Dr Rose Nani Mudin is a Consultant Public Health Physician and Epidemiologist, and Deputy Director Communicable Disease, Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health, Government of Malaysia. She graduated as Doctor in Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics (M.D) in 1992 from the State University of Ghent, Belgium. She then pursued a Master’s degree in Public Health in 2003, further continued her specialization course in Epidemiology and obtained her Master in Public Health of Epidemiology in 2007 from University of Malaya, Malaysia.

She has over 20 years’ experience as program manager and managing infectious diseases and Vector Borne Diseases at the state, national, and international levels. She is the coordinator and committee of National Zika Experts Committee for Ministry of Malaysia and the Head of the Technical Working Group of Integrated Vector Management course, conjoint efforts between WHO, APMEN, ACT Malaria and Ministry of Health Malaysia. She was also the Executive Board Officers for Asian collaborative Training network for Malaria in July 2013.

Htin is a medically qualified public health professional with more than 8 years’ experience in malaria control and elimination in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Htin spent his early career as medical officer remote areas of Myanmar delivering primary health care services and implementing malaria control projects. Htin has managed multimillion regional fund at Principal Recipient for Global Fund to Fight ADIS, TB, and Malaria. He holds a Master of Public Health Degree from National University of Singapore (NUS). Htin is currently working at Malaria Consortium, as Technical Specialist based in Bangkok, Thailand. Htin is responsible for technical assistance of Malaria Consortium programs in Asia (Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar) and coordinating Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) Vector Control Working Group (VCWG).

Mark Hoppé is a Public Health entomologist with 30 years’ experience of research, development, and advocacy in agricultural and public health insect control. He is currently involved in the development of novel solutions for the control of insects of public health importance, working for Syngenta in Switzerland. Mark studied Crop Protection at Bath University in the UK, and holds an MBA in technology management. He is also the chair of the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee’s (IRAC) Public Health team, co-chairs the Roll Back Malaria VCWG’s Integrated Vector Management (IVM) and Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM) workstream, and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society

Angus has worked for almost 20 years planning, developing and implementing malaria and child health programs throughout Africa and SE Asia. His work has taken him from emergency response in Sierra Leone, Liberia latterly to Angola, where he led the establishment of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) in country before joining UNICEF as a Regional Malaria Advisor in Kenya. He later moved to Population Services International (PSI) where, as Deputy Director of the Malaria and Child Survival department, played a leading role in diversifying PSI’s malaria portfolio to integrate broader child health issues through public and private channels. Angus currently leads the Innovation to Impact (I2I) program which was established to streamline access to new vector control tools. Since its inception, i2i has worked closely with WHO prequalification and other vector control stakeholders and is now focused on improving vector control data collection and country access to new tools. Angus has an MSc in Tropical Parasitology and PhD in Malaria Vector Biology from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Justin is the Global Market Manager Vector Control for Bayer with overall responsibility for global portfolio strategy. He has worked in vector control at Bayer in one function or another for the past 20 years; with experience in product development and regulatory affairs, and commercial business management for vector control products in the Pacific region (while living in Australia) prior to his current global strategic marketing position. Before joining Bayer, Justin worked for a large international Pest Control company in the UK and Australia, after completing studies in Medical entomology at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Rittika has five years of work experience in the public health sector. Her interests primarily lie in conducting research and developing an evidence base to inform and shape higher level policy making. From holding the position of Senior Associate for Access & Policy at APLMA for over two years, Rittika has moved to the new role of Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Officer. Prior to joining APLMA, she worked with Government Reforms and Infrastructure Development team of PricewaterhouseCoopers India, in the Social Sector practice, as a consultant. She has undertaken consulting and research assignments relating to public health, nutrition and sanitation for multilateral agencies like United Nations, World Bank, DFID and various national and state level government departments in India. She also holds a Masters in Public Policy from National University of Singapore, an MBA degree from Xavier Institute of Management, India

Dr Rose Nani Mudin is a Consultant Public Health Physician and Epidemiologist, and Deputy Director Communicable Disease, Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health, Government of Malaysia. She graduated as Doctor in Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics (M.D) in 1992 from the State University of Ghent, Belgium. She then pursued a Master’s degree in Public Health in 2003, further continued her specialization course in Epidemiology and obtained her Master in Public Health of Epidemiology in 2007 from University of Malaya, Malaysia.

She has over 20 years’ experience as program manager and managing infectious diseases and Vector Borne Diseases at the state, national, and international levels. She is the coordinator and committee of National Zika Experts Committee for Ministry of Malaysia and the Head of the Technical Working Group of Integrated Vector Management course, conjoint efforts between WHO, APMEN, ACT Malaria and Ministry of Health Malaysia. She was also the Executive Board Officers for Asian collaborative Training network for Malaria in July 2013.

Dr Sarthak Das is the Chief Executive Officer of the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance. Sarthak joins APLMA from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where he holds appointments as Research Scientist in the Dean’s Office & Department of Health Policy and Management, and as Senior Advisor for Research Translation & Global Health Policy at the Harvard Global Health Institute. He brings twenty-five years of experience as a public health scientist, development practitioner, and global health policy advisor. His worked spanned from diverse Asia-Pacific settings, in countries such as Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea, as well as in West Africa.

Sarthak graduated from Harvard College with a joint A.B. in Social Anthropology and Sanskrit/Indian Studies, holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Yale University’s School of Medicine, and a Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.