3^rd World Congress on Medical Sociology & Public Health September 21-22, 2018 Dallas, Texas, USA

Douglas A. Feldman, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology from The College at Brock port, State University of New York, former Chair of the Department of Anthropology, and former President of the Society for Medical Anthropology. He is author/editor of seven books about HIV/AIDS and anthropology, most recently AIDS, Culture, and Gay Men. He has conducted social research on HIV/AIDS in the United States, Hungary, Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, and Senegal. He is the recipient of the Kimball Award for Public and Applied Anthropology, and the Distinguished Service Award of the AIDS and Anthropology Research Group.

He is author/editor of seven books about HIV/AIDS and anthropology, most recently AIDS, Culture, and Gay Men. He has conducted social research on HIV/AIDS in the United States, Hungary, Zambia, Uganda, Rwanda, and Senegal.

Nauright comes to UNT from the University of Brighton in England, where he is assistant head of school and director of the Institute of Research and Graduate Studies for the School of Sport and Service Management. He also holds visiting or honorary professorships at universities worldwide, including Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), the University of Ghana, the University of the West Indies (Barbados), and Aarhus University (Denmark).

Health Promotion and Recreation

Thomas R (Bob) Konrad, Ph.D. is a medical sociologist and professor emeritus in the Dept. of Health Policy and Management, Gillings Global School of Public Health at UNC-CH. As a fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and Senior Scientist at the NC Institute on Aging, He serves a consultant for the evaluation of interdisciplinary Geriatric Team Training at Duke University and as a principal in the firm Health Workforce Analytics. He currently serves as co-principal investigator for a nation study of health workforce development being conducted for the US DHHS by Abt Associates.

Dr. Konrad conducted health services research studies on workforce, organization, and quality of care. In the last decade he has focused on frontline health workers employed in settings focused on low income populations, directing the RWJF’s national evaluation of Jobs to Careers program. Dr. Konrad works with organizations, communities, and educational institutions to develop career paths for low income health and social care workers.

Hans Oluf Hansen was born in 1939. In 1969 MA (Univ. of Copenhagen).1970 Visiting scholar, London School of Economics. Sep 1969 Assistant Professor and 1973-1997 Associate Professor (Institute of Statistics, Univ. of Copenhagen, demography). 1998-Sep 2009 Associate Professor (Institute of Economics, Univ. of Copenhagen, demography). Oct 2009 Emeritus.

Health economics, demography studies

Colleen McBride, PhD came to Emory from the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, where she served as founding chief and senior investigator of the Social and Behavioral Research Branch. McBride's research focuses on innovative public health interventions to promote risk-reducing behaviors, specifically using genetic information to motivate healthy behaviors. Genetic information, scientists believe, eventually will allow lifestyle interventions to be personalized to make compliance with healthy behaviors easier. McBride held academic positions at the University of Washington as well as Duke University Medical Center, where she served as chief of the Division of Prevention Research in the Department of Community and Family Medicine. At Duke, she was director of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program. She has held adjunct faculty appointments in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

McBride's research interests center on designing and evaluating interventions to promote risk-reducing behaviors including avoidance of tobacco, healthy weight and regular physical activity.

She is a Professor of Health Economics and Outcomes at UCSF. Teach Decision Analysis. Research is in Payment Models, Cost-effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cost of Illness studies, Prevalence and Costs of rare Infectious diseases, Patient preference measurement using conjoint analysis and discrete event analysis and WTP and standard gamble. Clinical areas: rare diseases, oncology, urologic problems, dementia, multiple sclerosis, eating disorders, ADHD, HIV & pancreatitis in pediatrics.

Her Research is in Payment Models, Cost-effectiveness and Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cost of Illness studies, Prevalence and Costs of rare Infectious diseases, Patient preference measurement using conjoint analysis and discrete event analysis and WTP and standard gamble. Clinical areas: rare diseases, oncology, urologic problems, dementia, multiple sclerosis, eating disorders, ADHD, HIV & pancreatitis in pediatrics.

Adenrele Awotona, Professor of Urban Planning and Community Studies, is the founder and Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters, and a former Dean of the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. He was previously a Director of Studies for the British Council International Seminars (“Reconstruction after disasters”) in the UK where he has also served at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne as a Director of Graduate Studies in architecture and urban design. Through research, consultancy and teaching, he has professional experience in several countries in five continents.

International development, disaster and conflict induced displacement and resettlement, humanitarian distresses, community-based planning in times of crisis, disaster risk reduction, reconstruction after disasters, public health and disasters.

Sheying Chen is Professor and Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at Pace University, New York.

He has published more than 50 articles on social policies, social issues and social works all over the world. His research work mainly focuses on social policy and social issues.

M. Antonia Noguera Romero has graduated in Pharmacy by the University of Valencia in 1987 with extraordinary graduated award and Doctorate in Pharmacy "cum laude" with extraordinary doctoral award in 1991. Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Valencia since 1998.Pharmacist specialized in analysis and control of medicines and drugs (Ministry of Education and Science, 2003). She is a Member of the Advisory Committee on Evaluation of therapeutic novelties, from the Valencian Health Agency (Health Department) since 2011. Participation as evaluator of international journals: British Journal of Pharmacology. Member of the Spanish Pharmacology Society from 1992. Member of the Organizing Committee of the 36th Congress of the Spanish Society of Pharmacology. Member of the scientific committee at the Congress of Pharmacy students at the University of Valencia (in 2016 and 2017)

She published 44 articles in scientific journals of international projection, the majority in the first or second quartile of its area. Around 80 Communications in Congresses, national and international, in the field of Pharmacology. Participation in 19 research projects financed by international, national and autonomous public organizations and private organizations. Supervisor of 5 evaluated and defended Doctoral thesis and 4 Doctoral thesis in progress. Academic tutor of 10 Master’s degree final projects. Line of research in the field of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, addressing the study of the pathophysiological mechanisms of hypertension as well as the search for new principles of natural origin with a possible therapeutic interest. A postdoctoral stay at the Valencia Foundation for Biomedical Research. Institute of Cytological Investigations.

Gunn-Tove Minde is an associate professor in department of social relations at UiT Norway's Arctic University.

Social Relations