the war on drugs.

United States

Executive Director

People's Advocacy Institute

Incubating initiatives that transform our response to violence, challenge the need for prisons, and centers community-led governance.

United States

Co-Creator

Coloured Mentality

Co-creating Coloured Mentality, an online platform with 20,000 followers who engage in conversations around Coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa.

South Africa

South Africa

Youth Pastor

Grace Family Church, Durban

Mentoring, pastoring and hosting restorative conversations to empower and educate people in the lowest levels of society to have equal opportunities and combat racism.

South Africa

United States

PhD Candidate

University of Western Cape

Researching meanings of land and agrarian livelihoods of Black people who were dispossessed of their land and stripped off their property rights by colonial and apartheid regimes, and exploring the implications for agrarian change today.

South Africa

South Africa

Community Lawyer and Organizer

Developing a framework to situate ableism as central to every form of systemic oppression while leading efforts to dismantle all carceral institutions.

United States

South Africa

Executive Director

Equality Collective

Innovating to advance access to justice and building the capacity and infrastructure for collective participation in rural areas. Working for quality and equality in education and early childhood development services.

South Africa

Executive Director

Equality Labs

Building the power of Black and Dalit movements to overcome white supremacy and caste apartheid.

United States

Strategic Advisor

Ford Foundation

Working on the frontlines of fostering new multi- issue and cross-disciplinary approaches and solutions to our increasingly complex, socio-technical world.

United States

Founder

Black Women Disrupt

Leveraging over 20 years of public policy experience to create economic empowerment and investment opportunities for historically marginalized communities.

United States

United States

Australia

Independent Consultant

Advancing social and economic outcomes of First Peoples, specializing in the co-design, development and implementation of strategic policy frameworks which seek to facilitate social and economic equity for First Peoples.

Australia

Senior Advisor

National Indigenous Australians Agency

Co-designing strategies with Indigenous regional governance bodies to achieve equity. Seeking to close the gap in disadvantage through policies aimed at decision-making rights and empowerment.

Australia

Australia

Executive Director

Pollination Foundation

Establishing a Global Knowledge Network to connect leaders and organizations working on nature-based solutions to climate change, with a focus on Indigenous leadership and place-based economies.

Australia

New Zealand

Director Aboriginal Culture and Healing

Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet VIC

Delivering evidenced-based Indigenous Australian strategy and outcomes, supported by the ability to develop trusting and ethical relationships with the Indigenous community and colleagues from across the sector.

Australia

Assistant Secretary of the Soft Power, Partnerships and Research Branch

Australian Department of Foreign Affiars and Trade (DFAT)

Developing a hub for best practice policy to improve socioeconomic outcomes for Indigenous peoples, particularly in the Indo-Pacific.

United States

Professor & Director, Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures Research at Jumbunna Institute

University of Technology Sydney

Focusing on developments in Indigenous nation building and governance following colonization.

Australia

Australia

Director

From the Heart

Empowering Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organizations and communities to craft their own narratives and lead their own change and development.

Australia

Writer and Restaurateur

Working to decode what power could look like based on a reconstructed sense of identity, and communicating this through speaking and writing. Making/sharing traditional Afghan food to shift boundaries.

Australia

Australia

Director of Djirruwang Program

Charles Sturt University

Developing a mental health app that creates a community of support, based on people identified within an individual's mobile phone contact list.

Australia

Australia

Manager, Community Development

Fortescue Metals Group

Building Indigenous business capability through the implementation of Indigenous procurement targets and strategies. Opening the doors of opportunities to Indigenous entrepreneurs.

Australia

Australia

Interim Chief Executive Officer

The Lowitia Institute

Developing The International Alliance of First Nations Nurses, connecting and fostering their sense of resilience and mutual commitment to increase recognition, value and voice of First Nations nurses at an international level.

Australia

Coordinator

Aboriginal Disability Training

Examining how Deaf and Hard of Hearing Indigenous women can increase their own personal, community, educational and employment growth, and be key women in their communities, nurturing future leaders.

Australia

Director, Policy & Research

Indigenous Business Australia

Establishing better links, mechanisms and incentives to mobilize private capital to flow to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service providers, enterprises, projects and ventures.

Australia

Founder & Strategist

Full & Frank

Developing and implementing innovative, impact-focused strategies to help social enterprises, charities, purpose-driven organizations and the broader for-purpose sector to achieve their missions sooner.

Australia

Executive Director

Jureda

Developing an innovative locally driven health promotion program to strengthen and develop Indigenous community- led approaches to health improvement, and increase community engagement and ownership of wellness.

New Zealand

Director

Original Power

Building the power of Indigenous peoples through organizing and campaigning. Working in partnership with existing campaigns, allies, networks and initiatives to power people, campaigns, and solutions.

Australia

New Zealand

New Zealand

Executive Director

Koorie Women Mean Business

Building an Aboriginal-led national peak body to lead and inform approaches to ethical research, protection of traditional knowledge, and sustainable, ethical business with Aboriginal landholders for Aboriginal products.

Australia

Australia

Independent Consultant

Working with Aboriginal people from remote desert communities to establish a leadership and governance knowledge center in Alice Springs.

Australia

Australia

Director

Tukaha Global Consultancy Ltd

Leading an Indigenous Youth Leadership Development Programme for 25-35 year old rangatahi Mā'ori to further advance the space rangatahi M'ori play as active agents in all spheres of development in New Zealand and beyond.

New Zealand

Australia

Director

Australian Department of Health

Assisting women on their exit from prison, with a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and helping increase their self- esteem.

