Fingani Annie Mphande is an assistant professor of Microbiology at the faculty of Medicine, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand. A molecular microbiologist with over 15 years' experience in public health and in infectious disease research in low- and middle-income countries, she has worked on infectious diseases including TB, malaria, and dengue fever in Malawi, Sweden, UK, New Caledonia, and Thailand. Her work focuses on infectious diseases affecting vulnerable populations and communities. She has authored several publications in peer reviewed journals including three books, Infectious Diseases and Rural Livelihood in Developing Countries (2016), Skin Disorders in Vulnerable Populations: Causes, Impacts and Challenges (2020) and Sustainable Health in Low and Middle Income Countries;Achieving SDG3 in the (Post) Pandemic World (2023). She holds a Ph.D. in infection biology from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden, and M.Sc.

in Applied Microbiology from University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. Peter Suwirakwenda Nyasulu is a professor of Epidemiology at Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Medicine, and Health Sciences. He is a member of the American College of Epidemiology and an honorary associate professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has extensive experience in clinical and public health research with special research interest in control of communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as enhancing medical education as a catalyst for skills development in disease control and management. He has been teaching epidemiology and public health for more than a decade to both postgraduate and undergraduate students in various institutions in South Africa.