Conference Speakers

Meet Our Speakers for the Global Public Health Conference 2027

GLOBEHEAL 2027 is honored to present a remarkable lineup of global voices leading progress in public health, innovation, and community well‑being. At this milestone 10th Global Public Health Conference, you’ll hear from influential experts whose work is shaping the future of health systems, digital transformation, climate‑resilient care, and equitable community health strategies.

From groundbreaking research in digital health and epidemiology to forward‑thinking approaches in workforce development and environmental health, our speakers bring perspectives that drive meaningful change. Their insights will illuminate the challenges ahead, highlight emerging opportunities, and spark dialogue that supports stronger, more future‑ready health systems.

Join us as these visionary leaders share knowledge that matters, solutions that last, and ideas that empower nations and communities globally.

Keynote Speakers

Conference Speakers | Global Public Health 2027

Dr. Siri Wiig

Center Director
Professor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems
SHARE – Centre for Resilience in Healthcare
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Stavanger
Norway

Siri Wiig, PhD, MSc, is Professor and Centre Director at SHARE – Centre for Resilience in Healthcare, at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. The SHARE Centre is the largest research group in Norway doing research on quality and safety in healthcare. Wiig is full Professor of Quality and Safety in Healthcare Systems at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiS. Wiig is Adjunct Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway, and Senior Adviser at Stavanger University Hospital, Norway; and Honorary Professor at Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia and at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Wiig’s key research interests are resilience in healthcare, patient safety, quality improvement, safety investigations, risk regulation, leadership, and learning in socio-technical systems.

Wiig has been involved in multiple large international research grants and led the Research Council of Norway project Resilience in Healthcare (2018-2024) (5 Mill. Euro). The RIH project developed a new theoretical and translational framework for resilience and included an international comparative study across six countries including Australia, England, Switzerland, Japan, the Netherlands and Norway. The RIH project let up the EU Horizon Europe Grant Support4Resilience (S4R)-Strengthening resilience and mental wellbeing through the Support4Resilience toolbox for leaders in elderly care (2024-2028) (6 Mill. Euro). Prof Wiig is coordinator of the consortium of 14 partners from 9 countries in the Support4Resilience project.

Link to University of Stavanger employee profile: Siri Wiig | Universitetet i Stavanger (uis.no)

Link to Research gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Siri-Wiig
Link to Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MrhmjbUAAAAJ&hl=no&oi=ao

Prof. Dr. Shabbir Syed Abdu

Taipei Medical University
Taiwan

Prof. Dr. Shabbir Syed-Abdul is an Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health Consultant and Professor at Taipei Medical University for over thirteen years. Prof. Shabbir focuses on integrating informatics, healthcare, and public health to drive innovation in the field of health IT. His work emphasizes using artificial intelligence to enhance digital healthcare solutions, with a particular focus on addressing the needs of aging populations and improving chronic disease management. By leveraging his expertise in informatics and healthcare, he contributes to sustainable health innovation projects and initiatives. His efforts are aimed at advancing effective solutions and promoting the alignment of technology with public health priorities. He also serves as Vice-President for Special Affairs at the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), Senior Advisory Board Member of the IMIA Working Group for Medical & Health Informatics Education, and a member of the IBM Working Group for Quantum Computing for Healthcare and Life Sciences.

Prof. John Owusu Gyapong

ARUA Secretary-General

Ghana

Prof. John Owusu Prof. Gyapong is a Ghanaian Professor of Epidemiology and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, in Ho, Ghana, from 2016 to 2022. He is currently the Secretary-General of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA).

Before assuming the office of Secretary-General of the African Research Universities Alliance on 1 August 2024, he was for six years the Vice Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (2016–2022). He had earlier served as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Development at the University of Ghana for five years (2011–2016). He also worked in various capacities at the Ghana Health Service and was chairman of the Food and Drugs Authority Clinical Trials Technical Committee. Outside the university, Prof. Gyapong has had a wide and varied international experience and exposure.

Prof. Gyapong has provided expertise as a technical advisor to several national and international organisations and institutions, some of which he has chaired. These include: The World Bank; World Health Organisation; and the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). These several roles over the last two decades culminated in his appointment as a Commissioner to the Lancet–University of Oslo Commission on the Global Governance for Health, an independent academic research initiative managed in collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute.

Prof. Gyapong’a main area of research is infectious disease epidemiology, especially lymphatic filariasis, malaria, and other neglected tropical diseases. He has been involved in several large-scale epidemiological field trials in Ghana, including the Ghana on Vitamin A Supplementation, Malaria Intervention Studies, and Social and Economic Impact of Lymphatic Filariasis. For over 10 years, he was Director for Research and Development of the Ghana Health Service, where he was responsible for health systems research. He has received at least 5 million dollars of research grants as of 2016.

Before assuming responsibility as Pro-Vice Chancellor, he was the Vice-Dean and Professor in Epidemiology and Disease Control at the School of Public Health of the University of Ghana, and an adjunct professor of International Health at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He serves on several international research review committees and boards.