Australia

General Manager Partnerships

Jawun

Developing a neuroscience- anchored multidisciplinary measurement and evaluation framework of Human Flourishing to inform self- determined social equity from personal, organizational and policy objectives.

Australia

Centre Manager

The Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre

Helping establish a skillset that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people bring to the workforce that has not been acquired through formal education/training.

Australia

Co-Founder and Director

Goompi Projects Ptd Ltd

Exploring models of story- telling of First Nations' resilience to reclaim the telling of our own stories whilst empowering today's generation of young people to reflect, transform and be proud of their identity, culture and existence.

Australia

Assistant Secretary

Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment

Providing strategic advice on education, skills and employment policy and programs across Australia through a senior executive role in government.

Australia

Executive Director and Professor, Carumba Institute

Queensland University of Technology

Developing dynamic approaches to embedding First Nation perspectives into western educational systems through professional development capacity building, using digital pedagogies and curriculum frameworks.

Australia

New Zealand

Australia

Associate Professor

University of Oklahoma

Engaging in treaty-making debates in Australia, considering how testimonials about treaties and self- determination from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples from the US and NZ would positively affect treaty discussions in Australia.

United States

Director

Center for Indigenous Health Equity Research

Developing and evaluating the social and emotional learning strategies implemented in Queensland boarding schools, to help remote Indigenous students better engage in life and learning.

Australia

New Zealand

Managing Director

Gidgee Group

Working on the social and economic disparity of Indigenous Australians, ensuring that legislation, policy and programs have a positive impact, leading to opportunities for Indigenous economic empowerment and independence.

Australia

Regional Director

Jawun

Supporting First Nations to become digitally empowered, enabling them to prosper from the new digital economy.

Australia

Social Intrapreneur, The Southern Initiative

Auckland Council

Disrupting dominant economic discourse by demonstrating how entrepreneurial public servants can enable just, inclusive, circular and regenerative economic development for the M'ori and Pasifika urban diaspora.

New Zealand

New Zealand

Australia

Australia

Executive Director

Atlantic Institute

Leading the Atlantic Institute to support Fellows across the world to accelerate the eradication of inequities for fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies.

United Kingdom

Program Director, Rights Claiming and Accountability

Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)

Working with human rights activists on ways to translate international legal norms into concrete, analytical tools that can support collective action to tackle inequalities.

South Africa

National Co-Director

Standing Together

Organizing people with the aim of building a political alternative of social justice, equality and peace. Coordinating struggles against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and injustices and inequalities.

Israel

Indigenous Advocate

Creating opportunities to allow Indigenous peoples to flourish and escape poverty, with a particular focus on Indigenomics; previously CEO of First Nations Foundation.

Australia

Chile

Executive Director

Miles

Building the free exercise of sexual and reproductive rights across Latin America and the Caribbean. Fighting for the recognition of sexual and reproductive rights in the Chilean constitution.

Chile

Skoll Scholar and MBA candidate, Saïd Business School

University of Oxford

Focusing on strategy and social impact as a Skoll Scholar; previously at BRAC in Bangladesh, leading a financial inclusion project providing one million women with access to digital financial services.

United Kingdom

Founder

Pixstory

Creating the space to build people's narratives which are alternative, non-singular, personal and political.

India

Dalit Rights Activist and Founder

DalitWomenFight.org

Leading a grassroots campaign addressing structural violence against the most marginalized women.

India

Italy

Malaysia

United Kingdom

Adolescent Mental Health Advocate

Previously working to provide psychosocial support program for adolescents living with HIV across south and east Africa, before taking up an organization effectiveness traineeship with Oxfam UK.

Netherlands

Director

Nawi: Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective

Working to influence macrolevel economic policies from a pan-African feminist analysis, across regional and global spaces.

Kenya

Serbia

Renegade Economist/Host of the Upstream Podcast/Right Livelihood Caoch/Alternative Economics Consultant and Teacher

Inviting paradigm and worldview shifts to contribute to the just transition to more equitable and sustainable economies through storytelling, coaching, consulting and teaching.

United States

Founder and Chairman

LEGS-Africa (Leadership, Ethics, Governance, Strategies for Africa)

Nurturing leadership against inequality through democratic and economic governance policies and systems monitoring, research into public-private power relations in extractive industries, and promoting of young entrepreneurs.

Senegal

Founding President

Digital Grassroots

Creating tools for underrepresented youth to participate in solutions to issues such as putting dignity in safety processes, safety education, internet governance, research, governance, digital literacy and capacity building.

Zambia

Co-founder

Center for Women's Rights Advocacy (CWRA)

Working toward gender equality and an end to violence against women and girls, including those with disabilities; mentoring of young women and girls in pastoral communities; advancing the rights of the marginalized.

Kenya

Social Policy Officer

UNICEF Nigeria

Working for poverty reduction and social inclusion, using innovative social protection interventions, and promoting equity and access to services for girls and women.

United States

Program Officer, Disability Rights Program

Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa

Leading grantmaking in seven Eastern African countries to promote the rights of persons with disabilities by providing resources and amplifying voices of often marginalized parts of society.

Kenya

Legal consultant

Working on issues of digital inequalities in Africa, as well as advancing human rights (particularly access to information and privacy) in digital and innovation contexts.

South Africa

Brazil

PhD Student in Economic History Department, London School of Economics and Political Science

University of London

Researching why improvements to technological efficiency have been primarily into increased consumption, rather than leisure, focusing on climate change and inequality implications.

United Kingdom

Principal Researcher

Center for the Study of Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia)

Working on the transitional justice process in Colombia as a way to put an end to nearly 60 years of an internal armed conflict.

