Dr. Arul Veerappan works as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Environmental Medicine, Department of Medicine at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Veerappan’s major areas of research are environmental toxicants such as heavy metals, bisphenols and air pollution including World Trade Center Particulate Matter exposure due to manmade or climate change and their cardiopulmonary health effects and carcinogenesis. Dr. Veerappan has published his research work in high impact top tier journals such as PNAS, Nature Medicine, Translational Science etc. He has also presented his work in various national and international conferences and delivered invited talks at various institutions.

Dr Dorairaj Prabhakaran is an Executive Director - Centre for Chronic Disease Control. India His work spans from mechanistic research to understand the causes for increased propensity of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among Indians, to developing solutions for CVD through translational research and human resource development. Prof. Prabhakaran is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, UK, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, and an Adjunct Professor at the Emory University. He is member of Executive Council of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) and Chair of the International Society of CVD Epidemiology and Prevention (ISCEP). He has received funding from NHLBI, Wellcome Trust, European Commission and several other international and national funding bodies. He has mentored over 40 post-doctoral and doctoral students so far. He has authored several chapters and over 375 scholarly papers with an H index of 61. He is the lead editor of the Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Related Disorders volume of Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition.

Prof. Gufran Beig is holding the “Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee Chair Professor” chair at NIAS in Indian Institute of Science campus, Bangalore. His area of work is Environmental science and policy in Climate change and their impact on Human Health and Food Security. He as the Founder Director of India’s first air quality forecasting framework, popularly known as “SAFAR” at part of Ministry of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India where he was working as Senior scientist. He is the recipient of coveted Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award, India’s highest honor in Scientific discipline. He has the distinction to be the first Indian recipient to get WMO award of United Nations. Besides many awards and honors, he is also the fellow of Indian academy of sciences and Indian Meteorological Society. Prof. Beig has published 250 international scientific papers with 11,000 citations. He is among top 2% scientist of the world in recently released ranking by Stanford University. He edited 8 scientific books, published 31 technical monographs and delivered more than 410 invited talks, so far.

Dr. Jyotsana Shukla is currently Associate Professor in Psychology at Integral University, Lucknow , Uttar Pradesh, India. She received her Ph. D in Psychology, from Lucknow University, Lucknow, in the year 2001. In her Ph.D, she studied the personality profile of elementary school teachers and explored their stressors. She used the concepts of Transactional Analysis and Rorshach test in her study. Later on she joined academics and has held regular positions of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and Assistant Professor (Grade III) at since then. She has been conducting classes in Psychology for undergraduate and post graduate students. Her research interests are in the areas of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Health Psychology and Personality Studies. Currently she focuses on extreme weather and its impact on mental health of individuals and societies and the improvement of mental health of students.

Sagnik_Dey is Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi, India and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Health, Policy and Management, Korea University, South Korea. He is the coordinator of Centre of Excellence for Research on Clean Air (CERCA) and an Associate Faculty of School of Public Policy and Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Centre (TRIPC) at IIT Delhi. His research interests are to understand 'air quality, climate change and health nexus' and 'remote sensing of the Earth's climate system'. He has published more than 160 peer-reviewed research articles. He is an international collaborator of NASA's MAIA satellite mission and the Global Burden of Disease Study. He is currently an expert member in WHO air quality and health program and co-convener of CAPHER-India network. He has led several international and national projects and worked as a consultant for the World Bank, UNEP and UNDP.