Mark Flear is hoogleraar rechten en sociaal-juridische studies aan Queen's University Belfast, gespecialiseerd in het snijvlak van volksgezondheid, wettelijke en regelgevende besluitvorming en nieuwe gezondheidstechnologieën. Zijn onderzoek richt zich op burgerparticipatie, epistemisch onrecht en de gevolgen voor de gezondheid van wet- en regelgeving. Met drie invloedrijke boeken en meer dan 37 artikelen en hoofdstukken adviseert Flear mondiale organisaties, draagt hij bij aan beleidsvoorstellen en geeft hij vorm aan discussies op EU- en nationaal niveau. Hij is ook docent met bijna 20 jaar ervaring in verschillende landen, waarbij hij de nadruk legt op een mix van academische strengheid en toegankelijkheid in het lesgeven in EU-recht en medisch recht en ethiek. Flears bijdragen sluiten aan bij de VN-doelstellingen voor duurzame ontwikkeling en zorgen voor impactvolle veranderingen op het gebied van mondiale gezondheidsgelijkheid en beleidsontwikkeling.

Scott Burris, J.D.  is Professor of Law and Public Health at Temple University, where he directs the Center for Public Health Law Research. His work focuses on how law influences public health, and what interventions can make laws and law enforcement practices healthier in their effects. He is the author of over 200 books, book chapters, articles and reports on issues including urban health, HIV/AIDS, research ethics, and the health effects of criminal law. He founded and directed the Public Health Law Research and Policies for Action programs for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and his work has been supported by organizations including the Open Society Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the UK Department for International Development, and the CDC.  He has served as a consultant to numerous U.S. and international organizations including WHO, UNODC and UNDP. He has been a visiting scholar at RegNet at the Australian National University, the Center for Health Law at the University of Neuchatel, the Department of Transboundary Legal Studies at the Royal University of Groningen, and the University of Amsterdam. He was  a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Cape Town Law School. He has been the recipient of the American Public Health Law Association Health Law Section Lifetime Achievement Award and the Jay Healey Health Law Teachers Award from the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.  He is a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the U.K. Faculty of Public Health (honorary). Professor Burris is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (A.B.) and Yale Law School (J.D.).

Burris is the premier methodologist in the emerging field of legal epidemiology. With Alex Wagenaar, he is the editor of Public Health Law Research: Theory and Methods (Wiley 2013).  His latest book, The New Public Health Law: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Practice and Advocacy, has just been published by Oxford University Press.

Samira Koullali's LLM onderzoek richt zich op het analyseren van de rol van wettelijke maatregelen in het verminderen van antimicrobiële resistentie (AMR). Ze is ook juridisch adviseur Volksgezondheid bij het Centrum Infectieziektebestrijding van het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM).

Kaat Van Delm is a PhD researcher from KU Leuven, focusing on big data and health law, more specifically on 'real world data' and the EU legal framework. She obtained a Master's degree in Law from KU Leuven (cum laude, 2014), and an LL.M in European Legal Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges (cum laude, 2015). In 2019, she qualified as a lawyer at the Brussels bar. She worked in two international law firms, as well as at the European Commission as a Blue Book Trainee, before joining KU Leuven in May 2020. She receives funding from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). Kaat is a Visiting Fellow at the Law Centre for Health and Life from October to December 2022.

Majd Alshoufi obtained his Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from Damascus University (Syria), followed by a Masters's degree in Public Health from Debrecen University (Hungary). He is currently completing a Master of Health and Environment at Utrecht University. Majd's research interests concern the effect of EU policy on the availability of medicines in the EU's southern neighborhood, and the factors affecting medicine access in these countries. Majd is a Visiting Fellow at the Law Centre for Health and Life  in August and September 2022.

Svitlana Hotsulyak obtained her PhD on a historical and legal study of the sanitary legislation of Ukraine at the end of XX and beginning of XXI centuries, from the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine.  In her research, she examines the specificities of sanitation and epidemiological law from a theoretical and historical perspective. Svitlana is a Visiting Fellow at the Law Centre for Health and Life from April to August 2022.