Colombia

United Kingdom

Kenya

Director

The Tinderbox Collective

Building a collective of young people, musicians, artists and youth workers. Finding creative and collaborative ways of bringing people together, building community and opening up opportunities for children and young people.

United Kingdom

Founder and CEO

Institute of Public Finance Kenya

Focusing as a public finance practitioner on how public finance management can address inequalities at both national and subnational government level.

Kenya

Senior Director, Women's Empowerment

The Asia Foundation

Working to advance gender equality globally. Currently writing a book on activism at home and in the world to address inequalities.

United States

Founder and President

National LGBTQ Workers Center

Cultivating a voice for working people in the Pacific Northwest. Leading an LGBTQ movement for economic justice and workers’ rights.

United States

Founder

africanDRONE

Working to creatively communicate systems and processes relating to economic, environmental and social justice issues. Managing an NPO dedicated to creating a drone community 'for good'.

South Africa

Activist Training Manager

100 Million Campaign

Training youth activists on every continent to mobilize an end to violence against children, eradicate child labour and deliver the right to education for all.

United Kingdom

Portugal

Freelance Consulant, Gender, equality and social inclusion expert

Supporting Hamro Chahana Nepal (HCN), a feminist human rights organization, on issues of bodily integrity, economic justice, learning and knowledge production, rapid response and feminist movement building.

Nepal

Organizing Consultant

Labor Network for Sustainability

Directing the network education and action program at the Labor Network for Sustainability; organizing and supporting trade union engagement for climate action.

United States

Adviser

FRIDA: Young Feminist Fund

Leading a grassroots campaign addressing structural violence against the most marginalized women.

Director, Tax Justice and Human Rights

Tax Justice Network

Drawing on research and practitioner knowledge to forge new alliances to deepen awareness and strengthen the narrative of how tax injustice creates and exacerbates inequalities.

United Kingdom

Consultant (South Sudan Project)

Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law

Focusing on research, training and policy intervention to support the realization of the rule of law and access to justice in South Sudan, working directly with the government of South Sudan.

Germany

Senior Programs and Policy Manager

OpenOwnership

Working on public policy reform at the intersection of anti-corruption and tax justice, making information about who owns and controls companies more open and accountable.

United Kingdom

Sustainability Strategist

Forum for the Future

Working towards climate justice and resource equity, and pursuing an MSc in Inequalities and Social Science (LSE) to understand how climate injustice intersects with other dimensions such as race, poverty and gender.

Singapore

Chile

Crisis Response Fund and MENA Advocacy Lead

CIVICUS

Managing a fund focused on supporting civil society in crisis around their rights to free assembly and association. Leading on Middle East/North Africa and Women Human Rights Defender advocacy.

South Africa

Social Justice and Labor Activist, Consultant

Participating in initiatives aimed at ensuring equal access to wealth, opportunities and privileges within society. Focusing on climate change and the just transition; informality and the future of work; youth inclusion and leadership.

Zimbabwe

Argentina

Mexico

Senior Program Officer, Global Policy and Advocacy

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Engaging the public, governments and philanthropic community in the Foundation's advocacy strategies in global health and development, education and mobility from poverty.

United States

Youth Development Worker

Springboard Opportunities

Working on the transitional justice process in Colombia as a way to put an end to nearly 60 years of an internal armed conflict.

United Kingdom

Feminist Justice and Peace Activist

Supporting local and international organizations with capacity building, facilitation and research on feminist peace and gender justice.

Armenia

Ghana

Ghana

Project Co-ordinator

Act Now - People Powered Campaigning for Northern Ireland

Working with an independent, people-powered campaigning community to take coordinated action for progressive change across Northern Ireland; supporting communities in their campaigning for socio- economic rights.

United Kingdom

Botswana

Senior Lecturer, School of Law

University of the Witwatersrand

Working on transparency and corporate accountability; current focus is on the monetization of our personal data and its impact on the right to privacy and access to information.

South Africa

Research Analyst

Chambers and Partners

Laying plans for further research into the role of elites in reproducing inequalities in Chile.

United Kingdom

Chief of Staff for Bancada Ativista (Activist Caucus)

Legislative Assembly of Sao Paulo

Working as chief of staff at an innovative State Deputy mandate focusing on human rights, equity and environmental protection policies.

Brazil

Researcher at Pixstory

Chitrakoot Women's Collective

Co-creating alternative media futures, women's media collectives, spaces and platforms for equal opportunity. Broadly working on intersections of caste and gender inequalities in the Indian subcontinent.

India

Programme and Strategy Advisor

Arab Renaissance for Democracy & Development (ARDD)

Doing research and assessments, and developing projects and policies for reducing inequalities and addressing the concerns of refugees and disadvantaged groups.

Jordan

Program Officer

Open Society Initiative for Europe

Focusing on issues of economic exclusion in Europe, supporting collective actions at the community level that can be scaled up to produce systemic policy change.

Spain

Program Officer

Open Society Initiative for Europe

Supporting democratic innovation across Europe. Championing participatory decision-making as an approach to equity.

Germany

CEO and Development Director

Rona Foundation

Lobbying for policy change in the areas of widows' rights and the education, care and support of orphans; supporting gender equality, social justice and grassroots development initiatives.

Kenya

Strategy and Organizational Development Advisor

Young Women's Leadership Institute

Working to centralize the voice and influence of a younger generation of feminists in challenging the inequalities experienced by diverse groups of women and girls. Providing advocacy strategy development in Africa.

Kenya

Team Leader for Germany

350.org

Building and strengthening grassroots movements fighting the coal, oil and gas industry; working to stop financial flows into fossil fuel companies and infrastructure.

