MANAGING HEALTH OF VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

Prof Jordan has held numerous leadership positions over the past 20 years’ working to promote and support evidence-based healthcare globally. She is particularly interested in understanding how evidence syntheses efforts related to global frameworks such as the SDGs. She has been involved in various collaborative groups such as the Global Evidence Commission Response Working Group (Australia), SPOR Evidence Alliance International Advisory Committee (Canada), the Multi-Stakeholder Engagement Consortia (MuSE) and Cochrane Co-Production Methodology Group, JBI Textual Evidence Synthesis Methodology Group, Evidence Synthesis Taxonomy Initiative Advisory Group (ESTI), the Health Translation SA Implementation Science Network Executive. Prof Jordan was the recipient of the South Australian Telstra Business Women's Award for Public Sector and Academia in 2019. Read more

He previously served as Associate Professor at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata. He is a recipient of prestigious honors, including the CANADA-HOPE Scholarship by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the UGC’s Junior Research Fellowship. Dr. Mukherjee has led or co-led over 15 major research projects, notably in public health, development policy, and social equity. His work spans health economics, development studies, and quantitative policy evaluation, contributing extensively through scholarly publications and policy-relevant research. Dr. Mukherjee remains deeply committed to advancing empirical research and mentoring the next generation of social scientists in India. Read more

She is the Assistant Director-Research at the Centre for Public Health Research, MANT, India. She specializes in vector-borne diseases, public health, and evidence synthesis, with a focus on climate-related severe weather events in the Bay of Bengal. Her doctoral research (2021) examined vector-borne disease prevalence in Kolkata. A recipient of the UGC NET/JRF-SRF fellowship (2015), she integrates GIS into health geography research. Dr. Khatoon has published widely, presented globally, and received multiple awards, including a Best Paper Award (2023), NIH case study project (2024) and a travel grant for the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (2024). Read more

She is a Technical Officer at WHO in the Department of Social Determinants of Health in the Equity and Health Unit with senior expertise in social determinants of health, health equity, health systems and Health in All Policies. She has 30 years’ work experience in public health, starting in South Africa where she worked 5 years on health policy and community health, based at the University of Cape Town, before joining WHO. At WHO, she led the team developing measurement of health systems’ responsiveness / quality of care from the patient’s perspective; co-facilitated the Country Stream of Work of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health; and led several projects developing evidence syntheses, WHO guidance, and supports for intersectoral action and the Health in All Policies approach in country work to address the social determinants of health equity. She holds a Bachelors’ degree (in economics) and two Masters degrees - Master of Economics from the University of Cape Town; Master of Public Health from the University of Washington, Seattle; and a Doctorate in Public Health from Erasmus University, the Netherlands. Read more