John Brownstein, PhD is Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and is the Chief Innovation Officer of Boston Children’s Hospital. He directs the Computational Epidemiology Lab and the Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator both at Boston Children’s. He was trained as an epidemiologist at Yale University. Dr. Brownstein is also co-founder of digital health companies Epidemico and Circulation and an ABC News Medical Contributor.

Thomas Yuill, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor of Pathobiological Sciences and of Wildlife Ecology and Emeritus director and Professor the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has done research and training in Thailand and mainly in Latin America. He has served as a virus diseases moderator for ProMED since 2007. The main areas of his research are wildlife diseases and also arthropod-borne viruses that infect wild and domestic animals and humans.

During his 26 years of professional career, acting in product management, systems engineering and architecture roles, Dusan was engaged in the research and development of disruptive information and communication technologies. His curriculum includes a technology leadership career at Ericsson, then engagements within life science, healthcare, and public health domains. He acquired comprehensive and profound knowledge and mastery of big data analytic technologies and their implementation in the most complex global settings during the 16 years of his technology leadership career at Ericsson. From 2004, Dusan was involved internationally in engagements within life science and healthcare engagements, to which he transitioned professionally in 2016. In a mission to connect patient biomedical data for timely discovery of biological signatures of diseases, he acted as a health intelligence architect, including machine learning and knowledge engineering, to develop the Human Brain Project's Medical Informatics Platform. In the World Health Organization, he acts as a technology expert and a public health intelligence architect within the EIOS Core Team and a member of a start-up team responsible for operationalising the new WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. Dusan inspired and secured the creation of Hub's Open-Source Programme Office to support open innovations within the WHO and globally and two prime-mover initiatives – Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and Collaboration Laboratory. Dusan has BSc in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Telecommunications. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland, with his wife, two daughters and Larry the Cat (not the one from 10, Downing Street).