Germany

Coordinator

Social Action for Community and Development (SACD)

Working as part of the people’s movement in Cambodia, directly and indirectly supporting women’s organizations and groups, farmers, young people and communities to achieve gender and economic justice and people’s democracy.

Cambodia

Senior Fellow Engagement Lead

Atlantic Institute

Working with Senior Fellows and program staff from across the seven Atlantic Fellows programs to facilitate collective actions that address global inequities through co-created thematic gatherings and workshops.

United Kingdom

CEO

Open Function Group

Working on interoperability and data integration in non-profit/government spaces. Giving social justice interventions what they need to streamline, automate and make sense of data-heavy processes.

United Kingdom

Senior Advocacy Officer

International Budget Partnership South Africa

Supporting grassroots organizations to advocate for improved basic services in informal settlements across South Africa. Calling for greater accountability in how cities spend their budgets.

South Africa

Trinidad and Tobago

Colombia

South Africa

Assistant Programme Manager

TB and HIV Care

Leading efforts to end TB through advocacy where people affected by TB contribute to improving health outcomes and quality of care.

South Africa

Senior writer

Health-e News Service

Reporting on non-communicable diseases and food security and how the two intersect.

South Africa

Project Manager

Plus 94 Research

Assisting the South African National Aids Council as Trustees Member, also appointed as a student representative in the Ministerial Technical Task Team for Sexual & Gender-Based Violence in Institutions of Higher Learning (2017).

South Africa

Pharmacist, Coordinator

Kheth'Impilo

Developing strategies to ensure that people living with HIV and other chronic conditions have access to treatment and are able to adhere to it.

South Africa

Lecturer

Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University

Working to improve access to health care for all sexual minority, gender and sexually diverse groups.

South Africa

South Africa

Curriculum Developer

Equal Education

Striving for quality and equality in South African education through analysis and activism.

South Africa

Nutritionist, Public Health Researcher and Activist

Advocating for a South Africa where primary health care takes centre stage and all South Africans have access to affordable, quality health care.

South Africa

South Africa

South Africa

Public Sector Dentist

Building an activist oral health workforce with a focus on grassroots community and peer-to-peer engagement to realize, preserve and protect society's right to quality oral health services.

South Africa

Lecturer in Social Anthropology

Sol Plaatje University

Developing new anthropology courses and program, based on her nourishment MA research drawing on public health, Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, and epigenetic findings.

South Africa

Program Officer

Women on Farms Project

Advancing the rights and improving the lives of young people and women living on farms, through the experiential knowledge of growing up on a farm herself. Addressing social injustices and inequalities through a human rights context.

South Africa

Medical Doctor

Leading efforts to create healthier and more sustainable communities that uplift, protect and enable young women and girls to reach their full potential in South Africa.

South Africa

Human Rights Defender, Advocacy and Law Reform Programme Team

Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force

Fighting for the decriminalization of sex work.

South Africa

Country Director

REPSSI

Advocating for access to community-based mental health care and treatment services in underserved communities. Addressing bottlenecks in the health system with design strategies that enhance service delivery.

South Africa

Impact & Learning Manager

Shonaquip Social Enterprise

Leading efforts to build ecosystems for inclusion for people with disabilities, their families and service providers.

South Africa

Founder

Healthy Rural Societies (HRS)

Developing a care model for older people based in rural areas as one of the ways to combat the problems of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) that are highly prevalent among the elderly.

South Africa

Public Health Medicine Specialist, School of Public Health

University of the Witwatersrand

Advancing health equity as a public health medicine specialist.

South Africa

Public Health Project Consultant

Active Citizens Movement

Developing strategies to address the backlog of patients requiring essential health services in the public sector in uMgungundlovu, KwaZulu-Natal. Her specific focus is cataract surgery services and universal eye health.

South Africa

South Africa

South Africa

South Africa

South Africa

Project Manager, Systems Innovation

Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Identifying the processes and levers that lead to social innovation across various sectors, with a focus on health and mental health in the global south.

South Africa

Mother Mentor programme

Enable

Providing support, counselling and basic health education to pregnant women, with a focus on chronic treatment adherence, mostly related to HIV and AIDS.

South Africa

Director

Women and Girls Leadership Foundation

Promoting access to sexual and reproductive health and justice for girls and women in rural and peri-urban areas through advocacy and strengthening leadership skills.

South Africa

South Africa

PhD Candidate, Researcher, Educator, Health Policy and Systems Research Division

University of Cape Town

Advocating for health systems' responsiveness and championing sexual and reproductive justice for sex workers and queer persons through influencing policy and implementation.

South Africa

South Africa

Environmental Health Manager

City of Cape Town

Addressing issues of access to basic sanitation, water and a healthy environment for all, with special focus on identifying conditions posing an environmental health risk and addressing access to effective and dignified basic services.

South Africa

Senior Budget Analyst, Public Finance

National Treasury (Department of Finance), South Africa

Developing social assistance models, budgets and policy advancements for improved health and education outcomes for the poor.

South Africa

Master's Student

Nelson Mandela University

Contributing to the development of educational approaches that are empowering and for liberation purposes by understanding gendered dimensions of alternative forms of work.

South Africa

Africa Coordinator, Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Initiative

Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)

Developing strategies to address the health sector's climate footprint through research, training and the implementation of sustainable health care practices in Africa. Building relationships and developing policies to address environmental health issues.

Canada

Project Specialist

Panagora Group

Providing novel and integrated solutions in health for communities in remote places, in Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning and Technical Support Services for USAID/ South Africa's Health Office.

South Africa

South Africa

Advocate

Rhodes University

Specializing as an advocate in international human rights, health rights, and health care systems. Currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy.

