
Arthur Kaufman, MD is a Distinguished Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Community Health at the University of New Mexico; the Director of the Health Extension Regional Officers (HEROs) Program and Director of the Community Health Workers Initiatives Program; Director of the University of New Mexico’s W.H.O. Collaborating Center; and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine He served in the U.S.P.H.S Indian Health Service in South Dakota and New Mexico.

Head, Discipline of Rural and Remote Medicine Rural Clinical School The University of Queensland, Australia

Candice Chen, MD, MPH, is the Chair of Beyond Flexner Alliance (BFA) and an Associate Professor in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.

Charles Boelen is a medical doctor (University of Liège, Belgium, 1966 ), specialized in public health (Université de Montréal, Canada), epidemiology ( McGill University, Montreal), health system management (Harvard and Stanford, USA)and education of health professionals ( Université de Paris XIII, France )