Senior Advisor in Health Economics, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
E-mail: suwit@health.moph.go.th

Dr. Suwit Wibulpolprasert is a Senior Advisor in Health Economics at the Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. He began his career as a director and a practitioner in four rural district hospitals. He has extensive experience both in Thailand and internationally, and has published more than 100 papers, reports and books. He has produced radio and television programs on health issues for 15 years. In 2004-2005 he chaired a Working Group on Strategic Development for Avian Influenza Control. He is now an editor of a journal for community health workers, the President of the Folk Doctor Foundation, and serving as a board member of several institutions, as well as representing Thailand in many international health forums.

Internationally, Dr. Wibulpolprasert chairs the Board of the Health Metrics Network and the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network, and the Steering Committee of Asia Partnership on Avian Influenza Research. He also serves as a Vice Chair of the Program Coordinating Board, UNAIDS and a member of interim Board of the Global Health Workforce Alliance.

Dr. Wibulpolprasert was formerly the Vice Chair of the Board of the Global Fund and the President of the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety. Besides all these works, he has run seven marathons.

Senior Assistant Chief, Human Resources Development Unit, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Bangladesh
E-mail: islamks_7@yahoo.com

Dr. Khaled Shamsul Islam is a Senior Assistant Chief of the Human Resources Development Unit, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in Bangladesh. Before joining this Unit, he was the Deputy Project Director of the School Health Programme during 1997-2001. Graduated with a medical degree, he also earned a number of postgraduate diplomas in health economics, adolescent health and health system development from universities in Bangladesh, Thailand, Canada and Sweden. He gained a Master of Health Economics from the University of Dhaka in 1999. Dr. Islam has extensive experience conducting research in human resources for health and has written and published a number of research reports and articles.

Health Human Resources Development Center, Ministry of Health, China
E-mail: jzhang70@yahoo.com

Dr. Junhua Zhang is the Assistant Director-General of the Health Human Resources Development Centre, the Ministry of Health, China. He is in charge of International Cooperation, health research, master student program, and information and technology. Dr. Junhua is also the principal investigator of three research projects namely: (a) The Situation Analysis and the Development Trends of Human resources for Health in China ; (b) Alcohol use status and traffic fatalities in China; (c) HRH in Rural Area of China: Challenges and Options for the future.

Dr. Zhang graduated with Bachelor in Medicine from Tongji Medical University in Wuhan, China and M.Sc .in Epidemiology from the School of Public Health, University of Philippines. He also received his Ph.D degree from The George Institute for International Health, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Sydney, Australia. Prior to joining the Health Human Resource Development Center, Dr. Zhang worked for the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Foreign Loan Office of the China Ministry of Health, and as a senior research fellow at the George Institute of International Health at the University of Sydney.

Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Health, Fiji
E-mail:lwaqatakirewa@health.gov.fj

President, Public Health Foundation of India and Professor of Cardiology, All India Institute of Health Sciences, New Delhi, India
E-mail: ksrinath.reddy@phfi.org

Professor K Srinath Reddy is the President of Public Health Foundation of India and Professor of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Prof Reddy is an eminent clinical cardiologist, and also trained epidemiologist from the McMaster University, Canada.

He has been involved in several major research studies and holds several distinguished positions at the national and international level. He is the chair of the World Heart Federation's Scientific Council on Epidemiology and Prevention and has served on many WHO expert panels.

Professor Reddy is the recipient of the Padma Bhushan award by the President of India recently in 2005 and has also been honored with many other prestigious awards by reputed international organization like WHO and the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, UK, for his outstanding contributions towards promotion of good health and tobacco control.

Professor, College of Public Health and Institute of Health Policy and Development Studies, National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines
E-mail: marilynlorenzo@yahoo.com

Associate director, The Rockefeller Foundation in Nairobi,
Kenya.
E-mail: kbond@rockfound.org

Director - Programme Management, WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India
E-mail: myinthtwe@searo.who.int

Regional Adviser in Human Resources Development, WHO Regional Office for Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines
E-mail: nukuroe@wpro.who.int

Employed by WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO) since December 2000, Dr. Ezekiel Nukuro currently serves as WPRO’s Regional Adviser in HRH since May 2003. His main responsibilities include, among others: regional HRH programme development, monitoring, evaluation and reporting; mobilization of resources to support HRH programmes in the region; technical support for the enhancement of the quality and standards of health professional education and training, including medical education; planning and management of the WHO Fellowships programme in the region; advocate for, and facilitate partnerships /networks and coordinated approach in strengthening HRH capacity of Member States; and providing technical support in aspects of HRH to Member States where possible.

After graduating from the Fiji School of Medicine in 1981, Dr. Nukuro worked at the Solomon Islands Government’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services as a physician and later as the Director of Health services in two remote provinces of the country. After obtaining his Masters degree in Community Health in UK in 1987, he served as Chief Medical Officer, Public Health and was promoted to the post of Undersecretary Health Improvement in the MOH from 1989 to July 1997. He then joined UNICEF (Pacific Office) to work on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and child protection programmes in the Pacific Island countries. Right before joining WHO, he served as the adviser on advocacy, information and communication for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community’s (SPC) population and reproductive health programmes.

Sector Manager, Health, Nutrition and Population, Human Development Sector Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region, the World Bank
E-mail: Fsaadah@worldbank.org