South Africa

South Africa

Health Equity & Community Development Consultant

Reimagining the ways in which corporate and NGO spaces can be connected and developed to enhance access to resources and opportunities for social change.

South Africa

Researcher

Health Systems Trust

Conducting evidence-based research that contributes to policy strengthening health systems in South Africa, using predominantly quantitative data to address health equity.

South Africa

Operations Manager

Kozi Foundation

Providing support and guidance to women-led, not-for-profit organizations on good governance and best financial management practices. Advocating for the parental involvement in sexual and reproductive health education.

South Africa

South Africa

South Africa

Curriculum and Education Coordinator

Social Justice Coalition

Building a South Africa that addresses the injustices of the past while seeking alternatives for a just and equal society.

South Africa

Principal Environmental Health Practitioner

City of Cape Town

Pursuing a health activism agenda to change people's quality of life for the better.

South Africa

South Africa

South Africa

Researcher

SECTION27

Working to address inequality and social justice. Mobilizing community by building the voice and capacity of civil society from below for health system strengthening.

South Africa

Program Manager

Western Cape Health Department

Developing and supporting equitable TB and HIV protection programs.

South Africa

RTCQI/CLI Provincial Project Coordinator

SEAD (Strategic Evaluation, Advisory & Development) Consulting Ltd

Supporting HIV prevention programmes for key and vulnerable populations in South Africa. Active in numerous civil society roles, and passionate about access to quality health services.

South Africa

Senior Field Officer

The Endangered Wildlife Trust

Mobilizing communities in rural South Africa to engage with conservation projects that provide environmentally friendly alternative livelihoods.

South Africa

Master's Student (Global Mental Health), London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine and King's College London

University of London

Exploring the field of global mental health, with a special interest in learning about the integration of mental health into primary care.

United Kingdom

Research Project Manager for the Sheiham/Wits Family Programme on Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity

University of the Witwatersrand

Advocating for affordable and accessible health for all by engaging in research and social mobilization to reform health systems and policy.

South Africa

Director

Women's Leadership and Training Programme

Strengthening girls' and women's leadership skills, so they use their agency to dismantle the patriarchal and structural norms and systems that oppress them.

South Africa

Drama Therapist

Drama for Life

Using theatre and drama therapy with patients to help them overcome emotional trauma and addiction.

South Africa

Development and CSI Manager

South African Sugar Association

Advancing rural development by supporting young people to participate in placements throughout the sugar cane value chain.

South Africa

Business Case Development Manager

Transnet National Ports Authority

Training, mentoring and inspiring women and girls from under-privileged communities to succeed in industry.

South Africa

Chairperson

Abahlali Base Freedom Park

Organizing and mobilizing communities in the southern region of Johannesburg around land, housing and other socioeconomic issues.

South Africa

Communications Officer, Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Cape Town

Exploring the role of the media in influencing and developing more equitable and socially just health systems.

South Africa

South Africa

Coordinator

People's Health Movement South Africa

Promoting socioeconomic justice for all, including addressing social determinants for health.

South Africa

South Africa

Deputy General Secretary

Equal Education

Advocating for social justice and human rights through education and policy change/ introduction, grassroot organizing and mobilization, building alliances and community resilience.

South Africa

South Africa

Social Worker

Epilepsy South Africa

Advocating for the right to education for children with learning impairments. Collaborating with other stakeholders to develop learning tools that could be used to accommodate their learning needs.

South Africa

Founder

Wheely in a Wheelie

Promoting recycling in townships.

South Africa

South Africa

Attorney/Law Reform Specialist IV, Law Center

University of the Philippines

Developing coherent and compelling positions, using primarily the rights-based approach, to ensure that requests of government agencies for legal assistance to their bills, rules and regulations are in line with the constitution and laws.

Philippines

Executive Director

Academia Progresiva de Manila (APDM)

Advancing access to quality and inclusive health and education resources that equip children of all abilities and needs.

Philippines

Lecturer, Faculty of Economic and Business Management

National University of Laos

Focusing on trade and poverty reduction.

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Municipal Vice Mayor and Former Mayor

Municipality of Del Carmen, Siargao Islands, Philippines

Innovating local governance in areas of public health, focusing on social determinants such as education, climate change, environmental management, and income and social protection.

Philippines

Journalist

Writing about culturally taboo topics such as sexual and reproductive health to bridge the gap between vulnerable women in Philippine society and legislators who draft policies that affect their rights.

Philippines

Managing Director

Bangko sa Balay Foundation

Combating rural poverty and promoting equity-based development and sustainable peace.

Philippines

Medical Officer, National Health Plan Implementation Monitoring Unit

Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar

Focusing on monitoring Myanmar's National Health Plan, toward improving the allocation of health resources in Myanmar, especially the distribution of health facilities.

Myanmar

Director of Prosecution Department

International Justice Mission

Rescuing victims of trafficking from places of exploitation and using casework lessons to derive systemic remedies.

Philippines

Director of Health Promotion and Communications Service, Health Promotion Bureau

Department of Health, Philippines

Helping put into operation the mandate of the Universal Health Care Act in the Philippines, ensuring all Filipinos are health literate and have healthy living and working conditions.

Philippines

Nutrition Officer

UNICEF Indonesia

Leading field implementation of UNICEF's landmark research project on the management of severe acute malnutrition, which contributed to the effective scale up process of this life-saving intervention for children.

Indonesia

Health Systems Researcher/Faculty Member, Ramathibodi Medical School

Mahidol University

Applying systems thinking to solve complex issues, such as regional governance of Thailand's Universal Health Coverage, communitybased health interventions for vulnerable populations, and patient safety in health workforce planning.

