Has worked for almost 20 years in humanitarian medical programmes with MSF and WHO, focusing particularly on continuity care for non-communicable diseases in all-hazards emergencies, leading and managing change in humanitarian programmes, primary healthcare, and climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable healthcare.

An Australian Emergency Medicine Specialist and Public Health Physician. Over the past 20 years, has worked in humanitarian and non-humanitarian emergencies arising from conflict, disaster, forced displacement and disease outbreaks — from Haiti to the Philippines and India, Sierra Leone and DRC to Yemen, Syria and Afghanistan. Medical expertise spans clinical care, strategic development, management and leadership across government, non-government and humanitarian settings. Since 2022, has worked in bioethics related to the practice of humanitarian medicine; previously Medical Director for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Amsterdam, and currently with the MSF Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices, Geneva.

Has conducted ethnographic and qualitative research in Senegal, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti and Eswatini, working at the intersection of humanitarian action and social research. Her background in social anthropology shapes the way she engages with organisational and community dynamics, informing an approach centred on collective inquiry and dialogue that supports groups and organisations through reflection and change. Drawing on Nonviolent Communication (NVC), she also facilitates conversations that help clarify needs, strengthen relationships and support more participatory collaboration between communities, local actors and humanitarian organisations.

Dr Mohammed Seyam is a physician and global health professional working at the intersection of NCD policy, advocacy, and health systems strengthening in humanitarian settings, currently pursuing a PhD in Digital Diabetes Care Policy. He has collaborated and served as a project consultant with WHO, MSF, and civil society networks across the Eastern Mediterranean to improve access to NCD care in emergencies and brings both professional expertise and lived experience as a person with type 1 diabetes.

Nearly 10 years of experience in programme management for health initiatives and research, spanning humanitarian non-profits, the U.S. government and academic medical centres, with projects in Kenya, Malawi and the U.S. Currently Program and Community Manager for IADA, supporting projects on diabetes care in humanitarian crises, managing communications with international stakeholders including UN agencies, and coordinating international conferences and workshops. Also provides nutrition counselling to low-income patients with chronic diseases, and is a Supervisor on the Disaster Action Team of the American Red Cross. Holds a Master's in Nutrition for Global Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Holds an MSc in Global Public Health from the University of Copenhagen. Has worked with diverse academic institutions and humanitarian actors, including the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, and the CHH–Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement, with work centred on non-communicable diseases in humanitarian settings, implementation research and evidence translation. In 2024, published an operational handbook on planning, implementing and evaluating peer support approaches for people living with chronic diseases in humanitarian settings, and has coordinated three open-access MOOCs, including on Operational Research in Humanitarian Settings and Humanitarian Health. Co-module organiser for the MSc on Health in Humanitarian Crises at LSHTM, and previously director of the non-communicable diseases in humanitarian settings executive course at the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies.

Over a decade of experience in health system strengthening, non-communicable diseases and healthcare management in low- and middle-income countries. Has worked in humanitarian and emergency settings with WHO across oPt, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Iraq and Somalia, including efforts to establish a Regional Expert Network for Chronic Kidney Diseases and advocating for prioritising renal dialysis as a life-saving intervention during humanitarian crises. At WHO Sudan, played a pivotal role integrating WHO technical packages such as HEARTS and PEN into primary healthcare, and facilitated the development of national NCD strategies and guidelines for cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and hypertension.

Almost two decades of international experience leading integrated, people-centred healthcare programmes — from primary care (including NCDs and MHPSS) to emergency and trauma services — in some of the world's most challenging crisis contexts. Work spans designing and managing large-scale health responses, restructuring governance and enhancing coordination systems, and introducing digital innovations to enhance transparency and impact.