Prof. Gyapong obtained an MB ChB degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 1987. He undertook his postgraduate studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, England, where he earned an MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries in 1993, and later a Ph.D. in Epidemiology in 1997.

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Olanrewaju Oladimeji

Director of SAMRC/SMU Public Health Interventions,
Innovations and Implementation Research Unit and Head of Doctoral Studies,
Department of Public Health
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University
South Africa

Olanrewaju Oladimeji, MB;BS, MSc, MPA, FRSPH, PhD is a Professor of Epidemiology and Implementation Research. He is the head of Doctoral Programs in the Department of Public Health at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University. He is a member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS), an NRF-Y1-rated researcher, and a former visiting scholar in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He obtained a PhD in Public Health from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He later received a prestigious scholarship award for his Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA. He has spent over a decade in science leadership and research coordination.

He has adjunct professorial affiliations with a few Universities where postgraduate candidates and junior researchers are supervised and mentored. He is an adjunct Professor of Public Health at Durban University of Technology in South Africa and a visiting Professor of Community Health at the University of Jos in Nigeria.

He has supervised over 45 postgraduate candidates up to date. He has been a Co-Investigator in many funded research projects, Principal Investigator of implementation and capacity development grants. His academic and research outputs have earned him several publications in DHET-accredited journals, and the impact of his research is reflected in many high-profile citations (Google Scholar: citation index is 47,976, h-index is 33, and his i10-index is 62. Based on his scholarly visibility, He is a Guest Editor for the Scientific report of a special collection, “Health disparities,” and an Editorial Advisor to F1000 Gateway Global Public Health. He is also an editorial board member for Nature Scientific Reports, academic editor for PLOS One, Pan Africa Medical Journals, and associate editor for Biomedical Central.

He serves as a grants review consultant for grant applications for various international organizations, including the United Nations Office of Special Projects and the Stop TB Partnership in Geneva. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), a Fellow of the African Scientific Institute (ASI), a Fellow of Southern African Science Leadership Program (S-ASLP), a member of the American College of Epidemiology (MACE), a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the American Thoracic Society (ATS). In March 2024, he received a Bronze Scientific Merit Award for his exceptional contributions to Health Research in South Africa.

Dr. Pratap Kumar Nair

Professor
Institute of Health Management Research, Bangalore
India

Dr. Pratap is a seasoned professional with over two decades of experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, having worked with globally recognized organizations across a range of leadership roles in operations, business development, commercial excellence, clinical trials, and healthcare management. His extensive industry exposure spans diverse international markets, from Latin America to Australia, where he has successfully led and developed high-performing, multicultural teams.

Currently serving as a Professor at the International Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR), Bangalore, India, Dr. Pratap holds a Ph.D. from the International Business School of Scandinavia, Denmark. His expertise includes business process optimization, Health IT, Good Clinical Practice, and advancing commercial and clinical strategies within healthcare systems.

Deeply passionate about education and mentorship, Dr. Pratap is committed to nurturing the next generation of healthcare management professionals. He strives to go beyond theoretical teaching by sharing practical insights drawn from real-world experience, inspiring students and the wider community to innovate, lead, and make meaningful contributions to the healthcare sector.

Special Feature Speaker | Global Public Health Conference 2027

A/Prof Rena Dharmawan

Senior Consultant Surgeon, National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS)
Asst. Dean & Professor (Innovation Education & Ecosystem Development, IE2D)
Duke-NUS Medical School
Singapore

A/Prof Rena Dharmawan believes that with the right innovation, one can improve the lives of millions at a time. She is a Senior Consultant Surgeon at Department of Head & Neck Surgery in National Cancer Centre Singapore and Singapore General Hospital. Dr Rena also holds a joint appointment as Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Innovation Education & Ecosystem Development (IE2D) at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. Rena is also Clinical Director in the Office of Innovation, Enterprise and Commercialization (IEC) at Singapore General Hospital.

In 2014, she was one of four nationally-selected fellows in the Singapore-Stanford Biodesign (SSB) Programme, a year-long fellowship that aims to train and nurture the next generation of medical technology innovators for Singapore and Asia. After the fellowship, she co-founded a few Singapore-based medtech startups (Privi Medical, Jaga-Me and CATALYST) and is currently Programme Director for the Duke-NUS Healthcare Innovation Fellowship (D-HIP) to train & develop the next generation of Clinician-Innovators.

Prior to medicine, Rena graduated summa cum laude with a BSc in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She then joined the inaugural batch and completed her medical degree at Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore) in 2011 and completed her MBA in January 2023 at INSEAD’s Global Executive MBA programme, where she was named the “Best & Brightest EMBA in 2022” by Poets & Quants.

Bangkok, Thailand

Conference Speakers

Meet Our Speakers for the Global Public Health Conference 2027

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Siri Wiig

Prof. Dr. Shabbir Syed Abdu

Prof. John Owusu Gyapong

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Olanrewaju Oladimeji

Dr. Pratap Kumar Nair

A/Prof Rena Dharmawan

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