Thailand

Head of the Nursing Department

Viet Nam National Children's Hospital

Developing training programs and policies to support community health, such as those ensuring patient safety and supporting parents in caring for and understanding their child's medical care needs.

Vietnam

Strategic Policy Adviser

Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion, Timor Leste

Working toward a just and equal society through fair, inclusive public policy formulation and implementation.

Timor-Leste

Coordinator for Access to Medicines Campaign

AIDS Access Foundation

Working to ensure that policies on the promotion of access to HIV and HCV treatment are developed and implemented effectively and systematically.

Thailand

Regional Lead

InSTEDD iLab Southeast Asia

Designing solutions to help people elevate their dignity and living conditions through improvements in health, education and economic development.

Cambodia

Director, National Institute of Public Health

Ministry of Health, Cambodia

Leading research into maternal and child health and the health system in Cambodia. Leading in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Working to develop a national health management and leadership training curriculum.

Cambodia

Associate Professor, School of Public Health

Kunming Medical University

Teaching students and conducting research contributing to the improvement of health for ethnic minorities, especially women and young girls.

China

CEO and Founder

TalentPool

Designing and implementing leadership development programs to enhance the quality of women's lives.

Vietnam

Researcher, Center for Health and Policy Management, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing

University Gadjah Mada

Supporting hospitals to improve services in collaboration with local government to strengthen Indonesia's health system. Researching the inequitable distributions of hospitals and health services of remote areas in Indonesia.

Indonesia

Director, National Law Enforcement Development

International Justice Mission

Building the capacity of public law enforcement to rescue and protect children in vulnerable communities against violent offenders. His current project focuses on the online sexual exploitation of children.

Philippines

Founder

Asgar Muda Foundation (Saving Next Gen Institute)

Building solutions to tackle maternal deaths using big data analytics. Driving up community empowerment across Indonesia to improve the local economy, a social determinant of health equity.

Indonesia

Deputy Country Director

Population Services International

Strengthening health systems to tackle health and social inequity issues for the poor and vulnerable populations through the strategic purchasing of primary health care services to improve quality in the non-public sector.

Myanmar

Founding Member/Vice Director

Center for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population

Empowering vulnerable and disadvantaged communities and enhancing state accountability.

Vietnam

Vice-Rector/Director of Center for Population

Hanoi University of Public Health

Publishing widely in national and international scientific journals; undertaking research studies on health and health care in Viet Nam on topics including the social determinants of health, non-communicable diseases, and universal health coverage.

Vietnam

Co-founder & CEO

AMiLi

Working on increasing the use of technology to improve health equity and access to care.

Singapore

Consultant

National Health and Family Planning Commission, China

Researching social and environmental change and child health, and taking part in a national large-scale early child development intervention program in Shanghai and rural western China.

China

Director, Thailand Research Center for Health Service Systems

Chulalongkorn University

Focusing on health service systems in Thailand, including universal coverage, quality management, health sector financing, and health security schemes. Also working to promote equity and quality in education.

Thailand

CEO/Co-Founder

Health at Home

Combining expertise in geriatric medicine with a passion for home health care technology to serve Thailand's growing elderly population.

Thailand

Founder/CEO

Porous City Network

Working to tackle climate change and increase urban resilience in Thailand and Southeast Asian cities through landscape architecture.

Thailand

Director

Preah Vihear Provincial Health Department

Working to improve access to health information and health services, especially for remote patient populations. Spearheaded an initiative to support high-risk pregnant women.

Cambodia

Founder and Board Member

Why I Why Group

Creating networks of support for health care professionals to remove obstacles that prevent them from reaching their full potential.

Thailand

Country Project Manager

ICRC MoveAbility Foundation

Aiming to ensure access to quality and affordable physical rehabilitation services for people with disabilities in Viet Nam.

Vietnam

Grants Officer

DAI Global LLC

Supporting Malaysia's reform toward a more democratic, inclusive and accepting home for all its people.

Malaysia

CEO

FamilyDoc Medical Mechnology Co Ltd

Advancing use of mobile technology to help 1.5 million doctors deliver high quality primary care for everyone, anytime, anywhere, across China.

China

Director

iSEE Institute

Advocating for LGBTI in Viet Nam, focusing on raising public awareness, legal advocacy for law makers, media, youth, public and private sectors.

Vietnam

Board Member

Assisi Hospice

Bringing humanity to medicine with compassionate and excellent care for all. Founded first pediatric palliative care service in Indonesia.

Singapore

Founder/CEO

LUKKID/Asian Leadership Academy

Developing human-centered work processes that allow people to tackle social challenges through collaboration.

Thailand

CEO

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Thailand

Leading the organization towards conservation excellence and efficiency. Protecting biodiversity and preserving its habitats, combatting illegal wildlife trade, as well as implementing plastic pollution reduction programs in major coastal cities.

Thailand

Head of Medical Services

HealthServe Ltd

Providing low cost primary care to migrant workers in Singapore; and strengthening the health systems in Timor-Leste.

Singapore

Artist, Curator, Founding Director

Queer Forever!

Exploring issues of queer aesthetics and activism, working through art and film projects, and exhibitions that are usually collaborative, and participatory.

Vietnam

Founder and Director

Action to the Community Development Institute (ACDC)

Empowering communities of people with disabilities. She advocated the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and is actively monitoring the implementation.

Vietnam

Lecturer, Social Work, University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Viet Nam National University

Creating change through supporting access to health and social services for vulnerable and disadvantaged populations, such as children in special circumstances, persons with disabilities, HIV/AIDs patients and marginalized groups

Vietnam

Official

Office of People's Committee of Dong Thap Province

Working to expand health insurance coverage and health service provision, with a focus on the growing elderly population.

Vietnam

Postdoctoral Fellows, Institute of Global Health

United Nations University

Working on migration, forced labor, and health, especially the health needs of trafficked fishermen.

Malaysia

Founder and CEO

Taman Bacaan Pelangi (Rainbow Reading Gardens)

Nurturing children's habit of reading and improving their literacy skills in remote areas of Eastern Indonesia, having set up over 100 libraries and trained thousands of local teachers.

Indonesia

Director for Mindanao Programme

Community and Family Services International

Working to improve the resilience of the Internally Displaced Persons. Training para-social workers to serve as a social service catalyst in the Bangsamoro communities.

Philippines

Health Field Officer

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Focusing on health care in detention and health policy for refugees.

Malaysia

Founder/CEO

Center for Social Initiatives Promotion

Helping build a new sector for social entrepreneurship in Viet Nam and the region.

Vietnam

Assistant CEO

Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth)

Seeking to empower individuals and organizations for a healthy society and environment.

Thailand

Country Program Manager

Australian Volunteers (Myanmar)

Helping bring a sustainable social and development change in Myanmar.

Vietnam

Executive Director

APCOM Foundation

Developing a broad range of projects to advance the health, rights and wellbeing of people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Thailand

Research Fellow, Development Studies Program

Ateneo de Manila University

Pursuing ethnographic and qualitative researches on medical, social, and environmental issues relevant to the Philippines and the region. Writing for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and other publications.

Philippines

CEO

Center for Healthcare Improvement Research

Bringing together all available resources, domestically and internationally, to support the improvement of health care services in Viet Nam.

Vietnam

Technical Officer, WHO Health Emergency Programme

World Health Organization, Lao PDR country office

Strengthening public health emergency preparedness and response capacity through engaging with stakeholders to implement the national health security plan, ensuring equitable access to health services.

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Senior Researcher, International Health Policy Program

Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

Focusing on research into universal health coverage, especially in low and middle income countries. Researching the health of migrants and vulnerable populations, applying epidemiology and econometrics.

Thailand

Educator, Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies

Mahidol University

Educating and conducting research to promote peace, human rights, reconciliation and conflict transformation in Thailand and neighboring countries.

Thailand

Researcher and Public Health Specialist, Faculty of Medicine

Universiti Teknologi MARA

Conducting research and advocating for the rights and protection of older adults, refugees and migrant workers. Building and training young minds to stand up for equity and social justice from the health perspective.

Malaysia

Commissioner

Yogyakarta Hospital Supervisory Board

Improving quality health care and empowering patients through collaborative works with providers, health practitioners, government, and society.

Indonesia

Managing Director

Buddhism for Health

Improving access to quality health care services for the poor and vulnerable. Strengthening capacity of local government officials in developing responsive local investment plans and accountability.

Cambodia

Director

Lamsonthi Hospital

Working with the government to train caregivers and redirect health care resources toward home care.

Thailand

Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer

VIDA Digital Identity

Enabling Digital Trust and catalyzing financial inclusion through VIDA, an earlystage technology company providing a frictionless and secure digital identity system. Supporting entrepreneurs, investing and health equity issues.

Indonesia

Executive Director

Child Helpline Cambodia

Advocating for child protection law and cybercrime law to criminalize online child sexual exploitation in Cambodia. Developing the online helpline platform to give children increased protection.

Cambodia

Research Manager

REACH Initiative Syria

Supporting assessment, evaluation, and research projects in fragile and conflict-affected states.

Singapore

Lecturer, Peking University First Hospital

Peking University

Focusing on health, food, and drug safety across China.

China

Director

Aizhen

Addressing the psychological, physical, social and economic problems of people affected by leprosy in China.

China

Founder and Director

Community Health Impact Assessment Platform in Southeast Asia

Leading efforts to empower communities to carry out health impact assessments to encourage them to negotiate with policy makers, with a focus on mining and coal-fired power plants.

Thailand

Clinic Manager/Founding Member

Medifit Clinic

Focusing on issues of sexual and gender-based violence and on promoting healthy lifestyles.

Indonesia

Chief Physician

Lao Medical Care Center

Strengthening primary health care by focusing on the community-based health service through private sector involvement. Running two community medical centers, providing over 100,000 outpatient visits a year.

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Medical Lecturer, Social and Preventative Medicine Department at the Faculty of Medicine

University of Malaysia

Focusing on achieving universal health coverage, and providing financial risk protection to households.

Malaysia

Deputy Director General

Ministry of Planning and Investment, Viet Nam

Practicing social justice through ideas and implementation of the Community Development Program and the White Cane Initiative for the Blind in Viet Nam.

Vietnam

Executive Director and Morning News Producer

Vietnam National Television

Overseeing content development for national television on social issues, including gender and domestic violence, women's health and HIV/AIDS.

Vietnam

PhD Student, Nossal Institute for Global Health

University of Melbourne

Assessing geographical equity in reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health.

Indonesia

Co-Founder/Executive Director

myME: Myanmar Mobile Education Project

Providing education via mobile classrooms to children in Myanmar who are in indentured servitude at teashop restaurants. Working to develop policies and strategies to address inclusivity and equity in education.

Myanmar

Media Consultant, Film Producer, Journalist and Co-Founder

Lao New Wave Cinema Production

Producing socially responsible documentaries of life in Laos and Southeast Asia, with a focus on social, health and environmental issues.

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Research Scientist, Department of Medical Research

Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar

Enhancing social justice in health through research of vulnerable populations. Initiating efforts to improve the practice of evidencebased policy-making by mentoring and facilitating data to the policy program in Myanmar.

Myanmar

Board Member

Peking Union Medical Foundation

Professor and Deputy Director of Plastic Surgery Department, Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Board member of a non- profit foundation, Peking Union Medical Foundation.

China

Lecturer, Center for Health Development Studies

Peking University

Working to bring greater recognition to the importance and feasibility of reducing health inequities and facilitating China's contribution to global health equity.

China

Presid

Evercare Health Group

Developing the group strategy and strong relationships with local communities. Leading, inspiring and managing the top leadership teams. Ensuring the company's profitable growth.

China

Associate Professor, Child Health Advocacy Institute

Shanghai Children's Medical Center

Establishing an early child development monitoring system, identifying a target population with equity analysis and carrying out interventions to improve child health and development.

China

Founder

Environmental Rescue Initiative

Recycling plastic waste into construction materials and creating awareness of plastic pollution. Sampling and testing environmental monitoring points to ensure compliance.

Liberia

Founder and Executive Director

Dentalcare Foundation

Promoting, optimizing, and fostering oral health equity in the Nigerian health care system and exploring oral health-related issues and culture of underserved communities.

Nigeria

Chief Medical Officer

Preventative Care Health Services

Advocating for less disparate health care resources for rural patients and providers. Building more capacity for health care infrastructure along the United States-Mexico border.

United States

Resident Doctor

Al-Kadhimiya Teaching Hospital, Baghdad

Practicing medicine and working to reduce sexual harassment and women's rights violations in the workplace by promoting the gender provisions of the Iraqi labor law.

United Kingdom

Physician Assistant

Tarrant County Public Health

Practicing health care in a public health department, working primarily in infectious disease management. Cultivating a passion for providing care for the community's underserved population.

United States

Family Physician & Family Medicine Residency Faculty

Contra Costa Health Services

Practicing family and community medicine and partnering with families in Contra Costa County, California, to help people lead healthy and well lives. Cultivating leaders and change agents in young people and learners.

United States

Public Health Specialist and Adjunct Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Public Health Delhi

Public Health Foundation of India

Teaching a public health program for postgraduate students, focusing on health equity. Developing a communication strategy for one division of a state in India to increase health information access to low-literate populations.

India

Field training Compliance Officer, Ohio Peace Officer Training Commission

Office of the Ohio Attorney General

Researching the availability and accessibility of mental health wellness services for law enforcement officers in Ohio, and developing a resource guide for creating and funding wellness bureaus.

United States

FINDconnect Program Manager

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

Improving access to resources addressing social determinants of health to eliminate health disparities among adolescents with complex trauma in Oakland, California.

United States

Founder

Balance 365

Developing national child-related policies, programs, strategies, and communication material to promote child protection, wellbeing, and holistic development. Promoting mental health and wellness through workshops.

Trinidad and Tobago

Assistant Director Planning & Business Development

Fatima Memorial Hospital, Lahore

Working with the corporate partners of Fatima Memorial Hospital to increase revenue to extend free or subsidized quality care to those most affected by high health care expenditures.

Pakistan

Associate Physician

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Researching and implementing strategies to eliminate racial inequities in hospital triage. Designing and building a community health program alongside Palestinian refugees living in camps.

United States

Clinic Administrator

Cherokee Nation Cooweescoowee Health Center

Leading efforts to re-envision primary care training that focuses on the integration of behavioral health into primary care.

United States

Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, School of Nursing

Duke University

Working to ensure the Duke University School of Nursing celebrates diversity and enhances inclusive practices for all members of the community.

United States

Full Professor, College of Nursing

University of Sao Paulo

Advocating for human rights education among vulnerable groups and building capacity for participatory research on health equity.

Brazil

Medical Officer IV, Health Facility Development Bureau

Department of Health, Philippines

Developing policies as well as future leaders who champion health equity in the Philippines.

Philippines

Owner/CEO

Paradigm Dental Center

Practicing dentistry and connecting under-represented or under-resourced youth to mentors and the resources needed to become health care professionals.

United States

Founder

The Oasis Alliance

Improving the lives of trauma survivors by co-creating personal spaces that promote mental health and wellbeing.

United States

Municipal Health Officer

Rural Health Unit-Gamay

Providing primary health care and advocating for health equity through universal health care in a rural and remote area in the Visayas region of the Philippines.

Philippines

Senior Health Policy and Program Advisor

Children's Institute

Advocating to improve child health and wellbeing in Oregon. Uniting the voices of communities directly affected by early health and learning disparities and co-creating solutions to ensure healthy and thriving children.

United States

Co-Founder and Art Director

Ztwist Design LLC

Collaborating with artists and artisans worldwide to create culturally contextualized patient education tools to improve information equity and health literacy among low-resource populations.

United States

Adjunct Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

Advocating reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases, especially kidney disease, and health disparities in the diagnosis.

Ghana

Director, Health Center Clinical Operations

Erie Family Health Centers

Strengthening clinical operations to optimize health outcomes and workforce development at a federally qualified health center that provides care in underresourced communities in Chicago.

United States

Gender Specialist

Emmanuel International

Engaging communities to develop authentic efforts that strengthen the health care system and promote equitable access for all.

Malawi

Director of Community Engagement and Inclusion

United Way for Southeastern Michigan

Mobilizing resident involvement in decisionmaking to ensure efforts are driven by community needs and assets. Developing strategies to support public health infrastructure.

United States

Co-Founder and Co-Director

UndocuBlack Network

Training and ensuring the development of community mental health facilitators to support undocumented immigrant communities nationwide.

United States

Research Assistant Professor, Medical Center

University of Rochester